Potential Herbal Cure for ADHD
October 21st, 2008 by Perry
A recently published medical study may have found helpful effects in treating the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with marijuana use. It also gave knowledge to recent debates over marijuana’s ability to effect those prone to psychosis.
Per Bruce Mirken @ Marijuana Policy Project Blog:
There was a correlation between signs of mental health disturbance and marijuana use for the group of siblings at genetic risk for psychosis, but not for the other groups. This suggests that marijuana may worsen the prognosis of those with a predisposition to psychosis but does not make healthy people psychotic.
In the ADHD group, the results suggested marijuana may be beneficial: In several of the tests, there was a trend toward better functioning among the marijuana using ADHD patients than among the non-users. In the article, the researchers discuss a possible mechanism by which marijuana “could attenuate some of the behavioral symptoms of ADHD.” This is an area that cries out for more research.
Makes perfect sense if you look at some of the associated symptoms, it makes you wonder why this hasn’t been tried earlier.
