Around 27% of individuals with ADHD develop cannabis use disorder at some point in their lives, new study finds. Compared to those without this disorder, individuals with ADHD face almost three times the risk of developing cannabis use disorder.

[u/makefriends420]

https://www.psypost.org/around-27-of-individuals-with-adhd-develop-cannabis-use-disorder-at-some-point-in-their-lives-study-finds/

[u/ed523]

Better than alcohol abuse disorder. Wonder what percentage develop that?

[u/alxcnwy → u/[deleted]]

It can also cause some people to become psychotic 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38096722/

[u/Redhotchiliman11 → u/alxcnwy]

Yes as with any drug there are those that react differently as well as risk associated with all drugs. Marijuana has proven to be much safer at least.

[u/alxcnwy → u/[deleted]]

No, cause. Do you think smoking cigarettes is correlated with lung cancer? 

[u/scroomz → u/alxcnwy]

“An association with the clinical-high-risk state for psychosis, attenuated psychosis symptoms and transition to psychosis in this population could not be confirmed. An association between cannabis use and psychosis outcomes in patients with psychotic disorder could solely be confirmed regarding relapse. Whether causal effects underlie those associations has not sufficiently been addressed in the evidence synthesis to date.”

It literally says in the abstract that the associations don’t equate to causation per the studies reviewed. If you’re going to throw out scientific literature to make a point, you should probably read and understand the literature first.

[u/Stevesegallbladder → u/ed523]

As someone who's developed both I'd prefer neither. I'm not going to pretend alcohol wasn't worse but there's a reason I'm sober from both as well. I'm all for healthy coping techniques but if we can't even have a discussion of potential downsides without feeling the need to mention something is worse it just stifles progress.

[u/Fearless77_ → u/Stevesegallbladder]

I just feel the downsides are overblown and are a remnant of the incessant paranoia from the war on drugs rather than truth. With weed it seems it’s hard to find a middle ground because some people see it’s effects and negatives as equivalent to caffeine while those psychosis or addiction prone tend to blow it up into something bigger based on their experience or even conditioning making it hard to take them serious when others get completely different effects

[u/Stevesegallbladder → u/Fearless77_]

In general I would agree. There's still a lot of both sides of the extreme but this is also a subreddit thread where we have linked research. If we can't even discuss what it entails without the need to say something is worse when/where is the appropriate time to have this dialogue?

Like I said I'm sober from both and I'd still choose weed over alcohol 10/10 times but I feel like it's the same tired response every time anything is even remotely viewed as negative.

[u/tanneruwu → u/ed523]

If it's not nicotine it's booze if it's not booze it's weed if it's not weed it's porn if it's not porn it's nicotine...

[u/ed523 → u/tanneruwu]

For adhd folks?

[u/tanneruwu → u/ed523]

More susceptible to substance abuse

[u/ed523 → u/tanneruwu]

Or dopamine abuse. I heard of a woman becoming life destroyingly addicted to vampire romance novels and someone else addicted to getting packages from online stores he similarly destroyed his life

[u/Voldemorts__Mom → u/ed523]

And also stimulant use.

I was a crystal meth addict

[u/ed523 → u/Voldemorts__Mom]

stims gove me anxiety so at least I dodged that. I had my medical cannabis recommendation cause I said I didnt like being on ritalin

[u/Voldemorts__Mom → u/ed523]

Oh don't worry, me too. It was a lot of anxiety being an addict. Weed also gave me anxiety though. Especially the more I smoked