Mental health issues linked to cannabis increase by half in four years

[OZ Stoners]

The number of cannabis users suffering serious mental or behaviour disorders has increased by half in just four years.        

 

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[Faith]

behavioural disorders?  Seen the way the world is run lately?  Who constitutes what is orderly behaviour?  Far out.

 

Peace.v

[bufo marinus]

Yeah I smell bullshit too

[tokeonthis]

As an, now retired, academic, the article is bit light on in any meaningful research criteria pertaining to the finding. What other factors, if any, were involved in each incident (e.g. had they been drinking? Using any other drug? What is the age grouping if those affected? What was the psychiatry relevant to the 'victims?) And most importantly: What are the actual numbers from which these percentages are derived? 

 

In short, I believe the article to be sensationalist bullshit.