They're just trying to protect us π
They're just trying to protect us π
They're just trying to protect us π
Funny enough, weed does scare the absolute shit out of me, but I'm in a very small minority here. In fact, a few months back, my wife's friend gave us some cannabis breath strips. Same brand, but different colored packaging. THC for my wife, CBD for me. Well. I was standing in my open refrigerator filling a glass of water when that CBD breath strip I had taken started to get real weird.
Flash forward an hour or two and I was laying in my dark bedroom in a panic spiral, thinking I was a terrible father and convinced that my house was haunted. I even saw a small white orb of light suspended near the wall above my fan, and I'm still not sure how it was projected there. I've never seen it before or since. Stared at it a good while before it just faded away.
Anyway. That wasn't CBD.
If it isn't for you it isn't for you and it's no fun when people try to force it on you.
That said, most of the stories like this are from overdoing it which happens a lot when you have little to no tolerance and some people are much more prone to it than others. Starting out with weed is a lot like riding a bike in that it can take a few spills before you learn how to handle everything at once. Convincing someone to get back on a bike is easier than asking them to try psychedelics again though. Interesting to me that we're more afraid of our thoughts than physical pain so often. I'm smoking weed about it.
I wholly agree. What's interesting in my case is that I've done a ton of psychedelics in my life, both natural and synthetic, and have only had a single negative experience by overdoing it. I love them. I miss them. Not really something I have room for in my life anymore. But weed absolutely wrecks me at the chemical level. I guess my mom was the same way.
Not to argue against weed, but it's actually bad for some people who have a certain genetic predisposition.
For some, it can be harmful regardless of whether they have good supervision or they need to learn how to handle the high.
It is known to exacerbate schizophrenia symptoms and hence is not recommended to people with those tendencies.
Edit: I don't remember the source, I remember this from the kurzegesagt videos on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP15q815Saw&t=17 (This is an early video, they changed their opinions later.)
Their more recent video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8&t=8 (This is a more recent video and is based on more concrete science. They're a lot more optimistic in this one).
sounds like a great time to me, but to each their own.