Akshay Syal M.D. – NBC News May 22, 2024
Teenagers who used cannabis within the last year had a dramatically higher rate of developing a psychotic disorder, according to a study published Wednesday.
The study, led by researchers from the University of Toronto, found an 11 times higher risk of developing a psychotic disorder among teenagers who used cannabis compared with those who did not. When the analysis was limited to just emergency room visits and hospitalizations, there was a 27-fold increase in psychotic disorders in teenagers who had used the drug.
“When I see youths with psychotic symptoms, they’re almost always using lots of cannabis,” said Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn, a child psychiatrist and chair of the psychiatry department at Indiana University who was not involved with the study. “It would be unusual to see someone present with psychotic symptoms to a hospital and not have smoked cannabis.”
The paper adds to the growing body of research that links cannabis to an increased risk of psychotic disorders, particularly in adolescence. Use of marijuana, particularly higher-potency products, has been linked to a variety of mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, anxiety and depression.
“I think that there’s enough evidence out there for us to give recommendations that teens probably shouldn’t be using cannabis,” said the study’s lead author, Andre McDonald, a postdoctoral research fellow at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. “If we can somehow ask teens to delay their use until their brain has developed a little further, I think that would be good for public health.”
While most teenagers who use cannabis will not develop psychotic disorders, McDonald said, the findings are concerning given how debilitating these conditions can be.
The new study, like previous research on marijuana and psychosis, does not directly prove that marijuana is causing psychotic disorders. While it’s possible that teens who were prone to develop psychotic disorders could have also been more likely to use cannabis, it’s unlikely because of how striking the association was, Hulvershorn said.
“The magnitude of the effect here is just hard to believe that it’s not related to cannabis,” Hulvershorn said.
There was no association between cannabis use and psychotic disorders in people ages 20 to 33.
“There’s something about that stage of brain development that we haven’t yet fully characterized — where there’s a window of time where cannabis use may increase the risk of psychosis,” said Dr. Kevin Gray, a professor of psychiatry and director of addiction sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina who was not involved with the study. “This study really puts a fine point on delaying cannabis use until your 20s may mitigate one of the most potentially serious risks.”
The Biden administration has been moving toward rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to the less dangerous Schedule III, which would also acknowledge its medical benefits at the federal level. While the potential change is expected later this year, cannabis is currently legal in 24 states for recreational use.
Marijuana use among high school students has remained steady in recent years. Nearly 1 in 3 12th graders reported using it in the previous year, according to the 2023 Monitoring the Future Survey, an annual survey that measures drug and alcohol use among adolescent students nationwide.
The new research, published in the respected journal Psychological Medicine, includes data from over 11,000 teens and young adults who were ages 12 to 24 at the beginning of the study.
The authors pulled from the annual Canadian Community Health Survey, focusing on 2009 to 2012. Participants were then followed for up to nine years after the initial survey to track any visits they may have had to doctors or emergency rooms or any times they were admitted to hospitals..
Of the teens who were hospitalized or visited emergency rooms for psychotic disorders, roughly 5 in 6 had reported previous cannabis use.
“We see this replicated over and over again that there’s this developmental window of adolescence that’s very high-risk,” Gray said.
It’s not completely clear why, he added, but one theory is that disruptions to the endocannabinoid system in adolescence may make psychotic symptoms more likely. The endocannabinoid system is a complex signaling system in the brain that marijuana targets. That could make it harder to distinguish reality from what is going on inside the head, leading to symptoms such as hallucinations.
The authors did not specifically look at how the potency of marijuana products affected the risk of mental disorders, although previous research has found an increased risk.
Yes..
As much as I find drugged up red eyed imbeciles…inconveniencing and tiresome (and believe me when I say such impositions had been a necessity once upon a time, when I needed to find some dopey musician to fill an empty slot)..
Legalising dope and whatever else they take on top of their anti depressant, whiizzy ADHD meds..and SSRIs’..is probably like throwing a chip up the M1…
I should imagine most young imbeciles are already psychotic before they even start tugging on a reefer a 14 or whatever.. stabbed jabbed and reared in a funny farm it’s probably the only possible outcome for most of ’em..
