Marijuana Can Potentially Help Bipolar Patients
the420times | Nov 09, 2009 | Comments 2
A new study from the University of Oslo has found that marijuana use is associated with better neurocognitive functioning in bipolar patients.
Can Marijuana Help Bipolar Disorder?
by Bruce Mirken
There has long been reason to think that marijuana may be helpful to some patients with bipolar disorder, as certain cannabinoids have been shown in lab and animal studies to have effects that ought to be beneficial. Now, a new study from the University of Oslo finds that marijuana use is associated with better neurocognitive functioning in bipolar patients. In various tests of memory, learning, etc., bipolar patients who used marijuana did better than those who didn’t use it – the exact opposite of what the researchers found in patients with schizophrenia, a condition marijuana can sometimes worsen. “The findings,” the scientists write, “suggest that cannabis use may be related to improved neurocognition in bipolar disorder.”
Story from MPP.org.
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Cannabis and specifically, indica-dominant/full indica strains are ideal for bipolar disorder(assuming you arent a truck driver/etc etc) in that they stabilize mood/mind-set wonderfully without the liver-destroying toxicity of most present-day Psychiatric pill medications… There is a great evening of temperament with the indicas . I have taken the gamut of bipolar medications and none work as efficiently and pleasantly as cannabis *indica* .
I would ask the government to please consider the legitimate usage of indica for bipolar .
thank you .
I was diagnosed with bipolar 3 years ago they stuck me on all these pills that were doing the complete opposite. Only because they are sugar pills. They think they can psychologically make you believe that the pills will help… I got some news for the government, it doesn’t work, at least not for people who can think mind over matter. I have some more news for the government, Marijuana helps with not only my mood swings but friends and famlys as well. When I smoke the beautiful natural growing herb it puts me in a good mood and when something makes me angry I dont blow up like I usually do. Marijuana needs to be a legal medication for mental diagnosis’. Citizens of the United States deserve to vote on the matter not the governments ppl. WHERE IS OUR SAY???!!!!!