Tuesday, 28. October 2003
Topic: DRUGS - on October 28, 2003 at 10:53:24 PM CET
Cannabis 'doubles chances of psychosis'
Cannabis doubles the risk of schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions, an expert at the Trimbos addiction institute has claimed.
The Institute's Harald Wychgel told current affairs programme Nova claimed that cannabis use leads to 200 additional cases of schizophrenia each year in the Netherlands. He said that about 400,000 young Dutch people regularly smoke cannabis and of these 400 fall victim to psychiatric difficulties or schizophrenia.
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