Gemma Speck

individuals are going to react differently to this substance.

People do go on to develop really severe mental health conditions in response to smoking weed.

Psychosis from weed or from cannabis, schizophrenia from the consumption of cannabis is

is real it's not just like something that is used to scare people there are certain individuals who have a a personality genetic temperament vulnerability psychological vulnerability that means their schizophrenic psychotic symptoms remain on like remain untriggered until they smoke weed and that can genuinely affect

That is life changing for them.

And that is like it's life changing.

So be careful.

Be safe.

Know if your family has a history of that.

Go slow and just like take care of yourself.

Like if again, I think it all comes down to this.

If this experience is elevating life for you and making, if it's elevating already positive experiences, elevating time with your friends, elevating your creative practice, elevating your mood on a beautiful sunny day, go for it.

But if you are honest with yourself and it's not doing those things,

Or if you're just doing it to keep up with a partner, with a friendship group, or you're just doing it to avoid other stuff that's going on, that is not a healthy state of mind to be in at the very minimum when consuming weed.

And it's not a healthy place to be in, in terms of risk of dependency.

So that's what I'm going to leave it at.

I do think weed can be quite a spiritual positive thing, quite psychologically rewarding.

But when it isn't that for you, it requires closer examination.

And I hope that this episode has allowed you to do that or allowed you to do that in regards to a relationship that you're in or in regards to a friendship or somebody that you know who might also be struggling with whether weed is a good or bad choice for them or their relationship to it.

I'm going to leave a couple of links in the description for you guys to check out further if you like have concerns or worries, but also if you just want to do some deeper research.