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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: "ex" smokers of MJ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.005034.10962@galois.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov14.114618.29569@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 00:50:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.114618.29569@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mleayr@nyx.cs.du.edu (matthew leayr) writes:
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- >Hi,
- > I know several people who used to smoke large amounts of marijuana
- >but no longer touch it because it "freaks them out too much" or they "cant
- >handle it". When quizzed as to why they don't smoke anymore, they are often
- >reluctant to even talk about it and shrug it off. This puzzles me.
-
- Some people feel paranoid when they smoke marijuana. Here I am using
- "paranoid" in a colloquial sense, as opposed to any psychological
- definition thereof. I.e., they feel marijuana makes them alienated,
- unable to relate smoothly to people, nervous, depressed, nihilistic, or
- whatever. Some people I know got to feeling this way after smoking a
- lot even though they liked it initially. It's easy to imagine why
- people you know might be reluctant to discuss it... they don't want to
- go back those unpleasant moments, or have people think they are weird.
-
- This is an interesting phenomenon... I wonder if it's understood at all
- why this happens to some people and not others, why it happens when it
- does, etc. --- probably not!
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