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Medical Marijuana Case Study

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I would sit down with the student in my office to first talk about him smoking marijuana. Ask him his age to verify if he is twenty one years old or younger since that would put him in a higher risk for mental illness. How much does he smoke, how often, and by what method? Is he experiencing any auditory or visual hallucinations? It has been shown that the greater the frequency of marijuana use, the higher the risk of mental illness, specifically schizophrenia and psychosis. Than I would continue with an assessment of him and his family history, to verify if there was ever any evidence of family mental health issues. This would be important since 80 percent of marijuana users may be predisposed to paranoid psychosis and schizophrenia due to

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