Dear teens, stop smoking marijuana. It can lead to bipolar symptoms in adulthood

Here’s one more reason for the youth to stop smoking weed. A recent study warns that teenagers smoking pot two to three times in a week is linked to bipolar symptoms in later years. According to the researchers at University Of Warwick in Coventry, England, adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk factor for future hypomania - often experienced as part of bipolar disorder. The team wanted to test the association between adolescent cannabis use and hypomania (periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour, reduced need for sleep) in early adulthood.

The findings indicated that adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk factor for future hypomania - periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour and reduced need for sleep that are often experienced as part of bipolar disorder, and have a significant impact on day-to-day life. Lead author Dr Steven Marwaha said that teenage cannabis use at least two to three times weekly is directly associated with suffering from symptoms of hypomania in later years. Cannabis use was also found to mediate the association of both childhood sexual abuse and hypomania, and male gender and hypomania