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by bslalwn 435 days ago
Can you be specific about those tweaker psychological and personality changes? I’m someone who’s never dealt with weed smokers, as it’s non-existent in my circles.
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IME: Increase in artist-like traits like creativity, magical beliefs, and odd behavior. I've seen a couple of Youtubers like this and remember some heavy weed smokers in undergrad who started to go off the rails.
Or people who's minds are swirving more and more use weed as a guard rail which eventually can't contain the ever growing mental swings.
He is referencing delta 9, which has a lot of the same similarities as what we refer to colloquially as "weed".

Delta 9 is much different physiologically and psychologically and can induce this abhorrent behaviors.

Also in the mid to early 2000's over 50.3% of US adults (Pew Research Center) had tried cannabis, I can assure you someone in your "circle" has smoked in their life.