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Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks, including psychosis

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

i heard this too, some people have accounted thier friends went full schizo after getting baked, of couse they need to have underlying disease first.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I have friends who are now diagnosed schizophrenics, whose first major symptoms occurred while they were smoking weed. I have more friends whose schizophrenia appeared during or immediately after use of psychedelics. I tend to favor the belief that they had an underlying condition that was triggered, but I'm also slightly suspicious of the reasoning, which is too much like "they were already cracked and that's why they broke at that time" which can be tautological.

Hopefully, someone will do a good study of people who show early or precursor symptoms of schizophrenia and look at their risk of getting full-blown symptoms versus the baseline population, with or without recreational drug use.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago

They cite one such study right there in the article, and there are others: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38775165/

This isn't new information either, the experience I related above was a decade ago, and the impact of weed on people prone to psychotic disorders was already well known to the medical community at that time.