BeepFeb 21

Adolescent Cannabis Use Linked to Doubling Risk of Psychotic and Bipolar Disorders

https://lemmus.org/post/20350127

Show threadLeftistLawyer
Did the study account for confounding variables like … capitalism?
Feb 22 at 1:56amWeb
Show threadkablezFeb 22
Much easier to blame the individuals for their choices than to look at the system abusing them.
Show threadtechnocritFeb 23

They wouldn’t be in this research position if they accounted for capitalism.

Same probably goes for the downvoters. People are mad that you brought up root causes. The pharma shilling has been internalized.

Show threadT156Feb 23
They did. One of the variables they statistically controlled for in the study is the “neighbourhood deprivation index”, which represents socio-economic living factors.
Adolescent Cannabis Use and Risk of Psychotic, Bipolar, Depressive, and Anxiety Disorders

This cohort study assesses the association of past-year cannabis use by adolescents with the risk of incident psychiatric, bipolar, depressive, and anxiety disorders by age 26 years.