“Smoking cannabis just 5 times as a teenager raises the risk of psychosis, reveals ‘worrying’ study,” reports the Mail Online. A new Finnish study followed people from the age of 15 to 30 with the aim of investigating the association between the level of cannabis use in adolescents and subsequent psychosis.
Cannabis is thought to be the most widely used illegal drug in the UK. There is growing evidence that use of cannabis, especially the potent form of herbal cannabis known as “skunk”, makes people more susceptible to developing mental illnesses such as depression and psychosis (where a person is unable to tell the difference between reality and their imagination).
Full Story:
https://www.nhs.uk/news/mental-health/using-cannabis-just-5-times-teen-linked-increased-psychosis-risk/
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So; just curious. Where is all the articles about how smoking crack increases your chances for schizophrenia, or how meth can lead to drug induced psychosis?
Both of these things are much worse then weed. And I’ve literally never seen any posts about them on here.
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@valiumprincess Here are some stats from a research paper from 2016. There is a link at the bottom of that thread to the full research paper.
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Every psych book I’ve ever read classified marijuana as an hallucinogen.
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Regardless of how pot can effect a user, I agree with @valiumprincess about the stimulants she mentioned. Far worse than smoking pot. I know from experience with one of them.
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I think the research is focused on the drugs that seem to be most common and also have a significant impact (negative) on people. For example - this research suggests Marijuana is the most commonly used drug by high-schoolers - at about 30%:
https://sw.graphiq.com/w/53vApRCN5rf
With cocaine (crack being a subset of this number) the use is only 4% of high schoolers (perhaps higher in older adults?):
https://sw.graphiq.com/w/beLlZbjdefz
Source Page:
https://clark.com/health-health-care/top-drugs-abused-high-school-students/
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Here is another set of graphs comparing cannabis use with cocaine use:
and
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