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Sunday, 28 February 2010 12:56
Marijuana use at a young age significantly increased the risk of psychosis in young adulthood, Australian investigators reported.
Young adults who reported a longer duration since first exposure to marijuana had a two- to fourfold greater prevalence of three different psychosis-related outcomes, John McGrath, MD, PhD, of the Queensland Center for Mental Health Research in Wacol, and colleagues concluded in an article published online in Archives of General Psychiatry, reports Medpage.
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