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Right, the fact that there's significant correlation between schizophrenia and cannabis use is well known, but I not aware that there's any decent evidence for
by meepmorp 5y ago
Right, the fact that there's significant correlation between schizophrenia and cannabis use is well known, but I not aware that there's any decent evidence for or against causation. Schizophrenics have generally higher rates of substance use/abuse so a higher rate of cannabis use is not not odd, per se.
- stevedekorte 5y agoIIRC, there's also a very high correlation between schizophrenia and early substance abuse/overuse in general (such as high alcohol/caffeine use). Are these substances causal too?
- justsomehnguy 5y agoIt is, but also there is a thing called 'self-medication'*. As we know, global warming has a positive corellation with a decline of a pirate activity, but nobody yet discovered the cause. * as a person who at least read some things on it - it should be really described as 'attempts at s.m.' but here we are
- schizohn 5y agothere is casual evidence that alcohol and caffeine increase hospitalisations for schizos. With marihuana its a harder riddle, what is a cause of another, I guess you can ask the same about other substances and origin