| The paranoia inducing effects can be very therapeutic, especially for people who suffer from paranoia and anxiety in general. You can ask your doctor for a drug that allows you to increase or decrease paranoia at your leisure. He would probably look at you like you're insane before saying “No, I have no such drug.” But he does: marijuana. But he wouldn't prescribe a drug that induces paranoia to cure paranoia, unless he's thinking desensitization. This sounds counterintuitive, but that's how marijuana cured me of anxiety. I became desensitized to being paranoia while stoned, so desensitized that the “paranoia stopped making me paranoid”: “Oh! I'm just being paranoid! It's the weed.* What surprised me was that this effect followed me whether I was stoned or not. My anxiety got drastically better, cured almost, and it's because marijuana gave me control over paranoia by exposing me to it over and over and over, desensitizing me: Smoke a lot, really paranoid. Smoke a little, a little paranoid. Smoke nothing, not paranoid. “Hey, Mom, look! I can turn the paranoia on or off whenever I want to! Now I'm in control, it doesn't control me.” I essentially cured myself of paranoia by using marijuana as a paranoia desensitization tool. And you absolutely can desensitize yourself to marijuana's paranoia inducing effects. You do become accustomed to the experience, and it won't bother nearly as much as it might have before. You can also be very selective about the strains you consume. Heavy sativas induce paranoia as consistently as heavy indicas induce the munchies. |