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Originally Posted by Dozer McDozer
hmmm smoking weed use to not make me feel any less depressed or shitty in the past.
why wouldn't someone feel depressed and shitty goin through the bs you endured.
be strong old man... cause thats what bs should do for you... make you stronger and make you greater of mind.
weed for depression gimme a break...
the state of mind it gives you is reachable without it.
Good grief old man.
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You're the kind of person that would vote for a law "granting" patients the right to have an ounce. In other words, you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Good grief yourself, you ignorant, malicious little creep.
Firstly, according to a survey by Fred Gardner in 2006, 30% of medical marijuana patients use it for depression:
Secondly, I am diagnosed with major clinical depression and do use cannabis for it. But your comments are ignorant, prejudiced, and malicious.
And thirdly, I am also diagnosed bi-polar (probably as a result of toxic shock from taking the prozac and other SSRIs for depression) and ... well ... you REALLY PISS ME OFF.
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Ignorance and mental health issues.
Tod Mikuriya
June 11, 2006
One of the most problematic areas of medicinal cannabis is the bias and denial regarding mental health issues. As a psychiatrist with an ear to the mental and emotional aspects of cannabis as a psychotherapeutic I am painfully aware of physicians from other disciplines that suffer from specific deafness as they listen to the patients describe their issues of anxiety or depression. There is an unconscious or rationalized process to connect with an anatomical or physical problem and ignore or feel uneasy about dealing with emotional or mental illness. In this area moralism and antipathy is expressed by disparaging characterizations of young and seemingly healthy patients getting access to cannabis.
Breaking the stereotype is Tom O'Connell, a thoracic surgeon with the power to listen, who has discovered through in-depth interviews, psychotherapeutic uses for a variety of disorders. Within the medical marijuana activists community, including physicians willing to risk sanctions, there is a strong and virulent disease of moralism and hubris. This morphs into the political realities of the "short list" states. Oregon, is the unfortunate example of what happens when mental disorders (with the exception of Alzheimer's rage reactions) are denied access.
Antipathy toward psychiatric conditions is firmly embedded in the consciousness of England and America. In 1873 and 1893 the British government in India was concerned about the allegation that insane asylums were populated by cannabis caused mental illness.
CCRMG
Exhaustive and extensive discussion resulted in the official finding that moderate used did not have adverse psychiatric effects. Notwithstanding, this myth has persisted. In 1956 Benabud et al. in the International Journal of the Addictions claimed that the Berrechid Mental Hospital near Casablanca, Morocco had significant numbers of cannabis users. This motivated my visit to that facility in 1966 that led to the conclusion that this was another ignorance-based study. The gross inadequacy of diagnostic capabilities and protocol precluded confirmation but added to the pile of bad science. This flawed work can be found on an internet search.
Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
This urban legend continues to reappear in the context of political perturbation in England where one might come away with the impression that young Brits were more vulnerable to cannabis than their California counterparts. The fantasies of the institutionally anointed English paint a far more dire picture of cannabis abusing youth.
The psychiatric community maintains denial of the psychotherapeutic properties of cannabis. Contrary to 19th century medical literature citations that described significant psychotherapeutic applications and variable results in neurological and mental conditions, the contemporary consensus in psychiatric literature depicts cannabis use as dysfunction or pathologic. Jerry Mandel reviewed all entries in the psychiatric literature and found no therapeutic applications. The reefer madness consensus of forgetfulness continues today, defended by a policy of denial and censorship. Shortly after 911, I wrote a letter to the APA Journal describing cannabis therapy for the treatment of PTSD symptoms. Not published.
I recently terminated my membership in the American and California Societies of Addiction Medicine for their continuing refusal to acknowledge or discuss cannabis substitution for harm reduction treatment of alcohol and other drug dependencies. Notwithstanding my efforts over the years, they stonewall considering this method I have noted to be a clinically effective alternative. But they rigidly continued to refuse my entreaties over the past thiry years.
http://www.mikuriya.com/cw_alcsub.pdf
This amazing phenomenon of forgetfulness and ignoring historical medical intelligence significantly degrades and attenuates the quality of medicine and science.
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