Can Medicinal Marijuana Treat Depression?

It's more like a bandaid in my opinion. It's better people abuse that then something harder or alcohol. You won't find long term happiness that way and unlike an antidepressant it will not aid you it will hinder you in finding happiness without the use of anything after a certain point. It isn't bad to use for a month or two every so often but a lot of people use it daily because it doesn't have the bad consequences like alcohol.
 
It helped me quit alcohol, cigarettes, and other harsh garbage including prescribed sleeping pills.

When I’m so stressed the fuck out, it will help me. I can take on more stress because I’m getting an external pressure relief. But my long term usage and no usage mindset and lifestyle are totally different.
 
I do think for some it will help, most probably not. If I were to pick an organic cure I would pick Mushroom or even Ayahuasca. The Psilocybin in mushrooms has the ability to alter the way your brain processes and recycles information. Changing regular negative thought patterns that someone in a depressed state can suffer from. If I or anyone in my family suffered from depression this would be my go-to before the regularly prescribed drugs. In my experience with the substance (never on a micro-dosing level, which is what you would need so patients wouldn't be tripping balls at work or school) I always feel extreme clarity for days or weeks after and I truly believe it could be a game-changer for people with mental illness.
 
I do not like the idea of microdosing mushrooms. I have seen it worsen things quite a lot. Tryptophan converts into serotonin so that is a harmless addition. For me taking health supplements that relieve oxidative stress and get my vitamin levels up has increase my happiness more than anything. As does having healthy stable test levels. I cannot describe how much healthy test levels and then high test levels on cycle changed my whole life.
 
Of course it may help with depression when you walk around in a fog from heavy daily useage.
Actually Im being sarcastic. I’ve had multiple people who were what I considered depressed at work that smoked a lot if weed. Most started to smoke a lot when younger trying to kill anxiety (IMO not a good choice, if one can they should try to deal with things sober as their brain develops). Pretty much most people I know that smoke too much are kinda depressed. Unaware and not overly energetic.
But this is only from the sample size of the people I hire, so really only about 200 people over the years, and those people could be gravitating to my type of work.
 
Sorbate said:
Of course it may help with depression when you walk around in a fog from heavy daily useage.
Actually Im being sarcastic. I’ve had multiple people who were what I considered depressed at work that smoked a lot if weed. Most started to smoke a lot when younger trying to kill anxiety (IMO not a good choice, if one can they should try to deal with things sober as their brain develops). Pretty much most people I know that smoke too much are kinda depressed. Unaware and not overly energetic.
But this is only from the sample size of the people I hire, so really only about 200 people over the years, and those people could be gravitating to my type of work.
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I sort of agree...

WHen I was younger a lot of my friends smoked pot very heavily. They tended to be lathargic, got nothing done etc.. Not nesscoaroly depressed, but outewardly they looked depressed.. But for a lot of them, being a heavy pot user it just killed their energy to the point it killed their happiness/ feel good hormones.

SOrbate, I know you don't think pot should be legal or it helps many ppl, but I find from your posts that its alwasy directed at the heavy pot users.. Which I agree with your opinion, but there are so many ppl who use pot in light or moderate doses and these people generally go completely unnoticed in society. I think the light/moderatation users likely exepreicne benefit from their usage.

PErsonally I smoke a tiny bit before bed.. It doesn't get me high.. it just relaxes me and I have a much better sleep. I use pot to help me sleep, not to get high.. And I am confident I am over all healthier for getting the sleep I wouldn't otherwise get. No one knows I'm s regular user unless I tell them.. So non pot users , like yourself, never include people like me when you form your opinion about pot usage or the legalization of it.
 
animal-inside said:
I sort of agree...

WHen I was younger a lot of my friends smoked pot very heavily. They tended to be lathargic, got nothing done etc.. Not nesscoaroly depressed, but outewardly they looked depressed.. But for a lot of them, being a heavy pot user it just killed their energy to the point it killed their happiness/ feel good hormones.

SOrbate, I know you don't think pot should be legal or it helps many ppl, but I find from your posts that its alwasy directed at the heavy pot users.. Which I agree with your opinion, but there are so many ppl who use pot in light or moderate doses and these people generally go completely unnoticed in society. I think the light/moderatation users likely exepreicne benefit from their usage.

PErsonally I smoke a tiny bit before bed.. It doesn't get me high.. it just relaxes me and I have a much better sleep. I use pot to help me sleep, not to get high.. And I am confident I am over all healthier for getting the sleep I wouldn't otherwise get. No one knows I'm s regular user unless I tell them.. So non pot users , like yourself, never include people like me when you form your opinion about pot usage or the legalization of it.
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agree 100%... I also don't agree with people who have never tried it before, being so against it. (not saying that's Sorbate). People who smoke every day all day are abusers. And abusing anything is not healthy.
 
cannabis is a complex drug. depression is a complex condition. i think using such a drug for such a condition would be like shooting in the dark and overly optimistic.
animal-inside said:
WHen I was younger a lot of my friends smoked pot very heavily. They tended to be lathargic, got nothing done etc.. Not nesscoaroly depressed, but outewardly they looked depressed.. But for a lot of them, being a heavy pot user it just killed their energy to the point it killed their happiness/ feel good hormones.
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was it weed making them depressive or were they medicating themselves?
substance abuse is usually to deal with physical or emotional pain. i suspect a lot of young men potheads are dealing with not getting laid. maybe im overgeneralizing my own experience.
 
zenmonky said:
cannabis is a complex drug. depression is a complex condition. i think using such a drug for such a condition would be like shooting in the dark and overly optimistic.

was it weed making them depressive or were they medicating themselves?
substance abuse is usually to deal with physical or emotional pain. i suspect a lot of young men potheads are dealing with not getting laid. maybe im overgeneralizing my own experience.
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I can say 100% that one of my friends who was a very heavy user had pretty intense social anxiety. no one knew back than though.. From woroking with lots of ppl, I can look back and say without a doubt that was his issue.

