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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/psychosis-linked-to-use-of-cannabis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Using cannabis as a teenager or into young adulthood increases the risk of psychosis, experts warned" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-psychosis-linked-to-use-of-cannabis.jpg" alt="Using cannabis as a teenager or into young adulthood increases the risk of psychosis, experts warned"/></a></p>
<p>Using cannabis as a teenager or into young adulthood increases the risk of psychosis, experts have warned.</p>
<p>There has long been a debate over whether the link between cannabis and psychosis is causal or whether early psychotic experiences lead people to &#8220;self-medicate&#8221; with cannabis.</p>
<p>Researchers examined data for more than 1,900 people who were aged 14 to 24 at the start of the study.</p>
<p>They were followed up at three, and then eight years later, to assess the link between cannabis use and psychotic symptoms.</p>
<p>Those who were not cannabis users at the start of the study, but who went on to become so, had a higher risk of psychotic symptoms later on.</p>
<p>In those who were using cannabis at the start of the study and carried on, there was also an increased risk of psychotic experiences.</p>
<p>The experts, including from Germany, the Netherlands and the Institute of Psychiatry in London, published their findings in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).</p>
<p>They concluded: &#8220;Cannabis use is a risk factor for the development of incident psychotic symptoms.</p>
<p>&#8220;Continued cannabis use might increase the risk for psychotic disorder by impacting on the persistence of symptoms.&#8221;</p>
<p>The experts found no evidence that psychotic symptoms led to later cannabis use.</p>
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