Not Just the Munchies

Watch any SNL skit with a supposed pothead lampooned, and the caricature is inevitably a mellow couch potato whose main concerns are weed and snacks (and not necessarily in that order.) Well, maybe we had that all wrong. Alex has done some exhaustive research and unearthed some disturbing correlations between cannibis use and psychosis, particularly shizophrenia. As he says in his book, psychosis and paranoia are associated with violence, so there's a math problem even I could solve. There's some scary stuff in here. Heck, I voted to legalize that wacky tobaccy, trying to free up our legal system so it can more easily handle serious misconduct. This information turns all my preconceived notions (no surprise, as the book relates) were way off base. Although he has many detractors, his compilation of data is worth a ponder.