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Counter anecdote - THC basically ruined my sleep for a while. Granted, it was mostly my own fault, but I've just become wary because I've seen so many advertise

Counter anecdote - THC basically ruined my sleep for a while. Granted, it was mostly my own fault, but I've just become wary because I've seen so many advertisements promoting CBD and THC as cures for basically everything that I think it's important to be wary of the risks. In my case, I just ended up doing way too much THC in the evenings and at night so I would essentially pass out. I would sleep, but my sleep quality was really bad and I felt "groggy and foggy" the next day. When I tried to go off it, for a long time I would wake up every night around 3 AM and couldn't get back to sleep. To be clear, I totally agree THC does have medicinal uses, but lots of medicines can cause a host of side effects and other problems (and sleep medicines in particular are a notorious bunch for dependency issues). If you go the THC route to help sleep, just be more careful than I was.

dylan604 3y ago
> I've just become wary because I've seen so many advertisements promoting CBD and THC as cures for basically everything that I think it's important to be wary of the risks. I've been part of interviews of various doctors in relation to cannabis. Some are so gung-ho it comes across that you should take no other medicine other than cannabis. Others come across from the point of view as it's just one more tool in the tool chest of treatment options. So even in the medical community, there's no consensus. I'm hopeful that the rate of current research will start revealing something closer to fact, and hoping bigPharma doesn't come along and ruin it
- joshspankit 3y ago
  It’s going to be such a relief when medical professionals can speak to specific “strains” (is this a problematic term here?) of people instead of trying to speak about all humans as though they all fit in one homogenous bucket. Internally we are wildly different and surprisingly varied.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    My guess would be once all of the individual molecules have been studied, they'll be able to prescribe a cocktail of cannabinoids as needed. Provided of course it is as beneficial to health treatments as hoped
BizarroLand 3y ago
dosis sola facit venenum, 'only the dose makes the poison' -Paracelsus

dylan604 3y ago

> I've just become wary because I've seen so many advertisements promoting CBD and THC as cures for basically everything that I think it's important to be wary of the risks. I've been part of interviews of various doctors in relation to cannabis. Some are so gung-ho it comes across that you should take no other medicine other than cannabis. Others come across from the point of view as it's just one more tool in the tool chest of treatment options. So even in the medical community, there's no consensus. I'm hopeful that the rate of current research will start revealing something closer to fact, and hoping bigPharma doesn't come along and ruin it

joshspankit 3y ago
It’s going to be such a relief when medical professionals can speak to specific “strains” (is this a problematic term here?) of people instead of trying to speak about all humans as though they all fit in one homogenous bucket. Internally we are wildly different and surprisingly varied.
- dylan604 3y ago
  My guess would be once all of the individual molecules have been studied, they'll be able to prescribe a cocktail of cannabinoids as needed. Provided of course it is as beneficial to health treatments as hoped

BizarroLand 3y ago

dosis sola facit venenum, 'only the dose makes the poison' -Paracelsus