A study published recently in Lancet Psychiatry has found that the daily of consumption may have serious mental consequences.
As part of the study, researchers reviewed the first time psychotic episodes of over 900 people across Europe as well as Brazil. These mental conditions involve people losing touch with reality.
The researchers then compared them to people without psychotic disorders and found that daily cannabis users were more than three times as likely to end up with a psychotic disorder diagnosis compared to people who had never used the drug.
The National Institute of Mental Health has said that 3 out of 100 people will experience psychosis at some time in teir lives in general.
Dr. Corey Jaquez, a Board Certified family medicine physician said to ABC News, “I’ve only had a handful of instances where patients had psychotic symptoms in the last 6 years,” he explained. “They were mostly people with other psychiatric illnesses who thought they could stop their meds and manage it strictly with cannabis.”
“They can do a 180. I took care of veteran who had to drop out of college because her PTSD was so bad. With cannabis, she returned to college and showed up to my office smiling the day she got into law school.”
