Does smoking marijuana have any long term effects?
In only a decade the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life. A survey of 232 healthy students who ranged in age from 18 to 25 years found an indication that regular and past or occasional cannabis users evidenced higher schizotypal personality scores and magical ideation scores than those who had never used cannabis. These results held even after adjustments were made for potentially confounding factors like anxiety and depression. Collectively, these findings uniformly support the notion that non-clinical, frequent cannabis users exhibit higher schizotypal personality traits than non-cannabis users. Furthermore, these findings also suggest that non-clinical cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhib
