There was just an article in today's paper linking the teenage use of pot/Marijuana with Schizophrenia. I'll be back with it...
By Nicole Ostrow
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Young adults who used marijuana as teens were more likely than those who didnt to develop
schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms including
hallucinations and delusions, an Australian study found.
Those who used the drug for six or more years were twice as likely to develop a psychosis such as schizophrenia or to have delusional disorders than those who never used marijuana, according to research released online by the
Archives of General Psychiatry. They were also four times as likely to score high on a list of psychotic-like experiences.
The findings build on previous research and shows that marijuana use isnt as harmless as some people think, lead study author
John McGrath said yesterday in an e-mail. The study was the first to look at sibling pairs to discount genetic or environmental influence and still find marijuana linked to later psychosis, the authors said in the study.
This is the most convincing evidence yet that the earlier you use cannabis, the more likely you are to have symptoms of a psychotic illness, said McGrath, a professor at the
Queensland Brain Institute in Brisbane, Australia, in a statement. The message for teenagers is: if they choose to use cannabis they have to understand theres a risk involved. more at link:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aaEUcOXHDhsg