Quote 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?
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....