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 also 56 — was diagnosed w/ bi-polar 5 1/2 years ago. Given all kinds of Rx meds and almost all came w/ miserable side effects. Doctors ordered to stick w/ meds and hope for better long-term benefit. What a joke… Haven’t used pot even though family/friends strongly suggest. Insurance covers most of my drug company scripts — some w/ hefty price tags.
Yet, getting a medical marijuana card in CO can be an exercise in futility if you don’t know the right people/docs. (I don’t, and started process in May, 2010. Doctor didn’t fill out form to state’s liking in the first two applications – and am now in wait mode (for up to 4 months) for app number three.) Even if I do get a card, the costs for growing or buying is way beyond the costs I’d be shelling out for any drug company offerings. Again, what a joke….
Americans are so focused on all those damn illegal immigrants coming across the border. Yet, illegal immigrants aren’t the real problem south of the border — it’s the Mexican drug cartels shipping massive quantities of marijuana north. And what most Americans are unwilling to acknowledge is that it’s the good ‘ole USA that’s at the center of this problem. If we weren’t so dependent on buying cartel marijuana and paying for it w/ US cash and US guns – much of the border war and mindless killings would go away.
Yes, the illegals would still be crossing the border in hope for a better life; but here’s a thought, why not punish the ones who HIRE instead of those who desire? (Meg XXX who ran for CA Governor had an illegal maid for nine years and then fired the woman just before she threw her hat in the ring. Meg spent $140+ million of her own money in her attempt to be Governor — but not a PENNY after getting caught for hiring/employing an undocumented worker for nine years.
(Of course those on the far right (enjoying their cup of tea at this very moment) are quick to blame the undocumented maid because she (OMG) lied on her application.)) If we (who live in the greatest country on earth) grew our own marijuana, kept our greenbacks at home buying our homegrown marijuana, and most importantly kept our guns & ammo north of the border — the deaths piling up in Mexico wouldn’t result in so much blood on our hands. (Most Americans have no clue as to what that red substance covering their hands really is…)
I can only wait for the day that our kids (and grand kids) have a greater impact on federal/state laws == and bring common sense to this issue. Until then, a narrow group of older baby boomers will continue to work w/ their friends in office (and lobbyist) out of personal greed and NOT THE GREATER GOOD need. For now, taking “happy puffs” can land you in jail/prison – even if you possess a medical marijuana card. (It only takes one over-zealot fed employee to bring your “happy” (mentally & financially) world to an abrupt end.
the world needs to smoke it., at least once before they can judge people who do smoke it
i udnerstadn the context of smoking amrijuana may casue some people to become depressed, but i have beeen smoking since i was twelve, and i have yet to be depressed. Maybe you need to get out more when your high. It is an experince that most people wouldn’t understand unless they are faced with the same predicament.
Absolutely.
“people think marijuana can make you feel depressed”
LOL
Hello, im 56 and have a personality disorder that my therapist said would turn me into a bi-polar mess if i didnt take the meds that a shrink said i needed.
I didnt take them and Im not a mess and I dont go to therapy anymore. Im a toker, Im a full functioning parent, grandparent, and work everyday and have great references from everyone that has worked with me.
I say, “some people get up and take thier happy pills, and some people get up and take thier happy puffs.” If the pills work use em, if they don’t, try the medical marijuana. It works for more people than anyone realizes.
I have severe depression as well it comes and goes but it happens at all times in my life good days and bad days employed unemployed happyly married unhappyly married etc etc etc etc.
AZ prop 203 passed but it states specific illnes’. How far do you think I would get with a petition I can get plenty of singnatures but how far do you think it could go?
Its horrible when they placed me on fentanyl pain patches I nearly died from leaky patches twice and they wouldn’t even listen to me about that !
I cant take them any longer as it left me more damaged ! They cut on nerves in my back and use shots that break my bones down to severe easy breakage.They don’t care about that ! They tell me oh we got this new proceedure we can cut those nerves in your back and know I have had already years of cortizone shots and its long in my records years back no more cortizone shots, but they send me to a doctors tio cut my nerves and get my hopes up high.
