Is madical marijuana proven to help people with anxiety disorder and depression?
My friend is taking medication for anxiety disorder and depression. She has been taking medication and its not helping her, but she says that when she uses marijuana every once in a while that its the only thing that works. It doesnt make her stupid because because i’ve been around her when she does it. She says it relieved all the symptoms of her depreesion and anziety. But she doesnt abuse marijuana she uses it sometimes.
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Madical marijuana only works for mad people.
Yeah smoking marijuana makes you hungry VERY hungry
It works well for some people and makes it worse for other people….. it really is a very individual thing.
I don’t think the other answers weren’t taking the question serious. There is no such thing as “medical” marijuana. It is used as a pain killer and it can also be a brain signal inhibitor.
According to the Mayo Clinic, marijuana can actually cause depression to worsen.
I personally think of marijuana as a poison and not a drug that will make you better. I am not a doctor, but the harm is probably much greater than the gain if any?
hi, if your friends medication for anxiety and depression is not working, she should go back and discuss it with her doctor. Marijuana is a drug and could well be the cause of the anxiety and depression, that’s why she feels well when she takes it occasionally, it is like a top up, then when she is not taking it the body longs for it without her knowing, so making the medication seem like its not working, please ask her to go to doctor and tell him the truth and how she feels. hope this helps
People with eye and ocular maladies use it too. It makes the eye muscles able to focus more easily. Some cancer and MS patients respond better to it for treatment side effects.
It doesn’t matter if it’s proven or not. If it works for them then it works for them. Why do people feel as if it must be proven in order to work? I find that it helps me when I am depressed as well. Has anyone ‘proven’ this.. no. Despite this fact I continue to use it as it continues to help me. I don’t need an ignorant baby-boomer springing stuff like it doesn’t help people and that it can’t be used for medical purposes.
Marijuana is such that it could help variety of issues. For me, this issue is depression. Yes, it could make matters worse for some. But that’s because people react to chemicals differently. Ask your friend if it actually does help her depression. If it does I don’t see a problem.
God’s purpose for your life:
Perhaps you’ve wondered, “What is the purpose for my life?” Or maybe you thought, “There must be more to life than this!” When you try to live life our way, sometimes everything falls apart and do not know what to do.
But there is hope for a new dawn. When your heart is broken like a glass into a thousand pieces, and you feel a pain that does not let you pick up the pieces … there is a solution. If you give all the pieces of your broken heart to our Saviour, He can help himself. He takes every bit of your heart and restore it to something beautiful. With Christ in the center of your life He restores you and gives you new life.
At this point, you have the opportunity to hand over control of your life who created you, who loves you and who knows everything about your past, your present and your future. If you open your heart to Him, you will see that God has a specific plan for your life, which not only includes His purpose for creating you, but also His promise to give you a full life. If at this point and do not want to live life your way and you’re ready to live life God’s way, you’ll find a life full of hope and true purpose.
For the plan of God, know that:
God’s purpose for your life … is salvation. God sent Christ to earth to condemn, but to express His love to save! Jesus came to take away all sin, but to forgive your sins, give you the power to overcome sin and the possibility of living a full life. (Read John 3:16-17 and John 10:10)
Your problem … is Sin. Sin is living separated from God established the rules for your life-knowing what is good, but have chosen wrong. The main consequence of sin is spiritual death, spiritual separation from God. (Read James 4:17 and Romans 6:23)
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Our sin is what separates us from God and prevents us from fulfilling our deepest desires and needs. According to Romans 6:23, sin is an offense against God that carries a serious penalty “For the wages of sin is death (eternal separation from God’s love and mercy).”
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“Dear God. I know I am a sinner. I know that You love me and want to save. Jesus, I believe that You are the Son of God who died on the cross to pay for my sins. I believe you rose from the dead. Now I turn from my sins and through faith, receive You as my Savior and Lord. Come into my heart, forgive my sins and save me, Lord Jesus. In Your name I pray. Amen.”
Medical marijuana actually has been proven to relieve tension, stress, and pain (to a minimal degree), so, yes, your friend is completely correct in her assumption. This is also why marijuana is used in cancer patients and also starting to be used in the clinically depressed. Marijuana is also much safer than every single traditional medicine that is used by doctors today, but, sadly, you need a license to use medical without consequences. But, to answer your question, yes, medical marijuana is proven to relieve some forms of anxiety and depression.
