Is There Still a Risk of Developing Schizophrenia Once You Have Stopped Smoking Cannabis?
Question by Nick M: Is there still a risk of developing schizophrenia once you have stopped smoking cannabis?
All the studies I’ve read say if you smoke it you are more likely to develop by age 26 but does that mean if you carry on using or does this differ if you stop? I think it means you are at risk until you are 25/26 regardless because after that age you are unlikely to develop it but i’m not sure?
I haven’t smoked for 7 years
Thanks
Best answer:
Answer by justbeingher
I have never heard of any such risk associated with weed. If you were going to get it before you started smoking, it may have increased the risk.
Just forget about the study – if you are OK now, then you will remain OK.
Answer by Aaron
here is a site talking about the subject. http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/002684.html
This dr campbell is a shady character (this review tribunal he is a part of practices “spacial medical treatment (sterilisation)”. but heres my take on the article
It is very important to look at prodromal symptoms as a confounding variable in these studies. The question is “does marijuana increase the likelihood for developing schizophrenia, or do future schizophrenics have a greater tendency to seek marijuana and other mind-altering drugs?”
It has already been established that schizophrenics abuse these kinds of drugs more often than healthy individuals, so saying schizophrenics smoked pot as kids lets us know nothing, except that the symptoms are present at an early age.
Rather than looking at the rate of marijuana use in schizophrenics, which we already know is high, we should look at two different stats.
I would like to see a comparison of the number of consistent marijuana users who later developed schizophrenia and determine if this rate is higher than the rate of schizophrenia in the population. they should take into account predisposition to schizophrenia from a genetic perspective along with demographics.
For example, is the rate of
-marijuana users who developed the disorder greater than
-the rate of disorder in that specific population (something like socioeconomic class, which has been found to have differeing rates of psychotic conditions).
Just an idea. Most of these studies I have looked at discuss the fact that their results are not definitive and should not be used to extrapolate. I would say at least 99% of the people who smoke mj do not develop lasting psychotic symptoms, although there seems to be some kind of correlation. Until there are more well-designed studies I will be skeptical of a causal relationship.
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