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Re: Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD

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Post by contravariant » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 1:49 PM UTC

bfivyvysj wrote: post #194

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They have some more useful figures in the paper, but for a lot of things they're essentially saying there is not enough evidence to support using cannabis yet . The strongest claim is the lack of significant effects for anxiety, ptsd etc. but it varies a bit whether that's because the effect is too small or because it is not studied enough. For anxiety for instance the effect they list in the paper is quite big but t…

I don't think I've ever heard that cannabis was a treatment for PTSD let alone a good one. Is this paper trying to confuse people about psilocybin?

The paper is just listing studies that happened. There might be a political agenda behind it, but identifying a study about cannabis use for PTSD and drawing conclusions about the results is what you would expect this review to do. Leaving studies out is much more suspicious.

Re: Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD

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Post by GorbachevyChase » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

blackqueeriroh wrote: post #200

GorbachevyChase wrote: post #182

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I think there’s probably some adjacency to other things which make people feel good, but are ultimately bad for them. Gambling, alcohol, porn, infinite scroll social media. There are a few people making a ton of money on this stuff and the social costs aren’t something they care about.

Lol pornography is not fundamentally bad for people. This remains the weirdest widespread take on HN

Frying the reward centers in your brain on anything can create unhealthy dependencies. That some people may see it as a good for social engineering purposes is orthogonal to its effect on consumers.

Re: Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD

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Post by mountainriver » Mon, Mar 23, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC

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Weed is great for my anger and sleep. I’ve never found as good of a sleep medicine for someone who wakes up too early. I also had debilitating anger in my teens and weed really helped calm that down. I’ve been off it for years at a time and I still can’t get past my anger without it. That said my memory is shit

It has at times worked well for sleep. One thing I've noticed though is that nothing works consistently for me. While weed and/or melatonin helps me get good sleep, both can leave me groggy/hungover during the day. What's weird is that I don't mean it varies night-to-night, but like for a period of, say, 9 months I'll sleep better on melatonin then it starts to leave me hungover so I'll switch it up and try weed and…

I feel the same way, I'm constantly cycling sleep meds

Re: Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD

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Post by DontForgetMe » Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

andoando wrote: post #152

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Just like how Hydrogen peroxide is chemically no different than a low dose of dihydrogen monoxide?

No not just like it, because the only difference with methampathemines is that the added meth group makes it able to cross the blood barrier much quicker, hence why I said its equivalent to a lose dose of meth. The chemical/biological response on the body and brain are very similar, the difference is in potency

No, the difference between amphetamine and methamphetamine is that they are literal different chemicals.

If one could 'add meth'(??) to chemicals to make them more potent, without changing the chemical, it would be the difference between (for example) citric acid and really strong citric acid, or codeine 2.5mg and codeine 5mg.

You'll note that neither of these involves changing the name of the chemical, because that is not how chemical names work.

As someone else has pointed out, the difference between 'hydrogen monoxide' and 'dihydrogen monoxide' isn't 'it's like hydrogen monoxide with added di', because that is ridiculous.

Please stop saying anything beginning with 'meth' is just meth with added bits.

It's a really odd misinterpretation of the terrible dangers of: methane, Methodists, methanol, Methaemoglobin, methicillin, etc.