Out of curiosity, what do you think of alcohol & negative symptoms? I am not very aware of my negative symptoms & I occasionally drink. I know that I have positive symptoms/hear voices if I do not take my meds or if I smoke pot.
It seems itās impossible to state if cannabis is good or bad for psychosis.
I heard it depends on your vibe
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I canāt blame my SZA solely on marijuana either. I experimented with a bunch of things. I occasionally feel like Nancy Reagan trying to encourage young people to stay away from drugs and yet, I am such a hypocrite. LOL
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It was probably salvia divinorum, it was once legal nearly everywhere but over past 10 years it has become illegal almost everywhere. I used it just a few times. My guess is that MJ and other psychedilics may contribute to or worsen sz but if someone is prone to sz then lots of things can trigger it. For me it would be more attributed to stressing my brain beyond its limits in college, while being on stimulants and some mj. MJ on its own is probably not enough, I guess that there has to be other contributors such as extreme stress.
The girl in ābrain on fireā was likely triggered by intense stress she had on her brain, especially her right brain which was most affected.
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I know weed helped trigger me but at the same time it helped me bring my delusions under control. I recently had to stop and am back on APs again because i reached a point where if i didnt smoke every day i became unbearable and explosive screaming at my wife and mother in law. Ive always found it to be like relieveing a pressure valve, experiencing a controlled psychosis for some hours and coming out of it feeling better. It is playing with fire though and i dont know if ill ever do it again. It helpse that my halucinations and delusions are almost always positive and not scary.
the way my pdoc told me about pot and schizophrenia is that doing drugs like acid, which Iāve done a lot in my high school days ascerbates when you will get sick but not causes itā¦look at all the Dead Headsā¦still around and not schizophrenic.
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I did a lot as a young person along with shrooms. It may have triggered something in me but even before that i was a quirky kid with some issues.
Mid Sept where i live marijuana will be legal for recreational use. Medical use has been here a long time. When it is legalized Iāll probably get some edibles
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I wish it wasnāt those āregister to access rest of the articleā type articles!! I wanted to read the details. 
I still smoke cannabis for the ptsd and anxiety/mood swing stuff, but I am aware that it makes many szās experience heightened paranoia and other symptoms. I started smoking cannabis heavily around the age of 18 and then I only stopped for up to a year here and there (Iām 35 now), so maybe I donāt experience any heightened symptoms because I developed a tolerance? Donāt know, maybe next they can study why some of us experience heightened symptoms on cannabis and why others donāt! #fundthatstudy
Just glad that it doesnāt CAUSE sz! I kind of figured it was the self-medication and not the origin of sz, but Iām happy that the science has been done.
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I smoked pot for 10 years of my life (from 14 to 24, Iām 27 now) and they were the best years of my life. However, when I decided to stop it all went downhill. I lost my loved one, lost my job and got kicked out of my parents house. Stopping it made me change who I was.
I would definitely say Cannabis isnāt the SOLE cause of schizophrenia but it does play a part in it. The environment and other factors come into play. I donāt believe, however, that a person who was diagnosed with SZ should try it because it might make it worse for them.
CBD on the other hand has beneficial properties and should be studied more effectively. I donāt know how it works, but I think it is a serotonin agonist alongside GABA agonism. (Which would explain itās pain relieving properties and anxiety reduction.)
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