[Williams]

I wouldn’t dispute the value of exercise and other methods to treat depression. However, prozac is used to treat a spectrum of conditions, including anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms, and it seems to have helped folks I am familiar with. To a person who really is suffering from debilitating anxiety, etc., it seems to make quite a difference.

Also agree many medications are over prescribed, but that doesn’t mean these medicines are worthless. They seem to be talking about the average person who can benefit from a jog as much as medication. Not everyone falls in that category.

[MindBender26]

But they work better than placebos in only 14% of cases. In other words, 86% got better because they thought pills were working!

86% percent got better on sugar pills!

[AlmaKing]

I have also seen several of these drugs help people with anxiety to the point that they take a non-functioning person and make him/her productive. Their lives are greatly improved. The assertion that execise could replace these drugs is naive and simplistic for people who do actually suffer from a valid medical condition.

[DemforBush]

I pretty much agree with every word in your post.

[LtKerst]

The Field of reasearch into Medical Marijuana is just beginning.

[Ditter]

How right you are, what works for one person doesn't work at all for someone else, doesn't mean the drug is worthless. Years ago I used to suffer from migraine headaches, there was one pill that would make all the pain go away with no side effects. Some wise azz decided that it was not affective and it was taken off the market. I remember sitting down and crying when I heard that. I can't remember the jerks name but he was appointed to revamp the pharmaceutical industry, hello headache!