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Canasol was nominated for deletion. The discussion was closed on 07 July 2011 with a consensus to merge. Its contents were merged into Medical cannabis. The original page is now a redirect to this page. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see its history; for its talk page, see here.

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Opening sentence - definition

This revert was justified because the edit proposes medical cannabis as an "idea". Sources in the lede show medical cannabis exists as a prescription drug in some cases and the Society and culture section shows its use as a legalized generic drug or prescribed medicine in many countries. The proposed first sentence by Rebroad is opinion that could be developed with facts and WP:RS sources in the Society and culture section. Zefr (talk) 21:59, 12 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The entry for China makes it pretty clear that cannabis was used medicinally in ancient times. I'm not sure why there needs to be some type of modern legalistic or state-centric bona-fides for this? Valgrus Thunderaxe (talk) 20:32, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Risk of schizophrenia in adolescents

The wording of this in the article is somewhat misleading. Cannabis use has never caused schizophrenia but can catalyze existing cases of prodromal schizophrenia. This is elucidated in the whitepaper that is cited as the source for this statement: To be clear, the use of cannabis in adolescence does not cause schizophrenia but increases the risk of its onset, suggesting interplay between marijuana use and genetic predisposition for schizophrenia.

Also, it would be helpful to link to the full text of the paper rather than just the abstract. A full text is publicly available at the following link: https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/phar.1187 12.227.70.210 (talk) 15:17, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]