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> read: it won't make you go crazy

What is this supposed to mean?

Is high potency marijuana making people go / act crazy?

If so, I wasn’t aware of that and would like to know more.

Oh definitely this has been fairly well established for a while now. THC is pro-psychotic/anxiogenic in high enough doses and CBD is anti-psychotic/anxiolytic in high enough doses. The balance is crucial. And yes this has been backed up by studies showing that people smoking weed with higher THC/CBD ratio are more prone to psychotic break, and others showing that CBD can actually alleviate psychotic symptoms. CBD is even used in very large doses (~1 gram!) to treat schizophrenia.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604190/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092099641...

The balance is really important and there are a lot of individual factors.

Oh, right, I see now. Thanks for explaining that and providing the references.

Even if it’s not go crazy in the traditional sense, I know for me I can’t smoke like in college, I get extremely anxious.

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