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Originally Posted by Fal
Sorry, but that doesn't stand up for much. Many manic depressents say that cutting makes them feel better. That doesn't mean that it's doing them any good or improving their situation, they just temporarily feel better.
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i took the just of it cuz i was to lazy to want to explain all the medical mumbo jumbo associated with it.
"many schizophrenics say weed helps them feel better, all this begins to make sense in light of recent findings about the internal cannabinoids.
Schizophrenia is accompanied by, and perhaps caused by, an extreme
overproduction of dopamine in parts of the brain. Since the endocannabinoids
help regulate the dopamine supply, researchers expected that they would be found in larger amounts, but not enough to control the tremendous excess of dopamine—and sure enough, when they tested the spinal fluid of schizophrenics, they found twice the normal amounts of anandamide. This suggests that pot-smoking schizophrenics try to make up the difference with THC, but it doesn’t work well enough because it’s not specific to the abnormal dopamine-producing regions.
basically, by them smoking it does help with their "schizophrenic episodes" by slowing down the production of the extra chemicals thats causing it.