Is weed paranoia just manufactured government propaganda?

A study by the University of Oxford claimed to reveal last year that smoking marijuana makes you paranoid. But is that just what the government wants you to think?! Are the government claiming cannabis causes paranoia just to make us paranoid?!

Professor Daniel Freeman who led the study was tasked with finding the link between paranoia and THC, the psychoactive element of marijuana.

'The study very convincingly shows that cannabis can cause short-term paranoia in some people,' says Professor Freeman. 'But more importantly it shines a light on the way our mind encourages paranoia. Paranoia is likely to occur when we are worried, think negatively about ourselves, and experience unsettling changes in our perceptions.'

But a little digging into other research projects overseen by Prof Freeman indicates he is regularly commissioned to look into the causes behind delusions, schizophrenia, mental illness and paranoia.

At this point it's worth noting that the...

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