https://globalnews.ca/news/10275463/cannabis-anxiety-ontario-study/ Cannabis use linked to anxiety diagnoses, worsened anxiety disorders: Ontario studyBy Camille Bains The Canadian Press "
Cannabis use may increase the risk of developing a new anxiety disorder or worsen existing anxiety, a large Ontario study suggests.
The study looked at health data of 12 million people between January 2008 and March 2019 and found that 27.5 per cent of people who visited an emergency room for cannabis use developed an anxiety disorder for the first time within three years.
Lead author Dr. Daniel Myran, an adjunct scientist at the research institute ICES, said that in comparison, 5.6 per cent of the general population sought help for anxiety in an ER or outpatient setting over three years.
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Sounds like too much THC and not enough CBD. Cannabidiol acts as an antipsychotic.
When high-THC low-CBD strains first started appearing in the 1970s, I found them extremely unpleasant. I called them poison weed because they made me paranoid. I preferred legacy strains with a balanced cannabinoid profile.
People who simply wanted to get blasted loved the new strains. They loved the disorientation they produced. Some of us preferred strains that were more transcendental and less crazy.
Did these studies take the cannabinoid makeup of their samples into consideration? Many people used to think that "the active ingredient in cannabis is THC" and ignored all the other constituents.
Yes, THC can produce anxiety. But there's more to it than that.
Sounds like too much tobacco!
I never had anxiety problems, even from THC-heavy (+10%) weed as long as i vaped it (and that are quite some years now).
However, when i was smoking it with tobacco in my younger years, i experienced lots of anxiety.
Occasionally, there are some studies that oerate on basis of pure substance use, and some are cross-comparable to surveys, where most participants are smoking the weed, where you can directly calculate the much lower addiction potential and much safer side-effect profile of "purified" cannabis usage. I did this in the past, my personal experience also confirms the result and numbers ususally don't lie.
