Cannabis users brains have higher level of protein linked to stress, study finds

Published Wednesday, September 18, 2019 11:00AM EDT

TORONTO -- Though marijuana is often associated with stress relief, a new Canadian study of young cannabis users found an abundance of a brain protein associated with the opposite: more stress and anxiety.

The research, published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, begins to shed more light on potential effects of cannabis use on developing brains.

Researchers found that young cannabis users had higher levels of the brain protein 18-kDa translocator protein (TSPO) than non-users. That same protein has been linked to brain inflammation and associated with depression and Alzheimer’s disease in other research.

Participants with “cannabis use disorder” — those who exhibit a greater dependency on the drug — had the highest levels of the protein. All cannabis users, most who used the drug daily, also reported more experiences with stress and anxiety than non-users.

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:jay:

I smokes for stress relief

Did you even read the article?

“I cannot say that cannabis causes anxiety or stress,” clarified the study’s senior author Dr. Romina Mizrahi in an interview with CTVNews.ca, noting that further research is planned to understand if there is a causal relationship between the drug and anxiety."

These are the last-ditch efforts grasping at straws from people who simply hate this plant from ignorance, or because it's a threat to the profits from the drugs they sell.

omg a cannabis user is someone with serotonin problem, either in the pathways or receptors. that's why one get hooked up.

cannabis is a SSRI

so a person with a serotonin problem will respond quickly to SSRI if not that SSRI will progressively make the situation worst.

OP i have never seen someone hate on a plant with such passion.

Whats your story?

I mean more people are harmed from chewing gum so why is Mary your focus?

Go ahead and feel free to keep us informed OP. Why so many are so triggered by any critcism or unfavorable reports on cannabis indicates that there are negative psychological effects from habitual usage. If someone is prevented from getting trying or getting hooked.. then that might be to their overall life happiness.

Feel free... as adults you can take it or leave it. Don't read it if it triggers you.

Dr. Romina Mizrahi / Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto

OP i have never seen someone hate on a plant with such passion.

Whats your story?

I mean more people are harmed from chewing gum so why is Mary your focus?