It’s not a “cure” medicine, it’s a “relief” medicine.

Like painkillers.
They don’t heal, they help lessen the negative effect of the illness to help while healing.

We already know this, stop twisting study results to sound like there’s no positive side of cannabis.

To be fair, the population of this meta analysis is severely underpowered to assess whether there is an effect for rare/semi-rare conditions. (population is couple of hundred in most areas) and it shows in the confidence intervals. Wouldn’t exactly call this a “huge” study.

A better title would be “Study unable to determine if cannabis helps or hurts anxiety, depression, or PTSD because of lack of data” which sounds less glamorous.

There aren’t any drugs that resolve anxiety, depression, or ptsd on your behalf with nothing else. The most any drug can do is reduce feeling these things while they’re active so that the causes of the feelings may be addressed with lifestyle and cognitive changes.

Drugs are a temporary shelter from the raging storm of these issues while you re-build or build up in the first place a real shelter to experience the world from in peace and comfort. The temporary shelter blows away when the drugs wear off, and to rely on a temporary shelter permanently is no solution. That being said, plenty of people without any shelter at all don’t survive. Drugs help, but they don’t fix the problems they provide temporary relief from, you must solve those problems.

Like the study said, there needs to be more specific research in a controlled environment of these substances being used in coordination with established therapies and procedures. I have personal anecdotal experience of positive outcomes with cannabis in a robust framework addressing these issues beyond chemical means. Importantly, I may not have survived without the option to put the overwhelming desire to opt out of this planet on hold for a few hours at a time by briefly regaining my ability to feel pleasure. My psych wanted to try ketamine for this purpose, but I’m a lot more comfortable with cannabis.

Fascists have been robbing people at gunpoint in their own homes with approval from a serial killing billionaire monopolist state and that article talks about pseudoscience, non-verifiable, self-report based terms like feelings of anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Facts have shown that POVERTY causes anxiety, depression, and PTSD. POLICE STATE ARMED ROBBERIES CAUSE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND PTSD. They’re more likely to happen to people on the antagonist side of the MERCK, PFIZER, GSK MONOPOLY DRUG CARTEL. That is a fact about cannabis possession, cultivation, usage, and sale. Another relevant fact about this study would be the shadow network of BIG PHARMA serial killers with residence addresses somewhere near readers of that article and bank accounts in 0-tax jurisdictions of the likes of Panama, Luxembourg, etc. that funded putting that pile of feces into a format that looks like a scientific article. In the meantime, those unethical bastards have been selling drugs of the likes of opioids, benzodiazepines, etc. from inside hospitals near the readers of that article, drugs that have killed tens of thousands if not millions of humans per year.

P.S. That article totally omits to even acknowledge the variety of types of cannabis with widely different molecular composition profiles.

P.P.S. That article also omits to acknowledge that fact that research on cannabis consumption therapy has been happening outside the fascist states of the american-european colonial (and racist) empire and their ‘universities’ (sites of propaganda) because of a little thing called a decades-long illegal criminalization of the non-violent behavior of personal choice of consumption of a plant flower with numerous therapy applications growable with a small budget in approximately any house.

Well this study doesn’t mention psychic pain or spiritual warfare so it’s clearly hogwash.

i don’t recall that weed was ever used for those things, other then just as a copeing mechanism, i think the argument is that it was better then the other narcotics by a country mile.

unless you are talking about charletons, but like we got people saying magic rocks cure cancer so like why would we need to validate their nonsense?

I was about to come tell how that has not been my experience at all but then I realized I read the headline wrong.

FUCK YOUR PATHETIC PROPAGANDA!

smoke a weed, feel euphoria for 10 minutes, then crippling anxiety for 4 hours

worst drug ever thanks

Here we go with them trying to keep the lies going & sadly a lot will fall for this again but that’s why they legalized it so they could lace it for more future problems

Isn’t microdosing ‘certain’ mushrooms one of the best ways?
I’d give it a go if I could get my hands on them.

there arw studies that thc inhibits anti-depressants. ask how i found out… :(

Yeah some people need to hear this but just cuz it grows out of earth don’t make it medicine.

Weed just ups your heart rate, makes you hungry and eventually makes you kinda sleepy when it wears off. It doesn’t help with much of anything except draining your wallet and time into getting lung cancer.

Now real drugs might help, from SSRIs to Benzos to Amphetamines, a dash of Nicotine, maybe even psychedelic therapy with the HT2A receptor classical psychs class. That’s real medicine.

Weed is the opium of the masses.

My experience was that weed made me accept not dealing with anything. It often made stuff worse but also allowed me to just accept that. It wasn’t fun and any claims of self medication was just an excuse not to stop.

After I did stop for a few years and actually dealt with my shit, I can now use weed guilt free. Now it’s actually nice when I use it because I’m not using it to lie to myself.

Most my stoner friends back then we’re like my pre healthier self too. That’s the problem with weed imo

It doesn’t fix anything, you just don’t care as much.