The Link Between Weed And Psychotic Disorders

追加: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Most people think, "Hey, it's been around since the '7s. It's safe. It's medical. What's the big deal?" That is not true. That is an absolute lie. The cannabis that people are smoking now, you can't even consider it like similar to what people used to smoke. Prior to 2010, the THC concentration in cannabis, you go back to the 70s, it was like 3%.

[00:00:18]Since then, it has just hockey stick. We do hybridized growing, and so you end up getting 20 to 35% THC. This is what you guys have in California all over the dispensaries. Now, what impact does that have? I'd like to tell you briefly about a study from the UK that was done about 10 years ago. Two groups of patients, one group was smoking 5% THC cannabis and the other group was smoking 15%.

[00:00:40]They then measured how many of them developed psychosis spontaneously. Now, the group smoking 5% that happened in 1% of the patients. That's the same as the background rate in the normal population. The thing that was really shocking was what was going on in the group who was smoking 15% cannabis. 5% of them had drug induced psychosis. So it increased by a factor of five. That was at 15%. Right now most people are smoking 25%. So it's like even stronger than that.

[00:01:06]>> They then think they're mentally ill.

[00:01:08]>> And they are told that they have bipolar or schizophrenia when really they don't.

[00:01:11]They just need sobriety and support and understanding.

[00:01:14]>> They're diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar or some other condition. They're put on antisycchotic meds >> and then just leaving people on antisycchotics for the rest of their life.

[00:01:22]>> That's crazy. And then they experience side effects from the antisycchotics.

[00:01:25]It's a very different life trajectory when you get that diagnosis wrong. The reason it is misdiagnosed is that most doctors they'll go the psychosis can only really last while the drug is in their system. And so if the person is still sick 2 or 3 weeks later, they'll say, "Well, this isn't cannabis induced psychosis." The thing that they miss is that cannabis induced psychosis behaves like a brain injury. That psychotic episode that you get on cannabis, it's it's like a bruise to the brain. Even after you stop smoking, it can take you 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months to fully come back to normal. They'll be really sick, they'll get a little bit better, then they'll have some paranoia, and then they'll get better, and they'll have some more paranoia and get better.

[00:02:04]The thing that heals these individuals is essentially sobriety and support from their family, but what they're getting is they end up on, you know, lithium and depicode and antiscychotic medications.

[00:02:14]And when we look outside and we look at like the homelessness problem out there, a lot of the people on the streets, they have brain injuries from drugs. Can you get a brain injury from cannabis that lasts more than 12 months?

[00:02:24]>> I've seen it last up to two years.

[00:02:26]>> And can that come from smoking at one time?