This headline is worded in the most scare-tactic-y way possible. Schizophrenia affects something like 0.5% of the population, which means that, according to this study, it affects 2% of heavy cannabis users. Phrasing it as 4 times more likely to develop schizophrenia makes it sound like it is a likely outcome, rather than a still-probablistically-very-low chance.
Also causation vs correlation. Isn’t it likely that people with schizophrenia are self medicating, especially before diagnosis and treatment? I know that happens for other undiagnosed and misdiagnosed neurological conditions like autism and ADHD.
This headline is worded in the most scare-tactic-y way possible. Schizophrenia affects something like 0.5% of the population, which means that, according to this study, it affects 2% of heavy cannabis users. Phrasing it as 4 times more likely to develop schizophrenia makes it sound like it is a likely outcome, rather than a still-probablistically-very-low chance.
Also causation vs correlation. Isn’t it likely that people with schizophrenia are self medicating, especially before diagnosis and treatment? I know that happens for other undiagnosed and misdiagnosed neurological conditions like autism and ADHD.