negative results from weed

[The Douche]

Who here gets a negative reaction from smoking weed, and what kind of reaction do you get?

[ed miliband]

depends.

sometimes i'll smoke and feel wavy/nauseous for perhaps half an hour or so (seems longer, of course). if that's the case i'll just lie down and i'll usually start to feel good again.

i don't mind having a toke if it's been passed around at a party or whatever, but now i never smoke with friends and i've started being that annoying guy who just sits watching gormlessly whilst others get high. i really can't put my finger on why exactly i don't like weed, just makes me feel sorta warm and sleepy which is nice and all, but the amount some of my friends do it... just don't get the appeal to be honest.

[Robespierres Neck]

I used to smoke weed all the time in high school. I estimate that I smoked it every day for about 3 - 4 years. I felt like I functioned fine on it. I could have any conversation stoned as I could sober.

I don't know what happened, maybe it was all the drinking and other drugs I was using, but it started to not have the same effect. It made me feel slow and sometimes, it just wasn't enjoyable anymore. This didn't happen all the time, but it started happening more when I was cutting back on it. Now, I don't smoke it anymore and shouldn't for a while (for personal reasons). I may sometime in the future.

[Silvr]

It effects me really well, but I have a good friend who actually gets really mean and aloof when he is stoned. Weed is definitely not for everyone, and people who get like that should not smoke, they are awful to be around.

[Jazzratt]

I used to be unable to drink alcohol and smoke in the same sitting, I'd just end up vomiting and being no fun at all. This appears to have passed.

I've not personally seen anyone suffer negative effects from weed, but I've heard enough accounts from people that I'm aware the idea that it's completely harmless and should be given to everyone so that the world can be a happier place is bollocks.

[Ele'ill]

Who here gets a negative reaction from smoking weed, and what kind of reaction do you get?

I get body highs and flash backs sometimes from other past drug usage although funny enough it's nothing like what I get sometimes when I drink a large coffee. I don't usually get depressed but I do get anxious. It's usually free floating anxiety and not related to anything specific going on. I've been in what normally would be stressful situations when high and I'm all smiles usually but sometimes if I'm smoking and sitting and listening to music I'll get it and I've found I just have to get up and go for a walk, or play a board game, draw, call up a friend and talk, shower, go to the store, eat, it's just my brain not processing boredom correctly and creating wild anxiety instead.

More often than not if I smoke when I'm hungry/low blood sugar it's not very fun and I tend to get anxiety for some reason. There was this one time where a friend put too much kief oil in the pancakes and we decided to go to the grocery store. The come-up was so fast and hard that I went blind in my left eye and there was just this flickering jagged line of light that was pulsating. That was probably the worst experience I've had with THC. I had no idea why it happened or if it was permanent (lol typical fears when you're drugged) so I went back to the apartment and took a nap to sleep it off. I woke up realizing it probably had to do with low blood sugar, smoking a lot of cigs, elevated blood pressure, light sensitivity and all the sunlight reflecting off the cars.

[cynicles]

Weed sex food sex sleep. That's pretty much me high.

[Terminator X]

Smoked one time in college and the entire right side of my body went numb, then felt like I stuck my finger in an electrical socket. People tell me it may have been laced with formaldehyde. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't pleasant. And yes, paranoia was always a *****, too. Got tired of it after several other attempts and haven't tried it again in probably 5 or so years, and doubt I'll ever do it again. Don't understand some people's need to smoke it every single day of their life.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Sometimes I'll get persistent anxiety and paranoia, about situations I've been in and conversations that weren't awkward at all but suddenly seem awkward in my high recollection of them. Sometimes I'll get depressed and feel like a failure. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm going "crazy" or like there's "something wrong with me".

