What are the long-term dangers of smoking marijuana on mental health?
• It can increase risk of depression, suicidal thoughts as a result of regular marijuana use, even among people with no prior history of a disorder. • It can increase the risk of acute toxic psychosis and panic attacks. • It increases the risk of developing uncontrollable aggressiveness. • It may badly disrupt the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed. • Long term use of marijuana can cause schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder. • There is evidence of increased risk for schizophrenia in later years in some teens who smoke marijuana. What the studies say about marijuana and mental health? • Many studies have been suggested that marijuana is the root cause of many mental disorders. • Several studies have documented marijuana’s link with symptoms of schizophrenia and report that it is an independent risk factor for schizophrenia. • Heavy marijuana users are almost seven times more likely than non-users to be diagnosed with
