Reply #37: Funny

[Madspirit]

I suffer from Bipolar Disorder, technically a psychosis, PTSD and major depression. I have had more then ten psychiatrists, in my long and troubled life, recommend pot. One of the psychiatrists was when I left Austin for a while in my hippie youth and lived in Boston. I ended up on a psych ward at Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital and one of the finest hospitals in the whole world. (It was such a remarkable contrast to the state asylum I spent two years at in Texas.) Dr. Jeffrey Gellar, the psychiatrist who then ran the psychiatric wing at Beth Israel, absolutely thought pot was a beneficial drug for folks suffering from major mental disorders.

Almost all drugs have side effect when you are first starting. SLIGHT paranoia can be one of the ones with pot, as can giggling, munchies, etc. These effects go away with time. Whereas major psychiatric drugs have much worse side effects, for a longer period of time and some can cause PERMANENT problems that never go away, such as tardive dyskinesia...something I thankfully don't have. When I first got on Depakote for my bipolar, the Dr. said it was one of the drugs that could cause side effects as devastating as anti-cancer drugs can cause. I used to vomit on myself as I was driving down the street. In other words, all substances have side-effects. I will take pot's side effects any day over some of the ones I've had from shrink drugs.

I love my weed. My head would fly off my neck and zoom around the room without it.
Lee