Inso
Bluelighter
I'd like to share the crazy experience I had eating cannabis last night, really blew me away. I have been smoking weed for about 3 years pretty solidly, particularly in the last 8 months where I have been really abusing it 24/7. I have always smoked it, only eaten it once 2 years ago and that didn't have too much effect. I once had a major panic attack after a coke/E OD about a year ago which has left me with slight anxiety if I am ever ill in any way. Hence I had been a bit anxious in general the past few days since I had a cold/flu thing.
So I picked up some really nice looking dank weed yesterday afternoon, full of crystals and smelt very strong. I had smoked some of the same strain the night before that a friend had, and it was extremely potent. I have the flu at the moment, hence I was feeling terrible and didn't fancy smoking, so I had the bright idea of cooking some and proceeded to look up a 'firecrackers' recipe I had read about months ago on this very forum, which is simply ground up weed on peanut butter and crackers. I weighed and ground up 0.5g of this super dank weed, which is the amount I had put in a spliff before and had got me very stoned, but nothing out of the ordinary. Cooked it for 20 minutes and low and behold I had this innocent looking cracker sandwhich in front of me, so I ate it. I had eaten an hour beforehand, but not alot so I expected it to come on fairly quickly.
T+20: Went for a walk to the shop to get things going, and I noticed the effects start to appear, felt quite stoned and was enjoying it. Bear in mind here that I have a very fast metabolism normally, so I tend to ingest things very quickly. For the same reason when I used to take E pills they would hit me much faster than everyone else.
T+40: Got back from shops and really felt stoned now, so just put some music on and enjoyed it. Noticed here that the high seemed to be increasing all the time and I found myself having a slight panic about this, but nothing major. The high is much more heavy on the head than smoking, but I still had a clarity of thought and felt generally very good.
T+1:00: Wow it really started to hit me here, and the inevitable hunger began, so I decided to walk to the shops yet again to get some food. I noticed as I am walking that my vision has become slightly blurry around the edges, and I felt as if I was floating along instead of walking. Also objects in the distance sort of looked different, like i felt as if parked cars were moving when I first glanced at them. It was very similar to a low dose acid trip that I did a few months ago. It was very enjoyable at this point, as I was walking I felt very happy, couldn't stop grinning and just felt generally peaceful. The intensity of the high is like nothing I have ever experienced smoking cannabis, and I have smoked the best in the world in large amounts. In particular the heavy head feeling was mad, felt like there was a huge weight over my entire body, yet somehow I had the energy to walk. Notice when I get to the shop that I appear to have left my wallet at home in my crazy stoned stupor, so I walk back, all the while happy in the haze I was in.
T+1:40: After my fruitless walk, I decide to order food instead, in which I find I can barely string together sentences on the phone. Then I just sit and watch TV waiting for food, all the while amazed at the intensity of the high, it really is like a completely different drug. Just so much more overbearing than a smoked dose, I felt completely overcome by the high, which was increasing all the time still. I eat my food once it arrives, and I notice that the intensity of the high is not decreased at all after eating, as would normally be the case if I had smoked my weed.
T+2:30: After an uneventful hour or so, my roommate comes home so I talk to him, tell him what I've done and how amazing it is. He offers me a beer, I accept, etc all the usual stuff. Then I sit down on the sofa, attempt to hold a conversation with him but find I cannot even focus on what he is saying. The high is still increasing in intensity here, and this is when the panic started to set it.
T+3:00: I sat there, heart racing, having these uncontrollable thoughts about negative things, so I went to have a shower to try and calm me down. this does not work at all, and the buzz is still getting stronger and stronger until I start freaking out to the fullest. I then explain to my housemate how I am feeling very unwell, and he assures me I'm fine. So for the next half hour I sit there trying my hardest to calm myself down, but I just can't do it.
T+3:45: The more I thought about how I felt, the worse it got, and I began to feel like I was going to have a heart attack, all the while I still had this amazing intense high throughout my head and body. I couldn't take it any more and said to my housemate that maybe I needed an ambulance something is seriously wrong, and he gets me some water and tries to assure me that I'm fine. But I just can't shake this feeling, it just keeps on increasing, so eventually I convince him to call an ambulance, which he did.
