A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder.

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8. Apparent psychological dependence has been well known for many decades,

but the phenomenon is completely separate from addiction. Cannabis produces no tolerance and sudden withdrawal produces no physical consequences, although the psychological consequences can be acute and painful and most likely reveal why the cannabis user was self medicating by titrating his/her own cannabis dose.

Cannabis is well tolerated by most people, extremely poorly tolerated by others, and is no panacea.

One hopes the end of the WoD in some states will produce scholarly articles on what the various alkaloids in the plant actually do to us or for us. Those are the studies I'm waiting for. It will take longer still for the censorious aftereffects of the WoD to disappear.

I think that's what bothers me about studies like this, and there are many of them, that they assume cannabis use is counterproductive and fail to consider it just might be an attempt to medicate psychological distress that we have few good other options for.