At higher levels of distress, cannabis can narrow cognitive focus onto negative thoughts, potentially harming conditions like depression, anxiety, or trauma. — Whalespan
At higher levels of distress, cannabis can narrow cognitive focus onto negative thoughts, potentially harming conditions like depression, anxiety, or trauma.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“But there can be another side of that too, that at higher levels of distress, at higher levels of tension, what it can do is narrow the focus of cognition to the thing that is negative, right? So the idea that, oh, like, oh, this is a treatment for, depression, anxiety, trauma, is not true, right?”