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Did you know that smoking pot on a weekly basis can double the risk of depression later in life?

I read that on http://www.freevibe.com/Drug_Facts/m...tal_health.asp and everyone knows im the most positive guy in the world and seeing that happen to me would be dramatic...So can someone tell me if its a myth or a fact?

 

Soaring

I'm pretty sure that it's a myth. I remember reading somewhere that a recent study indicated that smoking marijuana actually reduced your chances of becoming depressed. So yeah, I wouldn't be to worried.

nerphroll

These are for the most part poorly designed studies that nonetheless, may end up showing an association between pot use and anything, but that's far from causation. That website is anti-drug and very biased. The authors of said studies already know what conclusion they want to reach before they even start collecting data.

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Yoda

Its not completely b.s. a recent stusy shows that smoking pot can lead to death. Which is true, My dad smoked pot once and he died Fourty years later.
I would probably get depressed too if all i wanted to do was chill with my dope and people were making me do a study, Unless it was like "Will he oick the double-bubbler, or the gravity bong?"

Tweed Master

These studies are bullsh**. First of all, everyone is different, and we all have our certain situations, people we live/hang-out with and all that jazz. Sure, it's a chemical thing, but certain thoughts and other things play a major role. I agree with nerphroll, also. I myself have been having major depression problems for three years now, and wouldn't you believe it, since I started smokin', I don't get depressed anymore! YAY!!!! I swear to you...Everything is going great, I don't feel lazy, I don't want to give up on life and blow all of my money on marijuana. As of now, I'm pretty ambitious, and I lost 3% body fat already this spring. So as long as you're a good guy, your happy, umm...you have self-control (you wouldn't mind not smoking marijuana, like if you had to get something finished) and all that stuff. So, I hope I helped you out. And for those of you who think that marijuana has nothing to do with depression, screw off. I'm living proof that it can help.

 

dedbr

there's so many of us smoked it and stayed sharp as a tack, that they can't have any doubt's as to the benefit's.

If they want to find a certain group of people that have a mental illness and also smoked herb, I'd be looking for a self-medicating factor first before I jump to the conclusion that "the pot did it".

That would be a useless asumption.

You'll be fine.

Somewhere in Ded Land....

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chezzybread

Tweed Master

Chezzybread, can you provide us documentation about that. I wouldn't really call it glands getting tired...or even glands for that matter. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it has to do with sensitivity of receptors, and if it does promote the production of seratonin and dopamine, and this particular person smokes quite often, then your brain would try to cope with it, reducing production and sensitivity. Same as anything else people do. Smoking cigarettes for example, we smoke for a long time, then our brain copes with it. Then we suddenly stop we're all messed up and that is what we call withdraw.

Soaring

Cannabis actually works as a kind of inhibitor inhibitor. Usually after the stimulus for releasing dopamine and seratonin has ceased, another chemical bonds to the sites on the neuron that relese the above chemicals, thereby stopping production and the resulting emotions of happiness, ect. Canniboids, both those produced naturally in the body and those in marijuana, bond to these inhibitor chemicals, thereby rendering them non-functional. Thus they inhibit the inhibition of dopamine and seratonin, leading to higher concentrations of these chemicals in the synapse gaps between neurons and prolonging and intensifying their effect. This info comes from Scientific American article I read a while ago, so some details might be wrong, but it's right for the most part.

sparkplug

That is true, that you can make a study that will reveal the results you are looking to prove. For example if I wanted to prove that smoking marijuana leads to a life of crime and eventually prison. If I go to a prison and interview the whole population I am sure I could prove my point. On the same note if I was trying to prove that many up standing citizens smoked marijuana, I could easily prove that also. Lots of money is wasted on studies that have the conclusion before the study starts.