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As someone with a diagnosis of schizophrenia going on a decade now - I sure would like it if the mental "health" industry would quit using my condition/identity as a scare tactic against cannabis use. Let alone equating it with psychosis.
It's really no ones business whose choosing to activate which brain circuits, with a substance humanity has been using for over four MILLENIA now! It's part of humanity's shared history and culture. It's actually the past 70 years of prohibition that have been the abboration... And life is a bit broader than the assignment of conditions to people and character types which the industry has devoted its self to.
These articles under this broader analysis, really do look like propaganda. Just another way to label and control people in service of Capitalism, where health is a functional worker, or an ideologically sound Capitalist. Because that's the underlying truth mental health claims obscure. Those who fit in are deemed "healthy" those having any type of alternate experience of life or themselves are deemed ill. That's what that industry and it's history comes down to.
This is the same industry by the way that tortured people in assylums, lobotomized anyone who was too loud, and sterilized gay people. It's also the industry that pioneered the T4 gassing program in early Nazi Germany. Because in that social/political/historical context, the mass killings of assylums patients was seen as a sanitation issue, making the German people "healthier" by removing the "unhealthy" stock.
I raise this not to make some Godwin style argument, but to say this is how these industries and the concept of health its self is manufactured by the ideological and social values of the times. This is why it's important to question things critically and look at broader viewpoints and understandings.