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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, I've started going to one of the ones here in Victoria. I'm not even a huge marijuana fan, actually quit smoking it 10 years ago, but I've been pretty desperate to find something to help with my ADHD, and the stuff they normally prescribe for it (stimulants) absolutely destroys me and turns me into an emotional basket case. Severe anxiety attacks, headaches, insomnia, those stimulants are just the worst. I read some stuff online that they've done some preliminary studies on treating ADHD with weed and had some positive results. Nothing that they could confirm without further research, but as I said, I was feeling pretty desperate. Anyways, it's been a godsend for me so far. A lot of my impulse issues, insomnia, etc., have gotten much better. It's nice to finally be able to sit down and watch a movie for two hours without fidgeting, or needing to get up, or just turning it off after 30 minutes because I can't concentrate. I'm not smoking everyday, usually, only a couple of times a week but it's really helped alleviate a lot of the frustration I was feeling towards life because of my disability.
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My personal experience is that MJ helps to focus on one thing really well. I think this is why it's often referenced as a "creativity inducer", but it's really that it helps creative people get zoned-in on their stuff. For me, It's tough to sit over my drawing table for more than 30 minutes at a time. My back gets sore, I get distracted by other chores, my mind wanders into other issues, but if I smoke up first, I find myself spending 2-3 hours working without any other distractions. I find it the same playing music, it's easier to improvise and come up with new tunes when stoned because I can just focus on the guitar frets and access just my knowledge of how it all works without letting other things pull my focus away from it.
I can definitely see how it could help people with ADD or ADHD for activities, but for things like studying it would be detrimental due to the short-term memory loss. It can make reading mroe interesting because you get more immersed in the story, but it's terrible for retaining that information. For multi-tasking, it's awful.