When i finnaly go to the appointment ; The doctors tells me I have to have the cortizone shots first to authorize the cutting of the nurves latter if the cortizone shots don’t work. I have 12 conditions of severe suffering. I feel like a rat handed over to all the scientists to watch me die over their tests and trials they put me through and not a one of them can see what they have done to me leaving me messed up like you would not believe all so each could make their paychecks.
I am a rat and nothing less ! I served my country and have all those injuries and long back I tried some marijuana and it helped me So very dearly !
But I was not to touch it or they will take my home away from me as well my retired disabled pay. What is this from our country did to me ? I have studied the facts marijuana is the lesser of evils when you compare the pain meds they tried on me. What they did a long time ago was demonized it along with the other hippies uses of bad drugs so it got this evil name. I feel it should be aloud for medicinal uses for the severe suffering.
When I was at my grandfathers farm as a 5 1/2 year old child the season came to burn what was not being used for ropes for the Navy. I remember the gentle relaxed feelings ! That was just one time. Grandpa smoked it year round and he was 100 x’s better to me then all these doctors whom had hurt me.
Their killing me ! all these doctors I am no more to them a money making machine till I am dead ! I am 55 years old and like a 89 yeard old whom can hardly move around. Sincerely The rat for their lively hoods to get rich on. I SERVED MY COUNTRY !
Well put Sean, That goes Ditto for me.
As said on a recent documentary “There is no other medicine, perscribable or not, that can provide the QUALITY OF LIFE that marijuana can.”
Shock treatment is effective for severe depression due to short term memory loss properties, thus it makes perfect sense that marijuana is an effective treatment for depression.
Medical weed helps me i suffer from depression and get suicidal, weed lifts off those feelings i feel normal i can go outside i can work i can be with my friends. Without medical weed where would I be? It is the best medication dont let no body tell you different it has been proven.
Tod Mikuriya, MD, a psychiatrist and medical coordinator, cowrote in the 1997 book Marijuana Medical Handbook:
The power of cannabis to fight depression is perhaps its most important property.
I have a question to all the answers.
First let me tell you that I do like marijuana, and smoke almost every day.
Here is the question:
Is it possible that because we smoke weed we are so depressed? I see people telling that they have a hard time at school or can’t get a job. Isn’t marijuana the cause and the solution to our problems??
Keep the rock & roll style!!
i believe that smoking may have its bads and goods. i also know that as far as depression goes, it always got me thru it. its like a medicine that helps me, and it also has never interfered with my responsibilities as an adult.
I’m also in highschool and i’ve been smoking pot since i was 10. I have depression and i think that it helps me out alot. It just makes me more happy. That’s why i always try to get Pandora’s Box. Please legalize marijuana in New Hampshire!
Stay High.
So im in highschool, it’s a very stressful place for me.. I usually end up going home because of severe and frequent rage outbursts.. I smoke pot…alot! It helps with my anger and also helps me sleep and eat better… without weed, im a mess, all the time… i put my family through hell. Weed is my drug:) it helps with everything that goes wrong in my life… without pot, i’d probably be dead…
ok i have severe depression. I just got fired 2months ago and havent found work yet. ive tried everythig and anything. i was on zoloft until i became too immune to it. the one thing that helps me cope with this parasitic world is smoking.
i smoke everyday all day long. i cant function with out it. I need atleast one blunt aday. Otherwise i realize how useless i am and how worthless my life is. I’m on a constant down slope but i stay kicking cause of weed. I’m what u call a weedologist. I know so much about it. It does help me alot. The dopeamine the thc birngs out is enough to make me feel….well human. I have a bad temper that i can control while high. Sober im one mean prick.
Please can you tell me the best kind or the best mix. I have mild depression but it’s enough to keep me functioning.
Thanks so much,
Kim