You are either REALLY high or have never smoked. I can't tell which.

What if it's both 👽👽👻

yo what if we are always REALLY high and thc just makes us sober enough to see reality

think about it man

hey pass that

I’m good, man. Shit makes me paranoid

What if thc doesn't make you paranoid?

It just makes you aware that you should be paranoid of something. And what if this is the reason for it's suppression?

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yo what if thc doesn't actually get you REALLY HIGH, it just makes you think you think about it man anyone got a bong?

Brain grease

you ever see the back of a twenty dollar bill...?

RED TEAM, GO!

I agree with you! From my own experience, I have felt that it heals your consciousness, which means it removes blockages, which means it increases awareness (where the blockage exists) which means it exposes you to the unfamiliar, which provokes a fear (paranoia) response, which you can either cave into and remain unhealed, or overcome -- in which case you chip away at the blockage and accept the healing! Hooray! If you go into it thinking it's a medicine, you won't feel the fear so much and it is more effective, but if you go into it as recreation then you are expecting fun and easy so you react to the fear strongly.

Nicely put.

Sometimes anxiety can't always be stopped.

exactly but you can learn from it afterwards and better recognize the sensation, helps to gradually reduce the panic response when you know whats coming

Very true!

If that’s the case, it’s lot more than just “anxiety” that’s causing stress to a person.

News flash: there are damn fucking good reasons for people to be anxious and depressed most of the time.

Ya this world is somewhat of a nightmare at times

You either buckle under and live in fear, or are relentless in your efforts to rise above. You have to figure out your own life and how to resolve the fears. Or you can choose to say "I can't, I'm not strong enough" and take a pill or hide in a cave. We are supposed to be talking about our real fears with each other so we can help each other to rise above and evolve. But religion and taboo and ego get in the way, and there is this cultural idea that I DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE TO EXPERIENCE PAIN!! For real, that's ridiculous. Pain is how your body and spirit communicate where they need to heal. Pain is part of life, a regular fucking human experience.

Sounds like you listen to Jordan Peterson.

Life is suffering and then you die. Embrace it, cherish the moments of happiness, follow your purpose.

I don't. I'm a former alcohol abuser who wouldn't listen to anybody and insisted on learning about life the hard way. So many people and religions talk about how life is suffering, and people don't want to hear it because they desire pleasure and ease. The way I see it now, we have all been brainwashed by this concept of "suffering" -- instead of being a bad thing, it is pressure on your spirit to evolve! It's a good thing, pushing you in the right direction, something to be celebrated! Of course I'm still trying to change and live this ideal in my actual life. Not easy at all.

Exactly. People don’t want to accept that pain is a real thing and should and can happen. And the only way of becoming stronger is accepting those things for what they are.

But they just want to cry and feel bad, usually in hope that someone will feel bad with them.

News flash: that ain’t a fuckin news flash.

What im saying is after a certain point, anxiety becomes your crutch to feel deliberately anxious and depressed. Yes, extremely shitty things and events in your personal life can make you feel that way but to say you can’t or will never get out of that hole is a mental disorder in its own.

Only a person will take themselves out of depression. It’s a mental state you must put yourself in to become happy and less anxious. And no, it’s not as easy as the flip of a switch. It takes a lot of effort that most people just don’t want to attempt to go through because it’s actually easier to be sad and unhappy. I’m a depressed person. I hate life. But I don’t want to end it. And I don’t want to live the rest of my life endlessly feeing like shit. So I choose to decide to be happy. I choose to decide to try to put myself in happier, healthier mindsets and moods without the help of a pill because I know that I control my own fucking reality. Every day isn’t easy to say that and actually put myself into that mindset but I am completely aware of the cancer that is depression and what it takes to get out of it. It’s like going to the gym. You must work on it as much as possible or you will give yourself the reason, any reason not to go. You will give yourself all the fucking reasons to be sad or anxious or depressed when you can just say, fuck the world I’m gonna be happy today.

