Showing posts with label antidepressants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antidepressants. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Cannabis Psychosis

Excessive cannabis use can lead to psychosis as explained, for example, in 2007 here and here, in 200519941993, and 1982
... scientists found a more disturbing outlook for "heavy users" of pot, those who used it daily or weekly: Their risk for psychosis jumped to a range of 50 percent to 200 percent.
As well, combining antidepressants with cannabis can yield acute psychosis in which confusion, amnesia, delusions, hallucinations, anxiety, agitation and hypomanic symptoms predominate; discussed here and here.