What kind of schizophrenia does smoking pot cause, and what are the symtoms?

Answer 1

yes it has to already be there but i am sure through my own exp that it causes drug induced phycosis where the symptons are the same as schizophrenia i dont have issuses but many friends who are long term users have probs

Answer 2

IIt has been proved that it causes drug induced psychosis and paranoia. But it doesn't affect everyone. If you ever feel paranoid after using pot you have a much higher chance of developing schizophrenia or psychosis in the future. Nobody knows the long term problems relating to mental health yet because the pot people smoke today is different to the grass people used to smoke. Skunk is genetically modified and is over 100 times more potent than the old fashioned stuff.
I have worked with substance misusers for years and the problems I am seeing now are so different from those I used to see.
I said to a young person the other day that I would rather my son was a heroin addict than smoked skunk. They couldn't believe what they were hearing but you can make a full recovery from Heroin we don't know what this new stuff is going to do to us. Unfortunately my son decided to use the pot instead of the heroin. Guess what he developed paranoia and his friend developed OCD they are both now off the stuff but I hope with all of my heart that they havn't done any permanant damage to themselves.

I don'tknow if you are a user but if you are and you are having any kind of paranoia please stop now because it might not be too late.
I am not a raver just a person who cares about 1) her own son and No 2) others who may be going down the same road he did.

I sincerely hope that this might stop even one person from smoking pot especially skunk.

I dread to think what this country will be like in 20 years time if the long term affects turn out to be as bad as some professionals are predicting we will be living with a load of loony's

Please don't smoke skunk.

Answer 3

Hi, There is no single cause for schizophrenia. These illnesses are usually bought on by a combination of factors like: Family genetics Social Environment Drug and/or Alcohol abuse Attachment/Relationship issues/Abuse Acute Stress and the list goes on... Your probably low risk of developing anything like schizophrenia because it seems you only use it for a single session and for a single purpose, however there is always a chance that LONG term use can affect the brain and therefore you MAY develop psychosis in the future but you cannot predict it. Its a weird thing because I know people that smoke heavy drugs for years and do not have any mental problems, yet I have seen lots of people that havea full blown psychosis only after using once or twice. So many other factors than just smoking pot Good luck

Answer 4

Doctors try to characterise schizophrenia, eg paranoid, catatonic etc, but really it varies from one person to another. Probably the commonest symptom of schizophrenia is voices in the head.

Smoking cannabis can trigger schizophrenia, particularly if you start young. It's a really nasty condition and once the switch in your brain has been tripped, that's it for life. Some people make a reasonable recovery and with the help of anti-pyschotic medecines go on to lead a normal life. However, they are in the minority.

You have to be carrying the right genes to be predisposed to it. Some people would have developed schizophrenia whatever and some people can take loads of drugs and come out the other end relatively unscathed.

My advice is: it's not worth it. Smoking dope makes you boring at best and at worst can ruin your life.

Answer 5

ACUTE SYMPTOMS OF CANNABIS PSYCHOSIS

International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10)

Often the combination of symptoms makes one suspicious that schizophrenia is present but at the same time there is an affective component. There may be the suspicion that the condition, either in part of whole, is feigned for reasons that are unclear because the pattern of symptoms do not fall easily into the usual criteria for psychosis. Drug taking is often denied, or the amount that is admitted by the patient is so little that one cannot say that this accounts for the current symptoms. Worse still, patients may not even consider Cannabis as an illicit or dangerous drug and so do not mention using it. Hallucinations are vague and delusions may be transitory with little in the way of thought disorder. There is often a lack of volition and a history of gradually deteriorating social ability and contact with others, including significant others. This history will often be verified by relatives and close friends who may be either completely ignorant of the drug taking, or confirm that there has been some in the past but believe that there has been little drug taking recently. There is often a depressive component with suicide attempts in the past but nothing recent or, if there is, then they are only ineffectual pleas for help. The person has usually lost his or her job some months or weeks before due to their poor performance at work. There is often very poor memory and concentration, which may be marked at the time of presentation. Paranoid delusions may be present and quite severe which can be the most alarming psychotic feature and result in hospital admission. If confronted with aggressive and authoritarian staff, who indicate verbally or non-verbally, that they do not believe the patient, the patient may become violent or simply leave against medical advice. There is a slow and gradual effect of cannabis and the symptoms continue to worsen for some time after the person stops using it. Thus by the time of presentation the person may be so disorganised and confused that they can’t even arrange their next “cone” or “joint”. Over the following few days the symptoms ease quickly. The improvement is easily credited to the neuroleptics and/or the antidepressants, which may in fact have contributed to the improvement. Symptoms such as the paranoia, hallucinations and depression fade until the patient is allowed to go on leave from the hospital and, a worsening of the symptoms may follow this. More often than not the nursing staff are the first to become suspicious that drugs have been taken when the patient is on leave from the hospital.

It could even be that the drug screen only indicated small dose drug taking or even absent. The International Classification of Disease indicates the following symptoms due to Cannabis.

Answer 6

Oh my god, some of these answers (the longer ones) are straight out of Reefer Madness.

The biggest study of the health effects of cannabis to date was done by Kaiser Permanente. They surveyed 65,000 patients over a number of years. They found no significant differences in the health records of patients who smoked pot versus those who did not. The full text of this study is in the Cannabis Research Library under http://druglibrary.org/schaffer

There have been numerous major government commission reports that have studied the health effects of cannabis over the last 100 years. They all concluded that there is no evidence that cannabis is a serious threat to health in any respect for the vast majority of people. You can find those studies at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy. The collection includes the largest studies ever done by the governments of the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia, to mention a few. They are the definitive references on the subject.

The evidence on schizophrenia is inconclusive, at best. For one thing, mental diseases tend to be ill-defined and based largely on the opinions of doctors. 100 doctors might examine the same patient and give 50 different opinions. It isn't the same kind of thing as a broken leg which shows up clearly on X-rays.

For another, it is hard to tell whether the pot smoking caused the schizophrenia, or the schizophrenia caused the pot smoking. It is reasonable to conclude that people who are developing mental problems might try to take drugs to help them deal with it.

Perhaps the best evidence is sheer numbers. There have been something close to 150 million people in the US who have tried marijuana over the last several decades. Tens of millions of them smoke it on a regular basis. There simply is no evidence of any increase in schizophrenia as result.

Just FYI, the original claim along this line was that marijuana would make your incisors grow six inches long and drip with blood. It was also said that marijuana could turn you into a bat.

Who made those ridiculous statements? It was none other than the US Official Expert on marijuana -- testifying in court, under oath.

They have dressed up the "turns you into a bat" idea into something more modern, but the evidence for it is still the same. You can read that interesting bit of history at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm

Answer 7

pot does not cause that, you have to have it before. It can exacerbate it or make it better, but not cause it. Now if your talking about being paranoid..that's different, that will go away once you stop taking it.

Answer 8

NOt as bad as an alcoholic, which is totally legal...

Answer 9

depends on what plants you want to grow ,i have no time for druggies should all be shot.

Answer 10

paranoia