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Medical Marijuana Can Help Your Stress-Induced Depression - Purple Power - 03-19-2018
Medical Marijuana Can Help Your Stress-Induced Depression
Lets see what science has to say for itself.
<a class="author url fn" href="https://thefreshtoast.com/author/richard/" title="Posts by Richard Faulk">Richard Faulk</a>
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Pressure, it pushes down on me, pushes down on you. Stress works its mischief by stimulating an array of receptors in the brain. Eventually, chronic stress will cause some of these receptors to become less sensitive. Its analogous to the way that, say, long-term cannabis use causes the bodys cannabinoid receptors to become less responsive, which creates tolerance to the drug. Can marijuana help stress-induced depression?
Unfortunately, chronic stress does not create tolerance. Instead, it interferes even more with the bodys normal functioning and can make us sick in a number of ways. A 2015 study by the University of Buffalo suggests that cannabis might help offset one of the major stress-induced ailments, depression...
https://thefreshtoast.com/cannabis/stress-induced-depression-and-marijuana/