Can Marijuana cause schizophrenia?
Yes, excessive marijuana use at a young age has been linked to schizophrenia, especially in young adult males who began using heavily in their teens. However, what you’re experiencing actually sounds like an anxiety attack. Lots of people have panic attacks or anxiety on weed. My advice? Stop. You might not be schizophrenic, but having an anxiety disorder isn’t a picnic either, trust me. Smoking marijuana excessively isn’t good for you just like getting drunk every day wouldn’t be good for you. Yes, using ANYTHING to excess isn’t healthy and can cause adverse side affects. The person who said it can cause brain death is just trying to scare you – that’s actually more likely to happen with a drug like crack or ecstasy – but marijuana isn’t harmless, either. At any rate, you need to quit smoking it every day if you care about your physical and mental health. If you quit cold turkey, you might have some unpleasant symptoms like depression and anger, but that’s common “weed withdraw” in he
Trigger but not cause schizophrenia is the proper terminology. Many drugs especially combinations of drugs and alcohol can trigger but not cause schizophrenia First of all many people with schizophrenia use what ever drugs that allow them to get away from their demons, they trigger what they already have especially with pills etc. Note the ones that are manic depressive schizophrenics, this is a very common thing as manic depression bipolar decease is a denied but inherited decease it has been found that it comes from a defective gene and runs in families.. Sadly many families never admit this to their offspring. Also so many of them are suicidal to them selves and their children. These people families either from loss of ego the guilt embarrassment or not wanting to take the responsibility for their actions of passing on the defective gene. Or they just don’t know about it they are so screwed up. I know of a case where a father had siblings that had this disease and he wouldn’t even t
