People who use cannabis are developing psychosis years earlier than non-users, new research shows, prompting calls for greater health warnings about one of the nation’s most widely used substances.
Cannabis users develop psychosis an average of two-and-a-half years earlier than non-users, a new meta-analysis from UNSW Sydney researchers shows.
This earlier onset of psychosis becomes more pronounced with age, stretching to more than six years difference between cannabis users and non-users who develop psychosis in their 30s, the global analysis published in Biological Psychiatry, found.
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