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January 29, 2018 - According to a recent study, the use of weed or tobacco cigarettes is connected to the increased risk of psychotic-like experiences, which could include hallucinations or delusions.
The study, published by JAMA Psychiatry, is entitled “Association of Combined Patterns of Tobacco and Cannabis Use in Adolescence With Psychotic Experiences,” and analyzes data from a longitudinal cohort study of more than 3,300 teens.
While both marijuana and tobacco smoking were associated with psychotic experiences, they found that the risk was greater with weed.
"Individuals who use cannabis regularly have a 2- to 3-fold increased risk of a psychotic outcome," researchers from the University of Bristol wrote
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By Stewart Paterson For Mailonline 18 January 2018
- Jamil Jabbie stabbed his nurse mother 23 times in a cannabis-induced frenzy
- She considered sectioning him because of his unbalanced mind and drug use
- Jabbie, 19, stabbed his mother in the stomach, leg and chest before fleeing
- He left the home in south London covered in blood and then hid in a care home
- He was yesterday given an indefinite hospital order at Southwark Crown Court
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In the rush to legalize marijuana in Canada, medical experts are warning about weed’s alarming side, particularly for younger users .
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These data and subsequent analysis suggest that different trajectories of adolescent cannabis use are associated with distinct patterns of neural reward circuit function in early adulthood. Escalating marijuana use presents a higher risk for impaired motivation, including elevated depressive symptoms, anhedonia and poor educational attainment. It follows that alterations, perhaps the degradations of the reward circuitry, represent the mechanism by which cannabis users fail to attain their potential, resulting in both developmental and dose-dependent impairment in their higher-level functioning.
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