@Loafer77:
Don’t be that angry, even though I smoke a lot, I’ve been able to pass my BAC with an average of B and been accepted for a master degree that’s beginning in a few days. Cannabis is a lot looked at like a demon that you should avoid at all cost, well I think for me, that demon helped me get through a lot of things in life, more profound than what I’ve told here. Like the suicide of a friend in high school and the personnal faillite my familly went through. Before cannabis, I was totally disable to function in a place with a lot of people, too much distraction, too much to think about, and I had no friends because I was always shy and stayed in far from others.
Ok, what I meant by placebo effect was more of a “I think this will work best for me” so “this will work best for me”. I’ve been through a lot of research and I think that it’s important for someone that seek a better life to have something he’s confortable with and will not take it’s medication because he’s forced to. I do believe my self-medication helped me a lot, not just enough controled. Indica cannabis is indeed not that good for ADD symptom, but I can assure you that Sativa strains are good with ADD symptom : stimulates, gives motivation (associated with euphoria), help focusing and give a much much more pleasant personnality for other (rather than being quiet and overly interiorized) **sorry, I’m french, some of my word or sentence might be hard to understand as sometime I directly translate the french phrase in my mind** … So, I just think that there’s a lot of misconsception with cannabis, that often people get scared around this… but isn’t Ritalin a speed with lower dosage!!! I think the problem come with the name, not the function… On a personnal level, I would be more than happy to prove to everyone that even pot head can go far, real far in life!!!
I can assure you, my ADD is there, BUT, since I’ve used mostly low quality cannabis and most importantly INDICA strains, the ADD symptom got amplified, but a symptom to be amplified has to be there… I’ve asked myself the same question you are asking me now. I just needed to be sure that it wasn’t cause by my cannabis consumption. I found my ealier report card and it shows (mostly where professor write to parent about how it went), and what was coming out of it : inconstant effort, a lot of “you can do better”, problem with forgetting things, reading and writing and work property problems, talk in class when not appropriated. Here’s a few traduction from my professor : “… the easy path is beginning to harm JS, can do better if he gives is maximum …” or “…you need to understand the value of listening and application (effort) … You have a big understanding capability, but your desire to go fast fast (not a type error, she did wrote fast twice) will get you into trouble … ” Remeber all of this was between the age of 6 and 11 years old. Also, I consider myself lucky to have the familly I have, they supported me much way much more than what I can see in other familly.
Also, I would like to point out that since I’ve read about ADD and told my familly about it, I informed them of what it was and they realised I wasn’t lying, my mother even told me she found hard because she always though she has done something wrong. I don’t only have the bad thing about ADD, also the good ones : intelligence, creativity, artistic, empathic, think and act my own way, passionate, intuitiv, …
@Jvangey, I understand the huge difference between the strains, that some might have mixed type of effect, but I didn’t wanted to go to far on that.
@XFiles, I live in Quebec, so here it is legal and pot is kinda socialy accepted. The ADD is a new information I have to understand, and I knew nothing about is existence since 2 months. Talked to my school counselor which will continue helping me after the holiday. I’ve been able to see a psychiatrist real fast (I knew someone who knew someone) but she gave me the impression she has never seen ADD patient, only ADHD or my cannabis consumption. I told her I brought my report card, but she barely looked at them. I’ll see what will be my options in a few weeks.
I’ve tried pure science, but hated the biology, and too much theorical thing to remember. Than after 1 year of thinking what I want to do in life, I found a DEC in electrical conception, and just finish a BAC in electrical engineering, not specialised, I’ve tried health specialisation (found some work at an hospital in functionnal MRI, but didn’t have sufficient support I needed to feel involved), tried telecommuncation (most people are going this way, and I hate being conventionnal), than I found signal treatment and micro*nano-electrical circuit conception, which is where my master degree will get me, maybe PhD in a few years, will see… I have to work in a research lab, I have so many idea a way of thinking no other student has. Reading site like totallyADD.com helped me a lot figuring out I’m not crazy when I say to myself, you f*ing more brillant than most student! Eg: I had a photonic course last session (we worked with laser and fibre optic cable) and the questions I asked my professor often where way out of anybody’s league in the classroom I’m asking question about fundamental physics when the class was about CD laser… I know I’m in the gifted IQ level for overall, but I strongly believe that if I’d pass a mathematical IQ test, I would be in the genius zone!!! That is only by comparing myself to other student in my class, the only one that have my level of understanding pass hour studying, but they get good grades…
@tinkywinky, On DSM-IV, I score 9/9 on inattention, 2/6 on hyperactivity and 3/3 on impulsivness. Also, you have to understand that cannabis has different effect on everyone, and most of all, not all strain have the same effect. I’d rather be tring different MJ strain, than different “speed” subcategory. Also, I love being marginalized, and MJ as medication would help me keeping that out of normal feeling I need to preserve to be at my best… Another thing, I don’t feel the paranoia at all and make me much more sociable
Don’t be worry, I work on computers, I will be designing micro/nano electrical circuit, with mathematical simulation… It’s perfect for me, it has that creativity/artistic part where I need to place every component for effectiveness and that logical and solving problem part where I’ll be working on a project that is pretty big for electrical research (sigma-delta converters which can lead to new CPU architecture, associated with photonics, computer could go blazing fast, well that’s what I was thinking during some of my class instead of CD Laser 
) … So I won’t kill anyone, anyway I still say it, marijuanna is a bad name, not a bad drug! Every medication used without control leads to problem
@turbo, that’s your opinion, and that’s what I asked, but I strongly believe you have only heard bad things and you stick with it. Hiding from life??? On the contrary, I would like to use medical marijuanna to help me get out of my problem and live at my fullest potential. I just want to be able to make my medication more suitable with my lifestyle (which I’m okay with if it wasn’t for that depression and lack of motivation which would change with the right strain.
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