It's usually a sign I need to back off and stop smoking for a week or four. And then I'll feel like smoking again eventually, then I'll enjoy it for a while, a few weeks or months, then the same thing will happen, and I'll take another break. It's like a cycle.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

There was only one time I smoked that freaked me out. I got so cross-faded that I just kind of sat down and couldn't move at all. That kind of freaked me out, I thought I was going to die.

One time my cousin's girlfriend threw up after we hot-boxed my friends car when we were smoking out of his bong. First time I've ever seen someone throw up from weed...

[Misanthrope]

I never have negative effects, except eating junk food and masturbating too much. If I smoke a lot I occasionally have acid/shroom flash backs as well, especially at night

[Zealot]

I've never had any negative effects, just a sweet, sweet high. It makes me lazy and tired which can get in the way if there are other things I have to attend to (this is essentially a problem of time management, not weed) but, other than that, everything is positive.

Food tastes divine, forgotten memories are remembered, university essays are written, a superior perspective is grasped - all while I'm high.

[cynicles]

I've never had any negative effects, just a sweet, sweet high. It makes me lazy and tired which can get in the way if there are other things I have to attend to (this is essentially a problem of time management, not weed) but, other than that, everything is positive.

Food tastes divine, forgotten memories are remembered, university essays are written, a superior perspective is grasped - all while I'm high.

I did all my 2nd year exams high, academic work is surprisingly easy baked.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Other than paranoia, not really had any side effects. I'm an anxious hypochondriac under normal circumstances and being intoxicated usually takes the general edge off of that, but sometimes it goes sour and I have maybe 10 minutes of intense paranoia and fear that some vital organ is failing or whatnot. When I smoked cigarettes regularly, I'd just go out for a smoke - now I just walk around my apartment frantically for a minute or two thinking: "Now what was I supposed to be doing? Oh yeah, not freaking out. Oh shit I'm freaking out! What was I supposed to be doing again..?"

[o well this is ok I guess]

Shit all my first experiences were negative.
I couldn't look at anything for longer than 5 seconds, if I closed my eyes it felt like I was spinning, and the ringing in my ears got so loud that I couldn't hear anything else. Then, you know, puking and shit.
After that I learned not to binge.

[Jimmie Higgins]

After that I learned not to binge.On weed or snacks after smoking?

The only time I threw up (from weed, not alcohol or some combo of alcohol and something else) was like the 3rd or 4th time I tried smoking... we went to the parking lot behind a Denneys and smoked and then almost got caught by the manager who thought we were trying to break into cars. We wanted to get out of there, but we were too high by that point so we went in and I ordered a milkshake which I then drank in a minute or two. I remember looking outside and seeing the lights from cars going by and thinking, "wait, is that a Star Destroyer?" A minute later and I had to lay out on the booth's bench. A minute after that and I had to run to the bathroom. I opened the door and it was a small room with one toilet stall, one urinal and one sink. I ran to the stall but there was a guy kneeling at it throwing up so I turned and immediately began throwing up into the sink. One of the cooks came in with towels for the first guy and then saw me filling up the sink... with creamy vomit (sorry) ...and was like "Oh my God! I'm sooo sorry! I'm sooo sorry!" as if it was because of his cooking.

[Yuppie Grinder]

I like weed but it's too expensive considering the experience it offers isn't that interesting.
I much prefer benzos, oxy and alcohol, but I end up smoking a lot of weed anyway because it's what my friends prefer.

[cynicles]

I like weed but it's too expensive considering the experience it offers isn't that interesting.
I much prefer benzos, oxy and alcohol, but I end up smoking a lot of weed anyway because it's what my friends prefer.

How pricey is it where you are?

Also cigarettes are great for taking the edge off, only good reason to have one.

[Silvr]

I hate people who smoke oxycontin, jesus.

[Yuppie Grinder]

How pricey is it where you are?

Also cigarettes are great for taking the edge off, only good reason to have one.
20 bucks for a gram of dank usually

[Quail]

I sometimes find that I get anxious if I'm in an anxious frame of mind before I begin smoking (or eating, which is my preferred method of consumption, but I find I'm much less likely to get anxious if I eat it). One time I got so high that I had no depth perception and it was really hard to get down the stairs and move around and that loss of control freaked me out a bit.

