Quote Originally Posted by MirandaHart
Thanks for the articles and for the first reasonable explanation why smoking may be helping. Some of the damage is in that area though I do have lesions elsewhere. I read one that suggested brain cell growth with use (as opposed to other drugs that kill them) and also another that purported that it protects the brain cells of stroke victims from further damage.

On the one hand stroke and on the other MS (?) or something akin to it. All I know is that when I run out my speech goes (I can still make sounds but mostly unintelligible), I lose my appetite, I have facial tics and body tremors, the spasticity and pain are worse and my thinking goes totally off because I'm so depressed at what is my real self is like without smoking. I recently tried an anti-depressant thinking it might help cope with some of this however it only aggravated current symptoms and added a few side effects of its own.
To the general part, you should definetly do anything possible to get a medicinal marijuana lisence. As others mentioned I don't think smoking it would be the healthiest way to get it in your body and a vaporizer or eating it does seem like the best ways.

As for the antidepressant part, don't bother.

I spent my middle to late teen years in chronic depression, to the point of suicide, and all antidepressants ever did to me was calm me down, they made me not want to do anything, but all the thoughts were still in the back of my head bubbling up.

I got over my depression by quitting the pills on my own and leaving my home for college, it was a great change.

I started smoking marijuana not that long ago, no more than half a year and it's great. I don't know many people here so I'm always in my apt with my roommates and got nothing to do, and this is what brings depression. If I have some marijuana I'll just smoke it after I've done everything I need to do, or if I don't have any I'll go and buy some.

It's the best antidepressant out of like 5 different pills I took at one point.

I wish you luck and hope everything works out for you. Definetly want to be updated on your situation.