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HOW DOES MARIJUANA AFFECT THE BRAIN?
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HOW DOES MARIJUANA AFFECT THE BRAIN?
AKUDO EJELONU
Pot, weed, grass, ganja and skunk, are some of the common words used to describe the dried leaves drug known as marijuana. Marijuana is a cannabis plant that is "usually smoked or eaten to entice euphoria." (1). Throughout the years, there has been research on the negative and positive effects of marijuana on the human body and the brain. Marijuana is frequently beneficial to the treatment of AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and chronic pain. However, researchers such as Jacques-Joseph Moreau have been working to explain how marijuana has harmful affects on the functions of central nervous system and hinders the memory and movement of the user's brain. The focus of my web paper is how the chemicals in marijuana, specifically cannabinoids and THC have an effect on the memory and emotions of a person's central nervous system.
Marijuana impinges on the central nervous system by attaching to brain's neurons and interfering with normal communication between the neurons. These nerves respond by altering their initial behavior. For example, if a nerve is suppose to assist one in retrieving short-term memory, cannabinoids receptors make them do the opposite. So if one has to remember what he did five minutes ago, after smoking a high dose of marijuana, he has trouble. Marijuana plant contains 400 chemicals and 60 of them are cannabinoids, which are psychoactive compounds that are produced inside the body after cannabis is metabolized or is extorted from the cannabis plant. Cannabinoids is an active ingredient of marijuana. The most psychoactive cannabinoids chemical in marijuana that has the biggest impact on the brain is tetrahydrocannibol, or THC. THC is the main active ingredient in marijuana because it affects the brain by binding to and activating specific receptors, known as cannabinoid receptors. "These receptors control memory, thought, concentration, time and depth, and coordinated movement. THC also affects the production, release or re-uptake (a regulating mechanism) of various neurotransmitters."(2) Neurotransmitters are chemical messenger molecules that carry signals between neurons. Some of these affects are personality disturbances, depression and chronic anxiety. Psychiatrists who treat schizophrenic patient advice them to not use this drug because marijuana can trigger severe mental disturbances and cause a relapse.
When one's memory is affected by high dose of marijuana, short-term memory is the first to be triggered. Marijuana's damage to short-term memory occurs because THC alters the way in which information is processed by the hippocampus, a brain area responsible for memory formation. "One region of the brain that contains a lot of THC receptors is the hippocampus, which processes memory."(3) Hippocampus is the part of the brain that is important for memory, learning, and the integration of sensory experiences with emotions and motivation. It also converts information into short-term memory. "Because it is a steroid, THC acts on the hippocampus and inhibits memory retrieval."(4) THC also alters the way in which sensory information is interpreted. "When THC attaches to receptors in the hippocampus, it weakness the short-term memory,"(5) and damages the nerve cells by creating structural changes to the hippocampus region of the brain. When a user has a high dose of marijuana, new information does not register into their brain and this may be lost from memory and they are not able to retrieve new information for more than a few minutes. There is also a decrease in the activity of nerve cells.
There are two types of memory behavior that is affected by marijuana, recognition memory and free cells. Recognition memory is the ability to recognize correct words. Users can usually recognize words that they previous saw before smoking but claim to recognize words that they did not previously see before smoking. This mistake is known as memory intrusions. Memory intrusions are also the consequence of THC affecting the free cell of the brain. "Marijuana disrupts the ability to freely recall words from a list that has been presented to an intoxicated subject."(6) For example, if a list of vocabulary words presented to the intoxicated subject and few minutes later, they have to recall the words that were on the list. The only words that they remember are the last group of words and not the words that are in the beginning of the list. This is an initiation that their memory storage has been affected. "The absence of an effect at short term delay times indicates that cannabinodis did not impair the ability to perform the basic task, but instead produce a selective learning and/or memory deficit."(7) I did a study with two college students (Student A and Student B) who both smoke marijuana every other week. This particular study was done an hour before, while and after they were under the influence of the drug. Student A was watching television before she smoked marijuana, was asked which advertisement was splayed before the show started and she got four out of five of her answers correct. After this first section, she smoked a small dose of marijuana twice within an hour. Fifteen minutes after she smoked her last blunt, she continued her regular activity of watching sitcoms. When a commercial would come on, I would ask her simple questions like what happened before the show went to a commercial break. Her responses would be macro-answers about what was going on but when I asked her what the main character was wearing, she did not remember. This was ironic because the protagonist wore a bright yellow suit that my friend commenting on earlier when the show began ten minutes ago. Her short-term memory is weakening because she was only able to remember big picture information and not small picture. Though the results are interesting, I know that I would have had different response on someone else because it depends on how often the user smokes and if they have good memory prior to smoking weed.
