“The nature of the relationship between psychosis and cannabis use is by no means simple.”
I almost think this study assumes that other states of consciousness, such as schizophrenia, are negative. I think if a regular toker could achieve a permanent, euphoric, radically altered state (without smoking)- like the kind many experience the first few times they get stoned- they would. I think that’s why many keep smoking day after day… chasing that feeling. That’s why I used to.
I kinda think it all boils down to cultural acceptance: would schizophrenics and other folks in psychotic states be often angry and paranoid if they lived in a culture that accepted their ways of being? Are longtime cannabis use and schizophrenia inherently negative things, or just socially conditioned that way?
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