Fuck what you think. Stay sad. Stay anxious.

After a while, people identify with their illnesses and become resistant to change. There is a sort of inertia in disease processes.

It sounds like you are changing your inertia, which is tantamount to changing your identity. Congratulations are in order, I wish you the best of luck.

(No need to worry about me, I have my own battles but depression thankfully isn't one yet.)

You are definitely right about that. I really dislike that it’s become sort of cool to identify being depressed or diseased like you say it.

Pop culture and social media could be to blame but there’s so much more stuff involved in that. And thank you. I don’t say all that like I know exactly what I’m doing but it’s the fact that I’m aware of my own depressive feelings that make me want to fight to be happy.

I feel like a lot of people don’t realize that the act of just attempting to change your attitude about certain things like depression is a basis for fixing your feelings and emotions. They just want to complain about it without actually doing anything.

I hope whatever battles you have can be fought with valor and confidence.

There have been studies that indicate depressed people have a more accurate view of the world than the non-depressed. This post makes me think of that.

Can confirm.

i believe this is true

i also believe a big part of achieving success in modern society (aka not a survival situation) is self delusion. confidence is so huge in social settings and getting promotions(thinking you deserve it, and convincing your boss you deserve it) etc

being too realistic can hold you back. something about potential. jordan peterson kinda covers this. potential is what you can be, and if you take a realistic look at yourself as you are, you might fall into the trap of thinking its all you can be. sounds like some self help bullshit but theres a reason its cliche

YES.... in other words you believe your own bullshit to an extent that you naturally sell it to others which over time fosters success. So it is the belief no that truth that carries you to success. Now here's the real mind bender. What word could also be used????? -----> FAITH

The mirror challenge to solve anxiety.

this kind of took a very peterson turn. what is true is not neccessarily useful, our psychology isnt bound to 'truth'

Your reply is interesting. So your backing up my thought? You basically saying that "Truth" does not push possibility forward. Right? Let me frame it in a different way.

• Your Thought: Truth is useless because it does not support reaching a higher potential
• My Thought: Belief (faith) is truth because it supports reaching a better potential.

What is real truth? Believing in limit or believing in the ability to reach higher potential? This is why faith (belief) is so damn powerful.

Yea, I have a hard time understanding the value in psychology.

your 'your thought' is wrong. useless isnt a word i would use.

theres scientific hard truths, and theres truths that are not useful when run through the human machine, and there are truths we believe to be true which may not be accurate but are useful for achieving our goal.

and yeah, i think i am backing up your thought.

Capitalism is very much the organic extension of Satanism from religion to social structure. It's all about gaining personal power at the expense of the rest.

Lol at this.

Capitalism is the embodiment of resource gathering, primal dominance over others, and heiarchical mind set.

Just like our ancient tribes, and found in every ladder of society. Highschool popularity, fraternities, corporate ladders, office politics.

Capitalism=Human Nature

Humans are ruthlessly heiarchical

"People rank themselves in respect to others"-Allen Mazur-PhD evolutionary biologist.

That is in the last ~50,000 years or so before that we really do not know. There is evidence to support highly peaceful societies that did not need a hierarchical structure.

Humans are the most ruthless species to ever exsist. I am not going to candy coat this.

Look at the exclusion in social circles, society, people treating you different based on height, race, facial bones, skin color, if you have hair or not...etc. You never know the difference , because you been treated similar your whole life.

Humans make SNAP judgement of people off of visual stimuli and rank you.

Just imagine what it would be like without made up morals, ethics, and reigions. But mainly fear of punshiment from goverment.

nah capitalism can be very useful. obviously it gets abused but we havent seen a more useful system yet

also, sad lonely people have a much better understanding of what human social nature is. https://news.yale.edu/2018/03/15/study-sad-lonely-people-more-likely-be-natural-social-psychologists

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti

it can man

Some strains can cause paranoia.

