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    Source: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/mental...osis-1.4233512

    Mental health charity warns of 'significant increase' in cannabis-induced psychosis
    Cillian O'Brien, CTVNews.ca Staff
    Published Tuesday, January 1, 2019 7:15AM EST

    With marijuana now legalized in Canada, a mental health charity has predicted a significant increase in cannabis-induced psychosis.

    The latest figures provided by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reveal a steady rise in cases in recent years.

    According to the numbers, 373 people were discharged from hospitals across the country ? excluding Ontario and Quebec ? after receiving treatment for cannabis-induced psychosis in the 2012/13 fiscal year. That number increased to 723 cases in 2016/17.

    CIHI provided CTVNews.ca with data from the Hospital Mental Health Database.

    The figures also show that 455 people were discharged in 2013/14, 558 in the year 2014/15 and 616 in the year 2015/16.

    Chris Summerville, chief executive of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada (SSC), said his organization will look at U.S. states where marijuana is legal to study what happened there following the end of cannabis prohibition.

    "For a number of years we have been seeing more young people coming to use the services of the schizophrenia societies across Canada for cannabis-induced psychosis and schizophrenia,? Summerville told CTVNews.ca.

    ?We expect those numbers to increase significantly with legalization.?

    In Ontario, the number of discharges for teens aged 12 to 18 rose from 49 in 2012/13 to 66 in 2016/17. The institute didn?t have numbers to represent other age groups in Ontario, and Quebec figures were not available to the CIHI...

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    A new book pulls together murder statistics, psychosis statistics and cannabis research to conclude that the connection between all three 'has been proven'.

    Does marijuana fuel violence? Washington's murder rate spiked after the drug was legalized - and experts insist that is not a coincidence

    • A new book claims evidence shows marijuana causes mental illness and violence
    • Author Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter, outlines the drug's links to psychosis
    • He warns that pot is stronger now than it was in the 70s, and that increase the risk
    • Berenson claims the rise in homicides in Washington mirrors the uptick in cannabis use and hospitalizations for psychosis
    • The National Academy of Medicine says there are not enough studies on cannabis to understand the risks and benefits
    • US Surgeon General Jerome Adams has called for a rescheduling of cannabis so that it could be more widely studied by scientists

    By Mia De Graaf Health Editor For Dailymail.com
    Published: 19:14 EST, 7 January 2019 | Updated: 19:18 EST, 7 January 2019
    It can certainly induce Jekyll/Hyde personality changes.

    Port Orchard After a series of pre-trial setbacks that weakened his chances of an insanity verdict, Wayne Hower of South Kitsap pleaded guilty Friday afternoon to a reduced charge in the 2005 fatal shooting of South Kitsap store owner Al Kono. </p> <p>Hower, 45, was accused of shooting and killing Kono outside Kono's PJ's Market on June 23. Facing an aggravated first-degree murder charge until Friday, he agreed to plead guilty when prosecutors instead offered him a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm. </p> <p>The two sides agreed to recommend a sentence of 23 years and four months in prison when Hower is sentenced May 17.</p> <p>Kono's family and friends were in the courtroom Friday. His wife and daughter and some other onlookers cried as the proceeding continued. His wife, Jennifer, declined to comment afterward.</p> <p>Hower actually agreed to an Alford plea, which means that while he does not admit guilt, he believes that he'd probably be convicted if he went to trial. </p> <p>If found guilty of the first-degree murder charge, he could have been sentenced to life in prison with no hope of parole. The trial was scheduled to start next week. </p> <p>The sentence is at the top of the standard range for the second-degree murder count — 220 months, plus 60 months for having committed the crime with a firearm. </p> <p>Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Leila Mills doesn't have to follow the 280-month agreement, but anything higher would be subject to appeal as being outside the standard range. </p> <p>As recently as Friday morning, Mills ruled against Hower's defense, saying the jury could hear expert testimony about how marijuana use can worsen schizophrenia. There was evidence that Hower had used marijuana even though he knew of the possible effects. </p> <p>Last week, Mills had ruled testimony about Hower's past behavior was admissible; prosecutors said the incidents showed the murder wasn't an isolated occasion in Hower's life. Those alleged incidents included: </p> <p> Threatening to shoot a man during an argument about his damage to the man's destruction derby car. </p> <p> Brutally abusing a puppy in the yard of his home.</p> <p> Threatening to strangle his parents' cat. </p> <p> Being investigated for child molestation charges involvw Being investigated for child molestation charges involving a female family member, which led to no criminal charges but may have been reinforced in what he told doctors since the murder. </p> <p> Breaking into his parents' home several times. </p> <p> Using marijuana within two weeks of Kono's killing. </p> <p>Prosecutors, in the case file, told of "evidence that the defendant, after being warned not to, continued to ingest marijuana while taking anti-psychotic medications. Another example is that the defendant has acted violently in the past, not only by making threats to kill but also by victimizing innocent animals and people he allegedly cares for." </p> <p>"The defense says murder was an uncharacteristic and unique episode of violence in his life. The acts rebut the defense claims and support the state's theory that the defendant was not insane at the time of the murder," they wrote. </p> <p>Hower remains in the Kitsap County Jail while awaiting sentencing.<


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