Not yet, and I’ve been trying for over 30 years now.
the amount of THC injested was “7.2 nanograms per milliter.” According to this article, the baseline for intoxication is “ 5 nanograms per milliter.” Was the elevated level enough to induce psychosis? Seems a small range, but I have no idea how that equates to like, the difference between 3 beers versus 4 beers, level of intoxication.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/02/us-usa-colorado-marijuana-idUSBREA3127N20140402
A huge correlation with schizophrenic behavior
Psychosis refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a “loss of contact with .... kind of generic
Yes.
In anti-marijuana opponents it does.
It makes me want to rape and pillage!
It’s been my observation over the years that people who go goofy and blame it on drugs would have went goofy on something anyway. If not weed, then it would have been caused by white bread.
pro- marijuana advocates seem to be unable defend it without mentioning alcohol.
What if psychosis just craves ganga? :-)
I dunno, but do know of two cases where constance use in the mid teen years resulted in big time psychoses, in mid 30s...
Could be just a coincidence.
“Suicides among men aged 20 through 39 years fell after medical marijuana legalization compared with those in states that did not legalize.”
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301612
There’s a reason I don’t smoke pot. It has nothing to do with legality. It sometimes causes paranoia. I learned from experience and didn’t like the stuff.
FRIDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) — Smoking marijuana can mean different things to different people — for some, anxiety and paranoia can set in, while others mellow out.
Now, a unique brain scan study suggests two ingredients in pot may work independently to achieve these effects.
British scientists who watched the effects of the two marijuana ingredients -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) — on the brains of 15 young men say the research shows how the drug can either ease or agitate the mind.
“People have polarized views about marijuana,” said study lead author Dr. Sagnik Bhattacharyya, a researcher in the department of psychosis studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. “Some consider it to be essentially harmless but potentially useful as a treatment in a number of medical conditions, and others link it to potentially severe public health consequences in terms of mental health. This study explains why the truth is somewhere in between.”
The findings were published in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
According to Bhattacharyya’s team, it’s long been noted that cannabis can prompt the onset of psychotic symptoms, such as paranoia and/or delusional thinking, among otherwise healthy people.
“A number of studies have (also) clearly shown that regular marijuana or cannabis use in vulnerable individuals is associated with increased risk of developing psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, where one loses contact with reality,” Bhattacharyya said.
Just how this occurs in the brain wasn’t understood.
New research helps explain why marijuana can provoke paranoia in some users.
Marijuana has an interesting effect on anxiety. Some report paranoia after using marijuana, while others report a reduction in anxiety. Now, scientists from Vanderbilt University have uncovered evidence that may explain marijuana’s complicated relationship with feeling anxious.
The findings, published March 5 in the journal Neuron, are the first to confirm that cannabinoid receptors are indeed present in the part of the brain that regulates anxiety and fear: the amygdala. Cannabinoid receptors are activated by chemicals in marijuana, called cannabinoids, and have been identified in many other brain regions as well.
Dr. Patel’s new study links marijuana directly to the area of the brain that regulates the fight-or-flight response. This response is part of the body’s overall process of reacting to factors of threat or stress.
But why certain people feel more anxious after using marijuana and others less is still unclear. The researchers used antibody-labeled imaging techniques to look at the activity of the body’s own cannabinoids, rather than those derived from the plant. Humans, and many animals, naturally produce a set of marijuana-like chemicals known as endocannabinoids.
http://www.leafscience.com/2014/03/07/study-explains-marijuana-makes-paranoid/
In my experience, it started out fun, felt great, hard to describe the change in mental perception it induced. On the one hand holding a train of thought was a challenge because everything was interesting and amusing, but on the other hand, extremely detailed projects were enjoyable to to point of getting almost lost in them. The experience of listening to music was enhanced to the point of almost sheer joy. Food was amazing. So was sex, it was quite the aphrodisiac, aroused for no apparent reason, at least at first.
Over time, these enjoyable experiences gave way to a sort of disengaged, zombie-like feeling that wasn't especially compelling. Coming down off of it was really not enjoyable, it was almost akin to being mentally depressed for a few hours. Feelings of paranoia began to arise, jumpy, elevated heart rate.
That was not fun, so I stopped. Very few experiences with it since then and none in the past two decades, I just have no interest in doing it again. Some people appear to develop a dependency upon it for whatever reason, psychological dependency or what I couldn't say. Didn't affect me that way, I just stopped and appear to have had no lasting repercussions.
I have bipolar disorder and pot made me very manic, even paranoid.
Not fun.