Any psych users in here that don't tolerate Cannabis?

[ektamine]

Marijuana does not come with built in monamine release (euphoria) so the happiness must be willed. Sometimes I can bring myself to LOVE being high, other times I get edgy and fall asleep. It's one of those things where if you don't, at the very beginning of the high, start yapping and getting comfortable, you'll get introspective and drift off. Its an effort for some people, idk I'm getting better at it. Seriously though some people cant hang lol

Well put. I've found that when you put enough effort into getting acquainted with the cannabis high you grow a strong, strong taste for it. At least that's been my experience with it. When I was really young and I first started smoking, I would very often get anxious and uncomfortable. Now there is rarely ever a situation I come across in life where a nice bowl wouldn't relax me, make me more thoughtful, and bring about a sort of zen-like peaceful mindset.

 

[Splitz]

Weed is starting to get unenjoyable and make me very paranoid and anxious. This happens easily as I've got an 'anxiety disorder'.

I won't be smoking it for a few months now. I just can't handle the stuff. I've always been a lightweight too.

I'd happily drop some acid though thanks, anytime, in a social setting. No worries. :D

 

[clubberdude]

Not a big fan of weed - especially on its own - makes me feel paranoid. Feel I get considerably more paranoia on weed than I do on LSD/Mushrooms, and the body-load feels odd.

Can be ok in combination with other substances, but generally don't touch it.

 

[Gerald92]

i used to get paranoid and often anxious when i smoked weed, but since i started doing acid and shrooms ive noticed this has actually decreased. now when i smoke weed its just chill.

 

[kingme]

i like a small amount of weed with some trips, but really, i think i like it less than say eating fresh fruit. and getting the balance just right can get tricky, as a lil too much will confuse the hell out of me.
i also tend to be more forgetful of the trip and its lessons after some mj....

 

[Voxide]

Thanks for the replies everybody. When the time comes I'm going to give it a shot and take it as slowly as possible. If another panic attack ensues despite taking all the proper precautions, then I will have no choice but to leave it alone and not mess with it again.

The tachycardia scared the living shit out of me. I was sure that I would have went into cardiac arrest. Tachycardia from weed and tachycardia from coke is still a dangerously high heart rate. I really don't think the body knows the difference, nor does it care what causes it. High heart rates are always dangerous. I've experienced a slightly faster HR when high, but combining this with the panic attack just made things twice as bad. Then again, it could have just been small muscle spasms which made it seem like my heart was beating way too fast. Everything feels like it's going to fast when you're high. Either way, I could literally feel it. No other part of my body had any sensation in it. I was living inside of myself. It was the epitome of a "whitey". My skin lost all color and I looked dead.

 

[tBirdee]

i used to get paranoid and often anxious when i smoked weed, but since i started doing acid and shrooms ive noticed this has actually decreased. now when i smoke weed its just chill.

Would you say the reason for this could be that for you LSD and mushrooms were more intense or 'on another level', if you will, causing weed to seem much more easy-going compared to the former two drugs?

 

[Voxide]

Would you say the reason for this could be that for you LSD and mushrooms were more intense or 'on another level', if you will, causing weed to seem much more easy-going compared to the former two drugs?

I'm also interested in this. Good question.

 

[Penthos]

Yeah I'm this way, myself. Pot makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable while psychedelics are almost always smooth sailing.

Interestingly I used to smoke quite a bit of marijuana and enjoyed it alot. Then it just sort of went 180 on me out of the blue and haven't been able to enjoy it since.

 

[Voxide]

Yeah I'm this way, myself. Pot makes me so paranoid and uncomfortable while psychedelics are almost always smooth sailing.

Interestingly I used to smoke quite a bit of marijuana and enjoyed it alot. Then it just sort of went 180 on me out of the blue and haven't been able to enjoy it since.

This seems to be the case with many people. It starts off good, then it bites you in ass. I really wonder why this is. In my case, it starts of bad and keeps going that way. This has only been my first panic attack after 6 times smoking, in total. All of the other times were paranoia and social anxiety filled. Holding a conversation was very awkward to me. I would say things, then think about them immediately after. Either felt like what I said was uncomfortably stupid, or it felt like I never even said it. When people are talking to me, I feel like they're being sarcastic assholes who are trying to offend me. I never have experienced the whole "Cheech & Chong" style high, where everything is just nice, giggy, and fun.

 

[dougebfresh]

the only time i can smoke cannabis is when i need to sleep or when i've taken a psychedelic..

 

[HofmannBlotter]

Cannabis gave me panicks attack too brother. I don't really like Cannabis Anyway it's strange because i don't have panicks attacks on hallucinogens drugs

 

[brueright]

I get really paranoid and jumpy/shaky, and I tend to need a shit-ton of sleep when I've been smoking too often - buuut I still smoke, as it's the easiest and cheapest way (well, besides drinking) to enter an altered state of mind, and I looove that!

I certainly don't tend to get paranoid while tripping, although I did freak out a little when I went to class during a pretty intense part of a 2c-e trip. Hahaha.

 

[thomas2laylum]

cannabis is a bizarre intoxicating psychedelic
i have consumed much of it, but i don't really know why

 

[Jakeperson]

I was a huge stoner and thne quit because it made me really paranoid etc, was horrible.

Smoked on 2C-C the other night and now I can smoke again without it, it is great.

