The federal government’s giant database called HCUP, the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, tracks emergency room visits for psychotic symptoms. In 2006 there were about 30,000 emergency room patients with a primary diagnosis of psychosis and a secondary marijuana use disorder. Eight years later, that number had almost tripled, to nearly 90,000. Psychotic patients with a marijuana sub-diagnosis were about twice as likely to wind up hospitalized as those who didn’t have one. In how many of these patients overall was there a causal relationship between marijuana use and psychotic symptoms?

Overall, the causal relationship was in the area of 10% of all such cases. When looking at the sub-set of those with both conditions, psychosis and marijuana abuse, the causation was over 90% because those already are self-selected to represent the increased incidence because cannabis will predispose a person to a severe manipulation of the mind by spirit attachments it facilitates. This can happen quickly in susceptible adults but is commonest following a period of drug abuse, during which time there are ongoing efforts to subvert the mind of the host and then eventually this breaks out in a full-blown psychotic breakdown and that is the patient cohort described in this body of data. For each patient in this circumstance there are dozens of others with lesser alterations of the mind, many of whom are on their way to an eventual serious mental illness unless something is done to rein in the substance abuse and then remove the spirit attachments as well. Unless the latter is done, the ability to treat these individuals successfully will be meager.