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Cannabis and Psychosis

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NSW Government

 

South West Sydney Area Health Service, NSW

What's pot got to do with it?
Information from the Midas Website about marijuana and mental illness.

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Australia

 

Australian Drug Foundation

Cannabis use highly prevalent in first-episode psychosis
ADF Press Release about cannabis and psychosis.

Medical Journal of Australia

Is the grass greener?  The link between cannabis and psychosis.
By Diana R McKay and Christopher C Tennant published in 2000.

Mental Health Council of Australia

Where There’s Smoke – Cannabis and Mental Health.

National Drug & Alcohol Research Council (NDARC)

Development and dissemination of a brief intervention for cannabis use disorder for use by primary health care providers
Summary of a completed research project.

National Task Force on Cannabis

The Health and Psychological Consequences of Cannabis Use
This paper was prepared for the National Task Force on Cannabis by Wayne Hall, Nadia Solowij and Jim Lemon of National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC)

Victorian Government

  • Cannabis & Psychosis: Information for Health Care Workers
    A booklet that considers psychosis associated with the use of cannabis. It also contains research involving clinical and neurobiological studies and is based on the report entitled, Cannabis Use and Psychosis (1997) by Professor Wayne Hall of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, Sydney, Australia
  • Cannabis & Psychosis: Factsheet
    A factsheet explaining more about cannabis and psychosis.

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International

 

British Medical Journal

Cannabis Psychosis
An article by Dr Brian Boettcher, UK.

Duke University Medical Center

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
A description of the types of marijuana induced psychoses.

THE LANCET.com
http://www.thelancet.com/home

However, you need to be a registered user of this website to access these articles. The Lancet publishes a range of articles in relation to cannabis and psychosis as outlined below.  

  1. Are cannabis and psychosis linked?
    Peter Harrigan
    The Lancet – Vol. 353, Issue 9154, 27 February 1999, Page 730
  2. Cannabis use and risk of psychosis in later life
    Merete Nordentoft, Carsten Hjorthøj
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9584, 28 July 2007, Pages 293-294
  3. Is cannabis use psychotogenic?
    Wayne Hall
    The Lancet - Vol. 367, Issue 9506, 21 January 2006, Pages 193-195
  4. Cannabis and psychosis
    John Macleod, George Davey Smith, Matthew Hickman, Matthias Egger
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9598, 3 November 2007, Page 1539
  5. Cannabis and psychosis
    O Schulte-Herbrüggen, MC Jockers-Scherübl
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9598, 3 November 2007, Page 1540
  6. Cannabis and psychosis
    Daniele Fabio Zullino, Thomas Rathelot, Yasser Khazaal
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9598, 3 November 2007, Page 1540
  7. Rehashing the evidence on psychosis and cannabis
    The Lancet
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9584, 28 July 2007, Page 292
  8. Highs and lows of cannabis
    David Sharp
    The Lancet - Vol. 363, Issue 9406, 31 January 2004, Page 344
  9. Cannabis and psychosis – Authors' reply
    Stanley Zammit, Theresa Moore, Glyn Lewis
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9598, 3 November 2007, Pages 1539-1540
  10. Cannabis use and risk of psychotic or affective mental health outcomes: a systematic review
    Theresa HM Moore, Stanley Zammit, Anne Lingford-Hughes, Thomas RE Barnes, Peter B Jones, Margaret Burke, Glyn Lewis
    The Lancet - Vol. 370, Issue 9584, 28 July 2007, Pages 319-328
  11. Adverse effects of cannabis
    Wayne Hall, Nadia Solowij
    The Lancet - Vol. 352, Issue 9140, 14 November 1998, Pages 1611-1616


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