Is it the weed?

[sonicwhite]

I tried smoking barely a hit on a pipe and no it doesn't work but, I haven't really smoked since 06 when it started to make me insane......I really think that it is due to my psychosis I had in 05. Imagen smoking so much meth that when you where going thru detox in jail, your skin turns green from all those chemicals coming out.

 

[RobotRipping]

Don't mind me just an atheist/anti-theist posting in forum where people condone their use of substances not by logic, but by the existence of some stupid, never-observed deity... oh yea, seeing/feeling "god" while under the influence of clonazepam (klonopin) & cannabis, or any other psychoactive substance, doesn't count!

yeah show some objective evidence that cannabis isn't God's plant; fucking atheists are as bad as Christian fundamentalists, keep your opinions to yourselves ffs. You want to be objective? be objective and seriously, prove that God does not exist. Otherwise you are making your fellow atheists look terrible, especially quoting Dawkins, God damn.

i'm quite sure we already know that cannabis releases dopamine. Dopamine breaks down into NE, so yeah THC being a stimulant isn't too far fetched, but it's a cannabinoid by definition, though it's unquestionably stimulating, anxiogenic and induces paranoia in a fair amount of people. I blame the growers for breeding for high THC instead of less THC and more cannabinoids but i guess most stoners prefer higher thc levels.

 

[Sillyslick]

Weed evokes in us feelings and thoughts that we aren't aware of even being part of the human experience. They don't teach about these things in schools, most parents don't have personal experience of these things and to top it all, most of us experiencing these things have great difficulty making sense out of them. I would argue that, for a big part it is this lack of understanding that makes us feel anxious. Weed opens doors in your mind, behind these doors are sometimes very complex things, so complex it takes a great deal of time to understand them and integrate them as a constructive and meaningful part of your experience as a human being (after all, you ARE experiencing them). When you open doors at a too fast pace, you get overwhelmed and confused with all the information, resulting in anxiety, fear, possibly anger, all kinds of negative emotions. It's a sign that you should slow down a bit and try to make sense out of what you have learned so far, to meaningfully and rationally consolidate everything.

To make matters even more complicated, some people who open these doors fail to understand what is behind them so profoundly (not their fault though) that they simply don't see those complex things at all, therefore they aren't overwhelmed by them. This creates lot's of confusion when people start saying what weed does and doesn't do.

This makes sense to me a lot. I used to get all freaked out and there's definitely an element of being able to access some kind of information that exists outside of the usual human perception, and likely brought about through expansion of thought onto much higher and deeper levels that is simply confusing and too vast for us to work out. Hence the fear and anxiety. I've had it where I feel like i'm going mad because of sensory overload - it's as if you get shown the whole universe and everything in it within a few seconds and it's one hell of a jolt. Bloody scary.

 

[sonicwhite]

This makes sense to me a lot. I used to get all freaked out and there's definitely an element of being able to access some kind of information that exists outside of the usual human perception, and likely brought about through expansion of thought onto much higher and deeper levels that is simply confusing and too vast for us to work out. Hence the fear and anxiety. I've had it where I feel like i'm going mad because of sensory overload - it's as if you get shown the whole universe and everything in it within a few seconds and it's one hell of a jolt. Bloody scary.

This is what I go thru....Call me a christian with stumbling blocks or just accept me for me....But I think about that time when all will be raised at the last Judgment and if it bother my conscience. Then it's something I have to avoid. The funny thing is the only other drug I feel strongly about is meth since I have abstained from it so long. If I were to do it I would fear that I would go thru another psychosis...Other then that these are my beliefs. I'm not bashing the atheist so please don't take offense to what I'm saying.