Since the days of Reefer Madness, scientists have sought to understand the complex connection between marijuana and psychosis. Cannabis can cause short-term psychotic experiences, such as hallucinations and paranoia, even in healthy people, but researchers have also long noted a link between marijuana use and the chronic psychotic disorder, schizophrenia.
There are many studies that demonstrates a link between weed and schizophrenia. Studies have shown that people with schizophrenia are twice as likely to smoke pot as people not effected by the disorder. Other studies have shown the flip side, weed smokers are twice as likely to develop schizophrenia. One study even concluded that one hit of the bong increases your chance of developing a mental illness by 40 percent.
The real deal about pot and mental illness is the results of scientific research is all over the place. Pot use amongst teenagers has exploded from a small insignificant group in the 40s and 50s to about 70 percent of teenagers using by the turn of the century. Meanwhile, the incidences of schizophrenia has been on the decline. The research on marijuana is at odds with itself but one thing is certain amongst all of the researchers though. All agree that everyone who smokes it feels good.
