Posted by Andre Allard on August 12, 2000, at 21:12:46
In reply to serzone and smoking pot, posted by Randy on August 11, 2000, at 21:12:47
If you took 2000 people with depression and gave them all the same AD at the same dosage, but 1000 of the 2000 were chronic. I can guarantee you that the 1000 who do not smoke pot will have a greater respone to the med.
I know for a fact (through research and from pdocs) that smoking of any kind reduces blood levels of AD's.
I suppose MJ is the least detrimental of any drug out there. I would not say that it can help with depression.
Dopamine is strongly effected by THC. Once the pot is out of your system, you will have a decreased amount of dopamine levels. This decreased level of dopamine effects transmission between other neurotransmitters and the bottom line is that this cannot improve a person's mental status, especially someone with depression.
I am a prime example of the above. If I put any kind of foriegn substance into my body (alcohol, pot, mushrooms, benzodiazepines), once the drug has been metabolized I feel worse with respect to depression. Biochemically, this is understandable.
For these reasons I rarely ever dabble with any substance.
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