re: Medical marijuana does not help with anxiety, depression, doubles risk of addiction: study

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In Baton Rouge?

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Yes. And Chalmette.

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Honestly, you come across fairly sheltered on the subject and still holding on to tropes from the reefer madness and Just Say No propaganda campaigns. There have been a handful of people in this thread that have attested to knowing successful people that use marijuana. Is it the norm in the professional world? Certainly not in the south where it is illegal and the social stigma is still heavily attached to it, but it is fairly common in legal states. I’d venture a guess that you’d be shocked at the number of people in your work, church, and social circle that occasionally partake. I doubt it’s the majority of people in your circle, but likely more than you’d expect. I’m almost 50 and have been around weed and weed smokers since I was 14. It’s way more common than you appear to realize.

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Again, you guys just shift goalposts to suit whatever straw man you're burning here.

My comments were about people who self-medicate with weed, not accountants who smoke pot at their fun neighbor's house twice a month. It's true that I know very few professional, family oriented people who regularly buy and use marijuana. I know a few. I don't think I'd be "shocked" by the number of people in my church or work who smoke pot on a daily or multiple times a week basis. It's just not a big number.

Ultimately, it's not surprising that people who smoke weed regularly are obsessed with convincing everyone else of the normalcy of it. I don't think weed is taboo, I don't think occasional weed use is rare, nor a major societal ill. But yes, I do think the idea that regular (ie, dads with wives and kids who live in the burbs and work professional jobs) people are regularly smoking weed is exaggerated. But it's also worth noting that you and I probably have divergent views of normalcy, to an extent.

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They burn the Doritos or something?

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Not sure but one friend of mine -her boyfriend would get real paranoid when he smoked - and he’d occasionally accuse her of cheating on him and he’d knock her around to see if she kept her story straight

My former neighbor beat his mother one night in the front yard. He was high, only thing in his possession was weed.

I’m not saying it’s the norm, but it happens. Any kind of drug can possibly exacerbate a propensity to do something.

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Yes. And Chalmette.

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in that case, the weed has nothing to do with it

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just shift goalposts

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Telling you you’re wrong and shifting goalposts aren’t the same thing, just sayin’.

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That's really trashy.

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It is.

I have a lot of thoughts on the topic...I'm a medical patient with a chronic pain condition and I'm generally very pro-marijuana.

That said, THC doesn't seem to really improve my pain generally. There's times that it does seem to, but it's not consistent, and smoking/vaping it seems to make things worse at times (perhaps the act of smoking increases inflammation? I don't know.). Heavy doses (100+ MG) of CBD do help with my pain, though.

Laugh off CUD all you want, but for me personally, as someone with an addictive personality, once I take my first hit/edible of the day I'm going to continue to keep getting high until I go to bed. It doesn't matter if it's 8:30 AM, 1 in the afternoon, or 7 at night...once I start, I don't stop. However, it doesn't really have a particularly negative impact on my life other than that I can't follow movies for shite when I'm high.

Pot can occasionally give me acute anxiety attacks, but typically it does ease my anxiety a bit. All of those things from my past or future that tend to persistently nag me are often forgotten when I'm smoking pot.

Getting high and meditating can take you way deeper into your mind (I mean this in the most positive way possible) than anything else on earth, aside from heavier psychedelics.

As with anything, anyone who's completely hard-lined in their stance on pot tends to be overlooking the reality of it because there are truthfully many pros as well as many cons. Regardless of everything I said here, there is absolutely ZERO reason that it should be illegal. And despite the fact that I will defend marijuana until the day I die, it's not the panacea that people want you to believe it is (but I do fully believe it can be very effective for specific conditions).

When a story contradicts itself in a couple paragraphs. Well..

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There have been many claims about the benefits of medical marijuana for treating pain, insomnia, anxiety and depression, without sound scientific evidence to support them," said Professor Jodi Gilman in a news release.

And while marijuana has been shown to help ease pain and a few other health problems, two-thirds of U.S. states have decided pot should be legal to treat many other conditions with little scientific backing.

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I don't see how that's contradictory unless you're making the assumption that the "many claims" are the same exact claims being discussed in the later paragraph.

Marijuana does ease pain and other health problems. But it is not a wonder drug. Many people make unfounded snake oil claims about its benefits, without evidence. It's becoming big business and is a huge sector for growth, so it's no surprise. A cancer patient needing help with nausea or a combat veteran needing relief for anxiety, yeah, absolutely. Becky self-medicating with it because of her self-diagnosed OCD, maybe not so much sound evidence going on there. For every professional I know using marijuana responsibly I probably know two who use bullshite health reasons to justify their usage when they should just admit they really fricking love using marijuana daily. Which is fine if that's how they want to spend their time.