One in six cases of psychosis are linked to cannabis use, claims psychiatric expert
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One in six cases of psychosis are linked to cannabis use, claims psychiatric expert
A psychiatric expert has claimed one in six people with psychosis in Britain would never have developed it if they had not smoked cannabis.
Professor Robin Murray, an authority on schizophrenia at King’s College London, said about 50,000 people were now diagnosed as psychotic solely because they used the drug while teenagers.
Many had no family history of psychosis and would have had no risk of developing the disease if they had not smoked high-strength cannabis, he claimed.
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