- Smoking cannabis in your teens IS linked to depression in later life: Major study reveals drug ‘damages children's brains’ and half a MILLION adults could avoid mental-health disorder if they had turned down marijuana
- Largest study of its kind found that 7% of adult depression could be prevented
- Drug has also been linked to suicidal thoughts and attempts
- Researchers say tackling the use of millions of under 18s should be a priority
"Smoking cannabis in your teenage years raises the risk of depression and suicide in later life, a landmark new study has found.
Researchers from the US and UK have revealed the drug could impair a child's brain to the extent it triggers mental health disorders later in life.
In the largest research of its kind, experts from Oxford University and McGill University estimated that over half a million adults in the UK and US could be saved from mental health disorders by avoiding the drug as a teenager..."
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