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Shady41

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Posted: 06-14-07 15:25pm

Dude, you need to check that stash if any is still available. Sounds to me like you got a hit of more than just weed. Each person may respond differently, obviously, but it sounds to me like you might have hit some dust, gotten some moldy weed, or like it was laced with some SERIOUS caca and was not mere cannibis. Peace out!
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Posted: 06-14-07 20:09pm

afew times ih ave been smoking it and like, i felt my blood rush and it sounded like that fuzzy sound ont he tv that it makes, and then i could slowely not feel my body and i would move my head or even and everything like really slow motion then i would have a bad sick gross feeling in my stomach and my abdomen, i would green out on a couch or bed or something and fall asleep for half an hour or two and wake up, and sometimes just be really horny lol but i would be back to normal?!?!?1
what the hell is that, it basicly happened everytime... maybe i just dont go with pot, i hate the caca now and havnt touched it for ages but it angers me off when it doesnt happen to anyone else
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Posted: 06-20-07 08:05am

90 percent of the people who read this post are saying - this kid must be 15, because smoking a little pot does not do this - its not LSD!


ahhhh, kids...
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Posted: 06-20-07 08:46am

Shady41 wrote:
Dude, you need to check that stash if any is still available. Sounds to me like you got a hit of more than just weed. Each person may respond differently, obviously, but it sounds to me like you might have hit some dust, gotten some moldy weed, or like it was laced with some SERIOUS health question and was not mere cannibis. Peace out!
unmmmm,this post is from 2005. . .the stash is loooooooong gone man. . . Laughing
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apartment

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Re: Bad Trip On Cannabis. Please Dont Do It
Posted: 08-19-07 08:23am

You are not crazy and there is nothing wrong with you. Some people just don't react well to marijuana. It can cause panic attacks and bad feelings. I have had two bad experiences like yours and I know there is nothing wrong with me. I just don't smoke it anymore because it is not worth it. You are fine. Just stay away from the weed since your body doesn't react well to it.


abstractabstract wrote:
I'm posting this to let people know how horrible a bad trip can be, on cannabis. Don't make the same mistake I did...


It was about 2pm in the school holidays, I had gone to my friend's house with the intention of doing marijuana, his parents were out. I had tried weed before a few times, and to no effect. And the experience I had that day changed me forever and I must say I have learned my lesson. I urge you all not to smoke weed, a bad trip is devestating.


Me and my two friends went down to the bottom garden of the house out onto the grass. We began the session. I thought that because it didn't do anything last time, that if I smoked a ridiculous amount, it might just do something.


Boy, was I right. Within 15 minutes I was crying and shaking panting: 'health question, no no please make it stop' over and over. The world no longer had individual sounds; it was all put together into a non sensicle blur of audio. My friends were freaking out, they were talking to me. Then all of a sudden the dissapeared and their speech echoed for what seemed like forever.

I then realised that they hadn't dissapeared; they had just moved and I had skipped time. I jumped like a startled cat with a sharp yelp of absoloute terror. I kept forgetting who I was, and where I was. I felt like a copy of me was controlling my body & that I was trapped forever inside my skull.


I skipped time every few seconds, screaming frantically with each one. It was like the world had frozen, then suddenly it would unfreeze with all the sound rushing in its wake.


I ran from my friends, up back to the house, to the garden hose. I completely drenched myself in an attempt to drown out the thc. It was unbearable.


I sat crying on my friend's concrete steps outside rocking back and forth. Then I fell through the floor, performing somersaults over and over at an unbelievable speed, I felt the wind on me and I fell faster and faster further away from my body which I could never get back to again.

I opened my eyes, and screamed harder than I ever have before, I thought I was dead, weeping profusely into my arms trying to shield myself. I then threw up until I gagged with emptyness.


I wanted to kill myself, to end it. Luckily I decided that it wasn't worth it, not quite. I kept telling myself "it'll be over soon". I've never ever considered suicide before, it scared me also.


... After what seemed like weeks, it finally wore off.
Days after that experience, I still had flash backs that made me jump. Please.. If you, the reader, are reading this and are thinking of experimenting with marijuana, I beg you not to.


Sorry this was so long, but i've learned my lesson.

