The risk of psychosis for teens using cannabis has become increasingly clear to researchers in Canada and abroad in recent years—and it’s tragically clear to Troy and Tara Neufeld of Westport, Ontario.
Their daughter, Mila, died by suicide in 2021 at the age of 18. What drove her to that point became evident little by little in the following weeks as the Neufelds spoke to Mila’s friends and read through her diary.
“She was talking about ants crawling on her hair,” Tara Neufeld told The Epoch Times, recalling one of her daughter’s last journal entries and her descent into psychosis. “She called one of her friends in absolute abject terror because she said she was hiding in the closet and there were little girls outside with knives that were trying to get into the closet.”…