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Psychotic experiences are linked to cannabis use in adolescents in the community because of common underlying environmental risk factors.

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Authors: Sania Shakoor, Helena M.S. Zavos, Philip McGuire, Alastair G. Cardno, et al
Psychiatry Research, 30 June 2015
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Cannabis users are more likely to have psychotic experiences (PEs). The degree to which these associations are driven by genetic or environmental influences in adolescence is unknown. This study estimated the genetic and environmental contributions to the relationship between…

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Poor and pregnant: perinatal ganja use in rural Jamaica.

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Authors: Melanie C. Dreher
Advances in Alcohol & Substance Abuse, 1989
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This paper reports the ethnographic findings from a study of cannabis use by pregnant women in rural Jamaica. The perceived functions of ganja in reducing the physiological symptoms of pregnancy and associated psychological stress are described in relation to the sociocultural…

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