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Does/Has Weed Ever Given You A Panic Attack?

I get paronoid every time i smoke unless i'm by myself or with my daughter. I freakout try to control my thoughts and relax but can't, weak i know. I lose control of my breathing can't talk properly if at all,jerking,shaking,twitching and just generaly freaking out even around friends and family but not when i'm by myself or with my daughter. iv'e given up b4 but i need it 4 personal reasons. i've tried lowering doses and using less frequently to no avail. I will try wat sum of u hav suggested and smoke more bud more frequently and see if i end up more of a mess or less of a mess lol. wish i could just enjoy the high without being a freak:X8o:\
 
ease up, try smoke less each time, especially in public :) Maybe you lucky you got super strong shit...
 
I was about nineteen or twenty years old, and I was on the way from Africa back to the US via Amsterdam, where I had a few days stop-over. I stayed at a pretty popular hostel, full of Americans. I'm sure many of you know just the place ;)
Anyway, I was smoking a bit too much of the fine Amsterdam buds one of those afternoons, and got couch-locked and panicked while I was downstairs sitting in the bay window of the lobby/bar area. I "know" there were people talking about me, and I knew it all had to be terrible... lol. It took a really kind soul with some sugar and lemon water and a few cookies to help me get back to the real world and calm down...
Was really the only major occasion, but it has occasionally given a bit of anxiety in the past. Not so much these days... but I'm very specific about what I smoke, and I tend to choose strains that have less of a propensity for anxiety.
 
Negative. I find it odd that weed scares people, frankly. I've never felt the least bit anxious on it.

I'm glad you do. I feel awful it happens to me, I didn't believe it until I got it. I hope you never panic on it, I found out that I always panic unless I smoke shit grade or mids (vaping is okay).

It makes me antisocial and scares me, thinking people are talking about me.
 
I'm glad you do. I feel awful it happens to me, I didn't believe it until I got it. I hope you never panic on it, I found out that I always panic unless I smoke shit grade or mids (vaping is okay).

It makes me antisocial and scares me, thinking people are talking about me.

Incidentally, do you drink when you smoke? I usually do if there's more than two other people around.
 
yes. one time when i smoked some very potent (high times) bud after a long break i had a panic attack. i lay in the middle of the hallway of my friend's apartment unable to move for about 20 minutes.. not fun at all =/.. it was a strong sativa strain. indicas and hybrids have never done that to me tho.. everything was going in slow motion & i actually had some visuals
 
Only time I had a panic attack was when i smoked at a totally inappropriate time. Before a speech I had to give. Then yes I was choking up and stuttering, couldnt breath and had to leave. I thought it would help me think of what to say easier but it didnt at all.

My best friend was great at Speech and Debate Competitions and he would always toke up a few blunts before he would Debate in front of a judge and a crowd, he had the I dont give a fuck this is whats on my mind attitude when he did that.
I guess it works for some people.
 
Incidentally, do you drink when you smoke? I usually do if there's more than two other people around.

No, the weed is strong enough by itself, if I smoke as much as the others do I will fall asleep, or get scared of everything. My friend likes to ask me in public how high I am and I am always too scared. I get awful social anxiety.

If I combine drinking with it, I will be sleepy and drunk. I don't drink anymore because I don't feel good that I'm ruining my health by ingesting a toxin that makes me stupid. That and I turn red in the face (Asian power!).
 
".....that and I get red in the face"...... I get red blothches on my face and
chest. It happens when I'm angry, wait too long to eat and then my blood
sugar spikes, and when I used to get high, making me think everyone
knew I was high if I wasn't wearing long sleeves and a turtle neck.
It got so bad once, and I was incredibly high, that even my shoulders
and top half of my arms were blotchy. I looked like a freakin' leaopard.

Ohhhh, how I miss it sometimes! I wonder if I'd be safe now
that I take Xanax for panic attacks unrelated to mj?

I don't even want to think what would happen if I did shrooms
or acid these days..... being stuck in a perpetual panic attack....
I just don't miss any of those other kinds of highs though; nothing else
made me laugh like I've never laughed before like mj does.
 
Never really had a panic attack, no, but I do get a little anxious if I'm driving and smoking. It's like I'm afraid they'll see me smoking and call the cops or something haha.
 
It depends on what kind it is.

I really only get paranoia if something sets it off, usually that's if I see an RA, a cop, or a cop car. I know the RAs in my building don't care unless they see it, and I generally don't have to worry about cops, so most of it is just totally unwarranted.

For the past two night I've been toking in my dorm room, which is enough of a paranoia-inducing experience as it is, and both times I've thought that I would get busted. At least now all I have are shrooms and weed, the acid is gone as of right now.
 
I have had a panic attacks when i was like 14-15 and smoked a half blunt with my friend (me not being a smoker) and got super super cained, after that i ended up wrecked every time..
Picked up blazin as much as possible and now i get super super cained but can control it so much i always feel comfortable.. when i got back into smokin i was takin fluxotiene which took the edge of stuff, especially blazing, just made me mellow and shit...
when i dropped the meds everythin was kosher but with control
 
Mh, I managed my first quasi-psychotic panic attack with just one hit of strong sativa. It was really darn freaky. It also included pseudo-hallucinations on the curtains; Imagining a microwave, people inside it, etc. Whatever I thought, would show very real on that curtain - Shaky, twitchy, couldn't breath, freaking out enough to want to go to hospital - Or not just wanting, demanding rather.

Well, got through it without hospital. But, the panic attacks continued without cannabis. Still do and now it's been almost 5 months. Have only smoked two times since then.. Once in a park a careful indica hit - It was relaxed and OK, later I took few hits of hybrid and kaboom, same quasi-psychotic state of utter terror. Best part: We were outside in Rotterdam. And I'm definitely not Dutch. Anyhow, I asked my friends to take me back to the youth hostel (since I couldn't fucking tell which way was left and which was right), going under a bridge was most terrifying experience I've ever had. All those sounds of cars going over was like thunder inside my brain, so real hallucinations and such a complete fear that not even the worst of my psychedelic experiences (and I've had quite irresponsible ones at that) was even near. Because, unlike with psychedelics, I could simply not tell what was real and what was a hallucination. No chance. I was SO sure I get stuck to this eternal horror with no escape.. ..Luckily my body at least was tired as hell (having just staid up whole night in trains) so I managed to quickly get sleep in the hostel. Day after - Good as ever and ready to party (with mere alcohol though. Learned my lesson).

Stopped smoking there, not planning to touch weed again in at least a few year. I'm pretty assured that what I experienced was a real warning sign of underlying mental problems that have to be addressed before I get back on that ride.

I'd otherwise dismiss the experiences as mere extreme panic attacks with sensitiveness to psychedelic affects due to.. well, usage of psychedelics, but the fact how strongly I'd doubt myself - and how I couldn't talk with myself in my head anymore - was simply not right. I'm still very doubtful of my mental health and I've got brain scans coming up and all sort of other funny stuff.

Could say, my subjective experience is, that while I hold a very strong imagination sided with equally capable rational thinking, cannabis really takes away my capability to logic; Allowing my imagination roam too free and feed myself into all sort of semi-psychotic states. Psychedelics don't do that.
 
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Yes! I haven't smoked it in 20 years, but if I smoked it with someone I was usually fine (except for once), but if I smoked alone panic and anxiety set in. Never smoked it all that much, but this is precisely why I stopped smoking it completely. What causes this?

I have senior citizens in my family who have smoked for years (one is 89 years old this month and the other is 67) and this has never happened to them.
 
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