in my case a lot of the paranoia was simply because what I was doing was illegal, and obtaining drugs involved associating with dodgy people in dodgy places (like the Oxford Road in Reading late at night)
but I certainly did find cannabis made me less motivated/tired to the point the negatives outweighed the positives
back in 2000 everyone had this the “hippy dream” of lots of “sorted stoners” growing their own, a positive cannabis culture and imminent decriminalisation / legalisation..
I said the chances of this would be slim, although some would (and do) grow others would be lazy and a market would open up for even more gangsters producing weed on a commercial basis and that the “hippy cannabis cafés” would just end up being run by gangsters
I even predicted that decriminalisation would be a half-hearted, grudging affair that would be sneaked in by the backdoor (so as not to piss off America) the next time we ended up backing up the USA a “Middle Eastern” war (bear in mind I had no idea then what was to happen in September 2001!), and that something would happen to fuck it up and create a backlash…
I was then accused of being overly pessimistic, but look whats happened now…
