Cannabis causes schizophrenia? Are we getting the full picture?

Information is vital to our decisions, and the delivery of information is as important as the content itself. We have increasingly placed a filter over our drug policy conversation – a hyperbolic monocle, full of binary inconsistencies. The inevitable result is an unwitting confusion. Cannabis causes schizophrenia? This has become almost common knowledge. But, what if this is only half the story? 

In taking a look at cannabis and its association with schizophrenia, the leading figures in the field of neuroscience and psychiatry were of course the best people to ask. Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Lester Grinspoon, joined former UK Government advisor and Nueropsychopharmacologist Professor David Nutt, along with Dr. Igor Grant, Nueropsychiatrist from the UCSD School of Medicine. The result of this conversation may well be surprising.

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