Medical marajuana

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THC can be detected in ones system 30 days after use....the cognitive impairment does not last for that 30 days, it lasts for the duration of the high. And for someone like me it helps slow my thinking down so I can better process my thoughts in moderate amounts...a large amount might cause cognative impairment so yeah I would probably not get baked out of my mind and then attempt to do homework.

And I do not know that a predisposition for schizophrenia, epilepsy or bi-polar disorder will be 'inevidably' triggered by cannabis use......it is possible depending on their reaction that cannabis will contribute to these disorders but it is not set in stone.

Intrestingly enough though cannabis has been proven to help with epilepsy because the cannabanoids basically protect the brain cells from some of the damage an epileptic seziure might cause. Also, I cannot remember what exact chemical it is but one of the chemicals in cannabis is said to help with schizophrenia....as for Bi-Polar and other mood disorders it can either make them worse or help...I have major depression and in my case it helps while prozac makes me anxious, paranoid...and basically psychotic yeah I threw that crap away.

Lol any grower that wants to continue having any sort of loyal customer base would not want to pull something like that...if you know how marijuana looks, feels and smells its not too difficult to tell if there is other crap in it. And they certainly won't smoke the crap with you if they are selling you carcinogen soaked cannabis.

Marijuana acts as a GABA inhibitor, an effect that (probably) lasts longer than the high. GABA is weird -- to be super simplistic, it tends to act as a freak-out neurotransmitter when you're young, and a calm-down one when you're older.

What this means for pot-smokers is that it's very possible that over the years pot will stop being good for reducing your anxiety and start making anxiety worse. If you're in the habit of using it to treat anxiety, then you tend to react to this by smoking more, which makes it worse.

So, if your anxiety levels increase or are just high, stop smoking pot for a few weeks and see if that helps.

If I stop smoking for a few weeks the anxiety would get worse.....because I would have no relief from it. I don't like anxiety attacks so if the cannabis decreases them then that is a good thing. But from what I know it does help with anxiety, but with some people it makes anxiety worse.

As I said, Sweetleaf. With some people it helps with anxiety, with some it makes it worse. It is very likely that as you get older, it will switch from helping to making it worse. By all means, use it if it helps. It's just good to know that probably it will, one day, be a harm rather than a help, so if/when it starts being bad for you, you know to try quitting instead of smoking more.

Why exactly would it make it worse...do the calming effects dissappear? If that happened I would probably decide not to smoke it anymore but until that happens I am not going to worry about it, I will obviously keep track of if it continues having positive effects or not. I would have to say the more anxious I feel the more I might have to smoke to not feel as anxious. But it does not seem to contribute to feeling like that.

True, probably more of a problem in distilled chemically manufactured drugs than harvested narcotics. The additional chemicals to induce hallucination in hydroponically grown ganja and used to soak the leaves may be deliberate. Just saying no guarantee you get what you pay for.

GABA, a substance used by your brain, makes you anxious when you are young, but makes you calm when you are older. (Very roughly put.)

Smoking marijuana reduces your GABA.

So yes, the calming effect goes away, and instead you get more anxious. You've probably known people who get paranoid and anxious when they smoke up. They still get high and can still get so high they're totally zoned out and "calm" but overall they're reducing their brain's ability to be not-anxious.

Don't worry about it, no. My point is just that probably one day smoking more because you feel more anxious will only make you even more anxious. You should just know that even though now it makes you less anxious, one day it'll probably make you more anxious, and that quitting it at that time will be a good step towards being less anxious again.

I am not saying you should quit now (unless you happen to want to) or that it will cause you to become crazy or something. I don't believe that at all. Your brain just changes as you age and how pot works changes when your brain changes. I'm not against it at all, it just saves time and suffering to know that it's effect is likely to change that way.

This also explains why people who smoked as teens twenty years ago and then try again now have complete freakouts about it and say, "OMG! POT IS SO DIFFERENT NOW! TOOOOO STROOONG!! !" and other such rubbish. The chemical profile of common cultivars (high quality and not) hasn't changed much, but the chemical-reaction profile of those people's brains has.

I think it's the thing that is making me not become crazy as quickly...I think I would already be there without it.