Should marijuana be used to treat people with depression?
Or should marijuana be used in the short and or long term fight against depression.
Alternatively you may feel that marijuana should not be prescribed for depression, people think marijuana can make you feel depressed.
I’m allways depressed, but when i smoke i feel way better about everything.
Hello Peggy, did you suffer some sort of head injury with the car accident? If so, I can relate because my son had a horrible head injury a few years ago and it completely changed him as a person…Let me know if I can answer any questions.
Thank you Jake and Tacoburrito…I think what makes it feel bad for me as a mom with letting my son smoke, and he only does it when he is with me is that I feel so criminal….Drs. have no problem prescribing all sorts of prescription drugs that have really become a problem with todays youth, but frown upon the use of cannabis…As far as other parents thinking I am a bad mom, have them step in my shoes for one day and live with his mood swings and his depression that is so bad he wants to end it all…When he smokes he actually finds joy in getting up in the morning, has taken up gareding as a form of relaxation and can actually go out in public without having some sort of breakdown..Wouldn’t every parent just want their child to feel better????? People say give him ativan, give him valium, give him xanax, NO NO NO ….let him smoke weed, YES YES YES….Thank you so much for listening I am glad I found you guys to talk to
Hi Peggy my sister has been taking tegratal for years due to repeating fits when she was younger.
It seems a bit strange perscribing you this drug. You say changes are happening to you, you might be in the early stages of depression, or maybe everyday stress. I suffer from deppression myself and odd changes started happening to me.
I hope you get this message and if you need to talk i will check in again to see if you have left a reply.
Hello! I was in a terrific car accident 25 yrs ago, and have noticed odd changes happening to me. I’ve totally lost my grown daughter who is completely refusing to let me see my two grandsons. Last week, my husband had me admitted to a mental facility and they prescribed me tegratal. I don’t know anything about this drug and was trying to find stuff on it.
Why pepole talk trash on weed, their little minds don’t like the outcome or they just truly know mankind loves the weed and won’t accept the facts shown by doctors.
Well… I’ve read a lot here. I’m 15 years old and I smoke medical marijuana everyday for Anxiety, clinical depression, sleep insomnia, and appetite depression.
I’ve been doing this since September of 2009, and it’s been an okay experience. I think that some pots (indica, sativa) are better for certain things than others. When I smoke pot after a day, its like a complete wave of relief. It’s almost like god himself laid a hand on my shoulder. My anxiety is completely gone. I can laugh, smile, eat and feel better.
When they argue that people become addicted and such and say that, “You just do it because it makes you feel good!” Well, isn’t that the point of medicine? Do people take med’s to feel bad?
Marijuana is organic, unlike the hundreds of prescriptions available today. You can’t over dose on it, and after a couple good hits you (as in I) don’t really want anymore. I feel relieved of my symptoms. I like to have a good smoke before bed, and I’ve been reaching deeper sleeps than ever. (I was diagnosed with all my symptoms back in year of 2009, after just basically living a life in tragedy just in general.
Everything was a wreck. Also, ever since I started consuming THC, my acne has vanished. I think because it’s a stress reliever, it helped relieve the stress of my acne. Also, the deeper sleep is said to help your body heal faster, and more. I really feel energized.
Pot also just help’s me to cope with my life. I’ve been through more than most kids. (to hell and back as its been described my judges). My father owns a collective, which is a place for marijuana patients to sign up at and my dad basically grows 6 plants for them, and sells them the product. I think if your teen is feeling better, leave him alone. Maybe aid him in it. Whatever works for him. it’s better then cocaine and booze.
to Lisa
I am 17 years old and i suffer from Major Depressive Disorder, Suicidal and Anorexic tendencies. No other medication has been effective with treating my depression and anxiety as weed has. I am not prescribed pot so dont get me wrong, I recently discovered the wonders of smoking weed about a year ago as well.
I think it can be one the best things for your son at this point. When i hit my depression i changed as a person as well, once i started smoking weed my mom noticed a change, she had the old me back. my mom allows me to smoke weed as well for that same purpose.
My mom isnt a bad person for doing that and neither are you. Keep doing what youre doing and you will get through this, and so will your son. I know you dont know me but i hope this helps. Because I know if I can get through it, then so can you and your son.
goodluck and thanks for listening.
I want to thank all of you for your input, I have a 16 year old son who was diagnosed with ADHD and mild depression at a young age.
