Worthless? Really? I know plenty of people who use it regularly, and worthless is not a feeling that I've ever heard expressed.
Relaxed, yes. Hungry, yes. Worthless? No. But as with all drugs, of course, results may vary, and it may be just enhancing feelings that already exist.
As for depression, marijuana is technically a hallucinogen, not a depressant. Studies, such as one by Gruber, Pope and Oliva in 1997 found that marijuana smokers reported reduction in depression and anxiety.
Whether it is real (biological effect), or purely psychological, is hard to say. Here's a little more info on the subject.
In point of fact, I've known people who were battling depression, as well as OCD and PTSD, and after being put through a wonderful series of legal drugs that destroyed their digestion, caused constipation, loss of appetite and sex drive, and had other fabulous short- and long-term side effects (just listen to the end of most legal drug commercials), found that pot did the trick.
Finally, the memory retention issue is largely another of those marijuana myths.
The NAS study found that there may be natural and understandable feelings of short-term memory loss during the period when someone is high. But pot does not cause any actual lasting effects on memory. You don't lose any memory, and aren't more prone to forget things outside of the high state.
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