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Cannabis really can trigger paranoia
The Guardian (UK) ^ | Wednesday 16 July 2014 | Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman

Posted on 07/16/2014 4:44:01 AM PDT by AustralianConservative

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1 posted on 07/16/2014 4:44:01 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: AustralianConservative

I’m suddenly reminded of the movie “Reefer Madness”


2 posted on 07/16/2014 4:47:51 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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To: AustralianConservative
WHO SAID SO....


3 posted on 07/16/2014 4:50:44 AM PDT by Paul46360 (..)
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To: AustralianConservative
(Interestingly, the placebo produced extraordinary effects in certain individuals. They were convinced they were stoned, and acted accordingly. Because at the time we didn’t know who had been given the drug, we assumed they were high too.)

That is very interesting. The value of double blind studies is to eliminate bias by preventing everyone involved from knowing which is the study group and which is the control. I would have thought that in a study of a psychoactive drug, it would be immediately apparent which group had received the placebo.

This is yet more evidence that marijuana is not as harmless as its legalization advocates have claimed. More such evidence will continue to accumulate as marijuana is legalized in more jurisdictions.

4 posted on 07/16/2014 4:52:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: AustralianConservative

Paranoia - just one of those myths created to scare young folk straight so they will give up pot.

Won’t work. The kids were ALREADY a little nuts when they took up the smoking of rope. Maybe it’s genetic, maybe it’s environmental, but it takes a certain twist of personality to commence and continue the use of such an odd chemical combination, that has the capability to interact with the critical thinking centers of the mind, and not in a favorable way.

Many of these youth would have been paranoid even without the pot as a contributing factor.


5 posted on 07/16/2014 4:52:17 AM PDT by alloysteel (Selective and willful ignorance spells doom, to both victim and perpetrator - mostly the perp.)
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To: Artie

When I first saw it, I thought it was over-the-top hyperbolic. Now, I’m not so sure. In view of current knowledge, it only seems slightly exaggerated.


6 posted on 07/16/2014 4:53:10 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: AustralianConservative

I can absolutely testify to that being true. I smoked truck loads of reefer when I was a teen, and sometimes I would become so paranoid I’d just hide in the house!


7 posted on 07/16/2014 4:53:52 AM PDT by weezel
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Me too. (-;


8 posted on 07/16/2014 4:54:07 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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but duuuuuuuudddde... it’s pure mother nature man, 100% safe and stuff man... inhaling this doctored, unfiltered weed is safer that anything else man.. you’re just a hater man.. it’ll cure everything man, it’s like, you know, perfect stuff man. it’s non addictive man, and just because I can’t live without it doesn’t mean I’m addicted man..

wait, wha...


9 posted on 07/16/2014 4:54:24 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: weezel

Ouch.


10 posted on 07/16/2014 4:55:25 AM PDT by AustralianConservative
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To: AustralianConservative

I haven’t been this stunned since the revelation about the dog who bit the man.


11 posted on 07/16/2014 4:55:38 AM PDT by McBuff
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As my Psych professor told my class, “It may be natural, but so is Cyanide.”


12 posted on 07/16/2014 4:57:37 AM PDT by Politicalkiddo (The more helpless the victim, the more hideous the assault.)
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To: newnhdad

It’s just an herb man, if God did not want us to use it he would not have put it in the earth.


13 posted on 07/16/2014 5:00:33 AM PDT by Patriot365
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Go eat some toadstools.


14 posted on 07/16/2014 5:01:37 AM PDT by Monty22002
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To: AustralianConservative

Anyone wondering how the Nanny State has managed to take over our lives might do well to consider the consequences of three or four generations of paranoid people.


15 posted on 07/16/2014 5:05:27 AM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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To: AustralianConservative

Ping to review paranoid responses.


16 posted on 07/16/2014 5:11:10 AM PDT by DannyTN (I)
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To: AustralianConservative

17 posted on 07/16/2014 5:14:26 AM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: AustralianConservative

Quit thinking about me.


18 posted on 07/16/2014 5:17:01 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Patriot365

So we should drink Hemlock?


19 posted on 07/16/2014 5:17:50 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AustralianConservative
NSA? Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't watching you. LOL
20 posted on 07/16/2014 5:20:49 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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