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Prevalence of smoking tobacco is also dramatically higher among schizophrenic people [0]. Before marijuana use is demonized for causing schizophrenia, it would
by octokatt 5y ago
Prevalence of smoking tobacco is also dramatically higher among schizophrenic people [0]. Before marijuana use is demonized for causing schizophrenia, it would be worthwhile to more robustly prove these results.
[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19794359/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19794359/
- ipnon 5y agoNicotine modulating the hyperactive dopaminergic activity of schizophrenics I recall being one hypothesis for this remarkable connection. 90% of schizophrenics smoked tobacco compared to 20% of non-schizophrenics in 2006![0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_tobacco_smoking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia_and_tobacco_smok...