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totally different to legalized marijuane i know, but often wondered if those against its use/used phychosis as an excuse ..
sorry industr ha, but info sharingh, so imagine its cool/hip/jive
not really weed talk huh ha ..
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This Is How One Pot Smoker Learned That Weed Plays a Mysterious Role in Psychosis
By
Sydney Lupkin
January 22, 2016 | 11:10 am
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News.
In the year before his first and only psychotic episode, Devan Fuentes, who was then a 19-year-old community college freshman, was smoking four or five joints a day. Marijuana didn't affect him the way it affected most other people. Instead of mellowing him out, it amped him up, fueling his impulses and delusions — though he didn't recognize them for what they were at the time.
"I had a big delusion that I was figuring something out that no one understood but me that would eventually save the world," he said. "The day of my psychosis, I charted everything out and put it on a piece of paper after I had just smoked a ton of weed."
Although Fuentes had for a while been experiencing pre-psychosis symptoms — strange ideas, a lack of self-awareness — when psychosis set in, it seemed that his brain had experienced what he described as a "big chemical reaction." He was suddenly swept up in a rush of thoughts and felt as though he was watching himself from afar, unable to control what he was doing. He wrote feverishly, trying to get his thoughts on paper, but couldn't write fast enough and eventually threw the papers against a wall. Then he walked in and out of his home in Oakland, California, a few times before accidentally locking himself out.
This Is How One Pot Smoker Learned That Weed Plays a Mysterious Role in Psychosis | VICE News
