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Latent schizophrenics shouldn't take psychoactive drugs of any kind. Schizophrenics (like other people suffering from mental illness) are prone to self-medicat

Latent schizophrenics shouldn't take psychoactive drugs of any kind. Schizophrenics (like other people suffering from mental illness) are prone to self-medicate as well though. And the evidence that someone prone to schizophrenia who develops it because of drug use but wouldn't have otherwise developed schizophrenia is scant or non-existent.

diminoten 7y ago
According to the article, it's not just schizophrenics, it's literally everyone who is at risk. Legalization would be highly irresponsible until we understand why.
- kick 7y ago
  He used "latent" for that reason.
jonfw 7y ago
> And the evidence that someone prone to schizophrenia who develops it because of drug use but wouldn't have otherwise developed schizophrenia is scant or non-existent. It's much easier to prove that something happens, than something doesn't happen. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that taking psychedellics can lead to schizophrenia. To conclusively prove that that person wouldn't have gotten it without those drugs is extremely difficult. While I 100% agree that we can't conclusively prove causation at this point, we do have solid evidence that there is a correlation, and that shouldn't be discounted given the research into psycheddelics is too immature to have a chance of proving anything past that.
heavyset_go 7y ago
The problem with latent schizophrenia is that it's latent. You don't know that you're a latent schizophrenic until the illness is triggered.
agota 7y ago
I think the issue is that someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia might not be aware that this is the case. Also, we already know that drug use can have permanent effects that presumably would not have manifested if the person had not taken drugs, unless you think that people who didn't see hallucinations before LSD and see hallucinations after LSD would have started seeing hallucinations anyway. So I don't see why it would be unreasonable to think that drug use can trigger an onset of schizophrenia in an already predisposed person that would have not happened otherwise.

diminoten 7y ago

According to the article, it's not just schizophrenics, it's literally everyone who is at risk. Legalization would be highly irresponsible until we understand why.

kick 7y ago
He used "latent" for that reason.

jonfw 7y ago

> And the evidence that someone prone to schizophrenia who develops it because of drug use but wouldn't have otherwise developed schizophrenia is scant or non-existent. It's much easier to prove that something happens, than something doesn't happen. There is a lot of evidence that suggests that taking psychedellics can lead to schizophrenia. To conclusively prove that that person wouldn't have gotten it without those drugs is extremely difficult. While I 100% agree that we can't conclusively prove causation at this point, we do have solid evidence that there is a correlation, and that shouldn't be discounted given the research into psycheddelics is too immature to have a chance of proving anything past that.

heavyset_go 7y ago

The problem with latent schizophrenia is that it's latent. You don't know that you're a latent schizophrenic until the illness is triggered.

agota 7y ago

I think the issue is that someone who is predisposed to schizophrenia might not be aware that this is the case. Also, we already know that drug use can have permanent effects that presumably would not have manifested if the person had not taken drugs, unless you think that people who didn't see hallucinations before LSD and see hallucinations after LSD would have started seeing hallucinations anyway. So I don't see why it would be unreasonable to think that drug use can trigger an onset of schizophrenia in an already predisposed person that would have not happened otherwise.