New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and psychosis

Re:New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and p... by RankingMember on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @08:49AM (#19441492)

Similarly, people who do illegal drugs and end up committing suicide. Some people point at that and say things like "damn, those drugs made them commit suicide!", when, more likely, they were self-medicating a mental situation that made them more likely to commit suicide in the first place.

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Re:New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and p... by metalchianti on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @10:39AM (#19442674)

I don't see what makes this scenario "more likely". You're still confusing correlation with causation but just using another cause.

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Re:New study makes link between use of potent cannabis and p... by RankingMember on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @01:30PM (#19444549)

Fair point, I should've left off the conjecture in the second part of my comment. I was trying to illustrate the point but, indeed, it did propose a cause where there's nothing beyond my own anecdata to back it up.

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