“But, I do recall (from long ago) pot making many of us paranoid.”
That’s why I quit, over 35 years ago. Perhaps I changed, or perhaps the pot did, but it wasn’t at all enjoyable any more. I don’t know whether I’d use it medicinally now, but I have no reason to.
My experiences around pot smokers is that it affects everybody somewhat differently; some people it puts to sleep; some people who are wound a little tight it just mellows them out; for some people it expands their conscienceousness and they get very creative; for some people their reaction, and pots affect on them, almost seem to be dependent upon their mood at the time as it will affect them differently almost everytime they smoke it. One will only find out how it affects them if they try it a couple of times. I can say this, again from my own experiences, I have never witnessed a person smoke pot and go from mellow to aggressive, never have I seen that happen. Many, many times I’ve seen the opposite whereby one is pissed off and aggressive and after taking a few tokes settles down and is all mellowed out just wanting to have a good time now.
I will also say this from own personal experience; my first time it gave me a rather bad headache and I said I ain’t never doing this again, but my girlfriend at the time, I was 16 she was 15, talked me into trying it once more and I had a completely different experience with it. I also believe, if one chooses never to try it, hey that’s fine too, its totally up to the individual and I respect each ones personal decision on these kinds of matters.