How Does Marijuana Help?

[BrazenBull]

Just curious, doesn't have to be a concrete physiological explanation.

I smoked some for the first time in years and I actually had a dream where I was laughing and with an old friend. I forgot what it was like to sleep without a horrifying /mindf*ck dream.and it made me super relaxed. B]

I read on some sites that it does help cure or at least deal with PTSD but doesn't explain how, or in what ways.
And I've also been reading it worsens other kinds of anxiety disorders.

 

[Marine/w/PTSD]

well when you run out, you will run into serious problems other than that, i don't know much else either.

 

[stuff]

I've used it to help with symptoms sometimes. If I'm really badly triggered and can't calm down or I'm having a really hypervigilant day, it helps in ways I didn't think were possible, but that being said some people do experience paranoia. I've never had that though. If anything it calms me down enough that I can gain perspective on panicky situations and I almost get what it's like to feel kind of ok and content. Never experienced anything particularly addictive about it either. I've stopped for months at a time and had no issues. That being said, it's still an illegal drug, which seems ridiculous considering I've feel more messed up on Xanax, but you do have to factor that into the equation I guess.

 

[BellaDel5]

I have serious insomnia and horrendous nightmares, too. Sometimes I smoke pot to help me fall asleep. When I take sleeping pills I feel really hung over and sleepy in the morning and sometimes when I take sleeping pills I wet the bed, which is horrifying. With pot, my dreams aren't as bad and I wake up a little easier. Granted, if I smoke during the day it worsens my anxiety a lot so I think it's a case by case basis thing.

 

[AngelaMarie]

It is legal in the country I live in. Sometimes I use it to deal with physical pain, but I don't like the stupid feeling it gives me. I wouldn't rely on it day to day.