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Cannabis legalization has been linked to an increase in psychosis in Canada

Five years after the legalization of cannabis marketing, Canada today faces an increase in hospitalizations due to psychotic episodes related to the consumption of this psychoactive substance, according to a large study conducted by Canadian researchers and published in the American Medical Journal. Jama Network Open:. ” This public health study is well done, and it’s interesting that its authors made a distinction between the legalization of cannabis and its commercialization phase that followed. “, comments Marie-Odile Krebs, professor and researcher at the Paris Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Entered into force in October 2018, the Cannabis Act aimed to limit trafficking, protect young people and better control the products consumed. Canada was then the second country in the world after Uruguay to not only legalize the non-medical use of cannabis for adults, but also…

Source: Le Figaro

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