Odd experiences with marijuana

Hey everyone.

despite my username (highasfawk) I have only used cannabis 9-11 times in my life. I want to discuss my reactions with everyone and see if what I feel is "normal". I know everyone's high is different, and I know that everyone reacts to it differently. But I've had some very strange reactions that seem un-heard of.

my first time smoking marijuana, I didnt really get high, I just felt light headed, and kinda of mellow. Almost like an enhanced, more pleasant nicotine rush. The next time I smoked, I flipped a shit for about 30 mins. I think this might have been because I was in an uncomfortable situation, and I was inexperienced. I didnt really feel paranoid, just very anxious, I had a panic attack. I also felt kinda of depressed the next day.

The next few times I smoked, I didnt smoke much and had decent times.

I stopped for a few months then did it again during the summer. I did it with my cousins, and I felt very comfortable with them ( keep in mind my cousin has some amazing connects, she gets it straight form the grower, so it is VERY high quality bud). It was an enjoyable experience without a doubt. I sat on the couch, laughed my ass off to south park, ate a ton of popcorn and pretzels, then slept like a baby for like 12 hours. I woke up and felt fine.

A few weeks later, I smoked a high amount of marijuana with my friends. It was about 4 grams between the 3 of us (stupid I know). At first the experience was enjoyable and funny as hell, we got lost in the woods, and somehow completely lost the trail, and came up by a highway. We foudn our way back to my town and had a great time. I kept feeling a sense of togetherness, I also kept thinking it was very late at night (2 am, summer night... kid cudi), and for some odd reason that it was Christmas. This made me very happy, and i enjoyed it. How ever when I got home and tried to sleep, I got these weird half asleep closed eye visuals/ dreams. It was a bunch of weird visions of me and my friends, just hanging out and talking. It frightened me horribly. I had didnt sleep at all that night, and I started freaking out.

I didnt smoke for another few monthes and I had similar experience, decent time while high, but cloudy thinking, weird dream states, and nervousness after the effect.

If you really dont want to read all this ill sum up my effects:

Good and bad experiences
Very odd after effects including closed eye visuals, nervousness
Panic attacks ( only once though)

Does anyone else have these effects? or am I just one of those people who just shouldn't use Cannabis

Keep in mind I'm only 15, and I have had problems with anxiety all my life.

Thanks for your imput

 

the panic attack is perfectly normal.

The nervousness as you're coming down also makes sense. your body gets used to being chill and mellow while high so it makes sense that any anxiety would be amplified once the high starts to go away.

its also normal for cannabis to interfere with sleep and dreaming. Its possible that you got the half awake/half asleep dreams because the cannabis effected your melatonin production or something. Melatonin is the chemical that controls your sleep patterns.

It doesnt really sound to me like you need to give up smoking or anything, especially since you have an enjoyable time while high. You just need to learn how to mentally control the anxiety, which can be done (try breathing exercises). As far as the dreams go, the only thing I can think to suggest is to smoke several hours before you need to go to bed and never smoke right before bed.

 

It seems to me that the only time I have trouble sleeping is after the effect goes away, not when Im on it. So it might be the opposite, but I dont know.

I also fear schizophrenia, my uncle has it, but he took hard drugs like acid. Ive seen a therapist, and he told me hes seen absolutely no signs of schizophrenia, or at least the ones that almost always occur as a person who is inflicted with the disease (onset is early-mid 20's) would have in their adolescent stages. So I don't think I'll get it, but I suppose you never know.

 

It all sounds completely normal to me, especially when you have a low tolerance. If you want the "negative" effect to dissipate and to just get the other effects, then smoke more often and let your body/mind get used to it.

 

Panic attacks are pretty normal but you can fight through those. Just sit back and enjoy, my friend

 

I really wouldn't worry about this. Yes,there have been recent studies showing that weed can possibly speed up the onset of schitzophrenia, but the key phrase there is "speed up." If you have a genetic predisposition to schitzophrenia, you will develop it eventually. Weed simply acts as a catalyst, and I'm not sure I completely buy into that anyways.

 

awe that makes me wonder about me and my friends smoking habits haha

 

Three to four grams?

Holy shit man are you okay?!

 

rofl

 

hahahaha:sifone:

 

I had an almost panic attack once and I had to use a steve vai video to calm me down. The only questionable thing there was why the fuck I was listening to steve vai.

