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Cannabis consumption and risk of developing schizophrenia: myth or reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2011

Marta Di Forti  and
Robin McGregor Murray
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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 14 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 184 - 187
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