Marijuana also impairs emotions. When smoking marijuana, the user may have uncontrollable laughter one minute and paranoia the next. This instant change in emotions has to do with the way that THC affects the brain's limbic system. The limbic system is another region of the brain that governs one's behavior and emotions. It also "coordinates activities between the visceral base-brain and the rest of the nervous system."(8) I am now going to use Students B to describe how emotions are affected by marijuana. Students B is an articulate and well spoken young woman who has a troublesome relationship with her best friends which gets her upset and tense up. But after she smoked one high dose weed, her body was relaxed however, she had trouble formulating her thoughts clearly and would talk in pieces and was jubilant. It has been researched that a person needs to have high dose of marijuana would be in the state of euphoria. High dose of marijuana is measured as "15mg of THC can cause increased heart rate, gross motor disturbances, and can lead to panic attacks."(9) Thankfully, Student A did not experience any of these extreme examples.
College students usually smoke marijuana because they are stressed over schoolwork and feel that marijuana can help them unwind. I have encountered marijuana smokers who are chilled and have no worries in the world but after the effect of the drug wears off, they're sometimes capable to tacking their problem or at the original state that they were in before the drug. The effects of happiness that marijuana usually cause to the user is not a lasting effect because even though a user smokes weed to get away from the troubles of his/her own life, they still have to face these problems after the effects of the drug wears-off. In a survey with college student, an organization called, parents: the Anti-Drug interviewed college students and found that "compared to the light users, heavy marijuana users made more errors and had more difficulty sustaining attention."(10) This was evident through my second experiment with Student B but not everyone who smoke high doses of marijuana experience the same affect.
The chemicals in marijuana bring cognitive impairment and troubles with learning for the user. "Smoking [marijuana] causes some changes in the brain that are like those caused but cocaine, heroin, and alcohol. Some researchers believe that has changes may put a person more at risk of becoming addicted to other drugs such a cocaine and heroin."(11) To prevent such harm, one must be cautious of their actions. Those who do not do drugs do not risk harm. So please the next day you light up, remember you that you central nervous system and brain will be at risk.
2)Marijuana: The Brain's Response to Drugs, A Good Web Source
3)Mind Over Matter: Marijuana Series, A Good Web Source
4)Alcohol Addiction & The Limbic System, A Good Web Source
5)Marijuana: The Brain's Response to Drugs, A Good Web Source
6)Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory Impairments Produced by Cannabinoids, A Good Web Source
7)Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Learning and Memory Impairments Produced by Cannabinoids, A Good Web Source
8)Marijuana and the Brain by John Gettman. High Times, March, 1995, A Good Web Source
9)Alcohol Addiction & The Limbic System, A Good Web Source
10)Parents. The Anti-Drug. -- Drug Information, A Good Web Source
11)Marijuana: Marijuana Brain Effects, A Good Web Source
Comments made prior to 2007
I smoked pot straight now since I was 13 years old Im
25 now I smoke it everyday literally through a Bong. I do not smoke
well im at work but as soon as im off and for the remainder of the
evening till I end up going to bed I do smoke. Now I read your page
about the effects pot has on short term memory and brain function,
Since I started smoking pot my asthma has vanished my grades went up in
school my mind learns at quicker rates and my short term memory is far
from gone There isnt much I forget about, unless it is because of my
selective memory. Were the people that you tested on already marijuana
smokers and also there are diff things to be taken into consideration
when testing a substance for example the way it was grown marijuana has
to be grown with nutrients and fertalizers to become potent enough to
smoke for a high but when people use these fertilizers and such they
sometimes do not leech the foods out from the plants which could lead
to all kinds of bad side effects Im wondering if this kind of
inforamtion is taken into consideration when giving test subjects
marijuana to smoke or ingest.
