HealthDay (1/13, Thompson) reports, “As legalization of recreational marijuana spreads across the United States, more people are showing up in” emergency departments “with psychotic symptoms after consuming too much pot, said” Itai Danovitch, MD, “chairman of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles.” Some people “with a family history of mental illness might wind up with a full-fledged psychotic disorder that will require extended treatment, Danovitch noted.” Dr. Danovitch “said he counsels young people to consider their genetic risk for mental illness before they use marijuana.”
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— “Can Pot Bring on Psychosis in Young Users? It May Be Happening, Experts Say, ” Dennis Thompson, HealthDay, January 13, 2020