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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
Thanks.
One of my friends smoked pot multiple times a day throughout his teens and early twenties and developed severe bi-polar disorder. He has a family history (mother), but also has several siblings who do not have any signs of the disorder. Chance? Coincidence? Maybe a bit of both.
The other friend was a similar story, but his family has no history of mental health issues. He developed severe schizophrenia in his early twenties.
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I can't speak to the bi-polar, but if you have schizophrenia, you've had it since birth. It typically stays dormant until your twenties. There has however been study's on mind altering drugs like LSD and Mushrooms that can speed up the rate in which the brain is affected by schizophrenia.
I have no shortage of anecdotes as well. I know 2 self made millionaires who have smoked weed for 40+ years. I have a friend who used to suffer from depression and took prescription pills which would make him very moody, almost as if he was bi-polar. He made the transition to weed and is always in great spirits now with some direction in his life. A family member had to take steroids to alleviate joint pain which have terrible side effects and can't be used long term. Since switching to THC spray she has been able to stop taking the pills and has full pain free mobility. Any friend I've EVER had who smokes cigarettes and weed, are only ever looking to quit smoking cigarettes and haven't had any good reasons to quit smoking weed. However it's drastically harder for them to cut cigarettes than it is to cut weed.