For some people, the paranoia they experience while high leads to or triggers an anxiety disorder which follows them also when they're not smoking. It's probably what happened to your friend.

Then it's a kinder drug to you than to many others.

So is alcohol. I can drink it frequently and not turn into an alcoholic, unlike a lot of other people. Does that mean we should outlaw it?

cannabis and alcohol isn't a good mix, I'm not using my own experiance as evidence I'm just one social guinea pig weighing in. It could be possible that the unpredictable effects of cannabis is a result of using an unpredictable environment for your findings.

Mixing cannabis and alcohol NCPIC

It's nothing major it's just being cautious not to get caught in the act. I'd hate my dad to find out. My mum not so much, she's cool but I still haven't told her. I dread the day she accidentally stumbles upon my messbox.

^ This actually raises an interesting point. If weed were legal it might actually cut down on paranoia. :laughing:

Rubato: anytime I've been drinking and smoking I've been ****ed for a good few hours thinking "I'm never going to recover" it's awful. Don't mix your narcotics kids.

edit: @Jans, that IS an interesting point, because I'm thinking about the times I vividly remember being paranoid and they're all about police or parents catching me.

I never said it should be illegal.
As I said, I'm for decriminalising, but not legalising.

First of all, I still find alcohol irrelevant to this discussion. Legalization should be about consequences and not allowing something just because we allow something else. Second, alcohol is not the same as cannabis. Perhaps society would be better if we didn't have alcohol, but considering most adults enjoy it and it's such an ingrained part of culture, society at large would probably not accept it's sudden illegality. If you really were to remove alcohol in a way which was beneficial, you'd probably have to find ways to wean society off it and that's sometimes done in subtle ways.

Either way, a sudden illegality of alcohol is not the same as a sudden legality of cannabis because the drugs have different uses, cultural significance and the two scenarios are completely different. So to me, that's another reason why the legality of alcohol is largely irrelevant when it comes to the legality of cannabis.

Well, it was decriminalized in my state, which means you get a fine instead of arrested, and though I think that's and improvement, it's still pretty lame.

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