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Study: Pot can lead to depression, mental illness, & suicide

whitehousedrugpolicy.gov — According to a new White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) report released today, marijuana use can worsen depression and lead to more serious mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and even suicide.

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MacBigot 57 days ago

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NikoKun, on 05/09/2008, -4/+4Jeezus... More of this garbage? Are you kidding me? Boy, they'll say anything, no matter how backwards or blatantly false, wont they? -_- These misinformations and lies are extremely harmful, not just to people, but also their trust in the government, and the truth!

First, look at alcohol, look at the horrible things THAT does to someone's life, depression, anger, violence, etc... Pot is no comparison to that at all... And Alcohol is the one that's legal? W...T...F?

Besides, such a claim couldn't be farther from the truth! Marijuana is a very useful way to TREAT depression! I can't think of a better way, because all the pharma drugs available, either don't do what the patient wants, have horrible side effects, or make the patient's personality change or give them horrible mood swings.
Whereas Marijuana, does what you want it to do! It makes you happy, helps you forget about stress and depression, clears your mind from dwelling on things that suck. It's a well documented way to decrease overall depression! If your depressed, go light up a joint, and then tell me it doesn't work for depression. LOL

The only thing making pot-users depressed, is knowing that their life improving drug of choice, is illogically illegal, and that getting arrested for pot, can easily ruin their life! This is the law, CREATING the unnecessary harms and depression!

If you go here:
http://abovetheignorance.org/
You'll find a whole bunch of articles and studies about how well Marijuana works to treat depression... among other things.
platypibri, on 05/09/2008, -1/+3Most of Digg will hate this.
- ZxEfR, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3"this" of course being the lying and manipulations of a rogue government hell bent on destroying everything they cannot control.
  - BECoole, on 05/12/2008, -0/+3LOL!
ZxEfR, on 05/12/2008, -1/+3Yes Yes Yes......This subject is once again coming to a head (hehe)....and the evil side is feeling the heat and resorting to desperate lies and manipulations.........again. Do I ever think God's miracle plant will be free? No.....but one can always hope.

If your a prohibitionista look into the mirror and say: How did I end up on the same side of the debate as the drug cartels?
- BECoole, on 05/12/2008, -2/+1I am all for legalizing pot as long as it is legal to tar & feather the users.
  - ZxEfR, on 05/16/2008, -1/+1If you want to get together and attempt to tar and feather me I certainly won't press charges if you manage to pull it off....as long as your willing to not press charges against me when you fail. What do you say? Shall we?
Bronnster, on 05/12/2008, -0/+1...and Iraq has WMDees. Pfffttt.
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Study: Pot can lead to depression, mental illness, & suicide

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