marijuana and depression

I've heard from a couple people about the establishment claiming marijuana causes depression. I have suffered from chronic depression since I was a child and have tried nearly all of the prescription anti-depressants. Only one or two of them have helped at all without intolerable side effects and none of them work reliably.
The most relief I have ever got from my depression has been with marijuana. Of course, anything that makes you feel good will change your point of referance so that when you come off you feel worse than you would if you never felt that good---just like a dark color looks darker next to a light color. If you have steamy hot sex with someone you are on fire for and then the person has to leave, and you are then alone with nothing left but a beer and late night tellevision, your going to get an empty feeling...so you could say that sex causes depression because everything is what it is by what we compare it to, and that let-down will be reflected in your body chemistry as any experience of loss of enjoyment will.
But does it do more than that and make you more and more miserable the more you smoke it? Not in my experience. A few years ago I decided to try using it as regularly as I can afford to because it provided reliable relief from the depression better than any pill from the doctor. If it had some cumulative affect of making me more and more miserable, I would be worse off now than I have ever been as far as being depressed, but instead, over all, I am doing much better with my depression than I was when I wasn't smoking at all or only sporatically.
Then too, all the people I have ever met who smoke it regularly seem happier than people I know who don't. I doubt if I will ever see medical marijuana approved for depression, but I expect to continue to get real relief from it, just as I expect the BS about marijuana to keep pouring out of the establishment while pills such as serzone get slid through FDA aproval by the financial influence of the pharmacutical companies only to find they have serious health consequences in the long run. Same "reefer madness" BS, different day!

 

My depression has also benefitted from the good 'ol green. Pills kind of make you lose the ability to have any emotion and thats why a lot of people choose to suffer through depression and still be able to feel happiness. Then again weed isn't a crutch and shouldn't be used as such unless you want to have a psychological dependency on it. Instead just think of weed as your friendly neighborhood pizza guy who always knows what you want when you want it and will spare no expense to make sure you are satisfied.

 

You have a pizza guy like that?! I'm jealous! lol. I think we all have a psychological dependency on something. One thing about pot though is that it doesn't really allow a person to be stoned all day every day indefinitely. The buildup of a persons tolerance doesn't allow it. I have to go a week or two without it every month or so or I will get to the point where it just doesn't do me any good any more. (Unless I find something that's twice as potent-----where's that pizza guy of yours? maybe he has some!)

 

Pot helps with my depression too. It makes me wicked happy. I love life a hell lot more than when I'm sober and depressed.