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The Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Questionnaire was used to assess exposure to household discord, sexual, physical or emotional abuse and bullying in two periods: early (0\u201311 years), and late (12\u201317 years). A path decomposition method was used to analyse whether the association between childhood adversity and psychosis was mediated by (1) lifetime cannabis use, (2) cannabis potency and (3) frequency of use.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291723000995_sec_a3\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The association between household discord and psychosis was partially mediated by lifetime use of cannabis (indirect effect coef. 0.078, <jats:sc>s.e.<\/jats:sc> 0.022, 17%), its potency (indirect effect coef. 0.059, <jats:sc>s.e.<\/jats:sc> 0.018, 14%) and by frequency (indirect effect coef. 0.117, <jats:sc>s.e.<\/jats:sc> 0.038, 29%). Similar findings were obtained when analyses were restricted to early exposure to household discord.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291723000995_sec_a4\" sec-type=\"conclusions\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Harmful patterns of cannabis use mediated the association between specific childhood adversities, like household discord, with later psychosis. 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