Posted by Eddie Sylvano on October 11, 2002, at 9:09:38
In reply to medications and pot/alcohol, posted by borderliner21 on October 10, 2002, at 22:39:28
> has anyone experienced bad reactions combining medications with alcohol and pot? I would like to know how many people use street drugs with their medications.
-------------------------This has been a popular topic lately. Personally, I've never had any problems smoking pot while on Effexor, Serzone, or imipramine, which covers a pretty broad spectrum of ADs. If I had the anxiety problems that I've read about from others, I'm sure I'd just give it up.
What I'm interested in is why people smoke. What symptoms are they trying to alleviate? In my case, I use pot to "wake up" my senses, which seem to be pretty dulled and distant otherwise. It essentially addresses issues of anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure) for me, enabling me to regain interest in things. It would be right to question whether the pot actually causes the problems I use it to address, but for the fact that I never smoked it until about a year ago, and had been experiencing much worse mental states for two years prior, idiopathically.
Pot, just like any other drug discussed on this board, affects people differently. I don't think that there can be any useful consensus on its benefit. I believe that it can be beneficial, though, if used correctly. If it's used excessively, it loses its valuable effects (relief of anhedonia), leaving you with the less useful effects (lethargy, impaired memory, slower thought). If used judiciously, however, optimum benefit can be attained, and it can enrich the everyday experience (and save money). A lot of people have problems controlling their usage, though.
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