Involving 112 people. A full report on this study is available from the Centre. The people surveyed have specific therapeutic reasons for smoking cannabis. But there are many questions to be asked. In a good drug the advantages outweigh the bad.
Cannabis can sometimes induce schizophrenia-like symptoms in people.
Clinicians would evaluate someone's family history for a predisposition. The heart rate is elevated so people with problems like angina should be careful. Reproductive hormones seem to be suppressed. The immune function is suppressed but this has not given rise to problems with Aids patients. Withdrawal symptoms are mild and flu-like.