PTSD has some studies supporting it, but depression and anxiety don’t from what I’ve seen. I think people might self medicate for said reasons while not truly meeting the clinical definition of anxiety or depression. Just a guess.
Your study is shit, people have been using it for those things since it popped out of the ground, not for no reason. There has been article after article lately and now it feels like they want to stuff the cat back in the box, fuck that.
Wow, what a strong and well-articulated argument. Reminds me of people who argue that alcohol is an effective treatment for all those ailments.
Theres a difference between using a drug to keep emotional problems within manageable limits while engaging in therapy to arrive at more permanent solutions and abusing it to mask negative emotions as a way to avoid dealing with them. You don’t sound like you appreciate that difference, meaning you’re probably just defending substance abuse and addiction, perhaps as problems in your own life. If so, please seek help. Regardless, you don’t seem to understand the problem.
Just because a bunch of people use it for self medication doesn’t mean it’s an effective treatment for those conditions or that it can’t exacerbate those same conditions.
Lots of things that “everyone knows are true,” have been disproven through research.
i heard this same argument during covid by anti maskers pointing to whackadoodle “researchers” that were presenting “alternative facts” about the dangers of prolonged mask usage and vaccines.
smoking / eating / drinking cannabis products helps me sleep, get my hunger back, have a few laughs, and relax. i dont use it often. but its there when i need it, and its worked wonders for me. this article also ends with them pushing SSRIs. which is hilarious and obviously suspect because the epstein files revealed how SSRIs were pushed heavily because they make people numb and docile to the fucked up world the epstein class created. and that we all live in.
perhaps the best mode of treatment is to fix the system we live in, instead of removing our ability to even feel that its wrong, or have the motivation to do anything but numbly scroll between memes and drones bombing children.
let people smoke pot if they want, its far better than dealing with a bunch of alcoholics and SSRI zombies who cant cum. lmao.
My comment wasn’t saying that THC doesn’t have real world benefits, but anecdotal evidence usually isn’t a good counter against research. There’s a reason research is still done on things that “everyone knows is true.”
Take insomnia, for instance. THC might help you go to sleep, but research has shown that it can interfere with REM sleep to lower your overall sleep quality.
But every brain is unique and different substances will affect people differently. There will always be edge cases where people respond to a drug differently than the general population.
In my own anecdotal experience, THC doesn’t treat my anxiety and depression, it just makes me ok with being depressed and anxious while they both get worse. It’s just a form of escapism.
As an aside, never go off of what an article says about a study. They will often misrepresent the results to further an agenda. This was partially bad in vaping research a decade ago.
All of the articles written about the heavy metal study failed to note that the levels were orders of magnitude lower than what was in cigarettes, were significantly below OSHA levels for people working with them on an industrial scale, and in some cases they were lower than atmospheric levels.
There’s only so much weed can really do for rampant nationalized fascism, war, poverty, injustice and an absolute lack of hope for the future. Can’t taking the edge off be… okay?
no, thats escaping the machine of suffering. If you do that, you wont buy as much stuff, wont buy expensive therapies and medications and ultimately might not do something that lands you into private prison and create revenue through slave labour. And by keeping it illegal, they get excuse to imprison you anyway or at least take your money. And by keeping it illegal, they dont have to tax it which mean the rich can get all the profits themselves by being at the top of the pyramid.
the rich cant do anything they want, evidently. otherwise they would have already done way worse than what has been done. They still need to keep us docile because we could make a difference if enough of us rose up against them.
at least that is how i think the internal thought process goes for the ones who make the rules. Maybe there is less deliberate planning going on for real, but all they have to do is inherit the previous system and improve on it.
I wish i could do hacking, then it might be possible to find at least some proof. Maybe its possible through gathering information out there and making logical detuctions and combining it, but i dont have the energy to do it anyway, especially since it would just drown in all the other information out there.
Private prisons are big mad lately that they can’t fill more cells with as many completely nonviolent cannabis users.
What a garbage article.
The article lionises RCT, the gives us
The data alone seems to suggest cannabis medicines are relatively safe. But this may not be reflected in real-world use.
So it’s okay to substitute “real world use” for side effects but not effects?
Currently, there is a mismatch between the research evidence on medicinal cannabis – mainly short-term trials and CBD formulations – and real-world use, which is longer term and often using high-THC products.
So they admit nobody is actually doing, or paying for, studies on the correct medication.
We need more research on cannabis medicines, particularly for conditions with limited alternative treatments, and monitoring over longer periods.
As the TGA conducts a review of medical cannabis prescribing in Australia, these findings should inform future regulation.
“we know fuck all else works for what people are using this for, but it should still be banned”.
What vindictive assholes.
“we know fuck all else works for what people are using this for, but it should still be banned”.
They know nothing. Likely because of the prohibition.
I have a medical skin condition that is not life threatening in any way but which is depressing when left untreated. From the doctor I get medication that only treats the condition after the fact which isn’t optimal to put it mildly.
I tried vaporizing cannabis and all symptoms are completely gone. I asked multiple doctors about it. The reaction was always disbelief or complete lack of interest.
I really do not care what statistics from some study says. Even if 999 other patients see no improvement at all. It had helped me as an individual and the positive effect has been reproducible for years now.
This article is about mental illness, not skin conditions. Mental illness is a much more nebulous field of study.
Completely agree. Why can’t these cunts just fuck off
ITT: angry stoners
I don’t smoke, but I am increasingly skeptical of a lot of these articles and “studies” that seem to have an agenda especially when there’s a lot of money from alcohol and pharmaceutical companies going into manipulating public perception.
Personally, I’d much rather have a bunch of stoners in society than a bunch of alcoholics: I’ve never had to deal with a violent stoner because they smoked too much pot.
This kind of research is great not just for raising cash from the prison industrial complex but also for distracting from the deprivation of human needs and the destruction of the planet… The problems that are actually driving the completely understandable and obvious responses labelled as “behavior disorders”.
