Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks, including psychosis
Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks, including psychosis
Help me out here. I read the symptoms of psychosis, and I’ve definitely experienced those a couple times but only when I get super baked. But when it wears off I’m normal again.
What am I missing? To me this sounds like there’s a link between bad driving and people that drink which is like “duh” to me.
Substance-insuced psychosis (psychotic symptoms while you’re intoxicated) is a different diagnosis than a psychotic episode. That psychotic symptoms are not due to substance intoxication is actually one of the criteria of a psychotic episode. What I’m talking about are people for whom weed can trigger a psychotic episode that doesn’t go away after the high wears off.
Wikipedia will be a much better source, but my understanding is that psychosis can be a temporary symptom, or it can be a permanent health condition that calls for medical treatment.
Psychoactive drugs like marijuana, mushrooms, LSD, etc. can trigger permanent psychotic health condition on people who have genetic traits predisposed to such conditions.
It’s like a genetic game of roulette whenever any of us smoke it-- it could be the beginning of a very difficult health condition to manage for the rest of our lives.
Why this guy and not the other guy who’s asymptomatic? Ah, a “genetic predisposition.”
That doesn’t seem like a scientific explanation, more a Just So Story, or at best, a hypothesis. It might be true, but where’s the evidence?
This systematic review lists 12 studies that almost all concluded THC has a causative relationship with schizophrenia.