BeepDoes medicinal cannabis work for depression, anxiety or PTSD? Our study says there’s no evidence
etherphonYour study is shit, people have been using it for those things since it popped out of the ground, not for no reason. There has been article after article lately and now it feels like they want to stuff the cat back in the box, fuck that.
TedescheWow, what a strong and well-articulated argument. Reminds me of people who argue that alcohol is an effective treatment for all those ailments.
Theres a difference between using a drug to keep emotional problems within manageable limits while engaging in therapy to arrive at more permanent solutions and abusing it to mask negative emotions as a way to avoid dealing with them. You don’t sound like you appreciate that difference, meaning you’re probably just defending substance abuse and addiction, perhaps as problems in your own life. If so, please seek help. Regardless, you don’t seem to understand the problem.
So using cannabis in combination with therapy as well as diet, exercise, and community support is an effective way to treat depression? You’re telling me the science suggest multi legged approaches are the best way to manage depression? Cannabis being about as useful as an SSRI without additional treatments?
No, I wouldn’t recommend using THC to manage any emotion because there are more effective drugs with fewer side effects, typically.
What about anxiety or ADHD or OCD or any of the other potential uses outside of PTSD.
You’d recommend it if it was in the pharmacopeia. That’s kind of the point. If you cared about science or medicine, you’d be demanding unbiased testing.
Ending prohibition and studying cannabis on a large scale in population and time seems like a reasonable thing to do unless you’re a damn drug dealer protecting your patented product line…
No, what this boils down to is that pot gets you high and a lot of people abuse it to avoid dealing with their feelings and problems. That is a totally reasonable concern for any healthcare provider to have and for there to be a general preference for prescribing other medications that don’t have those drawbacks.
People ITT are just butthurt about their pro-marijuana politics. And this isn’t the first post in this community I’ve seen featuring politics-laden comments that question real science because it’s inconvenient. My opinion of this community is dropping fast.
Absolutely. Happy to acknowledge the dangers and lack of efficacy: I’d love to see more studies on those too! I’d love to see more studies of large groups of individuals over 20 years.