[Psychopathology of the cannabis user teenager]

Over the past 10 years, cannabis use among adolescents has considerably increased. It became a major issue in public health. Today, the cannabis adolescents smoke is more concentrated in tetrahydroxycannabinol. Most of young people are using cannabis to deal with their psychological problems. In a way, cannabis use is more therapeutic than recreative. Substance abuse undercovers adolescent identity fragility. This fragility could lead to depression. The adolescent, by trying to manage this depression with cannabis use, jeopardize his individualisation process. Addiction has a specific function in adolescent psyche. It regulates the interpersonal relationship which is been considered as a treat by the adolescent. By this way, he's trying to avoid intrusion and abandonment anxiety.