Say no to marijuana.
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abstractabstract

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Posted: 08-20-07 03:07am

painintheneck.
I WAS actually 15 when this happened to me, I'm nearly 18 now and it still prevents me from going to many public gatherings and makes me go cold even when I smell it..

It was not laced with anything, my friends did not get the same psychotic effect as I did.

But there are always the dedicated stoners who will snigger and put me down - through my preaching I've learnt to accept it; but please don't bring that dry sarcastic tone to such a serious topic.

I hope it doesn't happen to you or anybody else.
Thank you all very much for the discussion & replies.
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Posted: 08-20-07 06:40am

abstractabstract wrote:
painintheneck.
I WAS actually 15 when this happened to me, I'm nearly 18 now and it still prevents me from going to many public gatherings and makes me go cold even when I smell it..

It was not laced with anything, my friends did not get the same psychotic effect as I did.

But there are always the dedicated stoners who will snigger and put me down - through my preaching I've learnt to accept it; but please don't bring that dry sarcastic tone to such a serious topic.

I hope it doesn't happen to you or anybody else.
Thank you all very much for the discussion & replies.
Wow, your still around? dang. . .

well I guess since your friends didn't get the same reaction, it was just the fact that your body didn't react well to it for some reason and hey it's all good. Man if those few stoners get on you about not doing it, tell em' to shove it where the sun don't shine. Real friends don't do that to you.
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Posted: 08-20-07 18:44pm

I absolutely agree. Painintheneck... I guess the other 10% are reading and replying to this forum. I have no idea what kind of friends you have, but 90% of the people I know would sincerely feel bad and not make fun of such a serious situation. You and and your 90% obviously need to grow up.


abstractabstract wrote:
painintheneck.
I WAS actually 15 when this happened to me, I'm nearly 18 now and it still prevents me from going to many public gatherings and makes me go cold even when I smell it..

It was not laced with anything, my friends did not get the same psychotic effect as I did.

But there are always the dedicated stoners who will snigger and put me down - through my preaching I've learnt to accept it; but please don't bring that dry sarcastic tone to such a serious topic.

I hope it doesn't happen to you or anybody else.
Thank you all very much for the discussion & replies.
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Kylee Lo

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Posted: 11-28-07 01:25am

OK, the exact same thing happened to me. I'd smoked weed probably 5 or 6 times before it happened and was fine, but I know I'll never smoke it again.

2 years ago, 6 of my friends and I went for a drive and got high. I only took one hoot and I don't know how much time passed, but I started tripping out. I don't remember too much of what was happening in the real world, because I was trapped inside my own head, but at first everything was really funny and I was just laughing, and telling stories, and whatever.
Then I started trippin out. I got 'trapped in my skull' as you guys are describing...apparently I was nonstop talking, but wasn't making any sense to anybody. I got 'threadededed' which was a word I whipped outa somewhere haha, but that would be where everything was appearing in frames and skipping from one to the next like someone else was describing.
From there I thought I was dying. I was convinced I was dying and I just wanted it to stop. I just wanted everything to stop. At this point I called 911 and my friend had to wrench the phone outa my hands and tell them that it was just a prank call. I was gunna die if I stopped looking for or couldnt find the 'thing' to save me. I have no idea what this 'thing' was but it got to the point where I was so depressed and just wanted it to stop that I just decided it would be better to stop looking for this 'thing' and die. Once I stopped I thought I was dead, then it all started again and I thought that even dying wouldn't stop it. I almost broke my friends arm that night when I was pleading with her to make it stop. At certain points I would come back to reality and I tried to convince my friend to just knock me out but he wouldn't do it.
This explanation I've given you doesn't even come close to what it was like. It's impossible for me to describe it because I don't know what was going on myself, and if you haven't gone through it you can't understand what it's like. Anyways moral of the story...it happened to me too and people tried to tell me it was just laced with something, but my friends who were there and did it too strongly believe that it wasn't, so I don't know. But to this day, 2 years later, I get flashbacks of that night and am scared to drive at night. I haven't smoked anything since, and I know that I never will because like a few of you said, that night nearly wrecked my life, and its seriously made me doubt my sanity.