You aren't always paranoid when high though...

I actually recently watched Cabin In The Woods... what was in the stoner's weed that made him immune to their nefarious machinations? I always thought it was just a deus ex machina type thing they implemented for story reasons, and that there wasn't much thought behind it...

Yeah, he was immune to the mind-altering gases they used on the groups to herd them like cattle.

I feel like I should really watch this but I am afraid to.

There is gore, but it's more funny than scary. It pokes fun at the horror genre.

And what if this is the reason for it's suppression?

It's not. The reason for Cannabis-Sativa (pot) being suppressed is money.

What about indica?

Cannabis-Sativa is the main name of the plant, indica and sativa as far as strains got are then sub-groups of the plant.

I know, I was just giving the guy shit. Something about saying

Cannabis-sativa (pot) Sounded pretty pompous.

oh, haha, for sure

Cannabis sativa was defined by Linnaeus meaning any cannabis plant that has been cultivated. So technically everything is a sativa. Lamarck described indica as anything being exported from India(which included plain ol’ fruit) You can grow a sativa at a high altitude and get a short, broad leaf plant(indica traits) what really determines the high is how cannabinoids interact with terpenes. IMO I/S/H classification is far too broad. Should be broken down into what region they hail from. Plus everything’s a friggen hybrid nowadays. Sorry just thought I’d expand a little.

Thanks for the detailed info! I figured it was more nuanced than what I wrote but I was in minimal-effort mode when replying lol

What about indica?

Good question. To save me a lot of typing, and for those that care, I invite to read this web site for the details: Sativa vs. Indica vs. Hybrid: What’s the Difference Between Cannabis Types?

Money and racism.

Cannabis, mushrooms, LSD, etc are basically the same thing as the glasses in 80s movie They Live. This world is not what you think it is.

rip RRP

Especially LSD, seeing that it's probably no coincidence that they refer to these shades as "Hofmann Glasses", after the first man to synthesize the substance (by accident no less).

But yes, all three substances (plus a few more) seem to possess a similar power of pulling back the blinds and revealing layers of reality that we typically fail to perceive.

I don't think the by accident is true, nor does the 2nd most prominent LSD researcher.

https://erowid.org/general/conferences/conference_mindstates4_nichols.shtml

Hoffman's initial description of his LSD experience does not match with LSD experiences. Nichols claims Hoffman had a mystical experience (which he was prone to.) My thoughts? It's the 1940s, the Swiss were also doing human experiments, Hoffman helped it escape from the lab (for what reasons: good or bad? who knows.)

That's a fascinating point of view, thanks for sharing. It would seem to suggest that this spontaneous mystical experience caused Hoffman to reconsider a spiritually potent drug, which then lead to the spiritual awakening of many who came to experience it.

Like a spiritual virus facilitating its own spread through the strategic use of spontaneous inspiration. Sounds pretty out there, but I like the concept quite a bit.

It certainly feels very much as though we're allowing ourselves to be possessed or temporarily entered by certain spirits when we take specific drugs. Perhaps they don't require the drugs, themselves, but our brains to be on a certain wavelength, and Albert was naturally close to the frequency of LSD.

Of course this is mumbo jumbo, but I think it's something like that.

Yeah, that's what Nichols says, and it's interesting. However, the takeaway is that the story of the discovery is false (intentionally or not). Given the chemical and human experiments going on during WW2, the truth behind LSD could be far more sinister.

When you see the world for what it is, as you did when you first opened your eyes and knew something was wrong, you hope to never forget it.

But then you do.

For a while.

Some part of you has always known what the world really is.

You should try DMT. Most alien foreign multi dimensional experience I've ever had.

Cannabis/LSD are mainly dopamine activators.

They lift the serotonin state commonly referred to "learned helplessness" or acceptance of the way things are(society/gov/culture).

