everyone get together on this one with me

I use weed to stave off insanity, to be perfectly honest.

Its the reason for its existence in my universe.

To inhibit and repel insanity.

The theory that it could cause insanity or psychosiseses? Well, I don't believe I appreciate the notion. That's why I don't talk to random people about my substance use. After you tell them you're an an 8ball of crank, a 6 pack, and a quarter of bud, all of a sudden, even after a perfectly enlightning exchange of words and opinions, those brilliant observations and carefull exchanges become entirely drug related/induced to that person.

I'd rather get all lit up and have fun exhibiting a disposition in which you can't tell unless you're told.

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Originally Posted by birdgirl73

Folks, the thing about this study is that it was real. Sorry to burst your bubble, Invision, but science is science. It wasn't an indictment of THC or cannabis for everyone, but in some people, the evidence is clearly there that it can trigger psychotic episodes, paranoid delusions and hallucinations. They were talking about this at med school today. It was a solid study, and it was one of the more in-depth examinations of post-THC-consumption brain physiology there has been.

So you can't conclude this is a lie or a damaging affront to cannabis use. Most experts have known the psychotic response happens to a small group of people after exposure to THC anyway. Many more people can use it with no problems. It's time to grow up and realize that there's bad along with good, at least in a small, vulnerable group. That doesn't mean it's not beneficial for others. It still is. It simply means that for some people it's going to trigger those symptoms and shouldn't be used. We need to be grateful that they are even conducting such studies. There's far too little study being conducted. If we're ever going to do justice to cannabis, we have to accept that there'll be risks along with the benefits and tell the truth about both.

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You basically took the words out of my mouth. We live in a 50/50 world and nothing thats good comes with out the bad, it sucks but thats life. Pot really isn't for everyone. I have a good friend who gets really paranoid when she smokes and I always tell her to stop but she doesn't, I think she thinks it makes her look cool or something, man I hate highschool.

So basically marijuana causes slight hallucinations and paranoia? HOLY SHIT! That hasn't been proven yet or anything! wow.

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Originally Posted by timothylearyisdead

So basically marijuana causes slight hallucinations and paranoia? HOLY SHIT! That hasn't been proven yet or anything! wow.

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yaaaaaa, but it shouldn't be doing that to you after you come down.
That's what they were trying to say.

As a person with schizophrenia, (I don't have paranoia) but very mild auditory/visual hallucinations and disorganized/odd thoughts, I can see where they're going. I don't get paranoid, nor do my hallucinations increase in number after a few bowls, but if I tend to smoke more often, say 5-7 days a week, I can definately feel a change in perception (i.e. I'll be walking somewhere, and I'll suddenly become hyper aware of my body, and have a very surreal feeling over me) if I smoke too many days in a row- normally, if I toke 2-3 times per week, these episodes don't occur, pot really helps me slow down and focus.

But think about it- all of this evidence that is coming out now about the still developing health benefits of cannabis; are people really going to become disheartened by a few negative effects, particularly a small-scale study on people who already have distorted reality?

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Originally Posted by Purple Banana

As a person with schizophrenia, (I don't have paranoia) but very mild auditory/visual hallucinations and disorganized/odd thoughts, I can see where they're going. I don't get paranoid, nor do my hallucinations increase in number after a few bowls, but if I tend to smoke more often, say 5-7 days a week, I can definately feel a change in perception (i.e. I'll be walking somewhere, and I'll suddenly become hyper aware of my body, and have a very surreal feeling over me) if I smoke too many days in a row- normally, if I toke 2-3 times per week, these episodes don't occur, pot really helps me slow down and focus.

But think about it- all of this evidence that is coming out now about the still developing health benefits of cannabis; are people really going to become disheartened by a few negative effects, particularly a small-scale study on people who already have distorted reality?

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Word kinda...Except I do get paranoia...unknow what I have as I need to see yet another doctor for another opinion, but I do have psychotic episodes and I haven't smoked for the past few days because of it....Smoking can help bring out paranoid-psychotic episodes where I basically start tripping out like a crackhead. I get really bad anxiety,extreme paranoia, and my reality is way different then it should be. Weed doesn't cause hallucinations but it does do something to my brain. Sometimes it's positive, and sometimes it's negative. I can just say you guys are living in a cave. Some of you on here think just because YOU don't have the same experiences, that they aren't possible....

Similar article on the same study: BBC NEWS | Health | Cannabis 'disrupts brain centre'

Although I realize that this was a very well-conducted study, and while I realize that, of course, there are risks associated with smoking pot, I still think the fear-mongering rhetoric that "THC levels are thought to have doubled in street cannabis in recent years" is bullshit.

First of all, the fact that potency has increased (which is probably true, just as crop yields of corn are increasing through selective mating and genetic engineering) simply means that people will smoke less plant matter for the same high, meaning less risk for cancer. Additionally, the position that THC has increased but cannabidiol (CBD, to use the BBC's abbreviation) has remained the same simply does not follow -- breeders breed for potency, not for THC levels at the expense of CBD levels. And finally, that cannabis use increases schizophrenic symptoms -- just like all other hallucinogens -- seems obvious; in my opinion, people with any form of illness should not use any drug without weighing the risks -- and there are, of course, risks -- against the benefits of the high (which, Purp, I'm sure you have done).

In short, while this study may be valid, experimentation should not be performed in order to prove what seems to me like a fairly clear fact; rather, as birdgirl said, studies should be performed to advance knowledge of this rather mysterious plant, not to bolster previous knowledge.