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Does marijuana help with depression and anxiety?
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Medical Marijuana: While I am a proponent and a leading voice for medical use of marijuana I am also very quick to caution anyone from using this mind altering substance to treat mental health disorders. Marijuana is well known to increase anxiety, paranoia and it is a depressant. So, in your situation i would never recommend that you use marijuana as medicine.
Answered 3/28/2014
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It may cause these: Conditions or worsen pre-existing conditions. Possible effects of marijuana: anxiety, depression, fear, panic , delusions, paranoia, hallucinations, losing touch with reality, inattentiveness, short-term memory problems, disturbances of thought processes. Fatigue, poor concentration, slowed reaction times ; slowed problem solving.
Answered 3/30/2014
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