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Young adults who have used cannabis or marijuana for a longer period of time appear more likely to have hallucinations or delusions or to meet criteria for psychosis, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. [continue reading…]
Scientists suspect that people who smoke potent skunk are more at risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those who use other types of cannabis.
According to new research, regular users double their risk of psychosis but heavy skunk users increase theirs seven-fold.UK experts have a theory it is down to skunk’s composition – it contains more of the chemical that gets users stoned.
The work is published in British Journal of Psychiatry. link to continue reading
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Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug by adolescents, with almost 42% of high school seniors admitting to having experimented with it. Continued marijuana use may result in a number of serious consequences including depression, cognitive impairment, cardiovascular disease, and certain forms of cancer. As such, it is critical to prevent marijuana use by adolescents and numerous behavioral and medical scientists have been trying to establish the best means of prevention. [continue reading…]
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A new study published by University of Leicester researchers has found “convincing evidence” that cannabis smoke damages DNA in ways that could potentially increase the risk of cancer development in humans.
