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Stress

Cannabinoids are notorious for decreasing anxiety. Studies suggest that cannabinoids may offer some benefit as a treatment that does not affect the patient's cognitive status, compared to other treatments.

Medical Cannabis’ effects against stress:

Decrease anxiety.
Relaxation.
Antidepressant.
Memory improvement.
No alteration of the cognitive state.

Referencias:
Associations among trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, cannabis use, and cannabis use disorder in a nationally representative epidemiologic simple. Kevorkian, S., Bonn-Miller, M. O., Belendiuk, K., Carney, D. M., Roberson-Nay, R., & Berenz, E. C. (2015).
Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Endocannabinoids and Cannabis at the Intersection of Stress and Reward; 2016. Nora D. Volkow, Aidan J. Hampson, and Ruben D. Baler.
Cannabis craving in response to laboratory-induced social stress among racially diverse cannabis users: The impact of social anxiety disorder; 2017.
Benefits and Harms of Plant-Based Cannabis for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Systematic Review; 2017. Maya E. O’Neil, PhD; Shannon M. Nugent, PhD; Benjamin J. Morasco, PhD; Michele Freeman, MPH; Allison Low, BA; Karli Kondo, PhD; Bernadette Zakher, MBBS; Camille Elven, MD; Makalapua Motu’apuaka, BA; Robin Paynter, MLIS; Devan Kansagara, MD, MCR.
Blunted stress reactivity in chronic cannabis users; 2017. Carrie Cuttler.

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