Reply #136: A person with a personality disorder and a pre-disposition to addictive behavior may seem

[haele]

"addicted" to Pot if that's what they need as an excuse for not developing real coping skills. I mean the few borderline sociopaths who have problems dealing with the fact that they are no longer precious snowflakes mommy and daddy have been protecting and still have anger issues they're too lazy to work out.
Pot just lets them feel less guilty about sitting around doing nothing but what they want to do while life passes them by because they can claim to be "depressed" when faced with having to take action when they don't want to.

I've known and worked with people with actual PTSD, various levels of disorders in the Autism spectrum, as well as levels of bipolar and clinical depression, and there is a distinct difference between an immature, self-centered adult and a self-medicator with a real problem.

It's always the few that abuse a beneficial system or product that f*** it up for everyone else, because those are the few idiots that agenda-driven political hacks and profiteers use for propaganda.

As for actual physical issues, there are still some concerns about adverse reactions between cert iain types of Bi-Polar and Schizophrenia and Marijuana. But that sort of issue exists for a lot of other perfectly legal substances that you can buy in a grocery store and some people, and is not really grounds for keeping it a controlled substance.

Haele