I have no side effects other than a burnt out feeling after smoking all
nite, and in teh morning of course but no brain problems like teh ones
your website describes ... Chris, 7 July 2006
Yeah...i disagree on a lot of things that you have to say about this. Like for one some of the things you mentioned only happen while you're high, but after the high goes away those things do as well. Marijuana is not addicting like other hard drugs or alcohol. Also marijuana helps people with ADD, makes them focus better, and sometimes learn better. Sometimes when you smoke your nerves are more dull, but sometimes they can be more alive, so to speak. You need to know that everybody reacts to marijuana differently. So these test that your doing don't go for everybody. You need to let people know that or else thats kind of false information. Something that really got to me is when you were talking about how people do it to relax and get their mind of things and once the highs gone all the problems come back. Well once again everybody reacts differently to marijuana. A lot of people when there high talk a lot about there problems and life in general. What I'm getting at here is that while their high they can figure out there problems because being high brings you into a new type of world and you think about everything more carefully. It's like it opens up your brain and lets you think more into your thoughts and about whats going on. A lot of times they can solve their problems like that, especially when there is someone there with them to talk to. Marijuana also brings people together. I know someone who hated a bunch of people, but then one day ended up smoking with them. Next thing she knew, they were all the best of friends. I know a group of people and within that group you've got your "gangster" type, Punk type, goth type, preppy type, hick type, and the list just keeps going. All of them probably wouldn't even talk if it wasn't for marijuana bringing them together. I have a lot more to say but, I'm not going to because I have pretty much proved my point. Also marijuana brings the creativeness out in people. Some of the greatest authors, poets, music artist, painters, and so on, get their great ideas or create there masterpieces by being high.
P.S I would also like to add that I am a chronic user and I could remember your whole entire report on it. I also have excellent grades in school, in fact better than when I didn't smoke. I also would just like to add one more thing: You will not understand or ever be able to know how or what marijuana does to you unless you do it yourself. Trust me I once was all anti-marijuana and always said that it does all these bad things to you and blah blah blah. Well now I actually know how it really does make people feel because I have experienced it and everything there is in that type of world.
P.S.S I do agree with a few things that you had to say ... Jen, 9 November 2006
Hi, I really found this information very useful because it IS a misconvention among most of the college/university goers that marijuana increases concentration and increases the work capacity of an individual. I personally believe that it DOES increase the work capacity of the abuser to some extent, that's when the drug abuser is not in a "stoned" state of mind, but then too, what is at stake is the brain and central nervous system malfunctioning, which degrades the intellectual, job and social skills. So in my opinion, it's not a good deal ... Ankur Gupta, 25 February 2007
allright tell me something if you say a list of say 20-30 vocabulary words and you were asked to read them over, then you were asked say 5 minutes later to remember as many of those words as you can, do you really think you'll be able to do that? no i bet if you asked 100 people to do that that around 90% of them wouldnt be able to do it.
also riddle me this batman, how many people die each year from drunk driving accidents? now dont im pretty sure you've been drunk, and maybe once smoked pot in your life right? well which had a more sever affect the weed or the alcohol? yeah the alcohol!
im a stoner i will proudly say that. but if i have the choice between alcohol and weed i'd take weed anyday. i've driven high that isnt a problem. when im high i drive a little slower then normal and im lookin for the nearest 7-11.
weed isnt a drug it has no addictive characteristics what so ever!!! ciggaretes kill more people then alchol,guns,and pissed off husbands who come home early.
now weed doesnt lead to other drugs what so ever, i've been smokin the stuff everyday for the past 4 years and i have yet to even think about trying other drugs. if mother nature didnt want us to smoke it she wouldnt have put it here!
its as simple as that!! ... Reader on the web, 21 July 2007
Hello, I was told about this site as a friend of mine was completing a research paper. As I looked over it, there seems to be lots of misinformation involved, and my friend has abandoned this site. I wouldn't mind if you read through all of my message carefully. To start off, the following statement is not backed by any scientific evidence what so ever. "Marijuana impinges on the central nervous system by attaching to brain's neurons and interfering with normal communication between the neurons." This has been proven to be false on multiple occasions since the 1970's. Cannabinoids to not not impinge on the nervous system what so ever, this isn't lysergic acid we're dealing with. "Marijuana plant contains 400 chemicals and 60 of them are cannabinoids" This quote right here is misleading. Every plant is comprised of hundreds of chemicals. In fact, they're not even chemicals, they're just substances that comprise the plants' structure. Also, the majority of cannabinoids that are also found in cannabis are produced by the body naturally. Also regarding cannabinoid receptors. "These receptors control memory, thought, concentration, time and depth, and coordinated movement. THC also affects the production, release or re-uptake (a regulating mechanism) of various neurotransmitters." This is simply false, I do not know where this source came from. Your brain does not use cannabinoid receptors for memory, thought, or concentration. Next,saying that "When one's memory is affected by high dose of marijuana, short-term