Posted by morganpmiller on July 31, 2009, at 21:46:32
In reply to Re: Marijuana for depression/anxiety,good or bad idea?, posted by linkadge on July 31, 2009, at 14:44:47
I think we just like to disagree.
Chronic marijuana smoking damages the brain.
There is no way you can compare marijuana to SSRIs. No way whatsoever. Marijuana gets u high for a very short time and then it is gone. It can impair your judgement. Really linkage, are you serious here? Yes you are, that's the scary thing.
Until big pharma synthesizes a pill with a long half life using the components of marijuana that act on depresion, there is no way we can begin to talk about marijuana being used successfully to treat depression.
You give me one person that has smoked marijuana over the years that does not show holes in their brain after pet scans and has not lost much of their short term memory, and maybe I will take marijuana as an antidepressant seriously.
Morgan
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