Posted by Sigismund on August 3, 2009, at 2:45:26
In reply to Re: Marijuana for depression/anxiety,good or bad idea?, posted by morganpmiller on August 2, 2009, at 23:59:51
If you are looking for someone to defend marijuana you won't find me doing it. It was not safe enough to be incorporated into Ayurveda or TCM.
What I object to is the pincer movement of, on the one hand, a creeping and repressive dispensation and on the other, the medicalisation of everyday life.
I would hold psych drugs to the same standards found in the herbal traditions of the Chinese and Indians.
As soon as ANY psych drug is found to be any good, it becomes a drug of abuse. That's the way it is.
On the marijuana for depression front, I think there are some people for whom low dose oral mj may be useful.
For myself I don't like it much. Like a young friend said 'It's not even fun. It's like being in the movies all day and stepping out into the traffic.'
But maybe if the psych profession could be persuaded of its unpleasantness, it might be more easily able to see its uses?
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