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   Liz Kirkaldie's grandson was in the top of his class in high   
   school and a talented jazz bassist when he started smoking pot.   
   The more serious he got about music, the more serious he got   
   about pot.   
      
   And the more serious he got about pot, the more he became   
   paranoid, even psychotic. He started hearing voices.   
      
   "They were going to kill him and there were people coming to eat   
   his brain. Weird, weird stuff," Kirkaldie says. "I woke up one   
   morning, and no Kory anywhere. Well, it turns out, he'd been   
   running down Villa Lane here totally naked."   
      
   Kory came to live with his grandmother for a couple of years in   
   Napa, Calif. She thought maybe she could help. Now, she says   
   that was naïve.   
      
   Kory was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Kirkaldie blames the pot.   
      
   "The drug use activated the psychosis, is what I really think,"   
   she says.   
      
   Indeed, many scientific studies have linked marijuana use to an   
   increased risk of developing psychiatric disorders, including   
   schizophrenia. The risk is more than four times greater for   
   people who use high-potency marijuana on a daily basis, compared   
   with those who have never used, according to a study published   
   in The Lancet Psychiatry in 2019. One study found eliminating   
   marijuana use in adolescents would reduce global rates of   
   schizophrenia by 10%.   
      
   Doctors and lawmakers in California want cannabis producers to   
   warn consumers of this and other health risks on their packaging   
   labels and in advertising, similar to requirements for   
   cigarettes. They also want sellers to distribute health   
   brochures to first-time customers outlining the risks cannabis   
   poses to youths, drivers and those who are pregnant, especially   
   for pot that has high concentrations of THC, the chemical   
   primarily responsible for marijuana's mental effects.   
      
   "Today's turbocharged products are turbocharging the harms   
   associated with cannabis," says Dr. Lynn Silver with the Public   
   Health Institute, a nonprofit sponsoring the proposed labeling   
   legislation, SB 1097, the Cannabis Right to Know Act.   
      
   Californians voted to legalize recreational pot in 2016. Three   
   years later, emergency room visits for cannabis-induced   
   psychosis went up 54% across the state, from 682 to 1,053,   
   according to state hospital data. For people who already have a   
   psychotic disorder, cannabis makes things worse — leading to   
   more ER visits, more hospitalizations and more legal troubles,   
   says Dr. Deepak Cyril D'Souza, a psychiatry professor at Yale   
   University School of Medicine who also serves on the physicians'   
   advisory board for Connecticut's medical marijuana program.   
      
   But D'Souza faces great difficulty convincing his patients of   
   the dangers, especially as 19 states and the District of   
   Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana.   
      
   "Both my patients with schizophrenia, and also adolescents, hear   
   very conflicting messages that it's legal; in fact, there may be   
   medical uses for it," he says. "If there are medical uses, how   
   can we say there's anything wrong with it?"   
      
   Legalization is not the problem, he says, but rather it's the   
   commercialization of cannabis — the heavy marketing, which can   
   be geared toward attracting young people to become customers for   
   life, and the increase in THC from 4% on average up to between   
   20% and 35% in today's varieties.   
      
   Limiting the amount of THC in pot products and including health   
   warnings on the labels could help reduce the health harms   
   associated with cannabis use, D'Souza says, the same way those   
   methods worked for cigarettes. He credits warning labels,   
   education campaigns and marketing restrictions for the sharp   
   drop in smoking rates among kids and teens in the past decade.   
      
   "We know how to message them," D'Souza says. "But I don't think   
   we have the will or the resources, as yet."   
      
   Some states, including Colorado, Oregon and New York, have   
   dabbled with cannabis warning label requirements. California's   
   proposed rules are modeled after comprehensive protocols   
   established in Canada: Rotating health warnings would be set   
   against a bright yellow background, use black 12-point font, and   
      
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