There actually isn’t any medical definition for so called autism..because of course it’s actually brain damage from vaxxxines…so other than being all things to all quacks it’s useful to the regime to legalise or ahem.. decriminalise all manner of drugs…
and then blame the victims for the illnesses the regime has induced in them.. a bit like football whistles or gardening cause hehe mild miocarditis..and white supremacy…
..it also increases profits too, because it’s the hollow men behind the ‘industry’ of so called illegal drugs..(that will be the too big to fail banks etc etc)..
and as a bonus, which of course every barclays banker luuurves!… they may of course rope in a much larger cohort of victims to consume them… and thus make a ‘proper killing’…
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22.Fook on September 16, 2023 at 10:22 pm
Comments by Liar are spot on. Furthermore, the Dutch East India Company had a factory where they made cocaine that was supplied to troops on both sides of WW1. Years later, the same factory was occupied by the Hells Angles. In WW2, the British airforce was making 1 million hits of meth per day.
This research has been carried out before and the results were the same – horrific results on users. Back then, the government was advised never to legalize cannabis but despite this previous advise to the government, cannabis was legalized in Canada by the ignorant/incompetent Trudeau. I am sure he did not know better and just relied on advise from those that are benefitting from his ill decision. Currently, cannabis is controlled by big producers/big pharma. These controllers are even adding more addictive compounds to the cannabis…they have to get the users very addicted, so the users always return for more. More, let us not forget about the big tax revenues. But in the meantime, users become so ever addicted and soon develop horrific psychological problems only to be diagnosed with mental illness most will be put on SSRI drugs which in turn will cause another addiction and more ill effects on the whole physical body. The user will become a zombie and mostly likely a permanent big pharma client. How sad that the whole of the government, its agencies and the medical cartel/big pharma only sees to destroy its citizens to gain profits and subservient citizens, all in the name of trusting the science. Remember the same emphasis being used with the covid hoax – such criminality. These researchers throughout all the different universities carry out the same research over and over again and noticed they always mention that more research on the same subject needs to be carried out. In essence, they are saying we need more research money. Get a real job scum bag researchers so called scientists who get big salaries and monetary rewards from big pharma. However, reality is that in order to sustain this fraud and corruption, taxpayers end up paying for it all, and if there is not enough tax revenues the government deficits continue to get bigger and bigger to only create a horrific increase in the cost of living – but await that’s okay as long as big pharma and its associates are making big profits.
https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=294700. 3.Liar on September 12, 2024 at 11:11 am
Skunk.in the eighties the dutch smoked a grass named skunk.the result of cross-pollination between the 2 netherlands,the new and the original. , Sam the Skunkman or Sam Selezny, is an American breeder, who is credited with the development of some of the most popular modern cannabis varieties such as Skunk#1,[1] Haze, and Amnesia,[2] and the apparition of high-cannabidiol varieties https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_the_Skunkman.man, the imprisonment in the concentration camps barracks of the orange reich,was quite an experience.me,a rat,in the main research laboratory of the new world order.the retarders of mind, modifiers of body and destroyers of soul.the’guberno mente’. Through (anti)social trial and calculated (t)error ,exponentially uploading and downgrading thought and calculations via Thôt &Techne. in an exponentially faster warp towards the trib(ute)ulation.
Complete and utter nonsense.
If there is any problems mentally, check all the prescriptions and food additives the youngster is taking and the compounding side effects of them.
Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, I say thousands of years, not a month long test.
Remember, psychology has no basis basis in science, it is a consensus agreement among white coats. There is no testing of physiological causes of crazy, just a mal-educated guess.
Complete and utter nonsense.
If there is any problems mentally, check all the prescriptions and food additives the youngster is taking and the compounding side effects of them.
Cannabis has been used for thousands of years, I say thousands of years, not a month long test.
Remember, psychology has no basis in science, it is a consensus agreement among white coats. There is no testing of physiological causes of crazy, just a mal-educated guess.
