Cannabis users now develop psychosis at five times the rate of non-users. The NIH estimates that 30 percent of schizophrenia cases among men aged 21-30 are caused by cannabis.
As I lay moaning in the emergency room, it dawned on me how badly our country had screwed up.I'd been admitted for intractable nausea. By a weird coincidence, the young woman loudly retching in the next bed had, too. But with one crucial difference: I don't use cannabis, and she does, frequently. She's in fact made many emergency room trips for the same problem.
That's essentially the story of cannabis in the past 20 years.How did we end up in this great American bait-and-switch? From the late 1990s into the early 2000's, advocates were able to point to relatively well-demonstrated benefits for certain patients from mild, old-timey pot, and thereby convince legislators to allow cannabis for medicinal purposes in a handful of states. The resulting 'system' was a confusing patchwork, but it didn't cause widespread problems.
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