memory is the first to be triggered." is also blatantly false. Marijuana does not directly impact memory, but short term memory only when high off of THC or CBD is affected because the user may be 'distracted' if you will from the plant it self. Also, referring to a 'high dose' of marijuana is ridiculous. There is no such thing as a high dose of Cannabis because there is no possible way to overdose. It is strictly impossible. The most obnoxious quote that i've read from this site is, "Marijuana also impairs emotions. When smoking marijuana, the user may have uncontrollable laughter one minute and paranoia the next." I cannot believe that this would even be published. MARIJUANA DOES NOT CHANGE A USERS STATE OF MIND. PEOPLE CAN MAKE THE SAME RATIONAL DECISIONS AS THEY WOULD WHEN NOT USING THE PLANT. PERIOD. I am actually appalled by what I've read here, and I'm even more appalled by the sources you've used. Unlike true informational sites, you've only used web sources. That is completely absurd. If you look at any reasonable fact site about Cannabis you will see that the sources that are used are mainly from published books and factual citations. Please realize that much of what is on this web page is completely false and misleading. I wouldn't mind hearing a response soon to defend your case ... Spiros Thomas, 7 November 2007
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im a junior in highschool and
im a junior in highschool and i smoked something close to mara.. i blacked out from that stuff. its been 2 months sence i smoked it and i dont feel normal. i will walk somewere and dont remember taking everyfoot step there.. its like a dream. i panic alot also. i'll wake up in the mid of the night shaking, nurvous and it feels like imma puke my heart up. anyone know whats going on and how long this bs will last cuz its really scaring the piss outa me.. i was so scared one night that i woke my parents up in the middle of the night and told them that i smoked. lol
u took PCP. the first bag i
u took PCP. the first bag i bought had it too :)
u probably had a reaction similar to PTSD or perhaps drug induced psychosis. go to a PSYCHIATRIST and they will give u good drugs lol. some people cannot handle intoxication very well because of preconceived notions of losing control. if you have any of these notions, taking a psychedelic or intoxicants of any kind will like cause panic attacks. I myself have taken just about every drug type and have never had any paranoid/ panic reaction. this included smoking an oz of weed within a few hours wich was fun, PCP, LSD, COCAINE, heroin, morphine, oxycodone, methamphetamine, atropine, and many others. personaly i like being high, but lots of other people i know were pressured to do drugs and they had bad reactions. basicaly if you believe you will get paranoid, you will get paranoid and not like it. common sence realy. drug usualy dont have as strong of an effect as you might think. you realy are in control unless you are in the OD range of the drugs.
i smokes something "close" to
i smokes something "close" to mara and i blacked out for thike 3 to 5 min. i herd if something is slightly different then it can cause you to black out. i smoked that stuff like 2 months ago and i still feel weird... i dont remember walking to places when i walk there. i walked to the kitchen and i dont remember the foot steps i took. sometimes i'll take up in the middle of the night and shake and nurvous as hell. my stomack will also hurt. feels like imma puke. the back right and left of my head gets sharp pains sometimes also... can anyone tell me whats goin on and what i should do
does it affect you if you are
does it affect you if you are inside of a car sitting next to some one who is smoking marrihuana even if you dont smoke. will it come out on a drug test.
UH HUH
Why yes it does, you get second hand smoke from cigarettes and you will still get it from marijuana, i am a stoner and thats how i got my one friend high when he didn't want to, we put him in the middle of the backseat of a car and we hot boxed it, he didn't want to smoke weed so we kinda forced it upon him. This is a good way to get people who don't want to get high, HIGH!
:| That actually sounds like
:| That actually sounds like a horrible thing to do. I love smoking weed and I wish some of my other friends smoked it, but that isn't an excuse for you to force it on somebody.
You guys should have just booted him out of the car and had fun to yourselves.
The "LAW" tO Jail
get a DOPe cop or else go to Jail
try to confuse the Constitution with a rag or toilet paper
when you let the cops do this u belong In prison
go to hell for / when de--...
dehumanize ect.
the gov commits the crime it creates for its own pleasure
as if we are an abomination to exist on the same planet you did not create
Slaves let the gov. do that
White Collar crime Entrapment Unconstitutional -- Radiation
Servalance ect. copyright inf. look thru wall ect. satallite ect
marialana--- hate crimes against "the brain."
no contact pls,,,
i'm the mother of one of you
i'm the mother of one of you crazy stupid people who are doing this to yourselves. You may not even notice a
difference in yourselves but others around you can. You all think you're managing fine but you're not because you can't see it - your blind to what is happening to you. You all keep harping on about how wonderful it is - this is just because you don't want to accept what it's done to you - but as I said you can't see this yourselves. You all convince yourselves that you're fine - oh Mother Nature wouldn't have given us this wonderful weed if we weren't meant to use it - what a cop out. You're just not in contraol of your own selves. It has been proven that it does have some therapeutice benefits for those in pain and suffering - but your not all in pain and suffering so why do it to yourselves. Also the smoke going into your lungs can't be exactly good for you - you'll just end up being a burden on society further down the track from lung cancer, brain cognitive ability loss (early onset of dementia). Why can't you just enjoy your lives and find something beneficial to do instead of knocking yourselves out and spending time recovering - talk about memory loss - you've all forgotten how wonderful life really is.
