Submit questions on the White House website! Do it NOW!

[XemaSab]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/

(With props to ColbertWatcher.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5329747

[tekisui]

1. I've sent a couple.

They require you to ask the questions under categories. Kind of limiting, in that respect.

[XemaSab]

2. I'm hoping that they'll add a marijuana policy category.

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[RoccoR5955]

3. there are questions in many catagories concerning that. n/t

[XemaSab]

4. Too many questions in too many categories

:banghead:

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. Daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uog-dco032509.php

Public release date: 25-Mar-2009

Contact: Miguel Ruiz Veguilla
[e-mail]
34-678-660-010
University of Granada

Daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia

This release is available in Spanish.

The daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia, and those episodes of psychosis which are fruit of this substance present certain specific characteristics, both before their appearance and in the clinical presentation of the psychosis. This is one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis "Neurodevelopment and environmental stress in initial psychosis: transversal analysis of the ESPIGAS study", carried out by researcher Miguel Ruiz Veguilla, of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Granada (Spain) and supervised by professors Manuel Gurpegui Fernández de Legaria and Jorge Cervilla Ballesteros. Ruiz Veguilla is also the person in charge fo the Unit of Development Neuropsychiatry of Jaén (Spain).

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Identifying a new type of psychosis

The research work carried out by Miguel Ruiz Veguilla has identified a connection between cannabis consumption and psychosis in subjects with a good premorbid performance, and without signs of minor neurological alterations, which in his opinion might point out "a psychopathological way associated with psychosis in subjects with less predisposition".

Thus, 66% of the patients with psychosis who participated in the study and had a normal neurodevelopment admitted to have consumed cannabis daily or almost every day, whereas 43% of the participants with markers of an abnormal neurodevelopment (those already indicated: bad previous social and academic behaviour, a family history and a "clumsier" attitude when they carry out tasks of motor coordination and complex motor acts) were drug users too.

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[stuntcat]

5. K!

what a cool page! White House.. open for public questioning.. it's unbelievable.

Actually I have to turn off right now and go get breakfast and lunch ready but I'll remember to go back in the morning. thank you!