@doctoradamhoward: Cannabis causes psychosis of two flavours: The first flavor is transient substance-induced psychosis. This is when a person’s experiencing psychosis purely due to the effects of the substance in their system. Because of the variability in how long cannabis affects individual people and the diversity of different synthetics and strains, the duration of this type of psychosis can be highly variable. The second flavor is where cannabis acts as a second hit to an underlying genetic predisposition for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. In these cases, the cannabis precipitates the “first episode,“ of psychosis. In the latter case, the impact on a person’s life can be more profound. For some people, they respond adequately to antipsychotic therapy and are able to return to basically back to their prior baseline as long as they continue adequate treatment. For others, they experience “treatment resistant psychosis.“ This is when psychosis doesn’t respond the way that we would expect to antipsychotic therapy. In those cases, people can wind up in a state of chronic neuropsychiatric impairment, often leading to serial incarceration or hospitalization. If you or a loved one have been affected by this, please share your story. If you, like me, believe that people have a right to know this information and make informed choices about things like this, please share the video. 👇 As always I look forward to learning from you in the comments.

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Thursday 24 September 2026 12:04:01 GMT