Smoking pot every day could increase your risk of a psychotic break with reality, particularly if you have access to high-potency strains of marijuana, according to European researchers.
People who used pot on a daily basis were three times more likely to have a first-time diagnosis of psychosis, and five times more likely if they used high-potency marijuana every day, researchers said.
But NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said it would be"premature at best, and sensational at worst" to conclude a causal relationship exists between marijuana use and psychiatric disorders. For the new study, researchers collected data on about 900 patients diagnosed with their first episode of psychosis at 11 hospitals in Europe between May 2010 and April 2015. They compared these patients with more than 1,200 random folks who'd never been diagnosed with psychosis.Psychosis involves a loss of contact with reality, according to the U.S. National Institute on Mental Health . The person might become delusional, or suffer from hallucinations.
Daily marijuana use was four times more likely among patients with first-episode psychosis, with nearly 30 percent saying they used pot daily compared with only about 7 percent of people in the control group. In those cities, strong pot is widely available. In the Netherlands, THC content can be as high as 67 percent, while 94 percent of highly potent,"skunk" pot in London averages 14 percent THC, the researchers said.
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