I don’t smoke myself - it doesn’t agree with me - but I think marijuana is safer for most people than alcohol.
However, if you have psychosis, you really need to be careful.
I have seen it almost immediately ramp up my son’s paranoia and delusions one time - and then simply relax him the next.
I’m sure it’s a matter of what type of marijuana it is.
I don’t smoke either, although did in my younger days. Agree that it depends on the type of marijuana. The new strain above says it has anti-psychotic effects… that would likely be healthier than prescription drugs, if it actually works.
I have access to high-CBD marijuana - it didn’t seem to hurt, but it didn’t really seem to help either.
Maybe something more concentrated than just buds would do better - like the oils they’re having good luck with for pediatric epilepsy.
Have not heard of the oils before… perhaps. Thanks for sharing @slw.
It’s on my mind because I do some freelance work for the cannabis industry.
This morning I was reading that the UK has recognized CBD oils as medicine, but that also means they will now regulate their sale and production. So all of the current products have to come off the shelf within the next month, and it will take companies a lot of money to get licensed to produce or sell - they’ll have to run clinical trials and everything.
In the meantime, all the people who were using them to treat chronic pain or any other health issue will either have to stop using them or buy them illegally. Or, since Europe is such a relatively small place, they could go out of country to get it and smuggle it back in.
Could you imagine if something like that helped someone with SZ, and it just got yanked out from under them like that?
I think most of those oils are made from hemp (high in CBD very low in THC), as are the ones you can buy on Amazon and in states where marijuana is still illegal.
I’d be more interested in trying an oil made from a strain like Harlequin or Charlotte’s Web, but short of traveling across the country, I don’t have a way to do that. My state has legalized CBD oils for intractible epilepsy, but they don’t have a way to buy the oils here yet.
@szadmin has posted previously that postings in favor of marijuana use are banned from the forum. There’s plenty of scientific research outlining that pot initiates psychosis, no scientific evidence saying marijuana prevents psychosis.
One of the big issues with the whole area of using CBD oils for “medicine” is that there is typically (at least in the USA today) way to easily tell what percent of the so-called CBD oils are actually true CBD. Look at this report from the FDA where they tested a bunch of products being marketed as CBD oils - and the actual percent of CBD ranged from 0% to 35% - with most down around 1%.
You really have no idea what you are getting when you buy CBD oils right now. That means most people are probably wasting their money:
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm484109.htm
I probably wasn’t clear.
I wasn’t suggesting it could help with SZ - especially since CBD oils available now are mostly hemp, if they even contain that.
I agree completely - today’s products, because they’re not regulated or tested, are, for the most part, nothing more than snake oil.