Does Cannabis Use Increase Schizophrenia and Psychosis?

Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast

David J Puder

Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In this episode, David Puder, M.D., and Victoria Agee discuss possible links between marijuana use and psychosis. There a multiple studies which reveal links in genetics and marijuana potency that can lead to an increase in schizophrenia and psychosis.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.
0:12.2	I'm here to talk about getting rid of burnout, increasing job satisfaction, and feeling
0:16.6	like an expert in what you do.
0:18.6	One thing that created a lot of burnout and angst for me was trying to get continued medical
0:22.0	education right at the last minute.
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0:32.5	is emailed to you in seconds.
0:36.9	A couple of years ago, I was struck by a patient who came in to my office who was having
0:43.8	psychotic symptoms.
0:46.5	He was seeing spiders on the wall and he was punching them with his fists.
0:51.7	He was having issues because the group home that he was living at was very upset that
0:57.4	he was putting holes in walls.
1:00.3	When he talked to me, he said, there are these effing spiders and they keep coming down
1:05.8	at me at night.
1:07.9	No one believes me and I'm not crazy.
1:13.4	This is a guy who had started smoking marijuana when he was 13.
1:17.6	He had some family history of psychosis.
1:21.8	I think it was his grandmother who had schizophrenia.
1:25.7	He was a fairly normal kid up into the age of his early 20s in which he had a psychotic
1:33.4	break.
1:34.8	He was a marijuana user.
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