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L Degenhardt

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Cannabis use and psychosis: a review of clinical and epidemiological evidence.

The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry February 1, 2000 W Hall, L Degenhardt

This paper evaluates evidence for two hypotheses about the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis: (i) that heavy cannabis use causes a 'cannabis psychosis', i.e. a psychotic disorder that would not have occurred in the absence of cannabis use and which can be recognised by its pattern of symptoms and their relationship to cannabis use; and (ii) that cannabis use may precipitate...