Pot is a brain-altering substance.

Is there medical marijuana for depression, mania, or mood stabilization?

I have known a few people claiming medical marijuana, as well as street marijuana, helps their depression. It was their only medication. I watched for months (and years), while they were claiming a cure, only to observe their lives were truly going downhill. The decline was obvious: they were now declaring bankruptcy, going through divorces, losing housing, losing jobs, making poor decisions in general. (One is getting her life back together after going back to a pdoc and restarting meds.)

While I believe pot can be relaxing (anti-anxiety) and can cause a "high," it did not help them enough to keep their lives from crumbling around them. They'd told me the pot gets them "high" and numb, not more functional. So they had some fleeting relief from suffering, yet nothing to help them have a more stable life.

I am all for anything that truly helps. If pot truly helps in stabilizing and in having a more functional life, then go for it.

My doctor states he has not seen anyone with BP do well on marijuana. He's all for compassionate use, in cases of intractable pain, etc. People don't stabilize in mood with pot, like they might with pharmaceuticals.

Just my two cents.


WC