User talk:Buddleja

Schizophrenia causation
In regard to your edits to the Health issues and effects of cannabis article, I don't think the Dunedin study you speak of is a smoking gun for the causation of schizophrenia. I found the study in the British Medical Journal, it clearly states that: "Although most young people use cannabis in adolescence without harm, a vulnerable minority experience harmful outcomes. A tenth of the cannabis users by age 15 in our sample (3/29) developed schizophreniform disorder by age 26 compared with 3% of the remaining cohort (22/730). Our findings suggest that cannabis use among psychologically vulnerable adolescents should be strongly discouraged by parents, teachers, and health practitioners. Policy makers and law makers should concentrate on delaying onset of cannabis use."

Therefor, to say that this study clearly illustrates "that cannabis use in [all] young people leads to an increased risk of developing schizophrenia", as you wrote, is a misrepresentation of that study. The study even acknowledges that "our findings now require replication in large population studies with detailed measures of cannabis use and schizophrenia." The Wikipedia article, as it is now, already explains that cannabis use can be a factor of the diathesis stress model in manifesting mental illness in some individuals. Best regards, --Howrealisreal 16:01, 20 February 2007 (UTC)