Cannabis consumption

These weren't necessarily straightforward alternatives either, because substance use and an underlying mental health condition can interact in complicated ways.

Cannabis use formed part of Lewis Ranwell's clinical history, as he'd been using it regularly, and medical professionals repeatedly advised him to stop taking illicit drugs because of the potential relationship between substance use and his psychotic symptoms.

Before I carry on, I'm going to take a quick time out because I remember when I previously covered a case in which the perpetrator was reported to have experienced weed-induced psychosis.

And I received quite a lot of backlash from people insisting that cannabis simply cannot have that effect.

There's plenty of studies done on this, you can read them online.

One was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in 2008.

It's called Cannabis Use and the Risk of Developing a Psychotic Disorder.

Feel free to do your own deep dive.

Today is Tuesday, September 29th, and I'm Zach Caruso.

Our lead story this week is an addiction and is titled Adolescent Cannabis Use Disorder Following Recreational Cannabis Legalization in California, USA, a Population-Based Interrupted Time Series Study.

Adolescent past-year cannabis use trends have remained relatively flat nationally as legalization has spread, but less is known about clinical outcomes such as Incident Cannabis Use Disorder, or CUD.

Researchers evaluated incident CUD case trends among adolescents in California between 2014 and 2020 to assess recreational cannabis legalization, or RCL, impact.