Long lasting effects of chronic heavy cannabis abuse.

Joannis N NestorosElena VakonakiManolis N TzatzarakisAthanasios AlegakisMarkos D SkondrasAristidis M Tsatsakis

Published in: The American journal on addictions (2017)

We provide evidence that chronic and heavy cannabis abuse results in long-lasting brain dysfunction in all users and in long-lasting schizophrenia-like psychotic symptoms in more than half of all users. These findings suggest a reevaluation of the current classification of cannabis as a "soft narcotic" which erroneously, therefore, is typically considered harmless. (Am J Addict 2017;26:335-342).

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