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 found nothing pleasurable in weed in my youth. I would not call it paranoia-no one was coming to take me away. But there was no “Feelin’ Groovy” about it.
It caused me to withdraw into myself, if that makes sense.
I was at a neighbor’s house about 8 years ago and someone passed around a joint. What the hell, I thought. Maybe the quality has changed. Nope. Same thing. I spent the rest of the evening worrying about going home, even though I lived right across the street. A strange worry which made no sense. I could walk. I could talk. I knew where home was. No one was going to meet me at the door with a “What have you been doing?”
Anecdotal & no paranoia but I would not be to quick to discount it as a myth. I have heard others say the same thing.