A new study has found that smoking cannabis over a long period of time can cause delusions, hallucinations, or psychosis.
The study shows that people who use pot at the age of 15 or younger were twice as likely to have psychosis than those who never smoked it.
The study involved 3,801 people. Of those 65 had “non affective psychosis like schizophrenia and 233 had one or more hallucination,
That sounds very scary to those who smoke pot, however I find this quote suspicious in meaning.
“People who were vulnerable to psychosis, in other words had isolated psychotic symptoms, “were more likely to commence cannabis use, which could then subsequently contribute to an increased risk of conversion to a non-affective psychotic disorder,” the research said.”
I could be wrong but that seems to say to me that there was something amiss with these folks to begin with and then they started smoking pot, which made their mental problem worse.
I also think they are talking about a very small number of people and did not account for other factors that could cause these psychosis.
I guess it’s like any other study where you can always find the outcome you’re looking for.