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Review Summaries[edit]

It's best to discuss this on the article's talk page rather than our user pages.

RE: my comment that some summaries seem misleading.

I merely meant that a couple of the summaries seem biased toward negativity. These reviews had a more balanced tone. For example originally one summary stated that

In 2010, the Global burden of disease study found that cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia accounted for an estimated 7,000 disability adjusted life years globally.

However this should be put into perspective as the authors did: "cannabis use as a risk factor for schizophrenia is not a major contributor to population-level disease burden".

And another summary:

In 2013, a review by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai stated that there exists "a strong association between schizophrenia and cannabis use...".

Leaves out other important findings such as cannabis use alone does not predict the transition to subsequent psychiatric illness. They, like other researchers, found that many factors are involved, including genetics, environment, time period of initiation and duration of cannabis use, underlying psychiatric pathology that preceded drug use, and combined use of other psychoactive drugs.

Psychosis[edit]

"In a report issued in 2000, the National Academy of Sciences noted that some researchers had proposed a link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, as well as between cannabis use and a unique type of psychosis."

Is this accurate? What type of psychosis? --135.23.175.43 (talk) 22:40, 21 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?[edit]

Is this article really necessary? If one removes all the reviews older than five years the remaining article is only a few paragraphs long. It seems to me this content could be merged to Cannabis (drug) or Long-term effects of cannabis. Sizeofint (talk) 00:05, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

And even smaller if the content in the opening two paragraphs that is using outdated sources is removed. It should probably be merged, though to which I'm not sure. There are two possible 'psychosis' effects/concerns discussed here, one is short-term which wears off with the high, one is a long-term association that exists regardless of being high for which causation has not been established. Psyden (talk) 00:27, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I created this article, but I'd also support a merge (probably to Long-term effects of cannabis, though I'm not sure whether I prefer this or Cannabis (drug) as explained above). Everymorning (talk) 00:36, 28 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]