This is the kind of overlooked detail that makes the “It’s safe!” and It’s dangerous!” folks talk past each other.
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THC can have opposite effects on our bodies at high and low doses, Volkow says. Take anxiety levels, for example.
..."When someone takes marijuana at a low [THC] content to relax and to stone out, actually, it decreases your anxiety," she says. But high concentrations can cause panic attacks, and if someone consumes high-enough levels of THC, "you become full-blown psychotic and paranoid."
Weed can have a similar paradoxical effect on the vascular system. Volkow says: "If you take low-content THC it will increase your blood flow, but high content [THC] can produce massive vasoconstriction, it decreases the flow through the vessels."...