Posted by jojo on July 24, 2001, at 10:36:12
In reply to Re: Effexor XR Marijuana Use » Edward, posted by Elizabeth on July 22, 2001, at 13:11:20
> > I don't think there's much point in taking antidepressants if you smoke pot every day. It makes you more depressed.
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> I think that, like most psychoactive drugs, marijuana has different effects on different people. I can understand why you'd have a very negative attitude about mj if you feel it made you more depressed, but please realise that not everybody has the same neurochemical makeup as you. Some people get more depressed and/or anxious on SSRIs, tricyclics, benzos, and many other drugs; that doesn't mean that these drugs are "bad" (even if it would be possible to ascribe moral attributes to an inanimate substance).
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> -elizabethInteresting scientific point was recently announced. Even though humans have 99.9% of the same genes, each gene has, on average, 14 different alleles. In other words, we may all have a gene that regulates P450 enzymes, for drug breakdown in the liver, but there may be 14 different variations of this gene, which might mean 14 different responses to a given drug.
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