The Matrix’ communication protocol developed from the lu-cipher .the acces keys encoded from the moment one goes ‘on’ air ,out of the water. Yer operating system depending on colour and stripe .only the chosen will attain the source code,if attuned to the vibes of the cosmos.and hack through the firewall in a ‘me(n)tal’ way.
As soon as Trudeau in Canada legalized cannabis use in 2019, I knew they had finally found a way to tinker with it in order to use it against us.
Pigeons.
Roost.
In 1960s/70s Dragnet tv show, several episodes dealt with the dangers of marijuana usage especially among the ‘young people’ (boomers). Also law enforcement at that time went after pushers, dealers & kingpins- not only on the show but in real life.
Now, in today’s clown world, Bob Dylan’s lyrics ring true, “EVERYBODY must get stoned.”
Marihuana was used in India mostly by hardworking
coolys and spiritual disciples for relaxation because
without of relaxation of body + brainape real meditation
is not possible . Osho with his Dynamic meditation
(chaotic breathing followed by dancing) was the right
way for stressfilled westerners to become relaxed .
Obama was always relaxed . he killed thousands . hihihihi
@BOB DYLAN was a jew +probably his message was only
for the jews as the master race of the slaves . SLAVES MUST
WORK FOR THE JEWS !
A terrible and stupid thing to do which was to legalize it on the bases that there were no observable harms.
It is the young people, mostly in our schools who go for it, and based on my experience, it only leads to other drugs which are more mind altering, and too often with too many people it leads to very serious addictions with hard drugs, and also as pointed out in this article serious psychotic imbalances. Anyone who argues it is not a “gate-way” drug is a liar, and the lie coming from anyone in authority they should be held accountable for the harms they cause. Sure, it can be used for medicinal purposes, but such benefits do not compare to the general harm caused when it is legalized the way it is.
An adult of disciplined work habits and responsibilities can try it and think it is no big deal but their restrains are such that unless they really get into it, they do not really “let themselves go” to know the real effects. In any case, that is not the way to judge the harms. As for our youth, many are inclined just to get high, and they are generally risk takers. Then with those of all age groups, and even with adults I have known in my work, those on pot are generally unreliable, and you can see it in their performance. The Chinese are right about some things. They have zero tolerance for pot, and it is not socially acceptable in that nation, as it has deliberately made to be by the those who have taken over our governments and leading institutions.
It is one more indulgence which has served to further weaken and destroy our Western pleasure & self-seeking culture. Alcohol is often a problem with some, but we have had thousands of years of experience with it, which in most cases it does lower our inhibitions to assist in socializing, and the last thing we needed was an open door to hallucinogenic and feel-good drugs, with the general effect of people turning more and more into themselves.
Personally, I left the drug culture when I was 22, and I know the difference. Those who stayed behind are still in some kind of backward time warp. For me it was the choice and clarity of Christ and instantly realizing how incompatible such drugs and drunkenness were with his personal presence.
Psycho-Techno Mesmerism with a big dash of Pharmacopeia.
Psychotic disorders? Isn’t that an requirement for the world of Polly Ticks and the global Departments of Fraudian Psychiatry of human well being and of course utterly koshered history dragging religions into opposites through wars and money changing – for improvement benefiting “ALL”?
Dr. Leslie Hulvershorn as a member of the female tripe (what was once called – Women) must have forgotten the tough good old days when women were mothers, natural psychiatrists for all of their children , spending their life with their families as a UNIT instead of “improving” the FAKE world of woke fatherless children with her superior understanding what the forefather of all Fraud(s) “golden Siggi” was trying to say when he started writing and thinking about the psyche of his “godlike mother” and her relationship to her favorite son Sigmund.
“For me it was the choice and clarity of Christ and instantly realizing how incompatible such drugs and drunkenness were with his personal presence”.
Money changing seemed also highly incompatible with the clarity of Christ Fred B. Look what has become of a once thought “Christian” world. It is getting ready to be blown, just for the sake of “organized prophecies” and for a new beginning including the “natural clarity” of the neglected human soul.
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