A Month on Dope terrifies journalist A BBC journalist says she began losing her mind while smoking cannabis for a month as part of a television experiment. Mother-of-three Nicky Taylor, 43, suffered paranoia, fear and anxiety after smoking marijuana every day as part of a documentary into the long-term effects of the drug. And when she allowed herself to be injected with pure THC — the active ingredient in cannabis — she had a psychotic episode the equivalent of a schizophrenic attack. "I felt absolutely terrified," Taylor said. "Paranoia set in, and I felt as if I was having a panic attack. "At one point, I was simply too frightened to get out of my chair … I had a feeling the drug had unlocked some sort of paranoia in my head that would never go away again." Taylor filmed her experiment for the BBC documentary "Should I Smoke Dope?", which airs tonight in Britain. She admits to experimenting with cannabis while at university 20 years ago, but says today's hydroponically-grown "skunk" is far stronger and more dangerous. But it was the THC injection that Taylor says "totally wrecked my mind". "I was thinking about jumping out of a window," she said. A psychological score rated her psychosis as greater than that found in some people suffering a schizophrenic attack. Taylor has experimented on herself before. In the past, she has filmed herself receiving plastic surgery, binge drinking and not bathing or showering for six weeks. Taylor has reportedly suffered no permanent damage.
source: ninemsn
Shock Doc; looks like Nicky Taylor is building upon success she had with other documentary's such as "not bathing or showering for six weeks". Fascinating stuff, but injecting pot? Gotta wonder if Taylor's "paranoia, anxiety and fear" is a result of being an idiot.
On the flipside, here's a doco that may disprove some of Taylor's findings:
You know that movie Super Size Me, where that guy Morgan Spurlock ate McDonald’s every meal for 30 days? People actually paid money to see that. Well, if that’s a movie, I’ve got a movie! I’m going to smoke pot every day for 30 days, and it’s going to be called Super High Me, or Business As Usual… I haven’t decided on a title yet. But guess what? McDonald’s is going to be in my movie too! - Doug Benson
As part of his journey, Doug smokes, eats and vaporizes medical marijuana for thirty consecutive days in order to get “Super High.” But there is a catch–first Doug must go thirty days without any marijuana and undertakes a number of tests, completing the same tests while medicated and while sober, in an effort to find out what marijuana does and how it really affects people. Along the way, we follow Doug as he goes out on the road to stand up gigs across the country and hangs out with fellow comedians Sarah Silverman, Bob Odenkirk and Patton Oswalt.
Different outcome?
We'll see come 420
