Downside to High, The
Is today's super potent pot damaging young minds? That provocative question is the heart of this documentary on recent scientific discoveries about marijuana and mental illness. Teenagers who start smoking marijuana before the age of sixteen are four times more likely to become schizophrenic. That's the startling conclusion of some of the world's top schizophrenia experts, following groundbreaking work on the connection between marijuana and mental illness. Modern growing techniques have dramatically increased the amount of THC - the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana - ramping up the threat to the developing teenage brain. Follow three young people as they wage their battle against illnesses of psychosis, paranoia and hallucinations, all triggered by marijuana use.
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