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.

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.

This will be unpopular but I have found Marijuana users to be extremely biased against any negatives raised about the drug and conversely very biased towards accepting anything positive. Because of this and the fact that psychosis is rare, i.e. not the typical experience, the answer you are mostly likely to get here is that Marijuana doesn’t cause it. You can only trust their personal “had it or didn’t have it” but not what they say about never seeing it in others.

Imagine that it causes psychosis in 1 in 1000 users (I don’t know the real ratio this is just for example). That would mean, based on personal experience alone, you would get 999 answers saying it’s totally fine, and 1 saying it causes psychosis. You walk away thinking it’s safe when maybe for you, it’s not. Even if it was 1 in 10 you’d probably still think the consensus is that it’s safe the 1 saying its not is going against the consensus so must have an agenda. Not what if the rate in the general population is 1 in 1,000,000 but the rate for people with a family history of mental illness is 1 in 3? Both can be true but which is the one that matters to you? Here you’d only be finding the 1 in a million number when you really want to know the one in 3 number.

Things like this are not about opinions they are about statistics. As someone else said, don’t ask social media for medical matters, science is not about consensus it’s about evidence. The laws of physics don’t change based on how many people believe something.

Many comments here are the equivalent of saying “I’ve never seen a car crash so they must be made up, it’s just fear mongering by the auto industry to put useless air bags and seat belts in the car to charge you more”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s absolutely a thing. Don’t you know anyone who went nuts from it? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve met plenty of them.

My father also used to work in an institution for psychotic patients. He always brought home the artwork that they made and gave him. He had entire box of it, and could basically go through it and say which drug the artist had used just by looking at it.

I have zero training in this field but once read a paper on this. I think it essentially said that ganja was ok (?) on its on but for people with “brewing psychosis” it could trigger/enable that breakdown.

The other problem might be that simply thinking about the possibility of an episode will freak you out - the existential dread would be very draining.

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.

There’s a correlation between cannabis use and psychosis, though it’s not clear whether cannabis causes/accelerates psychosis or whether people with tendencies towards psychosis are more likely to self-medicate with cannabis.

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

You could get unlucky though.

It is pretty much just scaremongering. Marijuana, like any drug, can put a person in a mental state that can serve as a trigger for a psychological condition that someone is prone to, like if someone with a family history of anxiety gets way too uncomfortably high. It’s not necessarily the drug that’s at fault - it’s having a stressful experience of a bad time. I’ve never heard of psychosis induced by cannabis though.

Marijuana is just about the safest drug there is, and I think most people could safely try it with no ill effects.

Scaremongering.