"Smoking pot won't make you crazy, but trying to find the truth behind the recent rash of headlines regarding a supposed link between cannabis and mental illness might."
-- Paul Armentano of NORML and Mitch Earleywine, marijuana researcher, in The Huffington Post. They responded to recent headlines suggesting that a new study shows that smoking marijuana can increase a person's risk of psychosis.
FACT: The "new study," published in the Lancet, was actually a meta-analysis of seven past studies, some of which were many years old. In addition, the investigators concluded that the small connection between marijuana and psychosis did not reflect a causal relationship.
Here's Nurse Brenda's take on this linking of cannabis use with psychosis.......
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