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Almost all of the replies here are wrong or missing important information.

I was on a week bender with heavy alcohol drinking. My body was at a bad place. I smoked one blunt and that triggered a psychosis. Took me years to work through it. I had two more psychosis’ not related to marijuana use, 1 year and 1 1/2 years later.

I’m not sure on the psychosis part specifically, but it took me many, many years of trying it over and over with different friends in different ways before I finally figured out that it just doesn’t work for me. My body’s endocannabinoid system appears to be in great balance and marijuana of any kind throws it completely out of whack.

I thought getting the spins and vomiting for hours the very first time I tried it was just because I was already drunk so I only did it after that when I was sober. But the effect was always bad and I never felt good on it, no matter what kind it was or what the social situation was.

It wasn’t until I tried some really strong stuff with a friend who was a big stoner that I realized I just shouldn’t have it because different people react to it differently and my body fuckin hates it. Every time I would do it, I would have a kind of hangover afterwards that would last for at least a day where I would just be depressed for no fucking reason. Then one time we did some really strong stuff, and I ended up sitting on the bathroom floor for hours with the spins, nearly unable to control my thoughts or communicate. It literally felt like my consciousness was drowning and it was trying to tread water just to utter a single word out of my mouth.

So, CIS? I have no clue. I’ve never asked a doctor about it, but even if it wasn’t, I wish all the propaganda around weed wasn’t just about how amazing it is and that it’s a miracle drug for everyone, because just like any substance, it truly affects different people in different ways; not all of them good.

I will happily stick to my alcohol for mind and body alerting experiences because my body loves that and only has positive reactions to it.

Yes,

Through regular use, psychosis is not unheard of. It is very unlikely to happen if you use it once but regular use will eventually cause psychosis. It will always start with paranoia, which is always the first side effect to appear with marijuana.

I believe it’s real. But somewhat rare. I have been a 20+ years smoker and despite a myriad of issues, cannabis-induced psychosis or chs aren’t among them. I realize this information is highly anecdotal.

It’s absolutely a thing. Don’t you know anyone who went nuts from it? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve met plenty of them.

My father also used to work in an institution for psychotic patients. He always brought home the artwork that they made and gave him. He had entire box of it, and could basically go through it and say which drug the artist had used just by looking at it.

Literally any drug that is psychoactive can induce psychosis.

Yes. It is real.

However, not “causal”. Marijuana doesn’t cause psychosis (in the same way that 'guns don’t kill people, people kill people). Psychoactive drugs can induce psychosis is the accurate way to articulate this.

I have zero training in this field but once read a paper on this. I think it essentially said that ganja was ok (?) on its on but for people with “brewing psychosis” it could trigger/enable that breakdown.

The other problem might be that simply thinking about the possibility of an episode will freak you out - the existential dread would be very draining.

yes it’s real. It’s incredibly rare. In most cases, harmless.

You could get unlucky though.

I haven’t experienced it myself though I have felt it close sometimes. Almost everyone in my family has some mental health issue.

But I have seen a friend having one. While he wasn’t aggressive he was weird and unpleasant. At the end he had estranged most of those around him and we no longer have contact lol. Oh and that was the second time he had one, the first time he jumped from a balcony.
No idea if they have mental illnesses in their family though.

Just don’t smoke heavily and you should be fine.
Like once in a month maybe.

There’s a correlation between cannabis use and psychosis, though it’s not clear whether cannabis causes/accelerates psychosis or whether people with tendencies towards psychosis are more likely to self-medicate with cannabis.

Some people function fine with it and others don’t. Just like some people get aggressive with alcohol and others become funny or idiotic. I used to smoke weed in my 20s and early 30s but then it started to make me paranoid so I quit. I know people that have smoked it all their life and are fine other than being a bit lazy or boring. It’s a good tool if you play an instrument and write music. Some of the strains that are available these days are more akin to taking a psychedelic than smoking the weed I remember.

Scaremongering.

It could very much be true, according to this meta-analysis study that showed up at the top of my results after spending 2 seconds looking this up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/

I had heard about the causal link between marijuana use and onset of schizophrenia in people predisposed to suffer this illness (i.e. cannabis may be a trigger but these people could’ve developed the illness anyway later in life).

I didn’t know it could cause psychosis too but there you go. How much truth or risk there is in all this, I can’t say, but I personally am not willing to risk it.

I had been taking d8 gummies regularly for a few months. Fantastic times. Very trippy and cool. Well, one night I took one, starting watching something on tv and suddenly I’m having all kinds of creepy dark thoughts, heart starts racing, and I get dizzy. I tried calling 911 because I’m not sure where I am or whats happening to me. Couldn’t remember my name kinda trip. Phone keeps melting out of my hand. I’ve never hallucinated that bad on anything before. This probably wasn’t psychosis but I felt like I was in hell. I’ve heard the term “green out”. My guess is, no quality control and my gummy was just super stupid strong. Even though all of them were supposed to be 25mg. I guess my point is be careful with anything you put in your body.