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| 2025-10-04 | ||
| [FoxNews] Smoking marijuana and playing some video games may seem like a chill night for some — but both hobbies have been linked with psychosis in a variety of studies. Fox News' Alexis McAdams reported on this link during an "America Reports" segment on Thursday, citing NIH data that found young men who use marijuana are at the highest risk of developing psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia. McAdams applied this information to the recent violence across America, including the mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. The gunman, Robin Westman, reportedly worked at a pot shop and told his friends "he smoked it all the time." Officials have also confirmed that Joshua Jahn, the Dallas ICE shooter, was a heavy pot smoker, as his friends have shared that he was "obsessed with sitting at home, smoking weed, playing video games." McAdams said, "[Jahn] reportedly logged more than 10,000 hours of gaming, and there were a lot of shooting games, so he was sitting there all the time playing all those violent games at home."
As the Trump administration considers reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, touting the medicinal benefits of CBD, the question looms of how pot and gaming could impact the mental health of Americans. A June 2023 study, published in the journal Psychopathology, examined the link between gaming disorder (an addictive behavioral disorder) and psychotic disorders. Excessive gaming may act as a trigger for psychotic episodes in some patients, according to multiple case reports. The sudden disruption of gaming habits could also trigger psychosis. The researchers noted that there is a significant lack of research on how these two disorders interact.
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