The other heavy pot users, I can't say for certain why they were heavy users but the heavy weed use didn't help them if they were already depressed.. Maybe helped them for the brief period they were high, but it certainly didn't help them
 
animal-inside said:
I sort of agree...

WHen I was younger a lot of my friends smoked pot very heavily. They tended to be lathargic, got nothing done etc.. Not nesscoaroly depressed, but outewardly they looked depressed.. But for a lot of them, being a heavy pot user it just killed their energy to the point it killed their happiness/ feel good hormones.

SOrbate, I know you don't think pot should be legal or it helps many ppl, but I find from your posts that its alwasy directed at the heavy pot users.. Which I agree with your opinion, but there are so many ppl who use pot in light or moderate doses and these people generally go completely unnoticed in society. I think the light/moderatation users likely exepreicne benefit from their usage.

PErsonally I smoke a tiny bit before bed.. It doesn't get me high.. it just relaxes me and I have a much better sleep. I use pot to help me sleep, not to get high.. And I am confident I am over all healthier for getting the sleep I wouldn't otherwise get. No one knows I'm s regular user unless I tell them.. So non pot users , like yourself, never include people like me when you form your opinion about pot usage or the legalization of it.
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Oh I see nothin wrong with moderation.
It’s the guys smoking 1/4 oz a week I’m talking about.
If I can’t sleep I will take Cbd oil and add my own thc oil into it at a ratio I know won’t get me high enough to be vibrating wanting to party around the house, lol.
It would gave an opposite effect.
I stopped smoking weed when I was smoking a 1/4 oz a week. I became mentally in efficient.
There is uses for weed, but a lot depend, like they depend on alcohol or any other drug.
But truthfully if you don’t work for me, I don’t care how much you slow your brain function.
Oh and I’m not against pot completely. Shit if I was at a party and someone offered I’d like take a pull. I think overs oking is too much.

My uncle used to take single puffs all day long. He’d just get a little high, but was highly functional. For what he did it was a benefit. Every place he worked he won top salesman of the year or moth awards until he’d want to try to sell something new and leave.
But for him this was cutting down, he had always had substance abuse issues. This was controlled for him.
 
Well...I use it a lot. Only in the evening. It assists me with letting the day go and relax and enables me to sit still.
I cant sit down and relax enough. I am an energetic fellow, big time. I am a worker through and through.
I am now an exec director fellow and i don't get to work per say. I have a very high stress job in certain aspects.
I work in the gym very hard, i work outside and get all items completed. Then i need to chill. I fire up the ol MJ and i am golden. I have never experienced depression, IMHO, it would make it worse for ME.
It does alleviate my stress driven anxiety and allows me to sleep very well.
I never smoke during the day as it does make me a lazy fucker as others have mentioned.
There was a time i smoked every day before the gym, for like 15 years or so. My buddies were taking ephedrine, or caffeine etc. I would smokie on the way to the gym and get right into the zone.

I could not do that today as i was a 1/4 oz per week smoker then and i seemed good on it.
UNTIL...I ceased smoking, i then realized how much it definitely slowed me down in the brain and logic department.
I then started only smoking in the evenings prior to movie and bed.
Its also fun to blaze, throw on a porn and rub one out if ol lady is away. Yup...It it sure is.

I get very chatty and type out lots of shit on here if i blaze as well. lolol
True story, i like top chat a lot. Who knew??
 
ironwill said:
Well...I use it a lot. Only in the evening. It assists me with letting the day go and relax and enables me to sit still.
I cant sit down and relax enough. I am an energetic fellow, big time. I am a worker through and through.
I am now an exec director fellow and i don't get to work per say. I have a very high stress job in certain aspects.
I work in the gym very hard, i work outside and get all items completed. Then i need to chill. I fire up the ol MJ and i am golden. I have never experienced depression, IMHO, it would make it worse for ME.
It does alleviate my stress driven anxiety and allows me to sleep very well.
I never smoke during the day as it does make me a lazy fucker as others have mentioned.
There was a time i smoked every day before the gym, for like 15 years or so. My buddies were taking ephedrine, or caffeine etc. I would smokie on the way to the gym and get right into the zone.

I could not do that today as i was a 1/4 oz per week smoker then and i seemed good on it.
UNTIL...I ceased smoking, i then realized how much it definitely slowed me down in the brain and logic department.
I then started only smoking in the evenings prior to movie and bed.
Its also fun to blaze, throw on a porn and rub one out if ol lady is away. Yup...It it sure is.

I get very chatty and type out lots of shit on here if i blaze as well. lolol
True story, i like top chat a lot. Who knew??
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I get super talkative as well.
Hey now some of your posts at night make sense, lol.
 
zenmonky said:
cannabis is a complex drug. depression is a complex condition. i think using such a drug for such a condition would be like shooting in the dark and overly optimistic.

was it weed making them depressive or were they medicating themselves?
substance abuse is usually to deal with physical or emotional pain. i suspect a lot of young men potheads are dealing with not getting laid. maybe im overgeneralizing my own experience.
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Sometimes there is no underlying issue to substance abuse.
Some people like getting high or drunk.
When I smoked too much or drank too much for a lot of years it wasn’t from some other item. I just liked getting high or drunk. That was it, nothing else.
But I’m of the mindset that if you are having issues, taking them on and working thru them without medication first, IMO is the best way, otherwise you are chasing the medication to feel good.
 
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