With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Despite cultural propaganda that sells marijuana as harmless, increasingly research finds that regular cannabis use is just the opposite.

Not only have recent studies found that marijuana use is a leading cause of workplace accidents and leads to schizophrenia among young men,

but a new peer-reviewed study tracking 30 years of medical records

for over 6.5 million Danish citizens found that marijuana use is closely associated with increased

risk of depression and bipolar disorder. Those previously diagnosed with cannabis addiction were

almost twice as likely to develop clinical depression and four times as likely to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The increased risk for psychosis is more likely to develop clinical depression and four times is likely to be diagnosed

with bipolar disorder.

The increased risk for psychosis is more likely for men than women and the chances go

up with one's use.

As U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse Deputy Director Dr. Wilson Compton noted, studies

like these are rapidly exposing that cannabis may not be the innocent and risk-free substance

that so many people

believe. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.