just shut up lol
lady, first off i smoke ciggs and i smoke marijuana but i only smoke marijuana like say twice a week. im 17 i live with my mom and ive been this way for about years now even with the weed smoking. might i add that im not raised as bad child or anything becuase ive never been to jail nor have been in any type of trouble to my community. And if smoke from marijuana isent that healthy for you than why dont you bitch to the tabacco smokers as well. as long as i have been smoking marijuana i havent suffered from anything physically wrong with my brain or the way i am. i still have the sae girlfriend that i have been having for about 3 and half years now and me smokeing marijuana hasent affected that or the way my personality it set. i have not graduated from highschool, but as you can plainly see im not someone you perticuluarly call a "dummy".. i am geting my G.E.D and ill have you know i am passing it with flying colors. people who have claimed having problems with their lifes and are addicted to this harmless plant.. well they are just simply retarded. becuase in actuality you cant be addicted to somthing. no one can actually be addicted to a certain thing even if its chemically possible for it to happen, you have the will power to over ride your perception on the so called "addiction" so just stop with your nonsince and find something else better to do with your free time.
p.s light up a spliff yourself and write me back. peace and love and let your life be lived with no agony
Re: just shut up lol
Wait Wait; sae , nonsince, isent, perticuluarly, dont, tabacco, lifes, somthing, becuase, hasent, smokeing. I hope you pass the English part of the GED test laughing my ass off at you. Okay I'm done playing spot the errors and calling it irony and bull to this story of yours. But I'm going to take a crack at each word you meant. Sae = same, nonsince = non sense, isent = isn't, perticuluarly = particularly, dont =don't or do not, tabacco = tobacco, lifes = lives, somthing = something, becuase = because, hasent = hasn't or has not and smokeing =smoking. Yep no problems...
IT's a Wonderful LIFE
life is wonderful=delusion.
ive seen some crazy shit in my life that has led me to believe life is not as wonderful as many claim it is.
ive been hospitalized for schizophrenia and have seen 10 year olds with slit wrists, people abused sexualy and psysicaly to the point of insanity, and ive seen people who have scars around thier necks from trying to hang themselves. sure lots of people such as yourself distance from reality but what you shouldnt be doing is telling people what to do, every one who doses any kind of dope knows that it is bad, but they made the choice anyway. the government owns my body, i was forced into a ward after commiting no crime, and was force fed antipsychotics that disolve my soul and make me into the robot whit america wants me to be. all im saying is, dont be judging people that are 'determent to society' because they have seen more reality than you will see in your whole life.
The woman's right......Give up before its too late!!!!!!
Im gonna cut to the chase here... I smoked it for a good few years and regularly, I'm talking every day. The whole time I've always thought, well there are people out there getting so drunk and causing society problems at the weekend, what harm am I causing people????? I stay in and play the computer or watch some film trilogy!! Brilliant! The reality of it is guys is that while we still smoke it we think we're not affecting others but we are! Others see a change in us (and i dont just mean when we smoke it but when we're normal after too!). Ever smoked a joint alone and started to talk out aloud to yourself or have a conversation with yourself??? I don't mean 'hello billy, hows things... yeah not bad....!). I used to think that if it got to that point then im starting to go crazy, but trust me, talking aloud to yourself is an early sign of schizophrenia. Look it up after you read this and the amount of early signs that you may have will worry the ***** out of you!!! This brings me to my next point... you might think 'Ive always been a deep thinker'... but not to the extent that you think about things now, stoned or normal... you begin to overthink things soooooo much, paranoia gets a hold of you and if weed don't frazzle your brain, the anxiety eventually will! I smoked it for a good 6 years and finally given it up recently, believe me guys its the best thing you will ever do!!!!!! Within a month you will just have so much energy, you will be able to think straight, you will feel happier about life, I'm telling you!!!! Im not saying I'm anti weed because believe me guys I know the reasons why you smoke it, lets be honest its a wicked little drug at times when your chilling at home but I'm telling you that one day you need to think 'where do I draw the line with this stuff I'm smoking???' When I have kids??? When does it stop!!! Its tough to stop I know because it becomes routine just like everything in life, but it can be done, you just need to replace with something else to do... and the money you save from not getting it, well go out and treat yourself!!!! Why not not, you deserve it! Only you know how hard it can be to put a stop to it, and you will constantly tell yourself 'but I like smoking it, what harm am I causing people?' Whether you choose to accept it or not, it makes you paranoid, full stop!!!! I can see someone saying oh be quiet, it affects people in different ways, but the only person your lying to is yourself!!! It's like saying smoking cigarettes wont harm me, it affects people in different ways but it dont!!! The reality is we all smoke the same drug, we need to accept the consequences and stop living in denial, because there may be a day when it's too late!!!! Give it a go, and I promise you, you will think...you know what that person was right, there is so much in life that can make you happy, i never needed to do that!!!!
