On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Quentin Anciaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, then fine, believe what you want to believe and cannabis is as good as > anything... > If you exaggerate anything you will get extreme results. I don't ask for distortion or faith. The flaw is obvious, even using such terms of such "study": Assume materialism and that depression exists as some primitive sort of human condition. Then, say some person has depression and anxiety, to use the terms and concepts you set, and they self-medicate with cannabis. The argument in this setting is: go to a psychiatrist and treat your condition instead of using dangerous illegal Cannabis. Such person could argue that visiting psychiatrist for this is: 1) more expensive than their supplier 2) that statistical suicide correlation, chronic depression, frequency of rupture episodes etc. is not effectively negated with use of prescription drugs such as SSRI and Benzodiazepines to treat depression and anxiety in question, via pharma industry and psychiatrists. 3) that there are more deaths through toxicity/overdose of prescription pharma medication every year than with Cannabis. These drugs are plausibly be more dangerous. I don't think it is unreasonable for such a person to conclude that going to psychiatry to treat their depression, even assuming no controversy with mental health definitions (which is very optimistic, to say the least), is a bad deal, dangerous, and waste of money. Why should they subsidize science of "ganster" without rational argument? Because of such "studies" and white clothes of pharmacist, without testing the propositions and numbers themselves? Of course, this is a generalized case and things are not this simple throughout mental health. But even using the terms of such "study" and assuming total legitimacy of mental health sector: it makes no economic or medical sense from such point of view. I'd agree that for such patient this makes no rational sense. > > With your type of reasoning you should conclude alcoholism does not exist > and only prohibitionist pretend it does... > I disagree with such bombastic statement. Alcohol is dangerous, so is cannabis, so are windows, depending on particularities. But relative to other poison, cannabis is relatively safe. Also, what is "my type of reasoning" and how does this relate to this discussion? PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
