I was on a week bender with heavy alcohol drinking. My body was at a bad place. I smoked one blunt and that triggered a psychosis. Took me years to work through it. I had two more psychosis’ not related to marijuana use, 1 year and 1 1/2 years later.

I had been taking d8 gummies regularly for a few months. Fantastic times. Very trippy and cool. Well, one night I took one, starting watching something on tv and suddenly I’m having all kinds of creepy dark thoughts, heart starts racing, and I get dizzy. I tried calling 911 because I’m not sure where I am or whats happening to me. Couldn’t remember my name kinda trip. Phone keeps melting out of my hand. I’ve never hallucinated that bad on anything before. This probably wasn’t psychosis but I felt like I was in hell. I’ve heard the term “green out”. My guess is, no quality control and my gummy was just super stupid strong. Even though all of them were supposed to be 25mg. I guess my point is be careful with anything you put in your body.

A big portion is, but if you’ve had some sort of “psychotic break” in the past or are prone to it or more “extreme” psychological issues, it’s certainly not going to help anything. Better to be safe than sorry, or better yet discuss with a (trusted(Which if I’m being honest, why are they your therapist if you don’t trust them?)) therapist if possible.

Literally any drug that is psychoactive can induce psychosis.

Yes. It is real.

However, not “causal”. Marijuana doesn’t cause psychosis (in the same way that ‘guns don’t kill people, people kill people’). Psychoactive drugs can induce psychosis is the accurate way to articulate this.

I believe it’s real. But somewhat rare. I have been a 20+ years smoker and despite a myriad of issues, cannabis-induced psychosis or chs aren’t among them. I realize this information is highly anecdotal.

I haven’t experienced it myself though I have felt it close sometimes. Almost everyone in my family has some mental health issue.

But I have seen a friend having one. While he wasn’t aggressive he was weird and unpleasant. At the end he had estranged most of those around him and we no longer have contact lol. Oh and that was the second time he had one, the first time he jumped from a balcony.
No idea if they have mental illnesses in their family though.

Just don’t smoke heavily and you should be fine.
Like once in a month maybe.

Asked a lifelong ED RN who grows about this before I started using. She says it’s reefer madness and she’s never seen it once, not in a buyer, not in a patient. YMMV.

Some people function fine with it and others don’t. Just like some people get aggressive with alcohol and others become funny or idiotic. I used to smoke weed in my 20s and early 30s but then it started to make me paranoid so I quit. I know people that have smoked it all their life and are fine other than being a bit lazy or boring. It’s a good tool if you play an instrument and write music. Some of the strains that are available these days are more akin to taking a psychedelic than smoking the weed I remember.

As someone who frequently uses edibles: no.

Whenever I’m high I can still differentiate between what’s real and what’s fantasy.

marijunana psychosis isn’t a thing as far as I’m aware.

Many years ago, I offered a girl in my dorm to get high with me and to my surprise she got very freaked out and scared, which I had never seen happen to anyone before. And what we smoked back in those days was much tamer than what they have today. I had to sit with her and keep her calm for what seemed like forever. Really harshed my mellow (from my language in this post, you can guess my age 😄 ).

Point is though, yes–some people can have a negative reaction to it. Was it mj-induced psychosis in this case? I dunno, I don’t know the definition. I don’t think she actually hallucinated or anything, it was more like a major anxiety attack.

I’ve seen it twice. In two people who are prone and had some mental instability issues. I am almost certain a mentally healthy person would never have any kind of an issue.

I’m not a doctor or scientist, but here is what I saw and what I believe happened.

Their mental health decline caused them to increase their intake by a decent amount. I think untreated, they would have had the same outcome in less than a year. But the weed sped things up a great deal. What should have taken months happened in just a couple/few weeks. One of them ended up standing on top of a police SUV downtown after giving away pretty much everything he had to homeless people. Including his wallet with his ID, social security card and debit/credit cards. It was the safest and quickest way to get him help so it ended up being a good thing. I tried everything I could in the days before that. Delusions of grandeur, constant tinfoil hat shit, thought he was being directly targeted by the government alphabet agencies because of what he knew.

They’re both fine now. But I do believe the increased potency in modern weed negates many previous studies on the effects it can have. I’m not against it in the least. But definitely more wary.

Induced is the key word. it can’t flip a switch that isn’t there.

If you are primed for it drinking could send you over the edge.

It could very much be true, according to this meta-analysis study that showed up at the top of my results after spending 2 seconds looking this up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7442038/

I had heard about the causal link between marijuana use and onset of schizophrenia in people predisposed to suffer this illness (i.e. cannabis may be a trigger but these people could’ve developed the illness anyway later in life).

I didn’t know it could cause psychosis too but there you go. How much truth or risk there is in all this, I can’t say, but I personally am not willing to risk it.

yes it’s real. It’s incredibly rare. In most cases, harmless.

You could get unlucky though.

Yes,

Through regular use, psychosis is not unheard of. It is very unlikely to happen if you use it once but regular use will eventually cause psychosis. It will always start with paranoia, which is always the first side effect to appear with marijuana.