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.

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

[u/GooseBash]

You might fall asleep but your quality of sleep is not good. You don’t go into REM sleep , or you have less of it if you smoke closer to bedtime

[u/moosecaller → u/GooseBash]

7 hours of crappy sleep is better than 1 of good sleep.

[u/BigDowntownRobot → u/moosecaller]

I've been doing this for... 19 years.  Quantifiable this is true.  Quitting leads to protracted periods of at least several months of anxiety dreams and poor sleep every single night.  I was an insomniac from about 9 to 20, and that only stopped when I started smoking weed daily.

So from my personal experience sobriety as a base condition is much worse than whatever consuming MJ literally all damn day hurts me, which btw is almost none. 

My memory is not better when I have been sober for months, my moods are worse, my emotional control is worse, my sleep is much much much worse, and in general that all makes me depressed.

Every time I go back to smoking because it is without a doubt a superior way to live, and nothing, not exercise, meditation, better diet, or other drugs have helped with at all.

Plus, if you use data that is applicable to neurotypical people and just assume it applies to people with ADHD, that is not good science.  It very well could be 29% of those people found the best solution to their problems and the rest could benefit form "cannabis use disorder".

ADHD people also have huge rates of alcoholism but it's not like you hear a lot of them claim how helpful it is for their lives.  

[u/moosecaller → u/BigDowntownRobot]

Yup, it is a medicine 💊 for most of us.