Posted by bleauberry on August 19, 2010, at 18:44:30
In reply to Re: Marijuana as a Medication in Depress and Anxiety, posted by morgan miller on August 18, 2010, at 21:35:04
Thanks for sharing the posts on the studies.
I found the following line particularly interesting:
" It is also notable that some research suggests that alcohol abuse is a stronger predictor of psychotic symptoms than regular cannabis use (by a factor of four)."
Four times worse? Wow. But it's legal. Ok.
I think it is easy to accidentally get distracted off the subject in studies like those.
On one hand we are talking about medicinal use of mJ which is a completely different ballgame than teenage chronic abuse of mj. The abusers are smoking a bunch of it when they don't need it, abusing it.
The patients are smoking small controlled doses for specific benefits, getting high not being one of them.
The studies only looked at the abusers, not patients. The smoking habits of each of those two groups are completely different.
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