Thanks to the
Joint Blog for drawing attention to this new study and for their wonderful graphics.
In a new National Institute of Health study, Prospective Study of Cannabis Use in Adolescents at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis: Impact on Conversion to Psychosis and Functional Outcome debunks another of the long time myths about cannabis usage. Cannabis usage does not cause psychosis but alcohol does.
Conclusions
The current data do not support low to moderate lifetime cannabis use to be a major contributor to psychosis or poor social and role functioning in high-risk youth.
Maybe now we can begin to treat the cannabinoid drugs found in cannabis resins as the valuable medicines they are meant to be without getting confused with the recreational use of dried female flowers and leaves of the cannabis plants.