Anybody who says that weed can't do that to you doesn't have a clue what they're talkin about because obviously it can and it has. Abstract I know exactly what you're talkin about and I completely agree with you.

Also, the friends who were with me who frequently smoke weed will also never let me live it down and often joke about it like yours do.
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Posted: 12-10-07 15:07pm

kword wrote:
penelope67 wrote:
it is possible that it was marijuana. Marijuana is a hallucinogenic. If you smoke too much for your body, it is possible to make you not feel very good. It is also possible that it was laced with something else.


penelope67,

no marijuana is not a hallucinagenic, it is a psychoactive. I have smoked pot for more than 2yrs and have never had any hallucinations of any kind. I do know what true hallucinations are, taken shroom's more than once and having vivid hallucination from amphetamine induced psychosis. You are correct though the marijuana smoked by our little buddy may have been laced with anything, in this case I was thinking somekind of "embalming fluid".

Kword


You are so right there..no hallucination on weed.No addiction either
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DiscoDickTease

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Posted: 12-12-07 23:39pm

I smoked for the third time on Saturday. I vow never to do it again. People in the backyard all looked like the same guy who wasn't even at the party. I was losing it. I was eventually sick later on, and I have an intense fear of being sick, which kind of cripples my life. So being sick then sure didn't help. I was fine all Sunday, until about Sunday night and I was so afraid I was going ot be sick and my heart was beating fast. It is now almost thursday and I can still barely sleep. I went to a walk in clinic on monday at about 10 pm, and the doctor couldn't seem to find anything wrong with me. He did however prescribe Lorazepam. It is supposed to calm the nerves, which it doesn't seem to being doing. I am writing this in an exhausted state, and I just want to go to sleep...

please someone help me!
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Posted: 12-13-07 20:58pm

you must have smoked some acid or a chevy.
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abstractabstract

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Posted: 01-03-08 04:30am

Kylee Lo, your experience couldn't have been more similar to mine. What we experienced was real. The pot was not laced because our friends didn't get the same effect. Even down to the exact detail of pleading with your friends to knock you unconscious as 'an escape', also happened with me.

DiscoDickTease, I don't think there is anything that can help you - we're stuck in this now.
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obeymydog

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Posted: 01-30-08 02:41am

I found this thread after trying to find out what happened with my most recent experience. I think everyone brings up valid points. Marijuana can be pretty benign if used in moderation and knowing your limits. At the same time, you can't deny that there are some pretty bad experiences that people just can't help.

As with any substance that is not regulated (and even some that are), it's not easy to tell how much is too much for one person. I'm not trying to make this a soapbox moment, I just mainly want to share my experience and get it off my chest.

Last Saturday I got together with a few of my friends to play Cranium and Wii. A couple of my friends made pot brownies. They weren't exactly sure what they were doing, which was probably the warning sign that should've stopped me. I've smoked weed a few times before and actually had a hard time getting high. But for the most part, pretty pleasant experiences.

After about an hour after we at the brownies, we were playing Cranium and everything started to slow waaaay down. I was watching the hourglass that measures each team's turn, and it seemed to be taking forever. Right then I started thinking, "this could be bad, but hopefully I can ride it out" Everyone else around me (the entire group of 6 people had brownies) was laughing hysterically and having a good time. No one seemed to notice that I hadn't moved in what seemed like 30 minutes to me.

I walked around a bit and tried to act like everything was cool, but that seemed to make it worse. I sat down next to my girlfriend and asked her if it was okay if we crashed here. Then randomly I just said out loud, "can some please calm me down?" And I think that made everyone else start to freak out. Seeing them freak out a little made ME freak out even more.

At that point I told everyone if I just lay down and fall asleep, maybe I can just get through it. That's when the world around me started spinning (as described in other posts). I don't know what I was saying out loud and what was my internal monologue. Any time I tried to drink water, I thought I was drowning. My girlfriend laid down with me. She wasn't as bad as me, but I could tell she was kind of freaking out.

Eventually she got up to go puke in the bathroom, and a friend of mine came to check on me. As soon as he turned around, I shot up in what I think was an attempt to escape the "reality" my mind was trapped in. It honestly felt like something out of the Matrix where there was a reality was false and I fought hard enough, I could break free and get back to my normal self. But every time I tried, I felt something pulling me in. Then all the sounds and sights and sensations started melting together and became a nightmarish cycle of pain and depression.

