alt Hacker News> The entire science is based on the patients self reported feelings or the psychatrists feeling of how someone else is feeling.
This study is showing that THC, CBD, blends, or cannabis do not improve self-reported feelings over the long term.
You can use pedantry and wordplay all you want, but no matter how we look at this study it does not show positive effects.
> What you're saying is something else, that drugs can produce long term harm despite short term improvements
Recreational drugs make you feel good temporarily. That's literally why people do them.
They also cause harm when abused.
These are all obvious and well known facts.
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I dont have a problem with the study or its conclusions, just the parent post I was replying to.
>Recreational drugs make you feel good temporarily. That's literally why people do them.
The point Im making is this is true for a ton of psychiatric or even non psychatric treatments. And to be perfectly clear Im not saying you should be treating your anxiety with weed, even if it does help you
>> This study is showing that THC, CBD, blends, or cannabis do not improve self-reported feelings over the long term.
Just to clarify, the study is not saying that.
The study is saying "there isn't conclusive evidence at this point, but it leans more toward helping than hurting on many categories". Please read the paper if in doubt.