User:Jcarte52/Epidemiology of schizophrenia

Cannabis Use
There have been several studies done that show a connection between schizophrenia and cannabis. These studies have demonstrated a 2 to 25 times higher chance of developing schizophrenia symptoms. (under what circumstances is there increased risk? As written, this statement doesn't provide enough detail. Do you mean that cannabis users are 2-25x more likely to develop schizophrenia? Consistent users? Casual users?) It was also shown that cannabis use could lead to or even cause an incident (an incident? What does this mean?) of schizophrenia.


 * 1) Messias, E. L., Chen, C.-Y., & Eaton, W. W. (2007). Epidemiology of schizophrenia: Review of findings and Myths. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 30(3), 323–338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psc.2007.04.007

''Instructor feedback: I have placed suggested edits, questions above in parenthetical with italics. Please delete when addressed. I suggest you bring over more of your article to the sandbox so it is clear how your section fits with the flow of the existing article. Also, you need to bold or underline your specific contributions once you bring more of the existing article over. This will make it clear what edits you are proposing to make.''

I plan to incorporate all of the suggestions into my sandbox draft. They were all very well thought out statements. I would still like to find more on the use of cannabis and how that relates to schizophrenia. I am very interested in how people affected by schizophrenia could be harmed by cannabis. I also would like to add more to this article about how schizophrenia patients are affected in there day to day lives, as well as if their lifespans  are shortened. If a patient with schizophrenia has a shorter life span than a patient without schizophrenia this could be something to look into with future research. These are all things that I am going to consider moving forward with this article from here on out. Thank you, Jacob Carter