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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I haven't looked in some time, but the only relatively clear link to schizophrenia was in the developing brain (teenagers) and even then the authors suggested family history and possible early presentation of schizophrenia likely select those who will try marijuana early. It's a difficult subject to provide clarity on
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Sure it is, it's a spectrum and certain people are going to be more predisposed to schizophrenia
High risk (probably shouldn't smoke marijuana until they are in their 30's):
-High stress lifestyle
-poor diet
-severe trauma and abuse as a child
-family with a genetic history of mental disorders
Low risk
-low stress lifestle
-healthy diet
-no significant trauma experienced during childhood (e.g. sexual abuse)
-little to no genetic history of mental disorders
of course someone in the low risk category can have it triggered for them but it's much less likely than those in the high risk (and someone in the high risk category may not have it triggered). At this point numeric values are hard to create on exactly the risk factors due to the infancy of the science on the issue. It's basically that nervous, unhealthy, anxious stressed out people shouldn't be consuming marijuana.