Mental health. For young users, marijuana can lead to increased anxiety, panic attacks, depression and other mental health problems. For those already prone to depression or anxiety attacks, marijuana use may accelerate or exacerbate problems.
• The United Kingdom Department of Health acknowledged in January, 2005 that cannabis is an “important causal factor” in mental illness. A spokesman for the Department said that “There is medical clinical evidence now that there is an important causal factor between cannabis use and schizophrenia—not the only factor, but an important causal factor. That is the common consensus among the medical fraternity.” (BBC News, January 29, 2005).
Because of this, the UK is reconsidering its cannabis policies.
• A British mental health organization, Rethink, reported that “there had been a 60% increase in people who had smoked (cannabis) and had mental problems in the last five years. (BBC News, January 29, 2005).
• A study conducted by Maastricht University (Netherlands) and published in the British Medical Journal reported that frequent cannabis use during adolescence and young adulthood raises the risk of psychotic symptoms later in life. (BBC News, December 1, 2004). British medical officials are also concerned about the number of cannabis-related mental illness admissions to mental wards. Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, told the London Daily Mail that “In London 80 percent of people assessed with a first episode of psychosis are on cannabis. The explosion of cannabis-induced psychosis is already happening.” (London Daily Mail, June 21, 2005).
A couple of months ago, before what's been going on now, I think I had the same thing. I had stopped smoking a few months before that, due to it making me feel paranoid, I went from being an everyday smoker to not smoking at all overnight. A friend of mine baked some brownies, I had one, I started feeling really strange, spent over an hour walking up and down my hallway, then it finally went away enough for me to feel safe going to sleep, I blamed it on mj, but now I'm not so sure, 3 weeks ago I had another one, perfectly sober. I haven't touched anything since that day, which was last fall. I think the freaky part is that it brings it out, but then you blame it on the drug and don't realize what is happening.
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