Since our state’s legalization of marijuana, more people are getting high, believing pot is completely harmless. But mental health professionals are seeing a dramatic increase in problems caused by ...
MARINETTE — Perhaps a parent's worst fear: That their children will not succeed in life. Now add to that fear the growing risk that they could develop lifelong symptoms of schizophrenia from marijuana ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The $38 billion cannabis industry is booming, but one neuroscientist is warning that today’s marijuana may carry deadly risks, ...
As a psychiatrist and addiction medicine physician, I am surprised that some patients and their families still believe marijuana is a benign and innocuous substance. Over the past several years, I ...
The White House released a new National Drug Control Strategy on Monday that raises alarm about “high-potency” marijuana and ...
MADRID — Rates of cannabis-induced psychosis (CIP) and cannabis use disorder (CUD) have risen across Scandinavia alongside increasing cannabis potency, accompanied by a parallel increase in ...
(WGN) – The California killing was gruesome, its circumstances shocking: A woman stabbed a man to death — leaving him with 108 wounds — after smoking marijuana. Her sentence? No jail time. “I really ...
WJW: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, discussed the risks of cannabis-induced psychosis. She explained that ...
Sports, good grades, and good friends. High school seemed to be going just fine for her son. But the Massachusetts mom was missing his heavy use of high-potency cannabis. "I didn't realize that he was ...
THC potency in cannabis has increased about fivefold over the past two decades, contributing to greater mental health risks for young, frequent users. Emergency visits for cannabis use or ...
Medical science has known for a long time that too much marijuana, especially smoked in adolescence, can make people crazy. Now, as President Donald Trump mulls whether to loosen federal controls of ...
In 2018, there was a criminal case of a young woman who smoked a bong containing a high dose of cannabis (marijuana) provided by her new boyfriend. She was unaccustomed to smoking pot. After taking a ...