The findings on mental health are more interesting, given the conflicting picture portrayed by previous research.
Similar to socio demographic characteristics, family history and environment, and past and present psychiatric disorders, the study found that cannabis use was not associated with increased risk for developing mood or anxiety disorders, just after controlling for plenty of confounding factors. Notice, olfson and his colleagues think some prior evidence of links between marijuana and psychiatric disorders should be due more to confounding factors than anything else.
So do not break out the celebratory blunt just yet. It’s especially true given the rapidly changing marijuana policy landscape today. Given that these documents are used to inform policy at the federal level and below, So it’s crucial that they reflect better, most accurate research. Then the study did find an association between marijuana use and later ‘substance use’ disorders, similar to abuse of and dependence on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and similar drugs. Now this isn’t necessarily surprising. Now pay attention please. It’s fairly obvious that if you use a substance, you’re putting yourself at risk of a substance use disorder.
New research published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry found that using marijuana as an adult isn’t associated with various mood and anxiety disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder.
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People who use one drug often use others -think of the classic beer and cigarette combo. Findings concerning cannabis raise the question of whether alcohol use also contributes to the risk of subsequent substance use disorders, lead author Mark Olfson of Columbia University said in an email. Because much of the federal government’s current literature on marijuana includes claims about links between marijuana and depression that are inaccurate in light of the latest findings, it’s important. Then, that issue is beyond the scope of the current study, he added. Now let me tell you something. Besides, the new study adds to prior research discrediting the connection between marijuana and common mental health disorders. It’s as true of marijuana as Undoubtedly it’s of, say.
The researchers examined the records of nearly 35000 adults who participated in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.
They examined the prevalence of marijuana use among the study participants in 2001 and 2002, thence checked on the participants’ rates of ‘mental health’ problems three years later in 2004 and 2005. They examined the prevalence of marijuana use among the study participants in 2001 and 2002, after that, checked on the participants’ rates of ‘mental health’ problems three years later in 2004 and 2005. So, the researchers examined the records of nearly 35000 adults who participated in the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.