Comments on: Drugs, Depression A Perilous Mix For Teens
Report: Depression Triggers More Marijuana Use, Leading To Dependency, Mental Illness
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- Our world is falling apart around us and we wonder why our kids are depressed and turning to drugs?
Posted by fabrat1
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That, or it started in the 1960s and nobody bothered to take notice until now...? - Reply to this comment
- Our world is falling apart around us and we wonder why our kids are depressed and turning to drugs?
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- Depression is something that "experts" don''t understand unless they experience it themselves. I suffer from depression. I have smoked pot. I have done drugs like LSD, cocaine, but not heroin or the new drugs out there like ecstasy.
Before I ever took anything like that I had a history of depression anyway. I find that the most dangerous drug today is the legal drug called alcohol. I could smoke as many joints in one spot and never get any higher. I could drink as many drinks in one spot and lose my consciousness and if, someone helped me to continue, I could actually die.
It''s interesting and suspect to see an article focusing on pot as the problem when there are so many variables out there. Marijuana is a natural plant that has been on this earth for millions of years. It wasn''t until the thirties of the twentieth century that the US government decided that pot was an "evil".
Do you know that the word "expert" is misleading. Many times people who proclaim such as just trying to get notice. - Reply to this comment
- Someone made a point I never considered.
MaryJane is a God-created plant, and as such, a renewable resource. However, pharmacists and other experts want to solve everyone''s problems with their OWN drugs, the ones they make fortunes on.
I believe I tend to agree. - Reply to this comment
- the only thing i can see ganja doing to depressed people is not helping them actually solve their problems in life that is making them depressed...which in some cases could actually help but let me get to that in a sec..
WHOOPS THAT LAST SENTENCE WASN''T MEANT TO SAY THAT NOT SOLVING YOUR PROBLEMS IS GOOD. getting to the underlaying issues is definately they key. Which begs the question do our pharmacutical drugs even really help or is it just getting people "high" "druged/f ucked up so they stop worrying about the problems they are having...... - Reply to this comment
- the only thing i can see ganja doing to depressed people is not helping them actually solve their problems in life that is making them depressed...which in some cases could actually help but let me get to that in a sec..
ALL I can see it doing is making them get into something that is normally boring to them like watching tv or playing a game and letting them "zone out" persay and stop thinking about their real life problems. Which in some cases time is the best thing to remedy problems you have. It could harm them by them escaping and not thinking about their worries or because it is illegal in america it can just add to this of things they have worry about. aka keeping it hidden and not getting arrested for something privetly in their homes. The only violence to do with drugs is created because government has forced it into the black market where lots of money can be made by dealers. thus these people arm them selves to deal with the cops and rival dealers. (why not let the government make the money from selling and spend some of they money to educate people about drugs and pump some money into schools, social security, whatever. - Reply to this comment
- what a dumb article tho seriously.......
You can take any group up people...find out some kind of % of people of them that smoke ganja using god knows what kind of questioneer that is supposed to be accurate within 5 %... and try to link two completely seperat entities/issues with their use of ganja.
lets say people who work at music/record stores selling cds and knowing alot about bands are big stoners across the country (for our purposes)
OMG lets write an article about this that sites music as a cause for smoking the reafer.
ask your self one question tho... would u rather take a bunch of chemicals chucked together into some pill that is made to flock with your head in some way that will help you. OOORRR smoke a god given herb that has grown for thousands of years. - Reply to this comment
- This says nothing about whether marijuana causes depression - just that depressed people use it more. And indeed they should. It is good treatment for depression in my opinion - at least for certain people. One of my best friends killed himself when he was 20 - and that was when he went OFF weed.
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- CBS:
May as well scrap this propaganda. Real science doesn''t support it. - Reply to this comment
- This is CRAAAP!
Note this "report" is from the White House that routinely rewrites real scientific research papers to say what it wants. These drug policy boneheads are probably just trying to counter the recent REAL research that found NO LINK BETWEEN MARIJUANA USE AND LUNG CANCER. Again, another inconvenient truth. - Reply to this comment
- ooops, I meant "SHIIT"
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- CBS, WebMD, FBI, DEA, etc.--they really think that we are stupid enough to fall for this nothing but complete BULLSHIIT!!!
Rules? We don''t need no stinkin'' rules!!!
Smoke da ***!!! - Reply to this comment
- What a crock. If your teenager is going to try stuff they are going to try it. If they are depressed and you take them to a doctor you are going to end up with pills that are addictive and with great side effects, one including suicide. I think we should be more concerned with our teens drinking and driving and ruining their lives that way over whether or not they smoke some pot and devour a whole bag of chips. Of course the experts say any drug is terrible, any drug but the ones they prescribe and make money off of.
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- Total ***. Take "teens who smoke pot at least once a month over a yearlong period are three times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than nonusers". Same report says "They were more likely than less frequent users to have moved in the past year and are less likely to live in a 2-parent family". And "Regardless of whether the problem behaviors preceded marijuana use or marijuana use preceded the behaviors (which we are not able to ascertain from the NHSDA), it is apparent from these data that the marijuana users are exhibiting many signs of anxiety and depression and exhibiting delinquent and aggressive behaviors far in excess of the nonusers". The whole report is garbage.
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- Yeah, riiiiggghhht. Pot does do harm but nothing like this reader''s digest report claims. they are forcing anti-depressants down the throats of more and more children thinking it is ok when it causes much more damage than anything else. let''s take a look at that before pointing the fingers at other things like pot huh? let''s look at reality here.
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- tomanyt: You hit it dead on, right on the nail!!!
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- tomanyt: You hit it dead on, right on the nail!!!
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- rushman71...They probably got their information for "Refer Madness".
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- duffynight: Sorry to say this, but they must have smoked cigarettes which caused the cancer. There is absolutely no evidence that cannabis causes cancer. NONE. ZERO. NADA DANM ONE!!!
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- duffynight...Meanwhile, cigarettes are perfectly legal. Talk about lung/throat disease. Pot is nothing compared to cigarettes.
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