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Opponents of cannabis like to point out the risk of smoking cannabis, especially satavia strains which are much more psychedelic and in some cases can make you much more paranoid. After all, you are essentially turning up the volume on cannaboid receptors. It’s what gives the vivid and rich texture to the music, makes the waterfalls and trees glisten so much.
I think the psychedelic experience is worthwhile but I concede that paranoia is a very dangerous thing. Good cannabis doesn’t put you to sleep or make you focus on your problems but instead puts a shine on the richness of the world. You have to know what you are smoking and what it will do to you. Critical Mass wasn’t for me as it fed my fears I live with every day but Tropical Skittlez really made me find my Zen and take in the wilderness around me.
I’ve been reading a lot about Cannabis and the research on what makes a pleasant experience and what the actual risks are. Certainly there are well documented cases of people who succumb to schizophrenia after smoking cannabis, sometimes weeks or months later. Often it’s blamed on stronger cannabis or concentrates. Most modern cannabis, especially satavia strains are strong. Maybe it is and you have to be careful like everything in life.
The link though is not as clear as it might be. Do people prone schizophrenia self-medicate on cannabis or does it actually cause the often lifetime debilitating disease? I’m in my early to mid 40s now so I’m beyond the peak years of risk of developing schizophrenia but as a single adult, an largely independent person with a relatively small friends circle who spends a lot of time alone, I know I’m at higher risk of a psychiatric break. Plus I already have anxiety problems and have been known to have nervous breakdowns under stress, mostly in private.
Still I’m being careful. Outside of Critical Mass stain, things have generally been good experiences though I definitely prefer Satavia leaning stains over the Indica strains. You might think the psychedelic nature is more at risk then more relaxing strains but I find the beauty and richness of psychedelia puts my mind much more at ease then how Indica leaves me trapped in the world, locked down to the hammock. Maybe these trips on vacation in the wilderness are dangerous but I actually like what it’s doing to my mind, in many ways making me a richer person.
Psychedelia
I never understood psychedelia until I took a few good puffs of Tropical Skittlez, put on some really psychedelic music and found myself giggling my brains out noticing how beautiful the waterfalls were, strange shadows on the rocks, the way the leaves fliddered in the breeze and the clouds overhead.
People often think the psychedelic experience about elephants jumping out of windows and all kinds of strange colors. Maybe that’s the case with LSD but smoking a good sativa pot it’s more the colors and details are enhanced.
But probably seeing an elephant jumping out of the woods would be weird and hilarious at the same time, even though you know is unlikely unless it escaped from the zoo or somebody released it into the back country of the forest preserve. And, I wouldn’t mind looking a very colorful magazine with trippy colors and cartoons, just because that be a good giggle.
It’s good, legal fun. Not unlike having a beer minus the beer goggles and the often rowdy drunken behavior. Sativa strains aren’t nearly as tiring, indeed they can be quite engerzing, especially with energy shots. And quite hillarious!