So I started jumping everywhere and yelling and generally freaking out. What was in reality my friend trying to calmly hold me down so I didn't hurt anyone or myself was, in my head, my friend turning into a demon that was trying to break me in half and as I screamed for help, it got worse. The slightest pressure he put on my arms or back to hold me down to me felt like he was snapping my bones. Nothing anything was saying around me was making any sense. I thought for sure that I was in a fake reality and nothing in my past actually happened.

To use the Matrix again, imagine if you were stuck in between worlds and there was a static of pain and scary images and you were trapped in that limbo forever; that's what I honestly thought had happened. I was praying that "the Matrix" would have some compassion and cut me off so I wouldn't have to live through that. Basically, I wanted to die. I kept picturing my girlfriend's green sweater (she was wearing at the time). I got so sad that she might not even be real and tried to hold on at least that memory. I felt like I was trapped in this state for years, but it all happened in less than an hour.

My friends called an ambulance and some police showed up. I started to vomit violently and it felt like it was bursting out of every hole in my head. I couldn't breath and I felt like wouldn't stop puking. The police tried to restrain me but I think I freaked out on them, too. When they tried to get me to say my name, I started yelling gibberish. I remember being strapped into a stretcher and the lights of the ambulance. I felt extreme cold and I thought I was going into another level of hell.

Once we got the hospital, I started noticing images and sounds were becoming more consistent and timing wasn't jumping. I could feel the bruises on my body. I started to realize that it was over and I began to calm down. My voice was shot from all the screaming I did, and my chest was sore from vomiting to much and so forcefully. My limbs were bruised from struggling with my friends and the EMT workers. I wasn't responsive to anyone, but I knew I was going to be okay. I felt very tired and cold. I overheard a nurse saying I was going through withdrawl.

I was discharged within a matter of hours and was back home by 5am. What felt like years upon years to me lasted only a matter of a few hours. I slept for most of the next day, but when I was awake, I would cry uncontrollably and was extremely depressed. I went to work the next day and although I was tired, it was good to keep my mind occupied.

It's two days later and I decided to check on line to see if there were any similar experiences. It's "reassuring" somewhat that I wasn't the only person that went through this, though I certainly don't which it ever to happen again to me or anyone else. I know that this thread is years old, but I wanted to share my experience. I'm not trying to change anyone's position or opinion. All I can say is that if I knew something like this was possible, I would've certainly made better decisions that night.

Thank you, abstract, for sharing and best of luck and health to you in the future.
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bad trips on weed?
Posted: 02-03-08 16:35pm


I had been smoking for like two and a half years and everything was great. i would smoke on the weekends with friends and be fine the next day. until, one weekend i wanted to smoke with a friend that had never smoked before and bought an 8th blunt from a different friend. To make a long story short i ended up pounding the blunt alone that night in like 20 minutes. towards the end of the blunt i couldnt even hold the lighter anywhere near the damn thing.

everything was okay until we walked into his house. it was like walking into a fun house. i got chills down my back and time started to skip. i started to think that i would never get out of this state of mind and freaked out. i started to think about all kinds of crazy caca. like, if my whole life was a dream or if i even existed. i didnt want to move, i was so scared. faces were slurred and i heard my friend talking to me but it felt like he was miles away. his worried looks didnt help my case... but i survived.

after that night i was too scared to even drink. i was afraid i would slip back into that state of mind and freak out. i went through therapy and ended up with real bad anxiety and trying to take pill for it and everything. this is all over the course of this past year.

i eventually found away to forget about it for a while and i can get drunk now with out a problem... but im still scared to get back to the bud. i was an addict so now i have cravings and even the smell makes me want it really back, even the thought of good past experiences makes me want it.
im going to try again this weekend. hopefully i dont flip, and if i do haha these are definitely my famous last words. lol Wish Me Luck!!! javascript:emoticon('yes')
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Posted: 02-07-08 21:36pm

ObeyMyDog, thank's so much for the contribution. The thread may be years old but I still haven't forgotten the experience (and I haven't done weed since either). I related to your experience in every way. The time skipping, the paranoid delusions, the horrifying beliefs that you don't exist or that you believe reality is fake. Your comparison to 'the matrix' really put it into perspective. I hope you're doing well since though. I get depressed regularly since my bad experience and have developed many types of OCD. Come to think of it: I honestly can't remember what I was like before doing marijuana.

kevinkoehler85, you're brave to try it again, I hope it goes well for you. What you experienced was a taste of the trip 'gone wrong'. Let's hope it never happens again.

