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by jbrl 3437 days ago
"In individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses, a history of cannabis use may be linked to better performance on learning and memory tasks."

Well At least once you're crazy you can improve your learning!

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There is substantial evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and: • The development of schizophrenia or other psychoses, with the highest risk among the most frequent users (12-1)

But it will also make you crazier. To sum it up, you'll become a smarter, crazier version of yourself.

That's assuming causation from correlation.

It's possible at-risk people are self-medicating, and that's why the correlation exists. (Or any number of confounding factors, such as at-risk people being more likely to break social norms.)

I could assume the opposite but it would spoil my joke.
That makes me think the self-medication cause holds a bit more weight than I though for the spike in mental issues correlating to use.