Peace out!
I <3 MARIJUANA
Wrong, I AM A PROUD STONER, i have been smoking since i was 13 and i have a good life, i have nothing wrong with my memory or any of the other apparent side effects that you fools claim you get from smoking a PLANT! There are people who give stoners a bad name but that happens with all type of people. The government would be dumb if they don't legalize marijuana they can tax it and they could make decent money off it (i would prefer if they didn't just because i can get it cheaper), just decriminalize it at least and stop sending innocent people away. There is nothing wrong with marijuana its a PLANT that gets you high for like 2-4 hours and it makes EVERYTHING better. It helps with pain (take my word on this one), if you have a sleeping disorder, anorexia the list goes on. Yes i know there are cancer causing chemicals in there, but there aren't enough to do anything, out of the 421 chemicals in cannabis satvia 61 are unique, if we could find a way to learn about these chemicals imagine how we can benefit.
Peace and love
-Kyle
im a senior in highschool
im a senior in highschool now. ive been smokin since i was a freshman. idk why i smoke all the time but the only thing wrong about it is wastin ur money all the time on it. some friends ive smoked with in the past say theyre gonna quit. ive tried so many times so im just gonna live my life with weed to play a complimentary role. life is short. i wish i can roll blunts the rest of my days.. one things for sure; weed does bring people together. i have friends at school; school brings us together.. after school there is nothin else to do than get a sack and chill. i may not remember particular days but ill always remember the time periods we shared. marijuana adds variety to life. i wish it were legal!!! i wanna feel free to roll a blunt at the park without bein paranoid. the only reason paranoia is one of the effects of marijuana is because the 5-0 on the real. if it was legal this country would definetly be free and would start a new beginning. if weed were legal there would be so many choices for the people. whatever happened to power to the people?? were only here for a short amount of time.. our lives here would be way funner seein people high and bein high all the time then be in heaven high!! ill bet they got some crazy mutated cannabis up there lol
mary j
marijuana people of the world we need to join together and start our own campaign for weed nothing like laughing and having a good life.
4live
I agree with everythink
as i tryed it once now my mind memory is f***ed and its been about 5years now
its my short term memory in seconds,
say if a walk down the stairs ill think to my self how did i get down hear and start to feel dizzy.
i need help but dont know who to go to
I know exactly how you feel EFFECTS
On my 18th birthday was the first time i did or was associated with pot. My friend made special brownies and i knew about them, but didn't know to much, so i ate five. I did this because i didn't feel it after the first two so i ate three more. About, id say thirty minutes later i looked at myself in the mirror, but it seemed like i couldn't stop and it was really cool so i started to jump and every time i leaped i didn't realize i hit the ground till about three seconds later. Then finally one of my sober friends stopped me saying i have been jumping for a straight 20 minutes, so i sat on the couch and that,s when i really started to feel it. Everything slowed down, it started to become hard to breath, i couldn't talk, or comprehend what anybody was saying, i was not relaxed at all and just freaking out. I wanted to call 911 so bad becuase i thought the doctors could take my high away. After about an hour of panicing and trying to get the phone i passed out on the floor, hawaiian punch in hand. The morel of this story is, dont eat to much special brownies! Eat one then wait an hour you will defidently feel it. A few weeks later i smoked it this time and it was amazing, i saw things alot clearer and all my problems just went away. Don't give up on a bad first time
Haha, that sort of thing
Haha, that sort of thing happened to me too. The second time I smoked I had about eight or nine hits, and I was freaking out the whole time. Moderation is key, marijuana is an amazing plant that was put here on this earth to open up the passages of our minds. I like who I am now as a person, but I don't smoke very often. People who only do it to have friends and to fit in are the people who give this marvelous plant a bad name. I'm happy, I know who I am, I still have a 4.0 in school, but more importantly, now I know what things are important, and what things just don't even matter. I used to be insecure, and I used to care about what I looked like to other people. Now I know that life is too short to care about transparent things, and I can devote myself to my music. Life is wonderful.
peace, yo. the simple fact
peace, yo.
the simple fact that we all came to this website and took our time reading meaninglessness banter.....
makes all of us look like idiots.
