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Early Marijuana Use Significantly Increases Psychosis Risk in Young Adults, Study Says
Cheree Cleghorn | February 28, 2010
“Marijuana use at a young age significantly increased the risk of psychosis in young adulthood, Australian investigators reported.
“Young adults who reported a longer duration since first exposure to marijuana had a two- to fourfold greater prevalence of three different psychosis-related outcomes, John McGrath, MD, PhD, of the Queensland Center for Mental Health Research in Wacol, and colleagues concluded in an article published online in Archives of General Psychiatry.
Source: Medpage Today, February 27, 2010
Citation:Arch Gen Psychiatry 2010; DOI: 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2010.6.
