I'm posting this here as the incident is well documented in drug specific fourms and I'm hoping for an attempt at a chemical or physiological explanation for the event.
A god deal of hard drug users report a change in the effects of smoking cannabis that seems to coincide with the use of another drug.
Specifically -
Opiate users seem to be the most common to experience this. Many say (a close friend of mine being the first I had heard speak on the topic, but many on bluelight seem to agree) that after being addicted to opiates pot is too intense a high and is unpleasant at best. My friend was a huge pot head before becoming addicated to oxycotin, after she could not take 2 hits without freaking out.
Many benzo users say they can only smoke when fucked up on a good deal of benzos.
But the posts that got me were from the E fourm, many users said that after rolling several times weed brought dark thoughts. I've kind of noticed a similar event myself and was wondering who has felt this, who has NOT felt this (after years of concurrent use) and why it may be true.
Im not an expert, but recently the same thing has happened to me. Before I was delt vyvance by my doctor, Marijuana used to be an amazing past time for me.
Granted, i had been on methylphenidate since i was 11, but pot was very enjoyable.
When i begin abusing my vyvance, I still smoked a shit load of pot;however, instead of being overrun by the urge to giggle it just made me dark and introspective. THe vyvance crashing def made smoking pot less enjoyable, but i dont believe it is responsible for my growing distaste of thc.
In my opinion, the drugs didnt change pot or the objective effects it has on the human psyche, I assume that the drugs, along with growing up, have changed me. The effects of pot are highly subjective and are determined by the users state of mind. It makes those retrospections and conclusions that normally dwell in subconcious silence arise loudly into the relms of percievable thought.
Before I was perscribed amphetamines and tampered with many drugs that one shouldnt, my brain chemistry was intact (unaltered by foreign chemicals) and I was content with the natural reality I was born into. When i smoked weed, the subconcious thoughts that arose were happy, interesting, naive. Even the anxiety my smoking produced was relatively benign (i.e. O, no, that man on the street might know that im high. Dear God, let it not be)
Perhaps my amphetamine abuse has changed my brainchemisty, making me more prone to anxiety, or maybe-just maybe-Now, having matured, my subconious is no longer as naive as it was when i first starting smoking back in highschool. No longer ignorant of death, heartbreak, pain, rejection, and addiction, my subconcious is pessimistic-a fact that is obvious based on the anxiety I must bare post smoking pot.
I still love to get high, so im going to deal with my anxiety instead of giving up the herb.
Sincerely high,
forensic bob
