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CNN, that bastion of sensational and acontextual news media, has reported that Marijuana use can increase the risk of psychosis by up to 40%. I quote from the article, boldface my own: The new review suggests that even infrequent use could raise the small but real risk of this serious mental illness by 40 percent.

However, the article goes on to say:

The researchers said they couldn't prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, a category of several disorders with schizophrenia being the most commonly known.

Radical Islamist Students have taken over the Red Mosque in Islamabad again. This comes shortly after a bloody showdown at the same mosque in which more than a hundred radical Islamists were killed. Apparently these radical students--the ones who aren't dead yet--are demanding that Pakistani authorities release Maulana Abdul Aziz, their leader who was captured while trying to flee the mosque dressed as a woman. This article seems to be laden with fear. The authors seem to want to readers to feel uneasy (fnord) but I don't know why.