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i have been smoking since 6th grade i am now 15 i smoked weed a couple days ago with a bunch of friends and it was some pretty good weed i got, and after i smoked it i started twitching uncrontrolable and i rememered i was at one place but the next i was some where else and i kept repeating myself and my heart beat was so fast and for the next couple days i couldnt remember anything ,i couldnt even remember how to do my homework right i have decided to only smoke on holidays and not every day from now on...
wHAT a wise person does.
(1)What is the difference between a cocaine user and indian hemp smoker?.
(2) Could a cocaine or Indian hemp user be trusted ?
EFFECTS
I had smoked marijuana before ,
i had very much enjoyed it .
It let me relax, calmed me down and sometimes turned me on . It was all great untill one night , me and my friends decided to go smoke, my dealer had warned us .. it was some "good" stuff . So, i braced myself . We were pretty far from my house, and once we were high we had to walk back. Me and my friends made a lung and we began smoking , I must have took 10 or 11 BIG hits . I held them in for LONG ! Once we done , we set off . After 5ish minutes i started feeling weird my arms and legs were going numb , i couldnt see clearly; suddenly i forgot everything. I stopped my friends and said "WAIT!? where are we going?" they said we were going to my house, and i started to panic ! I forgot where i was , i forgot my name and where i lived . I couldnt remember anything ! my friends 'being cooked themselves , and feeling fine said to relax; they remembered where i lived' so i tryed to cool down , it didnt quite work .. because a block later my heart started beating soo fast and i went into a panic attack , i was REALLY scared . Everything i did , 'if i moved my hand to touch my body' i wouldnt feel till 3 seconds later .. and i felt like i wasnt deciding to do these movements. My body did them without my brain reconizing it , it was scary/strange i still couldnt remember my name and i wanted them to cal 911 , but they wouldn't . They grabbed my arms and walked me home i started to cry , it felt like a dream ! LIKE A DREAM ... not real, but that was not the case at all . I was SHAKING sooo hard ! And i wasnt choosing to , my body was doing it itself . It was scary (i realise i have repeated that over and over again, but there is no other word to explain it ) I went to bed immeditately , these effects didnt leave for 3 days, i was like a zombie, it was bad . That night i had smoked a good amount , but i had smoke WAAAY more, on other occasions. I dont under stand, my friends just said it was a 'bad trip' and they think its funny how i re-acted. Is something wrong with me , they smoked the same weed and they were fine. I like marijuana , and i want too smoke it again , but not like that . If anyone has experienced this or anything like this, or has some kind of explaination/recommendations please reply ! NO STUPID REPLYS like 'weed is bad' and dont tell me not too do it again, because that is not helping me' thanks .
Dude i know exactly what your
Dude i know exactly what your talking about when you said 3 second delayed reactions. About 2 months ago my and some friends smoked about 5 bowls together and then when i was walking back to my house it felt like it took like 2 hours and i tried to stop walking and i just kept going it was like my body and brain werent connected anymore so don't worry bro it happens to many people when you smoke that much and arnt ready. I just wanna say that im depressed because i am 17 and a half years old and might get put on probation till im 18 so i wont be able to smoke anymore! fucking sucks
__ * get over your fears and do it again * __
wow thats crazy. i understand what your saying. when i first started smoking i felt like that too. its probably just your low tolerance. so smoking and feelling like that is juss making your tolerance higher. i got so high long time ago that i started freaking out like you too. so i decided that i wasnt goona smoke anymrore beacause i was so scared. i quit for about four months before i smoked again. it was great being high for the first time in 4months. i thought i was gonna feel paronia and feel like i have terets or something. but suprisingly i didnt. it was a better high then what i expericenced before. and now i love smoking i do it everyday (:
so jus try it again, itll be better then your first time, juss dont take that much hits, limit yourslef so you can build your tolerance level up and not overload it and make yourself freak out.
