I think more important than that is capping the THC/CBD ratio. The first time I took an edible it was pure THC, and even at 15mg it almost gave me a panic attack. For a long time I was baffled that anyone could actually enjoy marijuana, until I tried something with three times as much CBD as THC, and then I got the same enjoyable experience as others seem to. Which makes sense: biologically, THC is the psychosis agon…
15mg THC is 3x as much as I’d suggest to someone that doesn't use edibles no matter how familiar they are with smoking
I’m used to edibles and 2.5g is my max these days. Anything more, my sleep gets compromised and I’m useless the next day.
The Kiva mints are a good go-to if you’re in CA and looking for lower dose edibles.
I find that weed's effects just heighten a person's extremes. I become slow, almost indecisively slow on the stuff. It does calm my ADHD slightly, but it also helps me sleep. I also only use the stuff at night, generally an hour or two before bed and after all my needs are taken care of. It turns my neurotic brother into a short-tempered asshole. He uses the stuff several times daily. Guess people react differently t…
Have you looked into ADHD and cannabis? The TLDR from my reading is that it actually improves your focus and lessens symptoms BUT those improvements also come with the downside of getting stoned.
My father was a mental health social worker. He worked with youths, mainly teens. In his experience the vast majority of teens that ended up in his hospital had some drug fueled episode that led to their mental health crisis. He told me that he didn't think the drugs caused the mental illness but we're often the trigger. That is these kids already had a mental illness that had not started to present symptoms until it…
I'm very much for individual freedom when it comes to drug use, assuming you aren't hurting others. I think in the push for cannabis legalization, many people have forgotten that cannabis is a psychedelic drug. While it's not the same as LSD or psilocybin, it can definitely change perception and thinking. In 1996 I had a psychotic episode from LSD, and developed generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. I alwa…
> I firmly believe that psychedelics are triggers and not the cause of mental disorders
If a neurotoxic drug such as cannabis causes psychosis in someone who would otherwise never have become psychotic without the drug, then whether you call it a cause or a trigger is quibbling over semantics.
You have these cells in your brain called Microglia. They are responsible for cleaning up neurons and plaques and other weird proteins. These Microglia are activated by the firing neurons which release 2-AG and AEA (Anadamide). AEA binds to the CB1 receptor in these Microglia. 2-AG binds to CB2. THC binds to CB1. CBD binds to CB2. Autistic adults have significantly low blood serum levels of AEA. Autistic people’s neu…
That's the funny and uninhibited stance on the applied side of science. The subject is discussed only as matter, abstracting it from values such as culture, life and history, and its effects on pure matter and the human body - again a perception of matter. There is no meaning, culture or context in it.
It's just ridiculous.
The sad thing is, when man has countless problems, serious unresolved problems - let's just say Cancer - why this kind of research?
The basic logic is control, demeaning and desertification.
The human-thing relationship cannot be explained only at the atomic level.
The coffee you drink with a person changes according to the person and gains a place in your world of meaning, you may not forget what you talked for years.
On a substance level, yes, a panic attack as you drink - presumably - some kind of excitement?
The reaction and meaning of a machine-like body and brain to the substance it consumes just to do more work?!
I could not adopt the limitless and meaningless scientific approach, I could not find an enlightening side?!
Is science real?
This is news?? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927252/ First sentence: Cannabis is a known risk factor for schizophrenia. There's more, but read it for yourself.
Science is not a one off definitive answer to things. We need to study things, restudy things and replicate results. So yes, a repeat study on something studied before can very much be news, if it replicates the previous results then it's often even good news.
I can't speak to its validity, but the way it was explained to me from a neuroscientist a few years ago is that the general hypothesis now is that some people have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia and that predisposition sort of lies dormant until triggered. That would explain how both could be true: it could be genetic and triggered by environment/trauma.
There are enough cases of identical twins where one twin gets it and the other doesn't that we are certain it can't just be genetic. We are also certain that genes matter. We even know roughly which genes and that many of the variants that increase the risk are de novo mutations. We don't know much more than that, though.
I used to smoke in high school and college and it was great, no negative effects. Then I took maybe a half year break at 21. When I smoked again I would get super anxious and paranoid. To the point where I just needed to go lay in bed and wait it out. I thought I smoked too much or it was stronger than what I was used to. Took it a bit easier the next time. Same thing. I stuck to methylone, ketamine, methoxetamine, 2C-E, and a little LSD after that. I was fine with all of those. Then one night I'm hanging out with some people I barely know, I had a little methylone and ketamine in me, took a puff or 2 of weed. Full blown psychosis for the next 12+ hours. I was convinced they were cops and I locked myself in the bathroom all night. I didn't touch weed or much of anything for a couple years after that. Fast forward to 2013, I'm living in Tacoma, weed was just legalized, I take a hit and I'm good, take another one and full blown anxiety attack and paranoia. Ok maybe edibles are ok, so I ate some edibles a few months later, not so bad, pretty chill. Over the years since then I've tried smoking, vaping, and eating THC and it usually leads to paranoia and anxiety. Not always though, it's like I'm just really sensitive to it and it's really easy to overdo it. I've found that the newer edibles that are from hemp extract and are only like 5mg THC are excellent. I drink a seltzer and I'm just chill and having a good time. 2 seltzers and I can feel the anxiety start to come on, but I'm still good. This whole time I've just been trying to chase that feeling it used to give me in high school.