T+4:15: The ambulance people arrive, talk to me, ask me what is wrong, etc. They take my pulse and blood pressure, notice that they are both high so take me into the ambulance and connect me up to more things. At this point I think they realise that I was just having a panic attack and just calmed me down while checking my pulse and blood pressure. While they are doing this I can't even open my eyes, such is the intensity of it all still. While they were putting something on my chest to measure bpm (which was 120, pretty high but not dangerous) I vividly imagined that I was on the brink of death and they were putting a defibrolator to my chest to try and revive me. I manage to tell in broken words about my previous panic attack, which has contributed to a few minor anxiety issues in the past year or so.
T+4:30: After telling me my heart rate etc were all normal, they give me the option of going to hospital or staying at home to ride it out there. I begin to come to my senses slightly and say that I'll stay at home. Get back in, sit for an hour or so and still feel very panicky, but it was beginning to fade now and I could feel my thoughts returning to normal.
So I stayed up for about another 2 hours, just watching TV, gradually returning to my senses but still feeling quite shook up. Woke up this morning and felt fine, very good in fact, which I can only put down to the relief after thinking I was dying. I simply cannot believe how powerful eating 0.5g of this weed was. Smoking that amount even in 1 hit would not produce anywhere near the level of effect I had there. I have never in 3 years of smoking weed experienced a panic attack from weed alone, only a slightly anxious feeling which lasts maybe ten minutes, and that is very, very occasionally. I also think my metabolism may have something to do with it. Reading others experiences online, people say that after eating it takes an hour to feel anything at all, yet I was feeling the initial effects within 15 minutes of eating it and was totally out of it in about 45. Perhaps my body just absorbed too much in such a short time. This combined with my being quite ill and the existing anxiety issues, was all too much I think. Although I'm unsure which was the biggest factor here, it was probably the weed.
All in all, it began as a wonderful experience but then became pure terror. I say this as a warning: Be careful with eating weed, start with a dose much lower than would be smoked if it is very strong stuff. I'm not sure I'd want to eat it again, smoking just gives much more control over how high one gets. I saw online that people were putting a normal, smoked dosage amount on a firecracker, and with the high tolerance I have to smoking weed, assumed that this would carry over to cooking it aswell. How wrong I was...
I simply felt I had to put it down in words it was amazing but also horrible all at the same time. Thanks for reading!
So I picked up some really nice looking dank weed yesterday afternoon, full of crystals and smelt very strong. I had smoked some of the same strain the night before that a friend had, and it was extremely potent. I have the flu at the moment, hence I was feeling terrible and didn't fancy smoking, so I had the bright idea of cooking some and proceeded to look up a 'firecrackers' recipe I had read about months ago on this very forum, which is simply ground up weed on peanut butter and crackers. I weighed and ground up 0.5g of this super dank weed, which is the amount I had put in a spliff before and had got me very stoned, but nothing out of the ordinary. Cooked it for 20 minutes and low and behold I had this innocent looking cracker sandwhich in front of me, so I ate it. I had eaten an hour beforehand, but not alot so I expected it to come on fairly quickly.
T+20: Went for a walk to the shop to get things going, and I noticed the effects start to appear, felt quite stoned and was enjoying it. Bear in mind here that I have a very fast metabolism normally, so I tend to ingest things very quickly. For the same reason when I used to take E pills they would hit me much faster than everyone else.
T+40: Got back from shops and really felt stoned now, so just put some music on and enjoyed it. Noticed here that the high seemed to be increasing all the time and I found myself having a slight panic about this, but nothing major. The high is much more heavy on the head than smoking, but I still had a clarity of thought and felt generally very good.
T+1:00: Wow it really started to hit me here, and the inevitable hunger began, so I decided to walk to the shops yet again to get some food. I noticed as I am walking that my vision has become slightly blurry around the edges, and I felt as if I was floating along instead of walking. Also objects in the distance sort of looked different, like i felt as if parked cars were moving when I first glanced at them. It was very similar to a low dose acid trip that I did a few months ago. It was very enjoyable at this point, as I was walking I felt very happy, couldn't stop grinning and just felt generally peaceful. The intensity of the high is like nothing I have ever experienced smoking cannabis, and I have smoked the best in the world in large amounts. In particular the heavy head feeling was mad, felt like there was a huge weight over my entire body, yet somehow I had the energy to walk. Notice when I get to the shop that I appear to have left my wallet at home in my crazy stoned stupor, so I walk back, all the while happy in the haze I was in.
