Jared W. Young

The moderate use here, I think, is what's important, not heavy use.

Is there kind of like a Goldilocks zone for how much I should consume to actually get these positive decision-making effects?

Zooming out, are we maybe entering an era where instead of asking, like, is cannabis good or bad, we should be asking questions like, for whom?

What dose?

Under what neurobiology or psychiatric conditions?

Is that the lens with which you would want to look at cannabis now?

Yeah, we all remember those commercials.

And similarly, I grew up in a household that felt the same.

In terms of bipolar disorder, if you know about bipolar disorder, people live with bipolar disorder and they switch from extremes to having mania episodes, depressed episodes, something in between, where they're technically not in either episode, but they're not quite the same.

And they could show cognitive deficits.

And

In fact, people with bipolar disorder, their lives are difficult.

We really do need new treatments for them and help them out to the point where the current treatments, people will attempt, like one in three people with bipolar disorder attempt suicide.

Wow.

And this is really why we get into it.

We're trying to develop treatments.

And one thing we noticed

And getting into some of the studies that we've been doing is that people with bipolar disorder use cannabis at much higher rates than the healthy general population.

And that's interesting because if it's really bad for you, why are they using it so much?

Are they trying to self-medicate?