Cannabis 'raises psychosis risk'
Cannabis users are 40% more likely than non-users to suffer a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, say UK experts.
A team from Bristol University, writing in the Lancet, said young people needed to be made aware of the dangers, which they said increased with heavier use.
In an additional article, experts said up to 800 schizophrenia cases a year in the UK could be linked to cannabis use.
The Bristol team looked at 35 studies on the drug and mental health, but one expert urged caution over their study.
They said the most frequent users of cannabis have twice the risk of non-users of developing psychotic symptons, sush as hallucinations and delusions.
But the evidence for a link with depression and anxiety was less clear, they said.
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It explains a lot. Then again, I believe it has to be in moderation. That happens anytime people OD on the amount of drugs they take.
Look, if huge amounts
Look, if huge amounts didn't make you crazy there'd be no point in it.
wrong explanation of the data..,
viewed differently, those seeking the neurotransmitter mix that cannabis promotes may already be predisposed to auditory hallucination and other symptoms of the neurotype loosely referred to as schizophrenic - weed is not causal, it's coincidental.