Bullshit or real issue?
Experts are worried about a proliferation of "single-issue" cannabis clinics opening in Australia, some of them willing to prescribe via telehealth consultations with few checks.
www.abc.net.au
1. This is an article, not a study. Articles are often full of nonsense, bs, manipulation of stats/study data, etc..
2. Is said "psychosis" that people are coming in with any different from getting really high and freaking out? I know people who have gotten paranoid and gone to the hospital, only to find out that they were fine and just really high. Or is it something like schizophrenia, and the start of a persistent issue? Without explanation, this article isn't very helpful, at all.
Personally I think this is BS. And medical cannabis patients would have to be specifically evaluated for psychosis BEFORE getting their prescriptions, otherwise we can't tell chicken from egg. Lots of undiagnosed mental issues, lots of self-medicating, but that doesn't mean the second caused the first.
To be fair, most medicinal cannabis card holders that I know of did not get seriously screened for anything. It often just requires a video call where you tell them that you have something like anxiety or some other listed condition, and they say "ok" and give you your card in the mail after a 5 minute talk, if that.
It is probably bullshit.
You can make study results skew however you want them to look.
I pay little attention to garbage like that.
Am I missing something, or is this not even a study? If there is a study that I missed, then it can be examined for the truth about what it says, instead of taking the article as fact.
