Is pot good for you?

Why
smokers are paranoid?

Paranoia
is one of the most unpleasant "side effects" of marijuana. It's also
a key experience shared by marijuana smokers and people with schizophrenia. This
increased fear-based learning helps explain why stoners tend to see patterns in
events that aren't real, such as conspiracies. Interestingly, the researchers
also found that they could prevent the enhanced fear learning in rats given the
marijuana-like drug by inactivating activity in a region called the prefrontal
cortex before exposing them to the shocks. The prefrontal cortex is a
higher-level brain area involved in executive functions like planning,
decision-making and controlling responses and impulses. In humans, this could
potentially explain why telling yourself or being told, Chill out.

Is
pot good for you?

It appears that marijuana is not good for your mental
health, a variety of studies have shown a correlation of
marijuana use with various mental illnesses, but this is only a
correlation and has yet to be shown to be an actual cause of mental
illness. Health
effects on the body and thought to be similar to that of
tobacco use, yet studies have yet to show a link with lung cancer
and other negative effects of tobacco use. This
could be due to both the chemical makeup of marijuana and the way in which
marijuana is smoked. Marijuana has been shown to be beneficial to help certain
people deal with complications of treatment for cancer and HIV/AIDS. It also
can be useful in dealing with chronic pain.