Can excessive marijuana use lead to psychosis?
Can excessive marijuana use lead to psychosis?
- First, we need to understand what psychosis is - a mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. (It is not the same as hallucinations.) Psychosis is quite rare – fewer than three in 100 people will experience a psychotic episode in their lifetime.
- First, we need to understand what psychosis is - a mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. (It is not the same as hallucinations.) Psychosis is quite rare – fewer than three in 100 people will experience a psychotic episode in their lifetime.