Ive never gotten paranoid from marijuana. although i was in a dark alley by myself one night... i got kinda paranoid. it depends also if its sativa or indicia.

Thanks but I'm not like that.

I think it will pass this time.  Our debt is just too fucking big right now for anybody to vote against making money.

There were some videos of real life rednecks complaining about commies and blacks and immigrants and terrorists right around the election.  Those far right caricature wackos are real and somehow STILL around.  It's like a time machine when you see them in action these days.  And hating commies NEVER goes out of style.  Remember the media shitstorm after Obama said we should "spread the wealth around"?  Everybody was worried Obama was a secret communist/terrorist/Muslim/Arab.  The real wackos hate everybody at once.

21, just like beer and handguns.  But marijuana is too dangerous for 18 year olds, who can only handle tobacco, rifles, shotguns, voting, and joining the army.

Well I've seen studies and research that have linked marijuana causing schizophrenia in people, mainly those who already have a biological disposition.

I don't know if legalizing marijuana will make more people smoke it, but I hope not. Schizophrenia is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. Almost twice as many Americans have Schizophrenia than Aids/HIV. For every Schizophrenic person, there are even more who share the biological disposition but never developed schizophrenia (like the family members). Marijuana would very much liken the chance that those individuals would develop Schizophrenia, and that is absolutely horrible in my mind. That is a LOT of people at risk for developing Schizophrenia, and that's a very serious condition to develop.

Who knows if marijuana has connections to anything else. That's not a risk I think I'd like to take. Even if it doesn't have any other relations, helping to cause Schizophrenia is horrible enough. Should something like that be legalized?

Problem with the paranoia is I tend to catch and take offense to every little passive-aggressive thing my friends say and do. I'm not sure if its paranoia if its really there, but I definitely get more sensitive to it.

The most positive benefits I get from it are: when I'm really enraged about something it diffuses me pretty fast. And as I said, when I go through periods of heavy smoking my raynaud's goes away. I don't think its coincidence.

@wfz Pretty funny as people with Schizophrenia smoke Marijuana too help them.

It makes schizophrenia worse.  Look at a s. patient's MRI after addicted to mari.

Explain this sativa/indica difference to me please. I was always curious why kind bud never seems to actually have any negative effects on me. I'm poor and get the cheap stuff. That smells like pine-sol :\

I'm not sure I want to know why it so often smells like cleaners.

I would greatly welcome government regulation if it means I wouldn't have to buy the pine-sol flavor anymore.

Care to show any research that backs up your claim? I did a quick google search and found nothing.

Going with your logic though, you're saying you'd rather have the Schizophrenic population increase exponentially due to smoking marijuana, and then have all of these mentally messed up people smoke marijuana to help them not be paranoid all the time? That's gotta be one of the strangest ideas I've ever heard.

When a drug is legal, it's easier to find reliable information on it.  When drugs are illegal, the truth gets drowned out by "zomg it's the devil-weed" lies and "zomg it should be legal it can save the universe" lies.

People will have to know if their family has a history of schizophrenia, and realize that even if their family doesn't, there is a very small chance that trying a drug will be bad for them.  I think that all that information should be readily available, but that in the end, the choice to try it or not should be theirs alone and the government shouldn't stop them.  Telling people not to do drugs should be the job of friends and family, not the job of the government and paid for by nationwide taxes.