If you abuse a drug > they will all have bad effects
I know around 10 people who have used MJ daily for over 30 years with no illnesses
Another 37 people who have smoked for over 10 years and they have no illness
Do you believe everyone who uses MJ WILL get mental illnesses?Ignorence
Think those pills and crack/cocaine wont give you mental illnesses?Ignorence
I don't even smoke weed! So the last bit doesn't apply to me since I'm just a caregiver.
I tend to side with Doctors that you see in person.
Everyone is different and If everyone gets mental illnesses from weed then there would be many more people with them.
Oh were to start? Firstly, anecdotal evidence is no substiture for double blind scientific studies. Anecdotal evidence is no substitute for scientific canvasing or poll taking. Here is an example. You say you know 10 people who haqve smoked pot daily for 30 years with no ill effects. What you don't know is if they may be harboring ill effects that you are unaware of, perhaps they are unaware of them as well. I posted that through the years I have encountered a coupld of dozen people who exhibited severe mental problems, but what neither of us know is if pot precipitated it, if pot caused it or they were going to grow sick anyway. You know 37 people who have used it for what did you say? 10 years? and no ill effects.
Fine, but I know plenty of people who have smoked cigarettes for 10 or 20 or 30 years and none of them have contracted cancer or heart problems orn lung issues - but I am quite certain you and I will agree that cigarette smoking is very very bad for you. This is the problem with anecdotal evidence.
The same holds true for your not trusting studies presented on the web but having superior trust in doctors you speak to. Now I really can't comprenend how you can ignore compilations of a study were those that conduct the study talk to hundreds of doctors that "they see in personn", for your relatively sparse "study".
Note that I said nothing about every person using pot becoming sick. Furthermore, depending upon what consitutes mental illness, I believe there are far fewer incidents of chronic mental illness as a result of pills or cocaine (depending of course on what the pill is), then there are with pot. there is a simple reason for this, most of the pills do not have the same sort of mental effect as pot does.
Again, no one said that "everyone gets mental illness from weed". I simply state that pot is not the harmless drug so many tout it as being.