Doctors: Pot Triggers Psychotic Symptoms

May 1st, 2007 By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Doctors: Pot Triggers Psychotic Symptoms (AP)

New Hampshire state police released this 2006 file photo of marijuana plants growing in the basement of a home in Pembroke, N.H. British doctors say new findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions. (AP Photo)

(AP) -- New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.

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