Sure isn't, only it's more like cartoon-land from my experience.

/showerthoughts

I never thought it was the THC but all the other crap chemicals they put in weed. I would smoke again if their was a nice mellow strain that didn't get my heart racing (that's not mellow in my book).

Cannabis lowers your blood pressure. So, when you smoke it and get high, your heart is recalibrating. This is the point where most first timers or casual smokers start to panic. The solution is simple: just relax and your racing heart will too.

Try a strain that has a more balanced ratio of CBD to THC. Most strains mow days are super high THC and low CBD.

What crap chemicals are people putting in weed?

The weed today is like 20x stronger than the weed in the 60s...who knows...speed maybe.

Are you trolling?

My dad said almost the exact same thing. I think a lot of the older generation was brainwashed to think exactly that. Lots of myths and disinfo surely put out there by whoever wants to keep pot illegal.

My favorite is the one about "over 400 chemicals" in marijuana. Which is true. 400 chemical compounds... AKA molecules. Everything is made up of friggin chemicals. They make it sound like weed growers add liquid bleach or something.

The propaganda is strong, but our weed is stronger LMAO

Good weed was hard to find before they started legalizing it. California was flooded with shitty dirt weed from Mexico, much weaker than the hydroponic grown stuff thats readily available today

Wut tha. Lol

We've bred the strains to have higher THC.

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That is only because breeding and selection. Like how tomatoes are all perfect round, or how granny smith apples all taste the same. Botany 101 yo.

Let me say what drug dealers and other people have told me about “laced weed” over the years. NOBODY IS GONNA WASTE GOOD DRUGS SPRINKLING ON WEED. PERIOD! No one is sprinkling crack, coke, acid or whatever on your weed. That’s just not a thing. And less you have an asshole friend or somebody that’s trying to take advantage of you, chances are your stops probably not least at all. That’s like getting syringes and shit in your Halloween candy. It just doesn’t really happen. I think people that claim that they had laced weed in the past were just too high.

No one is doubting that. What you're saying is along the same lines as saying that the reason why people are increasing the amount of capsaicin in chili pepper plants by adding other crap chemicals to them like speed (who knows... maybe)

The trick is to not overdo it. That is where most people go wrong. There's nothing fun about getting so high you can't function. One small hit is all it takes with the crazy weed strains being sold in legalized states today

Some strains cause intense paranoia some don't

like indica or sativa?

or like ak47 vs girl scout cookies or some shit?

It's your diet, not the weed. The weed makes you tune in to your gut which you nuke with every soda and fast food atrocity you consume. You're paranoid when you smoke because part of your body is trying to warn you that you are killing yourself.

Stop eating crap.

This guy knows what's up. Eat healthy and you won't feel like shit all the time, it's true. Soda and all that bullshit they pump into food like sodium to preserve it is killing your body. Cutting out soda at least helped me feel so much better.

i have a great diet, im in pretty good shape.

Go on leafly.com. there's literally thousands of strains out there man. That site will tell you if the strain is likely to cause paranoia. It is usually the ones that are higher in thc although so strains will have 25% thc and cause no paranoia. Marijuana is a beautiful thing.

have you tried high cbd flowers? ive been using the oil(nonpsychoactive) and its greatly helped with light social anxiety, though its kind of expensive

the paranoia isnt huge, it just makes me think every noise i hear might be someone knocking on the door or something, or if im in public that everyone knows im stoned. when i go back i might prefer the high cbd stuff

Not implying you are underage, but a lot of my paranoia went away once I moved out on my own. Now I just get paranoid about getting pulled over with stuff on me.

I have not tried high CBD strains as I do enjoy the mental mindfuck of the THC, but my brother has said good things about the CBD oil. High CBD strains are also supposed to be good for inflammation and physical pains. Whichever you pick, I hope it sets you right!

look i may have overstated it. its not a huge deal, but it keeps me from using cannabis in public or social situations a lot

The very few people that I've ever seen get paranoid when smoking-up were overly edgy and fearful types to begin with.

