> I once spent an evening talking a friend down from a really nasty spell of paranoid dissociation after she ate the recommended dose of a legally purchased pot

> I once spent an evening talking a friend down from a really nasty spell of paranoid dissociation after she ate the recommended dose of a legally purchased pot cookie in Washington. > I suspect quality control at my friend's bakery was shit and she got way too much of something or other The quality control may not have been to blame. I've smoked cannabis for many years, and know many people that do. I used to think as many do that these stories of mental breakdowns/freakouts were just anti-drug propaganda. Then one day a friend brought his coworker (whom I had never met) to visit. We smoked one joint between the three of us, it was not particularly strong. But the guy just went nuts. Talking nonsense that was obviously part of some paranoid thoughts he was having. Me and my friend spent the rest of the evening calming him down and by the end he had mostly returned to normal. It's clear to me this guy had some underlying psychological issues that were triggered by cannabis. But it only took a very small amount to trigger that episode. As my friend told me, he just stopped showing up for work after that and after a couple of months was let go. I don't know where he is today but I hope he recovered and realised that cannabis is something that he really should not touch again. But again, this is one person out of dozens of people I've smoked with over the years. It's uncommon, but can be quite serious for those afflicted.