 

[Kapitan]

Cannabis makes me paranoid and almost delusional, but it seems that I can handle every psychedelic drug under the sun just fine. It produces no euphoria or relaxation, just paranoia, memory difficulties, anti-social behavior, and the delusions associated with severe paranoia. If cannabis did to everyone what it does to me, no one would smoke it

It also seems to produce much more long-lasting effects for me than my peers report. I usually don't feel "baseline" for at least a day or two after I smoke. I'm kind of interested in whether or not there is a pharmacological basis for this perceived duration.

 

[Godzilla]

I gave up cannabis a year ago and every time I.try it i get the same itchy achey feeling
Psychs gives me mental clarity and I can fully function on them.
I will not smoke weed on a trip it just seems to make the trip gross murkey
If I want to get higher ill take more dose

 

[RainbowWarrior]

i find i can much better enter the plane of my mind that is inhabited by hpnagogic visions of beautiful scenery, galaxies, dimensions and beings if i combine psychs with my weed.

so nope, i have to have my weed - it just makes everything so much more colourful and nice

also sometimes i just smoke zamal x nevils haze when i want to trip because i don't have the time for lsd and zamal x nevils haze reliably brings me to the fractals and swirlies, it's the most psychedelic weed there is and easily can be as deep as 20mg of 2ci for example

oh yeah and also weed tastes great... just smoked amnesia haze, such a nice aroma on this one, and the high is really strong too :D

also i'm addicted to it

 

[AuraLee]

Like others, I get paranoia, social anxiety and trippyness on marijuana. I was addicted to it for a few years and it was all good. I couldn't go a day without it but it would really oversedate me.

Then I quit it due to pregnancy and started up later as an occasional thing. It got to the point where I didn't enjoy it. I could be smoking with someone I was 110% comfortable with but regardless I would always get the same effect of wanting to get away and hide in bed to sleep it off. I would be paranoid but didn't know what of. I gave up smoking as I always got the negative without the positive.

My advice to anyone who gets these effects is not to try and keep up with the doses other people are smoking. If you are sensitive to it, you need to have like a 3rd of a cone or a very light drag on a joint. Just have a very minimal amount and then give it time to come on. Some people need to hoover it up to get stoned but others only need the barest amounts and if you measure your doses by what they have, yes you will OD.

Marijuana is a strange substance. The first session I would have after the last time I had tripped would always bring on the trip again, down to the feeling in your head/neck etc (even if it had been months since the trip). Now, it trips me out every time.

So try just a small dose (even less than a drag if need be), who cares what dope fiend friends think. If that's still too much, just leave it; there are plenty of other people it affects the same way and I agree that it is very likely due to the mismatch in THC to CBD. It never used to be this trippy...

EDIT: However I can handle acid and I could always handle marijuana while on other drugs. It all adds to the same conclusion of there neeing to be a certain combination of receptor systems activated (or inactivated).

 

[IamMe90]

Yeah, U.S here. I'm not sure about the specific cannabinoid content of mid-grade weed. I have absolutely no resources to determine this either. I think it mostly depends on taking the hits slowly and spaced out from each other to see how I feel, rather than blazing a joint in 2 minutes as someone would with a cigarette. It was just strange to me, seeing other people take 6 fat bong rips and be fine, meanwhile I was like "what the fuck is going on" after about 2.


Somebody in the Cannabis section of the forum summed my thought process up perfectly when I'm high. I get like these doomsday thought patterns. Everything I see and hear on TV and in real life I somehow relate to something tragic, and everything just gets fucked. I draw these ridiculous conclusions in my head. My mind just races too fast for me to even hold a thought, other than the one wishing that I had a few beers instead. The most annoying thing for me is how weed combines all parts of the drug spectrum. Stimulating but stoning at the same time, with hallucinogenic properties thrown in.


Now that I think about it, the puking may very well have been a small case of nicotine poisoning. Cannabis is used to treat nausea. Also, this may be unrelated, but the first thing I experience body-wise while I'm coming up is that my mouth and teeth get this uncomfortable numbness. At times, it also feels like I'm pissing my pants. I swear, this is not a joke. Funny as it may sound. This sensation has caused additional anxiety to my weed "trips". That's honestly the best thing I can call them. They are full blown fucking trips. There is no way anybody else feels like I do when high. Ridiculous and outlandish mental images or totally random and irrelevant shit pop into my head when I close my eyes and lay down. In social situations, it feels like I'm just a ghost watching the world take place. When I play music, a scene plays out in my head of whatever the tone of the song is. The visual effects are strange, but they are actually not part of my anxiety. I enjoy the visuals. Things get brighter and my visual focus gets altered kind of like where an artist needs to draw something on top of someone so it looks like the object is behind them. Not sure how to explain it.

At any rate, thanks for the responses so far. I really do want to try and enjoy Cannabis the way most people do. I've even been thinking that there is something wrong with my brain chemicals because I don't like it the way most people do.

i know this post was a from a few days ago but I want to point out that i think its somewhat of a myth that cannabis is an antiemetic at any dose. i myself and quite a few friends of mine have vomited off of very high doses of potent weed - its not so much stomach upset as a serious case of directional disorientation/spinning produced by the effects of lots of THC that get me, i think. in this way its very easy for pot to lose its antiemetic value because the overwhelming nature of the motion sickness it can cause can lead to some terrible vomiting fests. and vomiting from THC ODs is a MUCH more painstaking and drawn out process than vomiting from the come up of a psychedelic like 2c-e or mushies - similar to puking from an alcohol OD. no fun at all... you have to be careful not to overdo it.