When he was 14 he suffered from a horrible brain injury while riding his bike. It changed him as a person. He has been up and down with his moods ever since suffering from his ADHD, depression, anxiety and thoughts of suicide. I know after much research that a brain injury can cause these changes in moods. He has been on Effexor, Zoloft, Paxil, Vyvanse, Adderall, Inderal, Lamictal, and Depakote with no sifnificant change in his symptoms.
He discovered weed a year ago and was secretly smoking without me knowing about it. When he was in a good mood and not crying I thought wow the meds are working, little did I know it was the weed that was making him feel better. I have been told I am a horrible mom for letting him do this, I feel like I have my son back when he smokes weed. We have had no luck this far with traditional medication..Am I bad? I just want him to feel better. He can actually get out of bed and function throughout the day when he smokes. Please reply anyone
cannabis in high potency oils eaten in small doses, has NO negative effects, and NO CHANCE OF OVERDOSE, unlike regular Tylenol and even coffee from StarBucks. Think about it, drinking to much coffee can kill you, but consuming cannabis cannot. So what is the goverment ‘keeping us safe from’?
It helps depression, stomach aches (For God sake the richest women in the time in England, Queen Elizabeth, with access to the best doctors, used cannabis for her menstral cramps), and even fights cancer!
These are the facts. It’s hard to argue with facts. You’re ‘Reefer Madness’ lies and prapaganda are not facts and are easily destroyed with the elixir of truth.
how does weed kill brain cells?
i smoked pot for 4 years and it only made my depression worse…when i wasnt smoking it i wanted to kill myself…i was put on anti depressants and anexiety medication…if pot cures depression then how come when your not “high” it has no effect?
my point exactly
dude, great blog. you’re doing great work for the cannabis community. Cool this guy went to Brooklyn College, and I did to. I have dsthymia and severe depression and all this shit. Cannabis helps me get out of bed in the morning or if im really depressed in the evening.
Legalize this great, safe medicine, like it was for CENTURIES!
wow dude i just had this same exact idea like 10 minutes ago. thats crazy
I became addicted to Ritalin when I was 7 years old. Ever since I was 17 I have been off Ritalin but began a terrible sprial with alcohol and drugs shortly after that that lasted at least a decade before I asked doctors for help. At the time I quit alcohol only pot could keep me from wigging out but I felt it being illegal meant I shouldn’t be smoking it either.
I took a lot of stock in society’s rules, I guess. I was raised Mormon by educated and extremely loving but opinionated parents/congregation who’s approval was once so very important to me. I went to rehab but did not feel it was the right place for me because no one seemed to have even a shred of a story in common with mine-therefore I could get no answers.
After 3 years of fighting the urge to use pot and also suffering horrifying side effects from EVERY med I was given I finally figured out my addiction was that I had ALWAYS functioned with an altered mind due to the Ritalin of my past. I had finally gotten my answer but I had to figure this out on my own because no doctor would admit this(because of either ego or liability is my guess). I refused to take ritalin or any med for depression after being hosptalized for toxicity.
A chiropractor finally told me not to worry as much about quitting pot as I should the depressants. I started myself on a regime of 3 bowls (MAX per day) in the evenings(after work) and suddenly my depression and aniexties disappeared. Being as this addiction occured at such a young age I did and do not see it likely that
I would ever be able to successfully be drug free in a legal or illegal sense without life altering reprocations. I weighed the goods and bads of pot and unlike prescriptions discovered there were signifigantly less side effects. Just munchies really…my memory is fine my body and mind are healthier then in the last 4-5 years. I am the happiest I have ever been and have been able to maintain this feeling in a stable and healthy way for 1 year. A first for me.
I am finally able to hold a job too. I am hoping my story may help others out there who are like me and were lied to about the benefits of prescriptions which made me an addict at 7, and then 24 years later: extremely ill, uninsurable and $1000 upon $1000 of dollars poorer(because of pre-exsisting conditions blocking me from getting coverage).
I took my life in my own hands…became proactive about my treatment and it doesn’t even require me to even SPEAK to a doctor. Those doctors would have killed me. I ask you…should addiction be treated if what you are using doesn’t destroy but improve your life in almost every way? Weed is the same as prozac to me…no one would tell you to stop taking prozac if it made you better. This is no different. Thanks for reading.