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Speakers:
Dr Zerrin Atakan, Lead Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecture, Institute Of Psychiatry
Prof Philip McGuire, Professor of Psychiatry & Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry and GKT School of Medicine
Dr Jan Copeland, Associate Professor at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of South Wales
Cannabis has hit the headlines when it is reported as being responsible for psychosis and mental illness, and scientists are still only just beginning to understand the way that cannabis may act on the brain. The Science Media Centre invited several scientists taking part in the conference to come and brief journalists on the research being presented.