Posted by Questionmark on November 11, 2007, at 22:44:17
In reply to Re: p.s. about MAOIs, posted by linkadge on November 6, 2007, at 12:53:39
Oh i could go on about marijuana and the hypocrisy of our government and legal system and the medical profession, and psychiatry in particular, in regards to it, for hours.
And this is coming from someone who does not use marijuana anymore and who more or less HATES the high from it.
But i'll restrain my comments to .
I will say that I think I am *personally* more demotivated and lazy from marijuana than SSRIs. Yeah almost definitely. And i also think the latter are better antidepressants than cannabis, for me. That said, I do believe there are many who are the opposite in both respects. And cannabis also has many other beneficial as well as medicinal properties (and actually increases sex drive in the short term, and is not nearly as detrimental to it as SSRIs in the long term). But of course SSRIs are treated as the diamonds of psychiatric drugs while marijuana is treated as ... well, feces... at best.
And don't even get me started on comparisons and differences of alcohol vs. marijuana. I'll just get incredibly angry.
And again I do not use marijuana but i do drink.
> Thats what bothers me about the arguments used int the "war" against marijuanna.
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> Opponents incessantly harp on about how it can cause amotivational syndrome, and how this is particularly damaging to youth.
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> You hear it on Dr. Phil. They pay off some youth to talk about how he had no motivation on marijuanna.
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> They then proceed to prescribe youth drugs like paxil for anxiety and depression.
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> Anyhone who I have talked to about the differences in apathy between the two substances indicate that SSRI apathy is like MJ amotivation syndrome times 10.
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> Anyhow, I'm done ranting.
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> Linkadge
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