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Originally Posted by atari 2600

To sum up: Doctors treated patients with a synthesis of a compound known to cause mild paranoia. They then put their patients in this (MRI) machine:

 

...and reported that the brain scan showed affected areas related to paranoia. No shit.

any study worth its salt would be based on a double-blind experiment where neither researcher nor subject knows if the subject was given a placebo. only then can you prove the substance to have a real effect.

so if the placebo doesn't cause paranoia and the synthetic thc does, well, it is what it is, and tough titty, no amount of denial is going to change that.