Marijuana and interactions with other drugs

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

I have been doing some research on potential interactions marijuana can have with other drugs, apparently there isn’t an awful lot of research out there on the subject, but from what I have read marijuana can increase the effects of certain drugs and vice versa and if taken with a drug that you can potentially overdose on, may make it easier to do so. I know when I smoked cannabis while taking Mirtazapine, it severely depressed my respiratory system and I had to stop taking it.

Here are some posts and information I found on the subject. What I would say though is keep in mind what this person said. “The combining any drug can result in serious and sometimes very fatal reactions. Keep in mind that Marijuana increases your heart rate and depending on the other drug taken with it can also increase your heart rate. Taken together it can cause arithmia, stroke, heart attack...etc. I would say consult your Dr. There is something called DR/Patient privilege that protects you so don't be stupid and take an anonymous person's comment on a message board...see your Dr.” That said as there isn’t much known about the subject, even your doctor may not know much about it, I asked mine about marijuana and ssri’s interacting and he knew nothing about it. Even though they may. So it begs the question how many other drugs does marijuana interact with that aren’t known about?

http://www.steadyhealth.com/wellbutr...a_t103722.html

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M...um=8&ct=result

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1...um=5&ct=result

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=S...um=9&ct=result

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8182631AAFUqjL

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/...ther_drugs.htm

If anybody out there has experienced drug interactions with marijuana, please post your experience.

[Cannabis Rehab Admin]

Here’s another post on how marijuana can interact with other drugs, this one is about anti depressants. Self medicating marijuana ssri interaction dangers.

[Cannabis Rehab Guest]

It’s like you say there has not been much research on the subject, so I wouldn’t mind betting there are all sorts of drugs that marijuana interacts with that are not known about.