LSD and Psychosis/Schizophrenia

[Wizard of Radical]

Hi,

I have a family history of both psychosis and schizophrenia as a result of cannabis use. I'm fairly experienced with a variety of psychedelics and stimulants, but always very careful (to the point of being obsessive) with dosage/setting etc.

A month or so ago I had my first bad acid trip. It was a bit scary but the next day everything was fine, it was just a bad experience. However, the other night I had a similar experience after smoking some cannabis and felt just as freaked out as I did with the bad experience on LSD, maybe even more so. This was a surprise to me because I had never had thought such a thing would happen just as a result of smoking, it has also never happened to any of my friends.

The other issue is, it has taken me about two days to feel back to normal, for a while after I was definitely paranoid (mainly that I had developed some severe psychological issue) and had some difficulty focusing. While I am fine now I have decided marijuana is no longer for me- at least for a long while.

After this extensive background... the question I am asking is- is it likely I will have similar experiences on LSD? Perhaps I should make a similar decision and resist temptation there also. Being a far more powerful substance, I do not wish to have any sort of psychological trauma and I fear that perhaps I have experienced a warning.

Or... is this completely unrelated? Is infrequent and safe dosing a relatively safe thing to do? As I have matured these things are no longer worth the risk to me as when I was young, and if there is a chance something will go wrong I have the will power to say no.

After some other research I am already assuming I should steer clear, but I'm never one to use yahoo answers as my only source of decisions.

Cheers guys,

Peace.

 

[XxWrapedJunkiexX]

Hi there, okay listen I really haven't done much research on LSD it self, but I have a similar situation, I loved acid, I went on a psychedelic binge for like a year , I stopped because of bad trips started occurring , after I stopped....I couldn't smoke because it would make me feel like as I was tripping and or that bad trip feeling would come back, I wasn't " back to normal" for like 3-4 months, and it went away, you just need to give it time, you'll be able to smoke weed again, altho I gave it up all together anyway, but thats just my 2 cents hope it helped

 

[n3ophy7e]

I think you know the answer dude.

I think you should steer clear of all psychoactive substances, including (and especially) stimulants e.g. amphetamines. With a family history of psychosis and schizophrenia, drugs are really not something you should be taking your chances with. You only get one brain, take care of it.

you'll be able to smoke weed again, altho I gave it up all together anyway, but thats just my 2 cents hope it helped

On the contrary, from my experience and knowledge I don't think the OP will be able to enjoy smoking pot in the same way ever again.
Of course it's up to the OP whether or not they take those risks, but in my opinion it's not worth it.

 

[Wizard of Radical]

Cheers guys, I was thinking as much anyway. Bit of a bummer but I guess you should never really treat this kind of a life change as a bad thing aye? Much appreciated.

Peace

P.S. I have a bunch of research to do, but I had hoped to go on an ayhuasca rite of passage in the amazon a few years from now. This is probably the worst thing for me and I guess I have to forget about it now... but if anyone has some opposing information feel free to let me know. Not that I'm getting my hopes up.