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The federal government’s giant database called HCUP, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, tracks emergency room visits for psychotic symptoms. In 2006 there were about 30,000 emergency room patients with a primary diagnosis of psychosis and a secondary marijuana use disorder. Eight years later, that number had almost tripled, to nearly 90,000. Psychotic patients with a marijuana sub-diagnosis were about twice as likely to wind up hospitalized as those who didn’t have one. In how many of these patients overall was there a causal relationship between marijuana use and psychotic symptoms?
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Alex Berenson, in his recent book: Tell Your Children the Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, reported data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2017 showing that about 2.5 million young adults met the criteria for serious mental illness, a rise of more than 25% from the previous year and double the rate in 2008. Among adults not using cannabis, fewer than 4% met the criteria for serious mental illness, and 13% for other mental illness. In contrast, about 10% of all cannabis-using adults over 18 met the criteria for serious mental illness, and another 25% met the criteria for less severe conditions. Is the increase of problems among cannabis users due to a causal relationship between cannabis use and mental illness?
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Is this doubling of the incidence of mental illness in cannabis users a fair estimate of the risk factor for using cannabis?
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Many apparent myths have sprung up following release of the motion picture, Reefer Madness, in the early 1900s that greatly exaggerated the ability of marijuana to cause outrageous changes in behavior. To what extent has such propaganda dismissing the dangers of cannabis made people complacent about its risks, and what will be the consequences?
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