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"But by excluding teens who were already showing mental health symptoms, the new study points to a potential causal link between cannabis use and later mental h
by ndr42 8mo ago
"But by excluding teens who were already showing mental health symptoms, the new study points to a potential causal link between cannabis use and later mental health diagnoses. Additional research is needed to understand the link fully."
Hm, but this does not exclude the possibility that the being prone to mental illness comes with a little bit higher tendency to consume cannabis...
- vforgione 8mo agoWhen I read this article the other day I had the exact same thought. Is this simply correlation, or is it causation? Is teenage usage an indicator of a possible underlying condition that hasn’t fully manifest? Is it an early form of self medication?
- M95D 8mo agoAnd the only way to tell is to randomly split teenagers into two groups: cannabis vs. control. But no parent would give consent, so we will never know.
- ctrl-j 8mo agoSimilarly, cigarettes also have a very strong correlation with schizophrenia. Completely non-causal, but it's hard to find a non-hospitalized schizophrenic who does not smoke.
- joquarky 8mo agoLet's not forget that many mental health "disorders" are just elaborate labels for having difficulty conforming to arbitrary cultural expectations.
- tsoukase 8mo agoIts a correlation result and not causation. The author makes a mistake, off course. Mental diseases have effects since deep in a young age and push for increased marijuana use, but also nicotine, benzos and, may be, obesity, aggressiveness, school dropout, parent's divorce, low vitD and a long list of possible factors. All these will be correlations.