The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
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Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#2I am one of the authors, AMA
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#3So the cause could be that there are a lot of depressed men that smoke cannabis to try to escape their depression instead of taking medication?
Maybe it shows a tendency for women to seek professional help where men do not? Especially in cases regarding depression or other "non-physical" illnesses?
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#4I am one of the authors, AMA
Who paid for the research?
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#5I am one of the authors, AMA
Thanks for doing this research, and for posting this...it's a very important field right now, considering that many countries/states are legalising Cannabis. I live in Canada and cannabis is in the process of being legalised.
I haven't read the full-text, but how well have you figured out the causation? The study seems to show that in women suicidal ideation causes cannabis use. In men it seems to be the other way around (cannabis use causes suicide ideation). However I'm wondering if even in men the desire to use cannabis is influenced by some kind of mental instability, which would have caused suicidal ideation even in the absence of cannabis. Perhaps you address this in the full-text.
Also, I'd suggest paying the $3k open-access fee to make this article available to everyone. It's a small price to pay for increased exposure, more citations, etc.
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#6So the cause could be that there are a lot of depressed men that smoke cannabis to try to escape their depression instead of taking medication? Maybe it shows a tendency for women to seek professional help where men do not? Especially in cases regarding depression or other "non-physical" illnesses?
Which could further be caused by social tendency to punish or ridicule men more than women for the choice to seek mental health help.
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#7Weed helps you ease the cortosol onslaught of any shitty situation. Stress, depression, homelessness, etc...
This reminds me of a study where depressed people were shown to have higher rates of gum disease.
And just for fun there was a recent study where pot smoking has been linked to gum disease.
Why even go there with your research? Why not choose any other arbitrary thing. Like comfort food, binge watching tv series, sleeping in, etc, social network use (oh wait, they already did that). It's like -- no shit sherlock.
It seems silly to me.
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#8I am one of the authors, AMA
Thanks for doing this research, and for posting this...it's a very important field right now, considering that many countries/states are legalising Cannabis. I live in Canada and cannabis is in the process of being legalised. I haven't read the full-text, but how well have you figured out the causation? The study seems to show that in women suicidal ideation causes cannabis use. In men it seems to be the other way ar…
It's fucking nuts that you need to pay $3k for anyone to be able to read your work.
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for doing this research, and for posting this...it's a very important field right now, considering that many countries/states are legalising Cannabis. I live in Canada and cannabis is in the process of being legalised. I haven't read the full-text, but how well have you figured out the causation? The study seems to show that in women suicidal ideation causes cannabis use. In men it seems to be the other way ar…
It's fucking nuts that you need to pay $3k for anyone to be able to read your work.
Most public libraries and other institutions pay for database access and journal access. You can usually go in and request access to science material at no cost to you.
The barrier to entry is still quite high, unfortunately.
Re: The association between cannabis use and suicidality among men and women
#10I am one of the authors, AMA
The 'conclusion' hints at or indicates the assumption that cannabis use is the cause for increased suicide incidence.
What's the basis for this?
Depression being the cause for increased cannabis is intuitively a more likely assumption.
With these topics, I think it is very hard to get good data. It might very well be that men do not admit to being depressed before starting to smoke up regularily.
Can anyone comment on the quality of the data used? (National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions)