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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Marijuana and Depression: Can Pot Cure Depression? Or Make It Worse? 🌿Marijuana and Depression: Can Pot Cure Depression? Or Make It Worse?
As state lawmakers move to decriminalize marijuana for medical and recreational use, the cannabis economy is simultaneously gaining momentum. As it does, there's been much discussion — and research — focused on how marijuana affects the human body and mind. In particular, researchers and marijuana advocates have devoted a fair bit of attention to the relationship between cannabis use and depression.
Though regular marijuana users tend to be diagnosed with depression more frequently than those who don't use cannabis, marijuana does not cause depression, wrote Dr. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin for Mayo Clinic.
"It's likely that the genetic, environmental or other factors that trigger depression also lead to marijuana use," Hall-Flavin wrote for the Mayo Clinic. "Some people with depression may use marijuana as a way to detach from their depressive symptoms. Heavy users may appear depressed as a result of the dulling effects of the drug on feelings and emotions."
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