T+1:40: After my fruitless walk, I decide to order food instead, in which I find I can barely string together sentences on the phone. Then I just sit and watch TV waiting for food, all the while amazed at the intensity of the high, it really is like a completely different drug. Just so much more overbearing than a smoked dose, I felt completely overcome by the high, which was increasing all the time still. I eat my food once it arrives, and I notice that the intensity of the high is not decreased at all after eating, as would normally be the case if I had smoked my weed.
T+2:30: After an uneventful hour or so, my roommate comes home so I talk to him, tell him what I've done and how amazing it is. He offers me a beer, I accept, etc all the usual stuff. Then I sit down on the sofa, attempt to hold a conversation with him but find I cannot even focus on what he is saying. The high is still increasing in intensity here, and this is when the panic started to set it.
T+3:00: I sat there, heart racing, having these uncontrollable thoughts about negative things, so I went to have a shower to try and calm me down. this does not work at all, and the buzz is still getting stronger and stronger until I start freaking out to the fullest. I then explain to my housemate how I am feeling very unwell, and he assures me I'm fine. So for the next half hour I sit there trying my hardest to calm myself down, but I just can't do it.
T+3:45: The more I thought about how I felt, the worse it got, and I began to feel like I was going to have a heart attack, all the while I still had this amazing intense high throughout my head and body. I couldn't take it any more and said to my housemate that maybe I needed an ambulance something is seriously wrong, and he gets me some water and tries to assure me that I'm fine. But I just can't shake this feeling, it just keeps on increasing, so eventually I convince him to call an ambulance, which he did.
T+4:15: The ambulance people arrive, talk to me, ask me what is wrong, etc. They take my pulse and blood pressure, notice that they are both high so take me into the ambulance and connect me up to more things. At this point I think they realise that I was just having a panic attack and just calmed me down while checking my pulse and blood pressure. While they are doing this I can't even open my eyes, such is the intensity of it all still. While they were putting something on my chest to measure bpm (which was 120, pretty high but not dangerous) I vividly imagined that I was on the brink of death and they were putting a defibrolator to my chest to try and revive me. I manage to tell in broken words about my previous panic attack, which has contributed to a few minor anxiety issues in the past year or so.
T+4:30: After telling me my heart rate etc were all normal, they give me the option of going to hospital or staying at home to ride it out there. I begin to come to my senses slightly and say that I'll stay at home. Get back in, sit for an hour or so and still feel very panicky, but it was beginning to fade now and I could feel my thoughts returning to normal.
So I stayed up for about another 2 hours, just watching TV, gradually returning to my senses but still feeling quite shook up. Woke up this morning and felt fine, very good in fact, which I can only put down to the relief after thinking I was dying. I simply cannot believe how powerful eating 0.5g of this weed was. Smoking that amount even in 1 hit would not produce anywhere near the level of effect I had there. I have never in 3 years of smoking weed experienced a panic attack from weed alone, only a slightly anxious feeling which lasts maybe ten minutes, and that is very, very occasionally. I also think my metabolism may have something to do with it. Reading others experiences online, people say that after eating it takes an hour to feel anything at all, yet I was feeling the initial effects within 15 minutes of eating it and was totally out of it in about 45. Perhaps my body just absorbed too much in such a short time. This combined with my being quite ill and the existing anxiety issues, was all too much I think. Although I'm unsure which was the biggest factor here, it was probably the weed.
All in all, it began as a wonderful experience but then became pure terror. I say this as a warning: Be careful with eating weed, start with a dose much lower than would be smoked if it is very strong stuff. I'm not sure I'd want to eat it again, smoking just gives much more control over how high one gets. I saw online that people were putting a normal, smoked dosage amount on a firecracker, and with the high tolerance I have to smoking weed, assumed that this would carry over to cooking it aswell. How wrong I was...
I simply felt I had to put it down in words it was amazing but also horrible all at the same time. Thanks for reading!
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