Posted by boB on April 24, 2000, at 22:43:40
In reply to Re: Marijuana and anti-depressants, posted by Cam W. on April 24, 2000, at 6:44:02
Several of my friends use antidepressants and marijuana. My experience has been that some sort of mood disorder often follows when chronic users are unable to get a supply of marijuana.
Many of the traits attributed to marijuana, especially apathy but also a distorted sense of time and distance, are more like caricatures than they are consistant with what I see in the many users I have known. As Cam sited the delima of not knowing if the psychosis was a result of pot, or if pot was used to self-medicate an impending psychotic episode, the same goes for apathy. Many, many pot users I known have a cultural belief that we as consumers are making, using and doing too much. They are not apathetic as much as they are concerned about an overstimulated environment.
A common treatment center argument claims that, if a person makes themselves happy with drugs, they will not persue happiness by trying to succeed in a "normal" way, such as career, education, etc. But pot users I have known (some, not all) find pot to be a viable alternative to what they percieve as unhealthy capitalist cultural motivations.
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