NYC,

I'm new here but hope I can provide something with my own personal experience. For me, smoking pot DURING the trauma helped with the anxiety that I would experience during trauma phases. However, as I got older, pot started making me paranoid - I'm not sure if it had any relation to me experiencing trauma and being high at the same time, earlier in my life. I will say this: if I could smoke pot and not get paranoid from the high, I would smoke every day instead of taking anti-anxiety and anti-depressants.

Personally, I DO think that certain kinds of pot CAN distort certain realities. It certainly has happened to me. I might take that into consideration with regards to your question.

best,
rachel