The debate about Marijuana being able to help treat depression and anxiety is a debate you will have undoubtedly heard about, either from your stoner friends, on the tv, basically, everywhere you look the topic about how effective marijuana is to treating anxiety and depression, issues from which more and more of us seem to be suffering as every day passes seems to always arise. Is this just a myth to draw people to this “unexplored new product” or could there be any element of truth in this.
It has actually been proven by real-word scientific data-analysis that marijuana is actually very effective when it comes to treating anxiety and depression.
Compared with its use for chronic pain, the researchers stated that reliable evidence to support the use of cannabis to treat anxiety is lacking and available data are “conflicting.” To bring clarity to the issue, the researchers conducted a retrospective database study of Canadian medical cannabis patients. Patients received their cannabis from Harvest Medicine clinic, a network of specialty medical cannabis clinics across Canada.
Of the 7362 patients, 43.9% reported anxiety as the reason for using cannabis and 25.9% reported depression. The average age of the sample was 49.8. The group was fairly evenly divided between men (46.9) and women (53.1%).
The General Anxiety Disorder score for those patients with anxiety was as high as 11.1 compared to that 5.3 for those without anxiety. The scores for those patients with anxiety decreased considerably over time once the treatment had started. The most notable differences were noted as early as 3 weeks after the treatment started up to 2 years.
Patients diagnosed with depression scored as high as 13.7 on the Patient’s health Questionnaire presented to them, compared to 5.7 for those who were not diagnosed with depression. The most notable drop in patients with depression was noted around 3 months after the treatment had started.
While this does work to indicate that marijuana is very helpful when treating anxiety and depression, it has been determined that the scientists did not have enough data to reach any significant conclusion, this is mainly due to not having information about any other medications, medical treatments or medical history to be able to identify exactly where the improvements could have been coming from.
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