Why are potheads always so paranoid?

Question

Why are potheads always so paranoid?

Answer 1

because their doing something illegal. they know if they get caught then can really get into some trouble!

Answer 2

What? Who said I was smoking pot?? I'm not paranoid...Who said I'm paranoid??

Have you been following me?

Answer 3

The reason weed gets you high, is the THC content. what THC does is make your red-blood cells travel faster, effectively giving you much more oxygen and making your breathing faster.

The "fight or flight' response is triggered by fast heart rate, and heavy breathing which brings out feelings of anxiety, fear, and ultimately paranoia.

So marijuana in a sense could be psychologically triggering your 'fight or flight' response especially paired with the consious or even unconsious fear of getting caught, because marijuana under most circumstances is ILLEGAL.

That's just my opinion anyway.

Answer 4

It´s a side effect

Answer 5

I believe paranoia is one of the side effects of smoking pot.

Answer 6

marijuana users are only paranoid of getting caught. i have yet to see one smoker fear anything else.

Answer 7

Not all people are smoke are paranoid, but a significant number probably are than the population of non-cannabis smokers.

My thoughts are that cannabis induced psychosis probably has a great deal to play in this, esspecially now the THC (one of the main chemicals that affect you in cannabis) content in skunk is getting stronger and stronger.

My other thought is that people who already have high levels of stress / worry and poor coping methods are more likely to find drugs an escape, and perhaps more likely to be exposed to environments where drugs are avalible due to having more free time to meet people due to unemployment, homelessness, trust/vunerability issues and other thngs you are probably more at risk of experiencing if your not coping so good.