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Marijuana can increase a teenager's risk of psychosis
Going from an occasional user of marijuana to a weekly or daily user increases an adolescent’s risk of having recurrent psychotic-like experiences by 159%, according to a new Canadian study published today in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. The study also reports effects of marijuana use on cognitive development and shows that the link between marijuana use and psychotic-like experiences is best explained by emerging symptoms of depression.
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What some people will do for funding. "Association" is awfully weak tea. Now "Reefer Madness," that was proper propaganda.
"It increases my paranoia, like lookin'in my mirror and seeing a POLICE car"