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Anecdotal however cannabis has many compounds, The two main ones are: THC and CBD. If your using a strain that has high THC and not much in CBD. CBD being the

Anecdotal however cannabis has many compounds, The two main ones are: THC and CBD. If your using a strain that has high THC and not much in CBD. CBD being the compound to safe-guard, governor the effects of THC you end up in a trip that can spiral out of control causing negative effects. If you add a CBD strain to the mix. Which are high in CBD and contain trace amounts of THC to your normal method usage, these tend to level out the percentages. My take is this: If your not mentally fit, high THC can cause you to go off the edge compared to strains with lower amounts. The same can be said for Wine and the alcohol volume. And I talk from personal experience from being in a psychosis episode caused by cannabis. -- Edit: I have my own downvote brigade. Yay - Just seems odd that every post I post on HN gets down-voted.

saryant 5y ago
This matches my experience as someone who struggles with severe anxiety and intrusive/delusional thoughts. THC makes for a very bad time for me, but a high CBD edible calms down my mind and helps me temper those thoughts.
stevev 5y ago
I’m upvoting this. I believe your explanation on the strains are on point. When using the vapor method, very high in thc, sometimes I do experience psychosis or schizophrenic symptoms. My perception of reality does change a bit during peak affect but disappears after wearing off. When smoking raw cannabis the regular way, I experience a more calming affect; emotionally tolerable and focused mindset.
filoeleven 5y ago
Don’t forget the terpenes! Terpenes play a big role in cannabis effects as well, accounting for the differences between sativa and indica strains. Pinine and terpinaline for example are more likely than other terpenes to cause anxiety and paranoia at higher concentrations, meaning >1%. I don’t know if they contribute psychotic episodes though.
slingnow 5y ago
Editing your post to whine about the downvotes will surely get people to stop downvoting you. Well played.
meowface 5y ago
>-- Edit: I have my own downvote brigade. Yay - Just seems odd that every post I post on HN gets down-voted. Respectfully, I think it may largely be because your post has many odd grammar and spelling errors, and a confusing sentence and paragraph structure. As a result, the post is difficult and awkward to read. I don't think the downvotes have much to do with the actual content of the post. The content of everything you said is obviously 100% correct. It's just - again, with all due respect - written in an especially peculiar and very grammatically incorrect way. Many of your posts seem to be like this, and I think that's probably mainly why you seem to get downvoted often. It's not what you're saying, but how you're saying it. (If English isn't your first language, I understand that it's unfair, but that's just how people seem to react.)
- doublerabbit 5y ago
  The additional parts that I could comprehend as strange would be the part where spiral off to and explain what CBD is. "CBD is the governor.." I did that for users who may not be familiar with cannabis. and a "," and a stray capital letter after a comma and a few words. Drat, I see them now. I can see that now. I am always happy to correct my mistakes and I do normally double check, edit, reconstruct. However if that is truly reason of down-votes and, I will admit some of my comments have been lack-luster contain down-votes, understandably. I do have a learning-disability in English then that's act of discrimination in a way. I can't call upon on those who do and so if the down-votes are truly "I can't read your text and I am not going to bother to put effort in to trying to understand, I am down-voting." is very petty of the user. However I do not think it's grammatical errors at all. It feels too coincidental, but you could be correct and if that is, then I'll work on it. Thank you for the input.

saryant 5y ago

This matches my experience as someone who struggles with severe anxiety and intrusive/delusional thoughts. THC makes for a very bad time for me, but a high CBD edible calms down my mind and helps me temper those thoughts.

stevev 5y ago

I’m upvoting this. I believe your explanation on the strains are on point. When using the vapor method, very high in thc, sometimes I do experience psychosis or schizophrenic symptoms. My perception of reality does change a bit during peak affect but disappears after wearing off. When smoking raw cannabis the regular way, I experience a more calming affect; emotionally tolerable and focused mindset.

filoeleven 5y ago

Don’t forget the terpenes! Terpenes play a big role in cannabis effects as well, accounting for the differences between sativa and indica strains. Pinine and terpinaline for example are more likely than other terpenes to cause anxiety and paranoia at higher concentrations, meaning >1%. I don’t know if they contribute psychotic episodes though.

slingnow 5y ago

Editing your post to whine about the downvotes will surely get people to stop downvoting you. Well played.

meowface 5y ago

>-- Edit: I have my own downvote brigade. Yay - Just seems odd that every post I post on HN gets down-voted. Respectfully, I think it may largely be because your post has many odd grammar and spelling errors, and a confusing sentence and paragraph structure. As a result, the post is difficult and awkward to read. I don't think the downvotes have much to do with the actual content of the post. The content of everything you said is obviously 100% correct. It's just - again, with all due respect - written in an especially peculiar and very grammatically incorrect way. Many of your posts seem to be like this, and I think that's probably mainly why you seem to get downvoted often. It's not what you're saying, but how you're saying it. (If English isn't your first language, I understand that it's unfair, but that's just how people seem to react.)

doublerabbit 5y ago
The additional parts that I could comprehend as strange would be the part where spiral off to and explain what CBD is. "CBD is the governor.." I did that for users who may not be familiar with cannabis. and a "," and a stray capital letter after a comma and a few words. Drat, I see them now. I can see that now. I am always happy to correct my mistakes and I do normally double check, edit, reconstruct. However if that is truly reason of down-votes and, I will admit some of my comments have been lack-luster contain down-votes, understandably. I do have a learning-disability in English then that's act of discrimination in a way. I can't call upon on those who do and so if the down-votes are truly "I can't read your text and I am not going to bother to put effort in to trying to understand, I am down-voting." is very petty of the user. However I do not think it's grammatical errors at all. It feels too coincidental, but you could be correct and if that is, then I'll work on it. Thank you for the input.