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Originally Posted by DPolo
It is called self medication. People have a sickness, usually a mental disorder and they self medicate with recreational substances such as alcohol or marijuana instead of seeing a good mental health doctor.
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In my family they get busted for cannabis while self medicating a hereditary progressive fatal disorder they need a good neurologist.
Hereditary frontotemporal dementia is linked to chromosome 17q21—q22: A genetic and clinicopathological study of three dutch families - Heutink - 2004 - Annals of Neurology - Wiley Online Library
Its not just mental health issues that cannabis can self medicate, but serious physical ones. Much as tobacco can be used to self medicate conditions from irritable bowel to schizophrenia
Tobacco and IBD: relevance in the understanding of disease mechanisms and clinical practice. - PubMed - NCBI
"Current smoking protects against ulcerative colitis and, after onset of the disease, improves its course, decreasing the need for colectomy"
Pot is a great general purpose anti inflammatory, the excessive use of which could mask any number of diseases and disorders.
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