Comments on: Drugs, Depression A Perilous Mix For Teens

Report: Depression Triggers More Marijuana Use, Leading To Dependency, Mental Illness

[hypnotoad72]

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...?

[fabrat1]

Our world is falling apart around us and we wonder why our kids are depressed and turning to drugs?

[homme]

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.

[nonayabiness]

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.

[theantirick]

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......

[theantirick]

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.

[theantirick]

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.

[fibonacci_]

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.

[gce65]

CBS:
May as well scrap this propaganda. Real science doesn''t support it.

[gce65]

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.