Another side effect that led to me giving up weed for a good couple of years was that it made me binge eat a ridiculous amount and since I was already fairly unwell with an eating disorder I didn't want to be doing something that would make it even worse.

The only other bad thing about it is it makes my brain kind of slow. I use it for period pains because it's the only thing that really helps (except for codeine, but that also makes my head fuzzy and is too tempting to abuse), but after a couple of days of being slightly stoned all the time I get frustrated with not being able to think straight.

[The Cheshire Cat]

What about the negative effects of your brains dying? I don't smoke anything, but I guess that I would consider this one of the more negative effects.

[Quail]

What about the negative effects of your brains dying? I don't smoke anything, but I guess that I would consider this one of the more negative effects.
Cannabis doesn't make your brain die. It's not 100% harmless and brilliant, but it doesn't kill brain cells. You should check out this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/residual-effects-cannabis-t173581/index.html) thread.

[Silvr]

I use it for period pains because it's the only thing that really helps (except for codeine, but that also makes my head fuzzy and is too tempting to abuse), but after a couple of days of being slightly stoned all the time I get frustrated with not being able to think straight.

Yeah, this is why this (huffingtonpost [DOT] com/2012/07/03/israel-highless-marijuana_n_1645488.html) would be really nice, IMO, if it actually works.

[maskerade]

Sometimes it makes existing anxiety much worse for me. i thought I had a medical problem after i made some unwise (drunk) decisions and thought that I was feeling strange physical sensations as a result. being aware of my anxiety however made me question whether or not these sensations were real or imaginary, but after smoking they intensified and i essentially decided that i had some horrible disease and was going to die.

when i went to the doctor he told me everything was in my head. which makes sense, i suppose. but i still don't believe him, and after smoking my paranoia set in and i surveyed the entire internet and found a whole bunch of horrible diseases i might have (the internet is horrible).

I may just be a hypochondriac, but so far weed + anxiety has cost me a bit in medical exams...

[The Cheshire Cat]

"Cannabis doesn't make your brain die. It's not 100% harmless and brilliant, but it doesn't kill brain cells. You should check out this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/residual-effects-cannabis-t173581/index.html) thread. "

There are also test that show that it is damaging for your short-term memory.
(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1808)

[Invader Zim]

Nausea, paranoia, panic, an impending sense of doom (like my throat is constricting and I am going to choke to death), vomiting, and a horrible inability to cease shivering and twitching which prevents me from being able to sleep it off.

Seriously, a white out is no fun at all. The worst time was when my friend didn't tell me that it was strong stuff and he had used pretty much made it a blunt, so I smoked far too much, too deeply and held it in too long. After that serious moderation has been the rule of thumb.

[The Douche]

What about the negative effects of your brains dying? I don't smoke anything, but I guess that I would consider this one of the more negative effects.

Well its the only thing that levels out my hypersensitivity without turning me into a zombie (like mood changing pills do). If that means I have to kill brain cells, I'm ok with that, cause at least I'm not lashing out at people all the time.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

"Cannabis doesn't make your brain die. It's not 100% harmless and brilliant, but it doesn't kill brain cells. You should check out this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/residual-effects-cannabis-t173581/index.html) thread. "

There are also test that show that it is damaging for your short-term memory.
(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1808)
The thread Quail linked to was actually about an article discussing cognitive deficits, if you'd bothered to read it

[Quail]

"Cannabis doesn't make your brain die. It's not 100% harmless and brilliant, but it doesn't kill brain cells. You should check out this (http://www.revleft.com/vb/residual-effects-cannabis-t173581/index.html) thread. "

There are also test that show that it is damaging for your short-term memory.
(http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1808)
The thread I linked to was an article saying that negative cognitive effects wear off if someone stops using cannabis.

