Concerned about my reaction to Weed

[logically]

yeah actaully all that stuff you metnioned has happened to me all the time.

i was in a bad living situation for a while back in 07 and everytime i got high i would just shake and shake because i was so paranoid.

it got to the point where i could hardly enjoy weed at all (in fact i quit for a while).

but learning how to relax is pretty essental to enjoying weed. And like ctcf said, when i was shaking all the time i realized that my muscles were super duper tense and i was doing it to myself.

deep breathing is a life saver man. inhale slowly and deeply through the nose, then let it out in a controlled manner through your mouth. it really helps get oxygen in your system which helps you relax more.

[giraffes]

First off, let me do a quick recap of my Weed history:
I smoked a few times in High School, some unknown type in 2008 a few times, once in 2009, and once last night. It's not much experience, but the High School highs were normal, tons of laughs, lots of munchies. The ones in 2009 were when the trouble began. I started staring at walls for a long time and sometimes got a bit paranoid. In 2010, the reason I only smoked once was because the people I smoked with were concerned I didn't react very well to Weed. I became catatonic and stared out in space. So far, the three main people I've smoked with since after High School have all asked if I needed to go to the hospital.

Last night was an interesting high, it had been a while and I was definitely down. I smoked about 4-5 puffs of a blunt (2-3 puffs were small) and I began to see everything differently. If you're familiar with the paintings people do on the streets that look 3D but aren't, it sort of felt like that. Everything was 2D but when anyone would move, their bodies stuck out as if the painting was moving.
When we moved inside, the different perceptions were confusing. The easiest way to explain it is that it'd switch from the television being extremely realistic, like I was living in it, to the entire room being a block of 3D objects and the television was in the center standing alone. The last being the most disturbing, every time I looked to the side of the room, it looked like a scene from Dogville, it got me rather paranoid so I only looked a few times.

Every time I was asked if I was okay, I thought I responded, but then they'd ask again and I realized I hadn't. It was basically three phases of severity. Phase 3 being the most stoned, phase 2 was me thinking I was responsive, and phase 1 was me realizing I was responsive enough to answer and that I hadn't already.

Afterward, and this happened in 2009 as well, my body begins to shake. It was as if it was extremely cold (which is was when we were outside) but my body didn't stop shaking until later.

I know, another dumb user trying to depict their high (and poorly) and seeking advice. I know Weed isn't harmful, I enjoy doing it, but I'm kind of disappointed that my highs are so anti-social. I wish I could get a high where I eat and talk, or at least not space out entirely. I want to be able to be a social smoker, not someone who causes everyone else to worry about whether or not we need to make a trip to the hospital.

Lastly, on my highs, I'm often times very paranoid about some things, just though I'd throw that out there.

Any ideas or thoughts on this subject is much appreciated.

On a side note, do most of you use grinders? I'm just wondering if I'd need to get one to roll a joint, I've always seen people break it up with their fingers. Didn't want to ask this question elsewhere, I think I have your attention by now, so what's anther 10 seconds?

Thanks for the time and here's a very appropriate emote to my situation:

dude.....your gunna die, weed is not the herb for you!!!





just kidding!!!! keep smoking!!!! there might be a possibility that the weed you smoked, was not weed at all....possibly....salvia?? or something laced, or you could of just had to much at a time... if you start panicking, just pick a spot in the room, and eat an apple....trust me! it works! happy toking XD

[weedguru_animal]

I think the shaking is probably a result of anxiety manifesting itself in a physical way

Bingo.

Or at least, i can say that this has certainly happened to me in the past. It's no reason to get paranoid or scared man, just try to relax more. i've had experiences where i'll feel really tense after a while, then i'll realise my shoulders are hunched up, lol, so i just loosen up and chill out and everything is fine again.

I concur completely...weed has the definite potential to vastly increase your natural anxiety levels. Not in all people, of course, but certainly in enough to make it a known fact, rather than a few isolated incidents. I generally only smoke bud after drinking heavily these days, and have been this way for a while. Smoking alone, JUST smoking, generally causes me to shut off from the world, and its rarely healthy, or comfortable, for me to be left with purely my own world.

[Ikku]

That's a good way to put it, smoking definitely shuts me off in my own little world. I need to stop partaking as much as I do, it's draining my coin as well. Having a smoke after a few drinks will put me in a pleasant headspace and usually brings sleep quickly.

[buttermilk]

Buy yourself a little one hitter and start out taking like 1-2 hits. I think its definitely possible to OD on weed at least on a small scale. I've seen it happen to many people, they start hit a blunt when they don't usually smoke and then can't move, lips turn blue, etc.
In personal experience I remember one time I quit smoking weed for a month and a half after having smoked nearly every day for a good few years. When I could finally smoke again I grabbed a bag, twisted up two L's, and had at it with a few buddies. About halfway through the second blunt I had to put my head on the table. When the blunts were done, I managed to stumble inside and fell onto the couch. I was laying there, twitching, couldn't move. My buddy asked me why I was twitching and I said "I was scratching myself." because I was embarrassed about how high I was lol. This happened a second time when one of dealers said he would give me ten bucks off a QP if I matched him on a blunt. I quickly took him up on it, twisted it, smoked it. When we went into his house I collapsed and got up all like "I'm good, I'm good." He went back out to smoke a cig and I just kinda passed out on his bed which was awkward as fuck. This was really embarrassing cause I looked like such a n00b lol. Good times good times. I know better than to pull that shit now though, I always start out small after a break instead of trying to go hard as fuck and impress lol.

