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Anonymous
Bipolar disorder Sunday 08 Feb 2009 and wish to thank the people who run it and also the people who took the time to write in with other medical testimonies. I have suffered from what is probably (currently working diagnosis) bipolar disorder since my late teens. This condition has been exceedingly detrimental to my life and to the lives of those around me. I have lost employment, destroyed relationships, spent months and even years locked away on my own too frightened to socialise, and suffered from episodes of delusional mania that have driven people away from me. This history has left me mostly alone, depressed and occasionally suicidal. Despite having an IQ described as 'profoundly gifted,' I find this a tragically erroneous description. In combination with my disorder it amplifies my suffering; far from being the useful member of society I should, I am a social nightmare. I find that cannabis greatly helps me. More than that I find that it helps me more than prescription medicines have, or I suspect, ever could. Indeed I have felt much worse in the past for 'taking the pills'. There are however certain caveats to consider. I need to monitor and regulate my intake - one smoke may be enough to lift me out of a depression, more than that and I may become manic very quickly. When combating mania, a similar scenario is apparent. Buying cannabis from a dealer (under prohibition the only way for many) gives us no idea of the relative strength of cannabinoids, dealers and their suppliers are commercial entities. 'Street weed' also leaves us victim to detrimental health effects from contamination, something that became all too apparent lately. It also forces us to incur a significant cost to treat ourselves, more than that of prescription medication. Growing cannabis is of course the only viable solution. This way we can select the strains that help us under different circumstances, nurture the plants ourselves and be assured that health risks are minimised. Unfortunately under prohibition, growing cannabis is a serious offense with a hefty maximum prison term. I find it incredible that we are allowed to suffer. Should we want to help ourselves, rather than rely on treatments that are less effective or not effective at all, then we may suffer the most severe of penalties and at the very least lose our best coping mechanism. I sincerely hope that the government sits up and takes notice of us soon. Medical users are not a bunch of stoner criminals, we are normal people trying to help ourselves exist in the environment we were born in to. I for one am more amiable, more productive, more stable and more social when I receive the correct dose of cannabis. Surely that is a good thing?
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