I can't honestly say if their panic attacks actually had any reality to them or if they simply convinced themselves they were having one with the grass simply heightening those physical sensations because they already were preoccupied with them.

It gives me panic attacks because of those reasons, but those reasons exists due to past experiences. I can only ever smoke alone, in my house, alone, door locked with music.

Even then it's risky because it seems like everytime I'd light up someone would come by or I'd need to go do something and being high and 'functional' isn't fun at all.

You can follow the history of weed and learn a lot of hidden truths.

you talking about ancient history or its legal history in america

All of the above and more. There has been a lot of new research produced lately coming out of Eastern Europe. These researchers basically suggest that there was an empire larger than any other that was removed from all maps after 1860 called grand Tartaria. pre 1800s maps show the territory stretched from Eastern Europe to china and Japan, North America North Africa and India. In all these regions we find cannabis use. Japanese used weed up until ww2. Northern Africa Ethiopia is where we get Rastafarian culture from and there an abandoned town in Siberia called epiphany which had weed on their coat of arms. I could go on but I'm on mobile. I'll have to make a longer post latter.

Check out r/culturallayer for more

cool. im into that. seems altering your conciousness was a universal human experience until agriculture and industrialism motivated powerful people to subjugate others, then the puritan influence on early america completely demonized it

Fun fact: People blazed up for thousands of years because it feels good, there's no huge ancient civ behind it lol

Those two things are in no way mutually exclusive. It's at the very least one of the most plausible explanations for the exceptional human capacity to be conscious, to think abstractly and to conceptualize possible futures and bargain with it to our advantage, that some of our earliest primitive ancestors found magic mushrooms in cow dung as they were forced to leave the forest and venture out into open fields and other terrains.

Should this hypothesis be true, then tripping apes would be the first tangible step towards any civilization, ours, or others before ours.

There is plenty of evidence that a vast and sophisticated civilization existed before any other culture we have records of, before the Sumerians, and before the Dogons and before the Egyptians. Water erosion on the Sphinx would indicate that it alone has to be at least 12500 years old, more than twice as old than mainstream archeology maintains.

There is nothing speaking against the idea that our early primate ancestors were kick-started into creative endevours like language creation, construction of tools and structures, art, and culture through the discovery of mind-altering drugs like psilocybin, cannabis, ergot, DMT, poppy seeds, and probably a range of other things, some 500k years ago, building many kinds of proto-societies along the way, some of which are still around, as well as some very sophisticated ones, capable of many things we either take for granted or which we don't know how to do.

It's quite conceivable that an earlier civilization has had a presence around the world. Building boats that last an oceanic journey is difficult, but not out of the question, and yet still, such a society could collapse just as well as ours can at the drop of a hat (or a large asteroid), leaving barely a trace.

If our society broke down tonight, how much would be left of our footprints in 10k years? The Hoover dam? The Chinese Wall? Certainly not the Golden Gate Bridge or Manhatten, not without maintenance. Rust, decay, and erosion would take down virtually everything we built in a matter of a few thousand years. Books would be gone, so would the internet. By the time the next civilization arises, would they even consider that they might not have been the first one?

Try smoking in a place where it's legal and there is little to no social stigma. As long as you are thoroughly educated on the pros and cons of smoking, know your tolerance level, and you're no a rookie smoking some nuclear bomb shit or eating a ridiculous amount you're gonna be just fine.

True in Colorado. Way less paranoid now, part of it in years past was trying to relax versus knowing you could go to jail if some nosy neighbor smelled it. Messes with your head.

I used to think about things like this. It was more about hallucinogens though allowing you to see into other dimensions or parrallel worlds.

sorry, but that cant possibly be true in all cases. You ever get high in your own home and suddenly feel like something could jump out at any moment, from anywhere and attack you? I don't think thats awareness of something thats actually there.

