Pot Causes Depression or Depression Causes Pot?

Non-Phish General
#1

From the Stanford Daily:

Depression and Marijuana: Does smoking pot put you at a higher risk for depression, or does the link work the other way?
October 28, 2004
By Miki Sofer

Cannabis, pot, marijuana, weed: the aliases abound, but what can be decisively said about this well-known drug? Considering that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit substance in the United States, much ambiguity remains surrounding the relationship between this drug and its users.

Although most people associate marijuana with a happiness- or calm-inducing high, recent research has explored the relationship between depression and marijuana.

When the drug hits the brain

Chemicals in marijuana flow directly to the brain, crossing the blood-brain barrier and affecting major memory, coordination and learning centers. When someone smokes a joint, THC

#2

but…what if i just smoke it to get high?

#3

Shitty pot makes I depressed.

#4

I feel like shit!

cough cough!

much better!

#5

the only pot that causes me depression is the kind that has no hairs, no crystals, smells like dirt/fresh cut grass, and has more seeds that wont get planted than the amount in my ballsack

other than that, the hetty shit brah… makes me feel like a million dollar man

#6

Or that shit that tastes like mothballs.

Dear Lord, don’t ever let me cross paths with that poop again…

#7

weed that tastes like mothballs?

dude…were you smoking “the wet?”

bwaaahahahaha!!

#8

Bwahahahahaha…

I once had a friend ask if I could steal some of that “wet” ingredient.

I almost slapped him in the face, and I don’t really talk to him anymore.

#9

W3rd.

Hmm, depression led me to pot, or pot led me to depression? Either way, I’m sleeping good tonight.

#10

I always thought that I smoked weed to drive AWAY depression.

Can’t argue with that. Weed is the miracle cure…cures all ails.

Stevo

#11

i heard a report today on the radio that excessive smoking of the ganja could lead to a stroke or heart disease.

their example of “excessive” = 77-350 joints a week.

#12

so im in the clear?

whew! ::wipes brow::

i average about 72-76 joints a week.

#13

a recent study also shows that 1 blunt = 3 1/2 joints

#14

plus the tobacco wrapper…yer smoking 3 1/2 doobies and multiple cigarettes all at the same time.

yay!

#15

haha I’ve had some pretty ridiculous weeks out on the road, smoking constantly, but I don’t think I’ve even reached the 100 joints in a week plateau, ever.

and fuck blunts. there, I said it.

#16

What does a bowl equal? I can’t roll a joint or blunt to save my life.

Stevo

#17

that shit baffles me…how can you smoke weed and not be able to roll?

#18

p-u-s-s-y?

jk but i would think pieces are better than papers

#19

I’ve been smoking 8 years, and I have a lot of trouble rolling a good doob. I can do it, but they usually suck. I don’t know, it’s like how some people can’t tap their head and rub their bellies simultaniously/ vice versa… Not a great analogy, but you know what I mean. I think…

The shit about mothballs is that my friends had some nuggets that were smuggled in mothballs, so the smell, and even worse, the taste bled through the bags. That shit was nearly unsmokable.

Sad thing happened this weekend that got me kind of depressed. After 7-8 years of smoking (8 years on Oct. 12), I broke my first glasspiece. Luckily, it was mine, but it was still quite sad for me. Good fucking streak though.

cues the next 8 years!

#20

i’ve never smoked and i can roll a decent joint.

sometimes i’ll roll joints for old friends just to trip them out.