
Originally Posted by
Latrinsorm
Well, I'm not sure what specifically you're responding to with "clearly not", but if I can address your other points:
1. I think that the government has a responsibility to protect the health and well being of its citizens, and I think everyone thinks this to varying degrees. Even "get rid of the FDA" Thondalar thinks the government should provide for the national defense. As it happens, I think that you and I actually support the same degree of government control. Our only disagreement is factual: the risk posed by marijuana relative to other substances.
2. I brought up my history of mental illness in an attempt to defuse the sense of us vs. them that I felt from your posts. Obviously this did not work out quite the way I intended, but we really are all in this together.
3. My position could be stated most succinctly as marijuana should remain illegal. "literally the worst kind of a**hole", I mean, come on. I've tried a couple ways of phrasing this without sounding confrontational but I'm just going to say it's not intended to be: don't be ridiculous.
I have made a good faith effort to answer the criticisms raised of my data.
I started with a study linking marijuana use to psychotic symptoms.
People raised the question of a specific disease, I produced studies linking it to schizophrenia.
People raised the question of self-medication or otherwise reverse causation, I produced studies with longitudinal models.
People raised the question of family history, I produced a study that explicitly controlled for that.
People raised the question of age of exposure, I produced a study that controlled for that.
The only question I have dismissed is WB's request for cell pathologies of schizophrenia, and I stand by dismissing that. How is it that I answer every question raised of me, nobody ever answers the questions I raise, and I'm the jerk?This is not true. I noticed that your quote contained no mention of withdrawal at all, so I opened your source and looked for it there, finding only "that one 19-year-old didn't have them." This is explicit, inarguable evidence that I read your source, not just what you quoted, and somehow you'll still be right. I asked you a question that you did not answer. Answering some other question, no matter how well you answer it, is irrelevant, and somehow you're still right.I could not ask for a better example of what I talked about above. I have said multiple times that CBD is an atypical anti-psychotic; that is, the premier treatment for schizophrenia. There is literally no higher praise I could offer for CBD in this context, and you read that as trivializing it. How am I being the unreasonable one? How is pointing out that drugs have side effects jumping through hoops?