I'm not really experienced either, only been smoking for maybe 3 years and probably 25-30 times total, but recently I've given it a rest due to the fact that it makes me subtly uneasy while on the surface sort of relaxed... if you can even call it that. At the end of the day I just came to the conclusion that I'd rather be wasted than high any day of the week... lol

 

To the op;

You mentioned that you've suffered from anxiety your whole life. Cannabis is used to treat anxiety, it's medically "prescribed" so to speak. Don't worry about it affecting your anxiety, if anything once you get used to it and its effects, it may even help relax you.

The way you responded to it mentally is what made you anxious. Cannabis and other drugs alter our states of reality, naturally the body and mind are going to react with a bit of anxiousness if we're not used to the sensations. If you worry about your reaction or the sensations, you'll become more anxious.

It sounds cliche, but really all you have to do it let go and go with it. Enjoy the sensations and don't worry about visuals, sounds, or anything else. It's all normal. None of these sensations can or will hurt you.

Next time try smoking just a bit, split a doob with one or two of your friends. If you get super baked while inexperienced it might make you uncomfortable.

 

This is the best thing to do, until you're more comfortable with it. Get high gradually. Maybe hit it 2-5 times, depending on the quality, let it kick in fully, then decide if you want to hit it a couple more times. Repeat this until you're as high as you want to be.

 

Have you ever heard of Xanax ? lol

 

sorry, but this is crap, can't let this go. weed gets prescribed for every damn thing under the sun, because many md's who write prescriptions for weed will write it for anything as long as you pay for an office visit.

marijuana has clear medical applications in treating nausea and in reducing pressure in the eyes. this makes it useful, for example, for people who are getting nausea while getting chemotherapy, and for people who have glaucoma. there may be other medical applications of which I'm not aware. Some people use weed to treat depression, insomnia, etc, but I see no more medical validity for those uses than for using alcohol to treat the same conditions. You might get symptomatic relief, but I think it is likely to make many of these problems worse in the long run.

For healthy people, occasional use of weed is not likely to cause any health problems. If you have mental health problems, or a family history of serious mental illness, it could be a problem. In particular, there are some studies which suggest that people who start smoking in their early teens are significantly more likely to become schizophrenic. We can debate the significance of the study, but imho, if you are really scared about going crazy, either wait to smoke when you are older or don't smoke at all.

Heavy smoking over a prolonged period is likely to produce some health problems in most people. Lack of energy and motivation, paranoia, anxiety, depression, losing touch with reality to some degree, are not uncommon symptoms.

If you are going to smoke at all, maybe you could smoke less and smoke less frequently to avoid the problems you've been having.

I recommend that you try a meditation practice and maybe traditional chinese medicine to treat your anxiety.

hope everything works out!

 

I am laying in bed as I type, blazed mind you. I feel the sound waves from my fan reverberating through my body.

Epic.!?!...

 

I only flipped out on pot twice I think. The last time I flipped out. I had smoked a bowl and 3 hours later I took 2 more hits (bad idea all together). I was still high as a kite from the bowl I smoked 3 hours before. This pot I had gotten off my dad's x-wife. It must have been really strong weed. I know it wasn't laced. The thought of it being laced never crossed my mind. I smoked way too much. Like a dumbass I thought I could handle it. I have realized that I need to slow it down, and maybe you should do the same. Slow it down. doesn’t mean you have to stop. Just take it slow and let your body get used to it. it doesn't take me much to get high. it seems I will keep smoking and not feel high. then later it hits me like bricks.

 

i read all of it and i can tell you that you are one of those people who only smokes with people they are very close to. cud be a girl, good longtime friend, or in you case , your cousins..

 

Had to say it, acid isn't a hard drug. Ampetamines, coke, and opiates are generally considered 'hard drugs.'

 

i smoked a week ago, shot with a 5o cal, they said i was green as fuck, ended up walking to the pub a bit layed in a ditch and melted into the ground , i couldnt move because i had grown roots, i knew were i was going and just waited it out, after a few hours i walked about 2o meaters and climbed into a tree cave crashed there, untill i could walk again, to me its not odd, i always have heaps to drink than if i some were with smoke ill have a hit i would say 4 out of ten times i green out, .... just chill and ride it out, if ur fucked ur fucked no point fighting it, know what ur in for before u get there than it will be eayser to cope,