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CANNABIS AND SCHIZIPHRENIA IN CANADA
Canada Sees No Rise in Schizophrenia Post
Cannabis Legalization
Many anti-pot people claim marijuana leads to schizophrenia, well, not in Canada at least.
Posted by:
Reginald Reefer on Sunday Feb 6, 2022
https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/01/canada-marijuana-legalization-not-associated-with-increased-psychosis-or-
schizophrenia/ (https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/01/canada-marijuana-legalization-not-associated-with-increased-
psychosis-or-schizophrenia/)

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One of the main concerns about cannabis legalization from those who oppose such policies is the impact on those with
mental conditions such as Schizophrenia. We’ve been told on numerous occasions about the dangers of cannabis
legalization and the potentials for people who are predisposed with the psychiatric condition to be triggered through
ingestion.
I have argued on several occasions that while cannabis may serve as a catalyst for the triggering of an episode, so can
any high stress situation like someone suddenly losing their employment, a death in the family, etc.
Schizophrenia doesn’t need cannabis to be its conduit. It can manifest utilizing any traumatic experience as a catalyst.
Now, after several years of legal cannabis – research in Canada is showing that there has not been a significant increase
in psychosis or schizophrenia post cannabis legalization.

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“Cannabis legalization in many jurisdictions worldwide has raised concerns that such legislation might increase the burden of
transient and persistent psychotic illnesses in society”, states the study’s researchers. “Our study aimed to address this issue.” -
Source (https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/01/canada-marijuana-legalization-not-associated-with-increased-
psychosis-or-schizophrenia/)
The researchers utilized the Emergency Department’s reporting systems in Alberta and Ontario to analyze the data.
…researchers “employed Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) models to assess associations between
Canada’s cannabis legalization (via the Cannabis Act implemented on October 17, 2018) and weekly ED presentation counts of
the following ICD-10-CA-defined target series of cannabis-induced psychosis (F12.5; n = 5832) and schizophrenia and related
conditions (“schizophrenia”; F20-F29; n = 211,661), as well as two comparison series of amphetamine-induced psychosis (F15.5;
n = 10,829) and alcohol-induced psychosis (F10.5; n = 1,884).” As reported by The Marijuana Herald
(https://themarijuanaherald.com/2022/01/canada-marijuana-legalization-not-associated-with-increased-psychosis-or-
schizophrenia/)
According to the findings, researchers reported “no evidence of significant step-function effects associated with cannabis
legalization on post-legalization weekly ED counts of: (1) cannabis-induced psychosis [0.34 (95% CI -4.1; 4.8; P = 0.88)]; (2)
schizophrenia [24.34 (95% CI -18.3; 67.0; P = 0.26)]; (3) alcohol-induced psychosis [0.61 (95% CI -0.6; 1.8; P = 0.31); or (4)
amphetamine-induced psychosis [1.93 (95% CI -2.8; 6.7; P = 0.43)].”
This is something that we in the cannabis community have observed for many years now. Despite the apparent wide
spread use of cannabis, the statistical prevalence of Schizophrenia has remain relatively stable for several years now.
When monitoring mental health, there are far more worrisome things we need to be taking a look at such as the
increase of suicide and attempted suicide by teenage girls (https://fee.org/articles/cdc-reports-51-increase-in-suicide-
attempts-among-teenage-girls/) for example. How about the alarming rate of teen school shootings?
Surely, these are far more important in the context of societal safety than Schizophrenia, a condition that roughly
affects 1.2% of the US population. This isn’t to say that Schizophrenia is a laughing matter. On the contrary, we need to
pull resources to provide publically funded treatment for these individuals – however, there have been numerous

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studies on the subject matter and it seems that it’s one of the “top priorities” of mental health experts these days, at
least in relation to the headlines that generate the most clicks.
Once more, I personally don’t think that we need to spend so much time studying things that affect relatively a small
portion of the total population. Suicide is the leading cause of death in the US within the age group of 10-34 according
to the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/index.html).
I’m also not saying that we should simply not study these correlations when it comes to cannabis, however – when it
comes to utilizing our collective resources there are more pressing matters to address. This is perhaps one thing that
the pandemic has enabled us to see – the sheer inadequacies of the intellectual community. It’s not their fault entirely –
unfortunately, politics stuck its big finger in the midst of virtually every societal activity and warped the original
purposes of institutions to engage into tribal thinking.
However, politics don’t act without someone pushing its buttons and that can directly be laid at the feet of the mega
corporations of the world. Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big whatever – they have purchased politicians
(https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/pfizer-inc/members-invested?id=D000000138) like they are baseball cards, they
frequently create false narratives (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-tobacco-funded-study-raises-concerns/) within
the scientific community and influence people’s perception of reality via Native Advertisement.
(https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/post/april-2021/what-is-native-advertising)
Unfortunately, these faceless corporations receive all of the perks of being a “legal entity”, but none of the accountability
as your average human. Thus, to pinpoint who the exact people are responsible for the general corruption and
deception is difficult. After all, corporations are compromised of individual people, except they are shielded from
accountability.
Where do we go from here?
Since the 1970s and even before that, the government funded institutions have been eagerly trying to uncover “what’s
wrong with cannabis” and frequently came up empty handed. I have written on so many bunk papers from “official
sources” and “experts in the field” – that my trust in academia has taken a significant hit.

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I have to make certain of how people conducted the research and whether their results can be replicated by others
before I take anything more seriously.
I wrote this piece to showcase how personal agendas can create evidence to support their narratives. There really isn’t
much we can do about that, however, it also doesn’t mean we are powerless to do anything about it.
I encourage people to learn how to interpret these studies for themselves, to begin to develop a general understanding
on how to analyze the findings. Make up your own mind on these important topics and don’t succumb to the
impressions of “headline-science”.
We’ve been warned about the dangers of cannabis and schizophrenia and the “potential mental health catastrophe!”
however, we haven’t seen any of that. The fact of the matter is that when you legalize a drug, the people who consume
the drug will continue to buy it. People who were going to enter into the drug market now will simply become
consumers of the legal market – and society keeps on going.
There will most certainly be negatives that come from the action – there will be people who’s psychosis is triggered from
cannabis. However, this will not be the norm and instead of trying to dissuade the entire population from legalizing –
you could rather focus your energy on creating treatment for the people who will be negatively impacted through
legalization.
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