Andrew Huberman· PhD
anecdotally from um having done work in the community and talk to individuals who have schizophrenia who use cannabis what their perspective on is what I've heard from a few of them is um you know the medications that they're provided to manage the disease are relatively effective at managing let's say the positive symptoms like hallucinations delusions that aspect of the disease is is somewhat well managed but then there's another component which is the negative symptoms which is kind of like things that you know avolition I don't like engaging in stuff um there's some anxiety some depression some social withdrawal and a lot of the medications don't manage that component of the disease and they have said that they find Cannabis helps that side of it or it helps them de arouse a little bit even though a lot of them recognize it may trigger the development of some of the positive symptoms they feel that they don't have any tool in there kit to manage the negative symptoms and so it could be in my mind when I look at that it could be a bit of a vicious cycle where someone's using it to kind of Band-Aid one aspect but making other aspects of the disease worse at the same time so it can get very complicated