ahufflepuffhobbit

ahufflepuffhobbit t1_jbuxtcs wrote

It may be. I haven't read the studies that report this with enough attention to determine if it was 100% well realized or not, but the review article I cited seemed very interesting and comprehensive, citing several papers with different conclusions. Most of them appear to agree that there is a correlation between psychotic alterations and marijuana, but more research is definitely needed to fully understand the mechanisms and possible causality.

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ahufflepuffhobbit t1_jbukiow wrote

Several studies have linked marijuana consumption with the onset of schizophrenia and persistent psychotic symptoms. Some of these report that a frequent user of cannabis has 6 times higher probability of developing schizophrenia. This, however is neither a necessary or sufficient condition, there are other factors at play, some kind of genetic susceptibility being probably one of them.

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