What if the paranoia is caused by Government satellite mind control and is an attempt to justify outlawing a harmless plant?

I smoked a lot of pot and just experienced paranoia once in my life that was caused by mind control tech, at the same time they were squeezing my heart every hour, caused forced speech, forced crying, virtual reality dream, more overt stalking/street theater, at this point I knew about their remote influencing technologies so felt really fake and I knew I wasn't losing my mind but when your brain's being hacked you just can't control the effects of the synthetic signals they send, it was over in less than a week.

I think pot can cause VERY LITTLE paranoia if smoking some where you don't feel safe cuz it heightens senses, this kind of paranoia feels normal and might make someone just a little jittery or feeling on edge it can be managed very easily by meditating, calming one's mind or trying to focus on an activity. Control the smell, try to be indoors or not in a crowded place, if there's a high chance of being arrested consider not doing it or use edibles, most of all don't go on for a long time smoking pot in a place you don't feel safe that could really fuck you up (not speaking from experience btw that's just how brains tend to work)

Fuck big pharma and government's attempt to suppress better things from people while actively trying to make our lives more miserable.

Read "the matrix deciphered" if u haven't already.

I've smoked A LOT of pot and never once have one of my dumb stoner paranoid fantasies come true

I remember when pot made me sweat every time I saw a police officer.

And then I took a second hit :^)

I don't think it's the thc that makes me paranoid. It's that if I smoke some really good shit I know it's obvious that I'm stoned out of my mind, and if a cop comes across me they'll know, and if they know, they'll harass me. Now that it's becoming legal here suddenly I don't have to worry about getting kidnapped by large angry men with guns; shockingly, the thc somehow no longer makes me paranoid. funny how that works

Just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdYjlAviT8

You get paranoid because it’s illegal.. you should try smoking in a legal state it’s very relaxing if you aren’t a square

First of all, marijuana is illegal in the United States mostly due to racism. They saw that the non-white "subhumans" smoked it a lot and thus banned it.

Secondly, people don't like being paranoid because it is stressful / uncomfortable.

Paranoia/Anxiety = baggage, fix it or dont medicate if you cant hang. Go to cbd. Dog's joints are rad thanx cbd! Too behonest, CBN is where its at.

Fear is the biggest tool of suppression. Keeping our hormone distribution all messed up. Soft kill. You cant think logically when your all micro dosed with stress.

Get a tolerance and it will go away. I havnt smoked much in the last 10 years and holy shit when i do im scared ill see some one i know and i always do, so i say hi but its a awkward ass slur of some word thats not even close to high.

it doesn't make you paranoid.

The paranoia is an ego trap cause we are taught to be so narcissistic and self-centered, but cannabis is a direct opposition to that idea, so maybe you just get mind fucked.

I quit pot after smoking non stop for 10 years. Im still awarw of all the shit in thw world but no longer paranoid.

People will say pot is "like the glasses in they live" ect. But they're just trying to do thw mwntal gymnastics people that are addicted to shit do.

Weed is great for relaxing. I am no less woke without it and was no more woke with it, just unproductive and paranoid about stupid shit.

Once you wake up it is possible to go back to sleep but it doesn't happen right away. You can sell out, though, like Cypher.

After dealing with reality and conspiracies for a number of years, I can totally understand why Cypher just wanted to forget and remember nothing. I wish I could forget that global pedo networks controlled by elites werent a thing. Or that pretty much all my efforts to try to lead a happy life will be squashed by bullshit bills and society trying to literally just turn us into a battery.

Life is suffering. The pain of awakening is not numbed by sleep. Why is there a terrible opiate crisis? Everyone feels the pain even if many do not know why.

Be the sand in the gears. And if you ever have a thought to actively resist, look up "leaderless resistance."

The paranoia is caused by it's legal/social status imho.

