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MJ for PTSD?

bitterpink

bitterpink

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I have not logged onto here in quite some time. Here's something I've been thinking about for awhile that seems plausible to me. MJ makes people feel chill, calm, and happy usually it's the best the first time or so I've heard. Can it be used to actually help ease pain and trauma? Can it be used to make someone calm down from social anxiety? If so, then could it be used medically and naturally? I'm sure it's safe as long as you're careful.

Now I'm not very knowledgeable in chemistry, but I imagine there could be some way to manipulate it in order to make it more tolerable and most effective. It would be...the ultimate happy pill I guess though what's wrong with that? It's not like everyone will take it like in Brave New World unless it's really that amazing....but for a person who suffers serious trauma such as an army vet or something could recover a lot with the use of it I imagine, not that it would cure everything...How do you all feel about that? Does that seem possible?
 
Depending on the subjective effects it would either help or make it a lot worse, but I don't see the harm in trying.
 
bitterpink said:
Can it be used to actually help ease pain and trauma? Can it be used to make someone calm down from social anxiety? If so, then could it be used medically and naturally? I'm sure it's safe as long as you're careful.
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Theoretically it might help some people but the problem is that smoking pot can actually exacerbate depression, anxiety and paranoia in other people, and it's hard to predict if this will occur in an individual or not. So by the time they're feeling worse it's already too late. Of course these symptoms are reversible once the person stops smoking pot but it could mean a huge step backwards in their treatment.

But a lot of people already self-medicate with pot for anxiety and depression, so it obviously works well for some :)
 
MJ for PTSD? Go for it. After seeing the horrors of slaughter of innocents they shoud be given a cannabis allowance by VA. A license to chill.
 
Totally personality dependent. Could make for epic anxiety freakouts or it may just... well... get someone high.
 
Marine vet here. Been using it for awhile. It helps most of the time but has also been behind epic panic ridden freakouts.

I buy MJ with my VA disability money.
 
Thanks all for the input; I guess you're right, it really depends on the person. But I imagine if there were drug studies then maybe they could put it to good use.
 
Depends on the person. I know people who have PTSD and they don't touch herb or any other illegal drugs since they make it 1,000X worse.
 
Pot definitley helps me forget and get over emotional feelings from many things .

My gf recentley dumped me . I felt like shit . Really sad as I still loved her . Smoked weed non stop for a few days, and now most of my feelings for her are diminished and I don't really think about it any more and I've moved on . Usually this would be quite hard for me to do but weed really helped .
 
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