Anna Fels. “Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?” The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014).

I explained to her that any drug that stimulates our reward pathway the way cannabis does has the potential to change our brain’s baseline anxiety. What feels like cannabis treating anxiety may in fact be cannabis relieving withdrawal from our last dose. Cannabis becomes the cause of our anxiety rather than the cure. The only way to know for sure i

There is no question that mind-altering substances, although perhaps helpful and pleasurable at first, can eventually lead to both Type I and Type III depressions when chronically used.