For me, it depends what I am doing at the time. I like to smoke and hangout with friends and listen to music... in that settings I don't get the anxiety I get if I smoke alone. I am working a lot out with my therapist, but if I smoke alone, i spend ALOT of time deep in thought, I seem to be able to pick the entire situation apart and come to a conclusion analytically. I have been though a lot of $hit and I think smoking pot helps me process it all without wanting to kill some of those people. I never got suicidal, I always got homicidal. Weed has made me a lot happier, I have confidence, I have a social life and I got back in school, all because of weed.

When it comes to psychosis, I don't think it caused my SZ, I was delusional and hallucinating since I was very young, it went seemingly unnoticed as I never told anyone about it, i just thought it was normal for everyone else too, I guess not!

I do think it can exacerbate anything you are feeling, thinking, etc, though. I only smoke if I am in a good mood otherwise it puts me in more of a bad mood. All my 5 of my psychiatrists advised me again smoking pot, I never smoked as a kid and only started to smoke in the past 3 or 4 years, I process all my thoughts in peace, and after having am auditory hallucination yesterday in the woods while i was fishing. I turned around to respond and there was noone there...just trees... it messed with my head, then i smoked and laugh that it happened, rather than be upset. I laugh at anyone who tries to sell me that there is noone there, I heard them, there was someone there, just like there was someone in my apartment that scared the @hit out of my dog that she was shaking badly and very nervous. But you get the point.