PROJECTING THE IMPACT OF CHANGES IN CANNABIS USE UPON SCHIZOPHRENIA IN ENGLAND AND WALES: THE ROLE OF ASSUMPTIONS AND BALANCE IN FRAMING AN EVIDENCE‐BASED CANNABIS POLICY
Addiction March 12, 2007 James Christopher Anthony, Louisa Degenhardt 4 citations
In this issue, Hickman and colleagues [1] present estimates from a simulation exercise to project the impact of cannabis use upon the future incidence of schizophrenia in England and Wales. The projections are based upon an assumption (which the authors disclose) that cannabis smoking causes newly incident cases of schizophrenia that would never appear in the absence of cannabis smoking. It is...