Saskatchewan Woman Told Cannabis Is No Substitute
Cannabis Can’t Be Used as Treatment for Hard Drugs Because It Gets Her High – LPC
REGINA – For Shelby Curtis, keeping away from hard drugs starts with quieting her thoughts.
The 26-year-old got a prescription to use cannabis medicinally earlier this year while in recovery and living in Regina’s Raising Hope housing program for new mothers facing issues such as substance abuse.
She uses THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, to manage depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
“I can instantly … relax and talk to myself and tell myself that everything’s going to be OK, like, whatever it may be,“ Curtis says. “When I use THC, like I don’t have like any interest in using hard drugs.”
Curtis was surprised when, earlier in the fall, she inquired about returning to Raising Hope and, she says, was told she would no longer be allowed to use THC.
Curtis says she was willing to use gel tablets rather than smoking a joint, but says she was told no, because it would get her high. Experts say it’s common for people who struggle with substance use issues to see cannabis as a more preferable option to other drugs or alcohol.“It’s a substitute,“ says Andy Hathaway, a professor at the University of Guelph, who studies drug policy.Hathaway says only about 20 per cent […]
Meanwhile, there is evidence to suggest that cannabis is an exit drug. Further, the East Coast Cannabis Substitution Program is sucessfuly helping people break their opioid addictions. Does the health system need to catch up when it says that cannabis is no substitute when clearly it is helping others?
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