Medical Adolescents that the popular drug cannabis or weed use at a later age more likely to have depression and suicidal thoughts. That some researchers after they eleven studies pooled and analysed. The results they published in the journal JAMA psychiatry.
Xenobiologists of the McGill University in Canada reviewed the – frequently-asked – question of whether cannabis use not linked to depression, anxiety disorders and suicidal ideation in young adults. Since that question in the past on several occasions the subject of study was, decided the xenobiologists already carried out studies on a row.
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The results of eleven different studies were reviewed. In total, more than 23,000 volunteers participated in those studies. They were all for the first time questioned before their eighteenth birthday. Then they were a second time examined, when exactly varied by study. Anyway, that happened between their eighteenth and thirty-second year of life. During the second meeting, asked psychologists to depressive thoughts.
Link with depression
After the volunteers into two groups were divided – adolescents who have no use of cannabis and adolescents that daily weed smoked – researchers were able to easily determine whether there is a relation with depression. the
And that turned out to be. The risk of depression and even suicidal thoughts was significantly higher in the second group of daily users. There was no link found with any anxiety disorders.
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