[syxxgunn]

I'm new as well. I've had good and bad experiences with weed. I myself like to get good and baked and space out watching TV. Just don't ask me to drive a car for a few hours. I'm a lightweight and am just now figuring all the different "types" of weed out there. I've had to tell myself repeatedly that I'm not gonna die during a bad experience. I just smoked some Chronic and I wish I could get my hands on that more often. Never had the shivers though. Paranoia....Loads of it.

[greensp4rker]

I just had one seriously fucked up reaction to weed... I bought something that I was told was quite strong although because I was high and the dealer was high I forgot to ask what strain and he forgot to tell me. Either way, even in my limited experience, it looked and smelled like it was strong, and my friends agreed. I bought a lot, and I've been smoking it regularly. But about 8 hours ago, I probably smoked away a little more than a gram in about 20 minutes. I was the highest I had ever been for about an hour, then I started feeling really dizzy, and I was really hungry. I started walking around and the dizzyness got worse, I started feeling nauseous. I'm at home, with my mom right now... and there was nothing i could do to stop this reaction right around her. so i lie down right, and i'm super nauseous but i've got the munchies something terrible. I ask her to bring me a bowl of cheerios to eat cus i dont wanna upset my stomach. but before she brings them i go barf up my breakfast, then I fell asleep. Just woke up 10 minutes ago and i'm kinda freaking out. When i was naseous I stopped hearing the music in my head, stopped hearing the extremely funny comedian in my head and started hearing myself think, "i'm going to die". It was pretty scary actually. Anybody have an explanation?

[AbbyRoad]

you sir, just had your first greening/whiting out.
happens to some people when they smoke to much weed. ive seen people puke for hours.

never happened to me tho

[weedguru_animal]

in my younger days, if i had drunk a huge amount, then toked...invairably I would get horridly sick. Sick in a far more gruesome manner than just from one drug alone...With alcohol, too much is relatively easy to rid the body of, but when the two drugs are mixed, even after emptying the stomach, the mind remains fucked. Many nights I have spent, lying next to my own sick, and telling everyone who enters the den where I lay, to leave me the fuck alone, turn the lights out, and fuck off...

as for the worst sickness I have seen, in anyone close to me, its definitely the heavy drinking, heavy stonage, then heavy ketamine addition. now THAT seemed far worse than my worst drunk/stoned horrorshows...the fucker thought he was dying! after yakking all over my bed and clothes...he survived, but has not repeated the same routine since. wisely so.

[tendy]

It is very funny to see everyone was just really really high!
Tolerance is very important, myself could now smoke 15+ bowls in one sesh (not always, if I really had to ), but 2 years ago if I smoked over 5 I could hardly speak. I remember times In highschool when I smoked maybe once a month or so, smoking 2 or 3 blunts with my buddies before a movie, they were experienced at the time and I was not. I remember thinking my legs were broken during the movie and I laughed so hard... then the movie ended and I forgot what happened... I can not even remember what i saw.
As for laced weed, I had one experience in my life. to be honest it was a lot of fun but for the first half hour or so I WAS TRIPPPPING ! we hot boxed my buddies car and went to playdium (for those who do not know it is just outside Toronto, it is a super arcade!). The first thing we did was the grande prix race and I got 1st place the batting cages were scary, idk why i tried the fastest one, I never hit one ball. a few days later my buddy told me he found out the weed we bought off some guy (apparently his guy was out and this dude was recommended or something) laces his weed with coke, and that's how he sells it. It was fun but I would not do it again (on purpose), never snorted anything, have friends who do it and I know it is not as harmful as most are lead to believe, but it can be abused.

Anyhoo most stoners have experiences with twicthing or just tripping out.
DON'T GET THE FEAR! the best advice that was ever given to me about drugs was by a wise acid metal head kid I met at a party in highschool only once:
'Bro, as long as you know you are fucked, you are fine. Remember what you took, drugs, you get fucked of them.'

[(weedguru)scarf]

welcome tendy... thank you for not being a bot

[tendy]

welcome tendy... thank you for not being a bot

Thanks for the welcome I am excited to be a part of the bb!

[weedguru_animal]

what i failed to add, is that, through my reckoning and experience, marijuana is a far less intrusive drug than proper spirits...such as this vodka i drink daily. I have become much more of a drunk, these last few years, than a stoner, mainly because vodka intensifies my feeling facets, while lessening my mental faculties...and i am a man who is always, about Feelings.