Weed: Paranoia or Hyperawareness? | JRE Pot Debate

I think that some of what we call paranoia, just normal paranoia, is hypersensitivity and hyper awareness and awareness to a lot of things that you're putting off in the back of your head because in order to function as a normal person and get through this life, you can't really be aware of everything. Otherwise you'd be... Look, you're... We're in space. Okay, we are on a gigantic ball that's spinning a thousand miles an hour hurling through infinity. This is reality. And that's where you can just take us out. Thin layer of gas that's protecting us from everything that's flying around in our solar system. And by the way, it best you get 85 years and then it's all shit anyway. Right, and even if you make it to 100, the last 15 are dog shit. You can't really, you can't think too much about this stuff. The stem cells and stuff will be too too much. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe you're gonna live to be 300. What do you do? The universe is infinite. You're gonna die. Like, the sun is gonna end. Like, at the end, I mean, imagine if people do live to an infinite number where we realize our fucking sun is dying. You're gonna freak out about that. It's all relative, right? So there's only so much you really can think about and some of what paranoia is, is this hyper awareness of all these variables that you really haven't considered. And then also, we were talking about before, things that can be beneficial, the hyper awareness of how you communicated with people. Maybe you could have done a better job with that. Maybe you came in hot. Maybe you were upset about something else when you ran into them. You were already at a seven, and they brought you to a 10. And it was totally unnecessary within a normal situation. You would have only been at a two. Those things are real. And sometimes marijuana helps highlight all the errors in your way. I think it can be a tool. But my description of it is like any other tool with like a hammer. You can build a house with a hammer or you could just hit yourself in the dick if you're fucking crazy. And this this is something that I think we should consider when we're discussing almost any psychedelic medicine. And I think that I really do believe that marijuana is a psychedelic. And I don't even think it's a mild one, especially when it's in an edible form. I don't think it's mild at all. Yeah, I mean, there's some people that come in to my office, for example, and like, just when I meet them, like after one or two minutes, I was just I just got to decide in my head, this person's not using THC. Right. You know, like this, this person is anxious. What what can what gives you that? Is that what it is anxious? Yeah, it's just a feeling of they're not really they're not someone who can just sit and kind of like be by themselves. You know, they just kind of give me the impression that, you know, they're not going to do well with cannabis because if they have any type of change in their in their psyche, they're going to see that as bad. That's bad. You know, and like you got it when you're using cannabis, you you have to be someone who who knows that, okay, I'm going to get a little bit of maybe paranoia now, or at least my psyche is going to change a little bit. I am using psychoactive substance and not be able to freak out. Right. But some people, you know, I know that if they use a little bit of THC, they probably would have a freak out. They probably would have a bad experience. Generally, it's people who are, you know, very, very fearful. Now, the other side of that coin, though, is that if you use CBD, and like we discussed earlier, that can decrease learned fear. Right. So so that's so, you know, that's something that's really helpful for those patients. But, you know, I do agree that, you know, we have to be careful about using high THC in certain groups of people for sure.