Addiction & Cannabis – Timothy Fong, MD | UCLA Health Cannabis Research Initiative
Addiction & Cannabis – Timothy Fong, MD | UCLA Health Cannabis Research Initiative
Addiction and Cannabis – Timothy Fong, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Inaugural 2017 UCLA Cannabis Research Symposium
A historic series of talks from visiting speakers and UCLA faculty about the science of cannabis, cannabinoids, and the endocannnabinoid system, as we work towards the establishment of a world-class cannabis research program at UCLA.
Learn more at https://uclahealth.org/cannabis
For those of y’all who are reading I know I have a problem and need help. Can someone please contact me ? I need support
HEAR ME YALL, WEED IS ADDICTIVE and DEMONIC, it literally latches on to your brain. I’m never “burning” or tryna “smoke” again. Accept Jesus Christ he helps tremendously! Blessings to you all & your family!
Cannabis is the healthiest plant on the planet…
My xh became completely psychotic after going of his meds n consuming large amts of thc concentrates. Ended up in jail..
Another issue I have is… this is reefer madness 2.0
As a cannabis smoker for more than 40 years, I feel my say overrules everyone. Cannabis is a needed for the anxiety cause by puberty. Although I use cannabis daily, I stop when I start to feel it. So when you don’t overdue it, cannabis becomes a daily medicine. The dose is different for every strain and every person. I am not crazy and jumping out the window. "You sir have Refer madness syndrome"!
such an amazing and distinguished career this fellow will have ….in China
All the down votes want him to say that Cannabis is a panacea. Nothing is.
26:36 starts the real concern and with the onslaught of edibles hybrids strains thc potency is causing major psychosis.
Anyone that says cannabis is not addictive doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about. Conflating the medical and clinical science on marijuana addiction with "reefer madness" propaganda is extremely disingenuous; indeed, the person making this claim unwittingly shows how his views are shaped by the very propaganda he purports to reject.
However rare cannabis addiction may be, smoking out causes dependence in many people and leads them to being fundamentally out of control. And in a nutshell, that’s what addiction is. Now addiction to marijuana is NOT like an addiction to opioids, coke, meth, alcohol, nicotine, etc. because it’s not dangerous like these addictions. However, it has some similarities, a la, the relationship the individual develops with the substance. Weed is addictive in terms of how an addict accommodates his or her whole life to getting blazed. It happens. You can get addicted to stepping out of your own head and, in this sense, any addiction is not really not about the substance itself: it’s about the behavior. Truthfully, I don’t understand the controversy about marijuana addiction when addictions get way, WAY more esoteric! More importantly, addiction is dependent on the individual’s experience with a substance; the addictive quality does not reside in the substance itself, rather, in the subjective elements brought to the table. Thus it’s patently mistaken to discuss substance use along dualistic, is-it-good-or-bad lines. Let’s aim for both-and conversations, not either-or.
Most alcohol and marijuana consumers are in denial that these substances are addictive.
anybody who’s looking at this even slightly critically could make a longer presentation on this guys reefer madness syndrome
I am addicted to cannabis and withdrawal is horrible. Stomach pains cant eat feel low depressed then end up smoking weed just to get rid of pain.
I know for sure that i have a problem, but that is on me. I am addicted to the feeling it gives me. I do not feel pain when i am sober, i do not feel like i will die but i am compulsed to use it every day, and generally in excess before most if not all activities. I started using because i was cutting myself linked to depression etc, losing family members all the rest. When i started using i stopped cutting, still have depression but its deep in the background, and its most prevalent when im sober. So there, it has a psychological effect, but it could have been anything, it was cigarettes when i was young, it was alcohol was i was reckless, now its this to maintain a calm decorum throughout my lifestyle and to not get to that white knuckle rage, or crippling catatonic sadness. So its me. Its a complicated subject. But my point is, Cannabis is not ‘harmless’, it feels too good, and works too well for it to be harmless. I wish i could drop it, but its here to stay, i will never be who i was before the tragedies of life, so this really helps me, when nothing else did or could. Still alive, still kicking, but deep down i wish i was not relying on the weed..
using weed every single day is problematic …. I wonder what the real consequences intellectually are ?