[The Cheshire Cat]

The thread I linked to was an article saying that negative cognitive effects wear off if someone stops using cannabis.

Yes, but I find this hard to believe. How can these negative effects wear off? If you take too much drugs you will have permanent consequences. It's the same with heroine, cocaine and weed. The results are different, but if you take too much it will not wear off. Same as with alcohol. The effects dissapear, until you drink too much and the effects will never dissapear, even when you're sober. Drugs and alcohol just slowly kill your brains and/or other organs. The strongest effects might dissapear when you stop using, but the damage that has been done does not, right?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Yes, but I find this hard to believe. How can these negative effects wear off? If you take too much drugs you will have permanent consequences. It's the same with heroine, cocaine and weed. The results are different, but if you take too much it will not wear off. Same as with alcohol. The effects dissapear, until you drink too much and the effects will never dissapear, even when you're sober. Drugs and alcohol just slowly kill your brains and/or other organs. The strongest effects might dissapear when you stop using, but the damage that has been done does not, right?
That's the point - there is no brain damage associated with cannabis. The effects are related to the time it takes for the compounds to get out of your body and/or possible non-life-threatening withdrawal effects.

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509

There's another study. Do you find this one "hard to believe" too?

[Misanthrope]

Interesting that a lot of people get nauseous considering nausea relief is one of the main medicinal uses.

[cynicles]

20 bucks for a gram of dank usually

Holy shit, that's twice what I pay.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Holy shit, that's twice what I pay.
For future reference, Canadians aren't allowed to compare their weed prices to American weed prices. It makes most of us down here depressed.

[cynicles]

For future reference, Canadians aren't allowed to compare their weed prices to American weed prices. It makes most of us down here depressed.

If I buy it in bulk it's even cheaper.

[The Cheshire Cat]

"That's the point - there is no brain damage associated with cannabis. The effects are related to the time it takes for the compounds to get out of your body and/or possible non-life-threatening withdrawal effects.

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509)

There's another study. Do you find this one "hard to believe" too? "

To be honest, my English is not quite good enough to fully understand those articles. But I hope you agree that smoking weed is not healthy? And that smoking it for a long time will do you harm? And that smoking it for a relative short time is not exactly healthy either?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

"That's the point - there is no brain damage associated with cannabis. The effects are related to the time it takes for the compounds to get out of your body and/or possible non-life-threatening withdrawal effects.

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509)

There's another study. Do you find this one "hard to believe" too? "

To be honest, my English is not quite good enough to fully understand those articles. But I hope you agree that smoking weed is not healthy? And that smoking it for a long time will do you harm? And that smoking it for a relative short time is not exactly healthy either?
Sorry! I didn't realize.

I agree that the act of smoking is unhealthy and causes lung damage. Whether this lung damage is reversible depends on what is being smoked, how often it is being smoked, and for what time period (5 years, 10 years, 30 years). However, the compounds in cannabis are non-toxic to the body, or at least to the extent that we can tell right now. There may be a study in the future that says cannabinoid ABCXYZ causes cancer, and maybe that study will be backed up by later studies, but until then, I'll just go with what we know so far. :)

[bcbm]

Sometimes I'll get persistent anxiety and paranoia, about situations I've been in and conversations that weren't awkward at all but suddenly seem awkward in my high recollection of them. Sometimes I'll get depressed and feel like a failure. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm going "crazy" or like there's "something wrong with me".

this exactly.


But I hope you agree that smoking weed is not healthy? And that smoking it for a long time will do you harm? And that smoking it for a relative short time is not exactly healthy either?

nah its fine

[Capitalist Octopus]

SWIM says it's best after MDMA.

[Capitalist Octopus]

But yeah I have mostly good reactions, I have greened out a couple times though which sucked.

[Silvr]

But I hope you agree that smoking weed is not healthy? And that smoking it for a long time will do you harm? And that smoking it for a relative short time is not exactly healthy either?

