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Smoking marijuana increases the risk of developing mental illness by 40%, British experts have concluded.

A group of experts from the University of Bristol wrote in a report published in the Lancet that there is a need to convey information about the dangers of marijuana use to young people.

Scientists note that the risk of disease increases in direct proportion to how often marijuana is smoked.

Experts reviewed 35 studies on drug use and mental illness. According to their data, those who frequently smoke marijuana are twice as likely to develop mental illness compared to those who abstain from the drug.

However, the link between marijuana use and illnesses such as depression and anxiety is less clear.

In 2004, marijuana was downgraded in the UK, meaning police effectively stopped arresting people with only a small amount of the drug.

However, Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently said that this decision could be reviewed and marijuana returned to the more dangerous class of drugs.

According to some estimates, around 2 million people in the UK regularly smoke marijuana.

British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith recently admitted that she smoked marijuana during her student years.