Posted by morgan miller on August 19, 2010, at 22:30:01
In reply to Re: Marijuana as a Medication in Depress and Anxiety » morgan miller, posted by bleauberry on August 19, 2010, at 18:44:30
>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.
Ha ha, yeah alcohol is bad news, much worse that MJ in many ways. I have to admit though that alcohol is still my preferred drug of choice.
>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.
Yep..Also, while the brain is still developing at such young ages, drug abuse is more likely to have a greater negative impact.
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