My son had cannabis induced psychosis

[Twentyfirst]

I think people are starting to confuse old school weed with this new lab gmo weed or even street laced weed. Good weed is almost harmless. It's the gateway drug for a reason everything after is what is more harmless 

[BlessedLion]

On 4/18/2025 at 10:25 AM, Jodistrict said:

That’s why you treat these substances responsibly as sacred medicines.  Tobacco is a sacred plant to the indigenous.  But it can be used to heal you or give you cancer.  If something is powerful, it goes both ways.   This is why I don’t see it as a positive development that psychedelics are becoming mainstream in a shallow consumerist culture hooked on entertainment.

I think the whole “sacred medicine” thing is not much more than a label for people to feel better about just getting high. And it doesn’t ensure it’s safe at all. I’ve sat in many ayahuasca and peyote ceremonies with trained Shipibo and Mexican Shamans from the desert. Plenty of people had horrific, traumatizing, and psychotic trips. 
 

Yet everyone just says shit like “that’s what the medicine wanted to show you” “there are no bad trips” as if the psychedelics are these wise entities who never fuck up. Super stage green and even partially purple imo. 
 

Also tons of shamans die from cancer from their tobacco abuse. What an absurd notion that just because they call it medicine it won’t fuck up their lungs. 
 

So glad I graduated this from this whole ideology a while ago 

[Basman]

Maybe I'm just shit at smoking but I never get really high from weed those rare times I'm offered a joint except the first time I smoked it. Perhaps I'm just built sober because I've had next to no drugs growing up or dependencies and cravings as an adult, even coffee. I'm very glad that I grew up sober.

There's probably a strong genetic correlation relative to how you respond to weed. A lot of people seem to smoke once in a while and are fine just as there are a bunch of people that drink without abusing it. There seems to be a correlation with a lack of ambition and smoking weed but it could be that people who aren't ambitious tend to gravitate towards it (as ambition itself might be genetic to a certain extent).

Edited Wednesday at 02:13 PM by Basman