I’m suddenly reminded of the movie “Reefer Madness”
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.
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.
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!
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...
I haven’t been this stunned since the revelation about the dog who bit the man.
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.
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Quit thinking about me.
So those guys at the NSA who want to snoop on everything are high on pot? It would explain a lot....
Duhhh!
As a FORMER smoker I could have told them this for a lot less money- it is 100% true but it is a side-effect of over-use. Like too much alcohol, there are consequences from prolonged over-exposure.
Everythingn in moderation. Occasional use does not do this.
It’s been 20 years since I did that but I remember it vividly- it was the main reason I quit, before I ‘woke up’ from the after-effects and realized what it was.
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With 0bama's goons running amok and the NSA tracking your every word, the potheads in Colorado and Washington must be going nuts.
This is EXACTLY what has me so worried about legalization!
Sounds like we need to make that placebo illegal too.
So if you find you're a vulnerable individual, don't smoke it. Peanuts can cause serious and even fatal allergic reactions in vulnerable individuals - should we ban them?