Super happy to find this sub! I posted this a while back in the other ADHD sub and the mods took it down. But I’m still curious about this topic so hoping to find more support here!

Curious about other folks’ experience using cannabis (either recreationally or medicinally) and how that interacts with your ADHD?

For me, especially when I was younger, my executive dysfunction would completely consume me after smoking and I became essentially nonfunctional. Trying to do the simplest things—like making toast— would be impossible. I’d find the butter in my sock drawer the next day or something.

Now that I’m older, my experience has evolved a bit, but it’s still a total crapshoot. Am I going to giggle uncontrollably at funny shit on the Internet? Am I going to solve global warming? Am I going to have profound insights about my personality and/or the universe? Am I going to spiral into intense paranoia about late stage capitalism? Who knows!?? Weeee!

However, I know cannabis can also be incredible medicine, and I’ve seen it be very healing and even calming for folks with ADHD.

Would be curious to see any studies—especially on the treatment of ADHD with cannabis—but I’ll take anecdotes from this sub too!