Thanks guys
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Posted: 02-17-08 13:06pm

hi, i'm italian, so sorry in advance for my english, i just wanted to report that, by using marijuana,it's possible to trigger "latent psychosis", since THC is a POWERFUL psychoactive. i speak cause of my studies (i'm almost medic) and of my experiences...when i was 17 (now i'm 24), i tried MJ by eating it in form of cookies...well,i think it was the most terrible experience of all my life; i think it was something like a "near-death" experience...i lose the sense of time and space, i started to think of myself as a "soul", even if my body was "all in place" and i was still walking, so i came to the conclusion that i was seriously dead (a friend of mine, also in a bad trip,convinced me about it)...yup,the trip is ended, but i had difficult years, i developed some kind of obsessive compulsive disorder (or maybe just triggered it), so, when i'm alone or a i feel sad, i tend to think about that experience ("what if i'm really dead??" that's a stupid question i kown, but it freaks me out) or i got caught sometimes in endless thoughts about reality and myself, almost the ones tha you can find in OCD forums...i try to control them, but it's difficult...mind can be a ugly trap...just remember, MJ is a DRUG, no more or less, so be prepared...no one can say if it will trigger something into you, just think twice if you would take the risk...
i hope of being of some help
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Posted: 02-17-08 14:05pm

I think a major problem is that you can never really trust the substance to be pure and uncut. I had a very disturbing experience a few years ago where the guy who was supposed to be in a loving, caring relationship with me actually laced the marijuana we were sharing with heroin, 'for a laugh'. I had no awareness of anything being amiss when I suddenly found myself trapped between the floorboards of a galleon out at sea, utterly terrified for my life. I tried to speak but nothing came out and I could only see his smiling face looming in front of me. Coming back down, I was aware that that I had lost an hour or so. It all seemed somehow depersonalised but the realisation that this room, and my boyfriend's smirking grin, was normality and not the galleon thing, gave me such a fright that I panicked and became completely paranoid. Needless to say I dumped him but I kept banging into him at college and every time, I began to shake and have panic attacks. I developed chronic anxiety and social phobia and it continued for several years. I met him again years later and decided try to lay the ghost by inviting him in for a coffee. We talked about that time and how it had turned me into a paranoid wreck for years and he seemed apologetic. Someone came to the door and I answered it and when I came back he watched me finish my coffee then asked me with that nasty smirk if I felt okay because he had just put acid in my cup! I seemed to become superhuman in my fear and rage and I physically threw him out. He hadn't done anything, it turned out, but he showed himself to be the same sick and twisted fool from years before.

Sadly, I find it hard to trust ANYONE nowardays Sad And I have never taken a spliff from anyone since that day.
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Posted: 02-17-08 14:10pm

Dash it all - ehealth won't let me use the kind of language I want to use about this chap, so please use your own expletives!
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Posted: 04-14-08 09:30am

y is everyone going for d simple answer dat the drug was laced? trust me it wasnt ,, i have smoked weed between 10-20 times and have only took this trip twice ,, its very annoyin when you are on it ,, you have explained it perfect and i have took exactly the same as u ,, it feels you are inside ur skull watchin urself doin the things you are doing ,, and it feels as if everything is repeating and u r behind time and sum1 else is controllin u ,, only sum people take the trip ,, me and mi freind both take it and it has put me off weed alot ,, i dnt take it any more ,, when i try and explain it to people dey dnt believe me half of d tym and jus tell me im "stoned " when i no for a fact im nt ,, just stop takin it and if u r offerd sum and u wna take it jus take a tiny bit and try and be in a different environment than u wer wen u took it ,, as the same surroundings tends to set mine off ,, even when im nt smokin it lol ,, i hope this has helped everyone understand the issue more
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