My grandfather has been smoking weed virtually every day for the past 45 years or so. He is in his mid-nineties now, and is doing well for his age. Obviously smoking joints all the time isn't good for your lungs, and some people don't handle weed well psychologically, but your blanket statement is not true.

[Zealot]

"That's the point - there is no brain damage associated with cannabis. The effects are related to the time it takes for the compounds to get out of your body and/or possible non-life-threatening withdrawal effects.

http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509 (http://www.anonym.to/?http://www.jci.org/articles/view/25509)

There's another study. Do you find this one "hard to believe" too? "

To be honest, my English is not quite good enough to fully understand those articles. But I hope you agree that smoking weed is not healthy? And that smoking it for a long time will do you harm? And that smoking it for a relative short time is not exactly healthy either?

The health benefits of smoking weed far outweigh any negative effects it also has. Even the lung damage it supposedly causes (which ignores the fact that marijuana can be consumed in other ways) is counteracted by the fact that THC has the capacity to also prevent the growth of tumors. The very leftist newspaper, The Washington Post, has admitted as much in one article. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/25/AR2006052501729.html)

[cantwealljustgetalong]

my girlfriend literally hallucinates and has seizures if she smokes
I'm somewhere between Method Man and Redman in my weed consumption.
believe it or not, it doesn't come between us.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

Hallucinates, wtf is she smoking? Is it laced with salvia or something lol.

[Quail]

I've hallucinated from weed before, some proper strong space cakes. Doesn't happen very often though. I usually fall asleep when I'm stupidly stoned.

Last night I had a smoke after a couple of glasses of wine and it gave me a weird spinning sensation and I had to lie down and go to bed lol. Usually that doesn't happen, but I just overdid it.

[Raúl Duke]

Hallucinates, wtf is she smoking? Is it laced with salvia or something lol.

haha, nah but this is serious

I've met people who have had quite odd reactions to marijuana.

Different strokes for different folks.

I've had a few slightly negative experiences, but usually have had positive experiences.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

decided i'm never putting another cigarette in my mouth, or any smoke-producing device (might make an exception if I ever visit Cuba again...!).

Not really got the means for a vapouriser right now, so i'm open to new ways to ingest. Obvs brownies...

I've had it in tea before...the result was interesting to say the least! :lol:

[cynicles]

decided i'm never putting another cigarette in my mouth, or any smoke-producing device (might make an exception if I ever visit Cuba again...!).

Not really got the means for a vapouriser right now, so i'm open to new ways to ingest. Obvs brownies...

I've had it in tea before...the result was interesting to say the least! :lol:
I love tea! My favourite way to eat it though, and this is something a vegan friend introduced me to, is in a really good pesto sauce.

[Os Cangaceiros]

The first time I ever got really stoned, I actually didn't like the sensation at all. It was one of those classic drug-induced "halp i'm not in control of my own mind"-type feelings. The body high was also intense, so much so that I got nauseous and threw up in a public bathroom a couple hours later. Man. I was high.

But that's literally the only time I've ever had a negative experience on weed (that was exclusively a cause of the weed, and not what was happening independent of the weed.) And I've smoked weed on 1,000s of occasions afterwards, so I guess I'm in the clear.

[L.A.P.]

Sometimes I'll get persistent anxiety and paranoia, about situations I've been in and conversations that weren't awkward at all but suddenly seem awkward in my high recollection of them. Sometimes I'll get depressed and feel like a failure. Sometimes I'll feel like I'm going "crazy" or like there's "something wrong with me".

I get that feeling too at times when I know I really shouldn't be stoned at all

I've puked once after trying to rush a bowl and holding in a cough, it was embarassing. I sometimes can get into some hyper-paranoid trance, but that's usually when someone else has a weird high and it trips me out thinking "what is going on with this person". People have remarked I seem completly normal when I'm high (even though I feel really high), so when some lightweight does their weird idiosynchrasies and shit stoned it trips me out a bit.

