{"id":653844,"date":"2010-02-03T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21466"},"modified":"2010-02-03T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T17:21:15","slug":"reefer-madness-may-be-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/653844","title":{"rendered":"Reefer Madness May Be Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can smoking marijuana heavily make you psychotic?<\/p>\n<p>Legitimate studies point to marijuana use as a risk factor for developing schizophrenia. Filmmaker Bruce Mohun made The Downside Of High after his pot-smoking nephew descended into severe mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>A person who uses marijuana regularly is twice as likely to become schizophrenic as someone who doesn&#8217;t, with those smoking before the age of 16 being four times as likely.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgment a link between marijuana and paranoid schizophrenia does not necessarily bolster the argument for prohibition; one could argue that legalizing pot in fact help the problem, by leading to regulation, quality control, standards, and warning labels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can smoking marijuana heavily make you psychotic? Legitimate studies point to marijuana use as a risk factor for developing schizophrenia. Filmmaker Bruce Mohun made The Downside Of High after his pot-smoking nephew descended into severe mental illness. A person who uses marijuana regularly is twice as likely to become schizophrenic as someone who doesn&#8217;t, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2K5S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}