Can marijuana use bring on psychotic disorders?
The connection between marijuana use and psychosis is under debate. However, researchers agree that heavy use of marijuana can bring on an acute, passing, psychotic state in healthy people. Research shows that THC can cause normal people to experience psychotic symptoms, such as visual and auditory hallucinations, delusional ideas, and thought disorders (Hall et al., 1999). How often this happens is not known, and how it happens is not well understood. The psychotic disorders caused by marijuana are brief episodes which begin suddenly, sometimes in association with a physical or psychological event. They may also happen with or without changes in how much of the drug is used, and they can last from a week to two months. Regular users are more likely than occasional users to experience psychotic events, with symptoms like behavioural problems, aggression, visual hallucinations, and delirium. Researchers think that marijuana psychosis only happens to people who are vulnerable to psychoti
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