Weed edibles are WORSE for your mental health than smoking the drug > 자유게시판

Mental health specialists have warned that weed gummy candies, chocolate and cookies are just as damaging as smoked marijuana - if not more. 

Marijuana you can eat - known as edibles - is often marketed as a less potent, 'healthier' alternative to inhaling the drug. 

Many popular products are presented in brightly-colored packaging and shaped to look like teddy bears or jelly snakes. 

Yet speaking to DailyMail.com, top experts have accused the firms who make the candies of  'decieiving' consumers into 'believing they are safe'.

Although not smoking cannabis spares you lung and heart damage, psychiatrists say eating it is more harmful for mental health.




While weed gummies may seem less potent than smoke, it is easy to eat more quickly, and the psychoactive ingredient takes longer to enter the bloodstream - which means you may consume more to chase a greater effect

Risks include severe mental illness such as sudden psychosis, schizophrenia and  depression, according to a wealth of studies.

One major 2019 analysis found regular use of cannabis was linked to a five-fold increased risk of severe psychosis.

'Edibles are more dangerous than marijuana in some ways,' Dr Libby Stuyt, a board-certified addiction psychiatrist working in Colorada told DailyMail.com.

'With edibles, it takes a while for THC [the psychoactive compontent in cannabis] to end up in the bloodstream, compared to the quick peak you get with inhaling. 

'The delayed reaction - maybe two to four hours after eating - means that people often end up eating a lot more because they think nothing is happening.

'Then they get a great big whack of THC - and the high lasts a lot longer.'

What's more, she says consuming marijuana alongside fatty foods - including chocolate and cookies which are popular edibles - can increase the potency of THC four-fold.




Weed edibles come in all sorts of forms - gummies, brownies, cakes and chocolate

'Fat helps the body digest the chemical, so you absorb more of it,' she explains. 

Edibles are more 'deceptive', too. ' They are packaged looking more like normal things so people underestimate their potency.

'But there have been numerous cases of violent psychosis involving edibles.' 

Online, retailers selling weed gummies claim that eating the drug-infused sweets can in fact ease some mental health conditions, including anxiety an depression.

However in May, a study of 68,000 US teenagers found that those who used cannabis recreationally were between two and four times more likely to develop suicidal depression, compared to never-smokers. 

Although the research does not prove a direct causal link (another factor may be behind the psychiatric illness) the scientists say the strength of the association suggests a cause and Bioxtrim testimonials effect.

They add that other research demonstrates that recreational cannabis use in adolescents can decrease volume in areas of the brain involved in motivation and emotion.

The mental health risks are thought to be due to the tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in the marijuana plant, which affects brain chemicals and is responsible for the 'high'.