A case is presented of a socially isolated married couple who developed a shared paranoid disorder preceded by their cannabis abuse with the wife initiating the delusions. After the couple were separated the wife feared that she would be killed and assaulted her child and mother. Delusions in the pair ceased quickly and a return to cohabitation did not result in relapse in the absence of cannabis abuse.
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