Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms Before and After Adolescent Cannabis Use Initiation.
JAMA Psychiatry November 6, 2024 PhD K.JustonOsborne, PhD DeannaM.Barch, PhD JoshuaJ.Jackson et al.
Importance Adolescent cannabis use has been consistently posited to contribute to the onset and progression of psychosis. However, alternative causal models may account for observed associations between cannabis use and psychosis risk, including shared vulnerability for both cannabis use and psychosis or efforts to self-medicate distress from psychosis spectrum symptomology. Objective To test 3...