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Kerstin Tunving

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Psychiatric effects of cannabis use

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica September 1, 1985 Kerstin Tunving 84 citations

That cannabis use may provoke mental disturbances is well known to Scandinavian psychiatrists today. A review of the psychiatric aspects of cannabis use is given, and the clinical signs of 70 cases of cannabis psychoses collected in Sweden are described. The bluntness and "amotivation" following chronic cannabis use are discussed. Anxiety reactions, flashbacks, dysphoric reactions and an...