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Psychiatric Times. Vol. 29 No. 6
MINE YOUR MIND
The Cannabis-Psychosis Link
By Marie-Josee Lynch, MD, Rachel A. Rabin, MSc, and Tony P. George, MD, FRCPC |
June 27, 2012
Dr Lynch is a PGY-3 Resident in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto; Ms Rabin is a PhD student in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the University of Toronto; Dr George is Professor and Chair in Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and Clinical Director of the Schizophrenia Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto. Dr George reports that in the past 2 years, he has received grant support from Pfizer; has been a speaker for Astra Zeneca, Eli Lilly, and Pfizer; and served as a consultant to Abbott, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sepracor. Dr Lynch and Ms Rabin have no conflicts of interest concerning the subject matter of this article.
Acknowledgments— This article was supported in part by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (#16014), the Chair in Addiction Psychiatry from the University of Toronto, and by grants from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (MOP#245931, to T.P.G.) and the Ontario Mental Health Foundation to Dr George. Ms Rabin is supported by Studentships from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
3. It has been suggested that early cannabis use confers a higher risk of psychosis, which may be explained by the fact that A. The brain is more vulnerable during adolescence B. There is greater cumulative cannabis use C. Both of the above D. None of the above
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