Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Impact of Cannabis Use on the Development of Psychotic Disorders

Samuel T. Wilkinson, Rajiv Radhakrishnan, Deepak Cyril D’Souza
Current Addiction Reports Summary & key facts 2014 128 citations

This review looks at research on how cannabis and its active chemicals relate to psychosis. It says there are three patterns: short psychotic symptoms during intoxication, short psychosis that can last beyond intoxication (often resolving within a month in case reports), and persistent psychosis that is not clearly tied to…

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