Case History - Marijuana, Depression and Suicide Video PSA

Case History - Marijuana, Depression and Suicide Video PSA. ONDCP Press Conference: Marijuana and Your Teen's Mental Health; 5/3/2005; Experts Alert Parents About Mental Health Harms of Teens' Marijuana Use; Mental health experts and scientists joined high-ranking government officials to discuss an emerging body of research that identifies clear links between marijuana use and mental health disorders, including depression, suicidal thoughts and schizophrenia. The speakers alerted parents about the connection between marijuana use and their teens' mental health. A couple whose 15-year-old committed suicide also spoke. Released at the event was a compendium of recent research linking marijuana and mental illness; a new SAMHSA report about the correlation between age of first marijuana use and serious mental illness; and an open letter to parents on "Marijuana and Your Teen's Mental Health," signed by 12 of the Nation's leading mental health organizations, which is running in major newspapers and newsweeklies across the country. WHERE: National Press Club. 529 14th St., NW, 13th Floor. Washington, DC 20045. *Lisagor Room.
BACKGROUND: In 1998, with the bipartisan support of Congress and the President, the Office of National Drug Control Policy created the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to educate and empower youth to reject illicit drugs. Public service announcement public domain video from ONDCP.

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[wildboer]

@BigFatCheese100 Untrue, marijuana is not only a depressant, but a stimulant as well. Though both of those are overshadowed by its hallucinogenic properties.

[wombatsu]

Weed definately makes you depressed. Please kids, if ur reading this, AVOID WEED!

[BigFatCheese100]

Weed certainly gives you depression when you smoke it everyday or smoke lots everyday. Well it makes sense... It is a depressant. I can see how weed can really screw up younger people. I know from personal experience and from what I've seen. When I used to smoke lots... and get really depressed sometimes suicidal thoughts would brew.... but that was when I was younger and I'm not even suicidal!!!!!!!!

[ynnadstrebor]

i can totally see how smoking weed might make you depressed as i have smoked weed for a very long time and am now depressed but i seriously doubt that it is all because of weed, i have also smoked cigaretts for a very long time aswell and to me it seems like maybe my weed smoking has something to do with my depression but i am totally convinced that smoking tobacco all these years has done far more to make me a depressed person than weed could have ever done.