Mar 11, 2020
In Episode #62 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy talks about ADHD and cannabis. She specifically focuses on the adolescent ADHD brain.
Discover:
- The history of cannabis in the United States
- Why the name was changed from cannabis to marijuana
- How immigrants popularized the recreational use of marijuana
- What state first passed the Cannabis Prohibition law.
- How the propaganda film Reefer Madness effectively criminalized marijuana
- What happened to cannabis in the 60s and 70s
- What the reports commissioned by Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson said about marijuana
Tracy then shares why she initially thought that cannabis was safer than substances like alcohol and her experience at a cannabis dispensary close to her home.
Learn:
- The truth about whether or not there really are medicinal and or therapeutic benefits of cannabis to the ADHD brain.
- The two active compounds that make up cannabis
- If research supports the use of CBD oil as a treatment for ADHD
- At what age the frontal lobe is fully matured in the ADHD brain
- What THC actually does in the brain
- What the FDA has approved medical marijuana for
- What rates of cannabis use look like for adolescents and young adults.
- The negative affects of cannabis and how this mimics the symptoms of ADHD
- How dendrites help a healthy brain process and learn better
- How THC can alter the architecture of your brain
- Why fully formed brains are at much less risk for damage by THC
- If THC is a gateway drug
- Cannabis’ effect on the heart
- Cannabis’ effect on mental health
- If cannabis is addictive and if so, who is more likely to be addicted
- What it means to be chasing dopamine and why those with ADHD are at a greater risk for this
- What Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) is
- What the link between CUD and psychosis is
- Why cannabis is so appealing to the ADHD brain
- How to treat CUD and ADHD
Resources:
- 1-800-662- HELP to locate a treatment center
- https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/
- Reefer Madness! The Twisted History of America's Marijuana Laws
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882033/
- https://www.additudemag.com/treating-marijuana-abuse-and-adhd/
- https://chadd.org/attention-article/adhd-recreational-marijuana/
- https://www.additudemag.com/podcast-marijuana-cannabis-use-disorder-adhd-brain-olivardia/
- https://www.additudemag.com/the-truth-about-adhd-and-addiction/
- https://www.additudemag.com/cbd-oil-adhd-symptoms-natural-treatment/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871613003025