[human strike]

Sometimes light headaches to begin with, but I'm pretty sure that's just the tobacco (not a cigarette smoker). Clears up nicely after a few minutes usually anyway.

[Il Medico]

I occasionally get paranoid as shit when I'm high, but in a very self-aware way. That's the only 'negative effect' I've had from smoking.

[cynicles]

I'm high right now.

[MotherCossack]

Who here gets a negative reaction from smoking weed, and what kind of reaction do you get?

Well.... put it this way...

i was introduced to dope ...er.... well, from birth really... so it is like about as exciting as... say soft bog roll or.... erm.... frozen food.
There was no..."before i was introduced to dope...." my first memory of it:
asking my mum if i could smell it in the bag, before she rolled one, or between fingers as it was crumbled .
i must have been about 3. I liked the attention..... her friends thought i was cute, probably.
Since then i must have watched enough joints being rolled to reach the distant planet 'hey man' in the andromeda galaxy, if they were stacked end to end in single file.

so... yeah.... course i tried it..... i spent a good ten years trying to get off on it.... god i tried.....
but.... i had to admit..... that it was total crap........

[and its not like i was trying poor stuff... i was getting the connoiseur strength and quality]

it is like ... you feel fine, wanna party, be with mates, go out on the town, have a laugh......so.... you have a smoke to get the party started....

then you get dizzy, your head spins, you feel sleepy, you cant be bothered to move, you feel sick anyway..... and now you want to go to bed and sleep in stillness!!! HEY!!!!!! GREAT PARTY!!!!!!!!! NOT!!!!!!


maybe i am wrong.... but i get the distinct feeling that lots of people smoke it cos they think it is what they should do .... or that it must be fun cos everyone says it is!

[Geiseric]

I've smoked weed virtutally every day for the past 3 years.

I smoke so much that it stopped working last week, and I had to take a few days off. Now i'm back on track :D

Anyways, I'm in pretty good shape. Your health will be shitty if you're lazy, regardless even if you smoke weed. Excersize while you're high is alot funner than it sounds, bike riding and ultimate frisbee in particular!

My friends who smoke cigarettes are the ones who don't like weed, for the most part. I don't understand why, since cigarettes are fucking gross and dumb overall. However they say "Man I get paranoid." Which I don't believe for a second.

Anyways, Woody Guthrie calls California "The Garden of eden," for a reason :D :D :D :D

[Камо́ Зэд]

Weed can be as much a problem for me as alcohol. I think this is my own personal hangup, though.

[leftistman]

I've only tried weed once but the only thing negative about my result was this sensation that the entire world was rotating quickly clockwise and I felt the friction on my body. Other than that it was great.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Anyways, Woody Guthrie calls California "The Garden of eden," for a reason :D :D :D :D

The Garden of weeden.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I can get anxiety and paranoia from smoking weed, which normally comes from a sense of hyper self-consciousness and over analysis of my personality. I don't like it.

If I'm drunk then I can smoke just fine, I get the negative effects when I'm sober beforehand.

[ed miliband]

I can get anxiety and paranoia from smoking weed, which normally comes from a sense of hyper self-consciousness and over analysis of my personality. I don't like it.

If I'm drunk then I can smoke just fine, I get the negative effects when I'm sober beforehand.

we're a rare breed! yeah, i usually have to have a few beers before i smoke. i dunno if it's a psychological thing, like i know where i am with drink, but it does genuinely seem to take the edge off for me.

most people i know only drink after smoking, "beer then grass, on your arse" or however it goes.

[Sam_b]

The negative effect is that when I get weed I usually have less money after the transaction.

[RevoTO]

Personally when I smoke 3-5 days in a row (rarely do this, never more) I feel groggy/less sharp for a few days following. Decided to seriously cut my weed consumption.