Study reveals correlation between weed use and mental illness

New study has found a connection among a greater likelihood of mental condition and using weed. Marijuana use was connected to psychological illness by a review of 83 studies involving more than 8,000 patients, which showed that using marijuana brought on mental illness symptoms to emerge far earlier in individuals which were at risk for creating schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Marijuana use and mental illness has been connected before. Evidently there’s a new form of "Reefer Madness" around.

Marijuana users develop psychological condition quicker

WebMD explained that those predisposed to psychological illnesses are more likely to get faster mental illnesses when using marijuana. There could be a psychiatric science journal releasing the study in June. This is the Archives of General Psychiatry. Dr. Matthew Large who is from the Prince of Wales Hospital located in Sydney, Australia, led the team that did the study. Pot was connected in the study to psychological health getting brought about earlier, especially schizophrenia, in the 83 individual studies that over 8,000 people were involved in.

Narcotic use with Marijuana

In the study, there is a link clearly shown with marijuana use. It shows that psychological illnesses like schizophrenia show symptoms sooner when cannabis is being uses assuming the person is already at risk for the disease. Those who used weed had symptoms 2.7 years earlier than those who didn't. This was with schizophrenia. People who used multiple substances, including cannabis, cocaine and other drugs, developed symptoms of mental condition two years earlier than those who did not use narcotics. The Time reports that alcohol wouldn't accelerate symptoms as long as it was the only thing used. There was not enough evidence in the study to suggest that psychological illness was not impacted by tobacco use.

Study warns those at risk of mental condition ought to not use narcotics

Using psychoactive substances is something that people at risk for psychological illnesses are told not to use. There has been more than one research suggesting a connection among schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis and weed use. There is not anything that states schizophrenia can be brought on by cannabis, just that symptom shows up faster when weed is getting used.

Articles cited

Web MD

webmd.com/schizophrenia/news/20110207/earlier-onset-of-schizophrenia-linked-to-pot

Health Land

healthland.time.com/2011/02/07/marijuana-linked-with-earlier-onset-of-schizophrenia-in-research-review/

Archives of General Psychiatry

archpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/archgenpsychiatry.2011.5v1