Sean, really? It’s not a medication because it only inhibits other neurotransmitters? are you for real? do you not know anything about how medication works? By either activating or inhibiting neurons, duh! Are you not aware that marijuana also has 3 of the most potent antioxidants known to man as well? According to the Mayo clinic it causes depression? Who are they? Where is proof of their credibility? What study did they do? How did they prove that? Here, let me give you my sources and their studies on this subject:
The cannabinoid system controls digestion, hunger, reproduction of muscle fibers, skin cells, brain cells and neurons, metabolism, lipid production in the liver, glucose levels, insulin rejection, nutrient delivery, pain detection and regulation of other neurotransmitters.
How weed effects psychosis, paranoia, schizophrenia, bi-polar, manic outbursts, anxiety and ADHD:
THC does have a powerful anti-psychotic that suppresses the 5-HT2a receptor in the brain. The receptor that is actively stimulated in people with psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia is the 5-HT2a receptor. This receptor controls the blood flow to the 4th layer of the cerebral cortex. When this receptor is activated the 4th layer of the cerebral cortex becomes engorged with blood. This alters the perception of space, time and reality. Anti-psychotics that are used to treat psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia work by suppressing this receptor.
The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that is vital to cognitive thought and perception of reality. So the use of marijuana by children who do not have these disorders is not recommended because it will hinder the development of this part of the brain by limiting blood flow to it. However, there are other cannabinoids that activate the cannabinoid system just as effectively without suppressing the 5-HT2a receptor that can be used for children suffering other disorders.
THC activates all of the cannabinoid receptors creating a feeling of euphoria and regulating the release of neuro-transmitters that cause stress, anxiety, hyperactivity, anger and depression. This makes THC a useful anti-anxiety, anti-depressant and mood stabilizer and ADHD medication.
All of these medications that are currently available there are a large number of negative side effects. There are no observable negative side effects to the use of THC in treatment of these disorders.
This is definitive evidence against the theories that marijuana causes anxiety, paranoia, manic outbursts, aggressive behavior as well as the claim that long term use of marijuana causes schizophrenia, psychosis and bi-polar disorder.
However, as with the long term use of any anti-psychotic, antidepressant, anti-anxiety and mood stabilizer medication the sudden and complete discontinuation of it’s use can cause short term symptoms of these disorders but not the disorders themselves.
Smoking Marijuana and it’s affects on the immune system, and aging, diabetes, and other physical problems:
Free radicals are the menace that lower your immune system, cause aging, cause cancer, help the onset of diabetes as well as many other sicknesses and illnesses within the human body. These free radicals are our greatest natural enemy. There have been accusations that smoking marijuana causes all these harmful affects on the body because smoke, in general, contains free radicals.
The first argument against this is that the plant does not have to be smoked. Tea can be made from it and it can be eaten in many different varieties of foods. Smoking marijuana just seems to be the most popular form of using the drug. While it is true that smoke in general contains free radicals, marijuana smoke also contains three anti-oxidants that are more powerful than the typical anti-oxidants such as vitamins a, e and carotenoids and other anti-oxidants found in fruits and vegetables and even those found in grape seed oils. These three anti-oxidants are known by researchers as cannabidiol, anandamide and THC.
A stroke unleashes a torrent of glutamate, a chemical messenger in the brain, which leads to the formation of toxic oxidizing molecules. Other antioxidants, such as vitamins A and E, already are known to block the damaging effects of excess glutamate. Researchers found that cannabidiol, an anti-oxidant found in both marijuana and marijuana smoke, was a much more powerful anti-oxidant and more affective neuron protector than the well known anti-oxidants.
Another cannabinoid, commonly known as THC, proved to be an equally effective antioxidant and neuron protector. The researchers said that THC’s euphoric side effects would not allow doctors to administer it in high doses. Even still, in low doses, was just as effective as cannabidiol.
A third cannabinoid called anandamide was proven to be such a strong anti-oxidant that it inhibits the growth of breast cancer cells by interfering with their DNA production cycle.
Marijuana is mild psychedelic and CNS depressant, it will eventually cause anxiety and depression. There is almost no conceivable way that anxiety and depression will improve with chronic marijuana use except under rare circumstances.
The more marijuana you smoke, the more your system slows down. Mental function becomes impaired along with learning. The body’s response to this slowdown is to become depressed or anxious.
It may help at first by numbing emotions and “taking the edge off”, but it will eventually make everything worse.