I sometimes feel the paranoia is making me think about shit I really should be addressing. I wonder if cannabis has helped human tribes survived historically because it made them realise where their defensive weaknesses were from other tribe's attacks.

I used to smoke all the time, everyday multiple times a day. Recently my insomnia came back and I decided to try smoking to help me sleep, and it did not go well, I was an anxiety ridden mess. I will say that I have anxiety without pot that has gotten really bad recently, but what the pot did was make me think about everything wrong in my life and hyper focus on it and then have panic about it and about myself, and the only way I was able to get rid of it was by having sex with my boyfriend to wear me out and then watching adventure time to cheer me up and I ended up being up all night still. So maybe pot makes our minds more aware of the subconscious but I’m not entirely sure it’s a good thing, it’s subconscious for a reason.

The dumbest people i know are the happiest. by far. Life is cruel. Why are we built to perceive happiest at light speeds and sadness moves like a snail through our lives? its pretty fucked up. why do we sleep 1/3, work, 1/3 and the rest of our lives exist in the last 1/3 of the day. wtf did we do to deserve this.

Maybe we didn’t do anything. Maybe it’s just how it’s always been. Everything exerts energy, everything needs rest. It is annoying how much time it takes to acquire money to pay for the things you need though. That’s the biggest waste of time in my opinion

No, THC by itself can cause you not only paranoia but dysphoria. High THC low CBD weed fucks you up in a bad way. You need the right mix of cannabinoids that nature provides.

Pot doesn't make people paranoid, but it can make them hyper aware, which will fuel paranoia if you are so inclined.

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One of the primary reasons some drugs (psychedelics in particular) are illegal because they expand your consciousness, allow you to think for yourself, and ignite the natural curiosity within you. This inevitably makes one question the validity of this dystopian reality the governments have forced upon us. This is dangerous to them for they require subservience, ignorance, and blind faith in order to maintain their control over the world's population.

I assume that thc can make people panic who arent accustomed to getting high, like any unfamiliar experience

If its not a case of an inexperienced smoker, i actualy do believe that the paranoia from a thc high is a self awareness thing. as a lifelong smoker I know that I mostly enjoy my highs , particularly w sativa weed, when i have my shit figured out (Im in a job for the forseeable future, i have some roots planted, my money situation is good etc) even if i hate my job, where i live, etc.. I can enjoy my highs and relax.

If Im in a transitional period, like between jobs, moving, trying to figure shit out-- even if im enjoying life in those moments-- i get antsy paranoid etc when i smoke - particularly sativa..

ive always reasoned that this is because the weed benefits me with relaxation when its supposed to (make shit i HAVE to deal with less shitty), but when I need to figure shit out and get off my ass it reminds me that i need to start moving... if this makes sense

Its a gateway drug. A gateway into your MIND!

I though the reason for its suppression was because it is a hallucinogenic.

Yes, it totally makes me paranoid, or awakens the paranoia portion of my brain. These seem the same, can you help elaborate the difference?

What about indica?

Money and racism.

True in Colorado. Way less paranoid now, part of it in years past was trying to relax versus knowing you could go to jail if some nosy neighbor smelled it. Messes with your head.

My dad said almost the exact same thing. I think a lot of the older generation was brainwashed to think exactly that. Lots of myths and disinfo surely put out there by whoever wants to keep pot illegal.

My favorite is the one about "over 400 chemicals" in marijuana. Which is true. 400 chemical compounds... AKA molecules. Everything is made up of friggin chemicals. They make it sound like weed growers add liquid bleach or something.

The propaganda is strong, but our weed is stronger LMAO

News flash: there are damn fucking good reasons for people to be anxious and depressed most of the time.

Life is suffering. The pain of awakening is not numbed by sleep. Why is there a terrible opiate crisis? Everyone feels the pain even if many do not know why.

Be the sand in the gears. And if you ever have a thought to actively resist, look up "leaderless resistance."