The Mental Health Risks of Adolescent Cannabis Use

Source: Hall W (2006) The Mental Health Risks of Adolescent Cannabis Use. PLoS Med 3(2): e39. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030039

Since the early 1970s, when cannabis first began to be widely used [1], the proportion of young people who have used cannabis has steeply increased and the age of first use has declined [2,3]. Most cannabis users now start in the mid-to-late teens [1], an important period of psychosocial transition when misadventures can have large adverse effects on a young person's life chances.