The problem imo with this kinds of studies is that people can’t take the nuance and rather see it as “weed = bad” or some other binary outcome.
Imo all drugs have a potential to be dangerous — all adults should have free agency what they do with their bodies.
Sure cannabis, alcohol or mushrooms are dangerous, but I would argue a society that makes their use completely illegal without nuance is not a free society
I always wondered if other people had the same experience of THC as I did, but responded _psychologically_ differently to me, or if it was a _physiologically_ different experience. It was very confusing during high school.
Bizarrely I've found this react to weed much more common in the UK than California. There would be no reason for that to be true, though.
5mg is not a small amount for someone without tolerance.
An old chemistry major college friend went into the THC industry. His company was very careful about production, measurement, and labeling.
He said it was very common for people to tell him that they needed some high number of milligrams to feel anything, then they’d ask him for samples from his company. They’d take what they thought was their normal dose and get completely knocked out.
A lot of products are (or were in the past) apparently very optimistic about their THC content. 5mg is actually a significant dose for most people without tolerance.
I wonder this too. Maybe, say, non-autistic people would interpret differently what I see as mild dissociation, and experience all of the... whatever the fuck THC is supposed to do to Normal People. Or so the theory goes.
It is pretty common for people to have panic attacks while using cannabis. Those can be the symptoms of a panic attack.
> There would be no reason for that to be true, though.
Concentration, cannabinoid composition, adulteration (analogues, enhancement, etc), contamination (heavy metals, pesticides, mold, environmental or biotic toxins) are a few things that come to mind.
I think it's just an expectations thing. I was doing max doses of acid for a long time before I ever used marijuana, and that ain't "some slight dissociation". On acid, you would watch the houses across the street stand up, join hands, and dance around in circles. Pot just didn't move the needle.
I've seen it a few times, and I have no idea why it's like that for some people.
Effect wise - I mostly notice it in sensation of time. Two hours feels like four. And it’s not smooth flow of time - almost skips occasionally.
I think the sticking point for me is that I refuse to knowingly cause myself permanent brain damage. That heavily limits my options.
When I tried the tincture, I took 50mg of THC orally. (250mg per 30oz, so 6oz.) Although I guess I could just be unable to take THC orally, which would suck, because smoking it is miserable. (I am really not a smoker...)