Link between Adolescent Pot Smoking and Psychosis Strengthens

Progressive governments around the world are moving to embrace the use of cannabis ‘to treat nausea, pain and other conditions proceeds apace with the drive to legalize the plant for recreational use. Pot’s seemingly innocuous side effects have helped clear a path toward making it a legal cash crop, with all of the marketing glitz brought to other consumer products. But that clean bill of health only goes so far. Marijuana’s potentially detrimental impact on the developing brains of adolescents remains a key focus of research—particularly because of the possibility teenage users could go on to face a higher risk of psychosis.’

The fact that this growing field of research testifies to the public health risks of marijuana ought to be sufficient to stop the move in its tracks.  But the possibility of a financial winfall through government run dispensaries seems to be outweighing the benefits.  And those effected will doubtless become material for the psychiatrists in the government run hospitals.

Read the full article in Scientific American