Its ok
look man the marijuana you should control it in your way belive in it and decide befor smoking that u want to smoke the blunt for relaxing and having a little bit of fun .not to think and be paraniod that when u gonna smoke mary ull be feeling bad or something like this u have to keeo ur mind concentrated and relaxed and really my advice to people how dont know how to control the hight they houldnt smoke because it will gona give u bad effects on ur body and mind .but if u gonna smoke it and have a very excited evening,my advice to u is to sit with one of ur friends and smoke together just a couple for the first time.becuae u will not feel so ralxed when their is more than 3 persons ull be a little bet not to much fun and gd like when ur sitting with ur friends and ur smoking a gd shit to concentrate its hight and be ur head big
lol
well man... i've got to say, that was real good shit you smoked... you just have to control it. the effects exploded that's why it got you so hard, and when i say control it... don't, just ride with it, you just got to learn how to ride it and not reject it... it's more dangerous if you panic, so i say don't! just relax, enjoy the ride, and be on you dominant state, where you enjoy it without fear... that's how you control it in 1 way, take it easy man! and may the power be with you! lol take care... smoke it trough your nose sometimes... go straight to your brain! at-least that's what i feel...
remember...
(1) calm down,
(2) prioritize,
(3) enjoy.... lol
know your herb
... id say try finding a dealer you can trust. i smoke a large amount of cannabis daily, as a natural alternative to synthetic anti depressants. i have for many years and i can honestly say even last 420 when three of us smoked a quarter pound in 13 hours (far surpassing your 11 "big" hits),i have never had any sort of experience even close to what you describe. im not by any means doubting the integrity your story, what i am doubting is the integrity of the weed in question.
Here is my theory on your experience.
It is not unheard of (however uncommon) for fucked up people to sell kids laced bud. when they do this, they will lead you on to believe its the best weed youve ever bought or ever will buy, when in reality its been contaminated with shit the dealer thinks will be a laugh, or shit the dealer thinks he can get you hooked on. In your case id say the dealer just wanted a laugh, seeing as your not exactly running back for more.
Now one easy way... haha im gonna blame the lung for your troubles bro. One easy way to tell good weed from laced is to smoke it. go figure.
take a small toke from a pipe or joint, something that isnt going to make you cough till you puke (as lungs have been known to do) If it tastes good, or not bad at least, is smooth enough goin down you can still breath after, and doesnt give off rainbow tie die smoke, your weed is good mang...
HOWEVER!!! if these or any other factors whatsoever have you doubting your weeds safety even a little...
DONT SMOKE IT!!!
(or do and prove Darwin right)
I'm sorry you had that
I'm sorry you had that experience. It really sounds like the weed you smoked that night was laced (another chemical added to it). The high after smoking should never last for 3 days or even really 3 hours. If you do try it again, take it slow (one or two puffs are good) then wait at least 30 min before smoking more to see how your body reacts first. Make sure it comes from a reputable source. Also, remember that each individual can experience a different reaction to THC. It's all chemical with your neurons, so it may also be your body's reaction. Be around friends that you trust and in a safe environment. Good Luck and Be healthy. Much Love, Amy
There's nothing wrong with
There's nothing wrong with smoking it I am 4o an been doing it sence I were 12 jus don't smoke with everyone and watch how much u smoke when its yo first time.
Jus remember this. If u the
Jus remember this. If u the weak one of the crowd. U will always become the joke. Yea u got played. So my thing is watch who u smoke with an a first time user never smoke with da big doggs
are you sure you smoked
are you sure you smoked marijuana or was it laced? or k-2 synthetic marijuana stuff made in a lab i have smoked pot heavily all grades for the last 20 years never had that type of experience 3 days? your friends didnt have the same reaction i have known people that had heart beats skip or palpitate scwagg is a dirty tired high that has been chemically altered due to shipping other good bud is a lot cleaner feel there is worlds of difference in weed highs because of cbd,cbn,thc,thcv, and many other cannibinoids in marijuana
The same thing happened to me
The same thing happened to
me the first time I tried it it was just last weekend and I want to do it again but I had probably about half a g once i dd it and the. Everything that happened to you happened to me and I want to do it again but I don't want that to happen again so anyone please answer what happened eland will it happen again if I do it
ps I was also super tired and super cold before and during when I did it so maybe that has something to do with it
IT ALL DEPENDS
Hi first to answer your question: It might happen again, depending on the the type of weed you smoke ex "regular" "kush" "chronic" "dro" etc. I'm 19 now and i have been smoking heavily since i was about 15. I have encounterd some affects similar to those but i only noticed it when i smoked certain types of weed. So i did a little experiment with weed to find out what i can & can't smoke, you should try it. This is what i did, i had got a few different types of weed, the kind that i normally smoke alot, and i had roled them up into blunts & smoked them seperately about 3 hours apart depending on how long your high lasts. Then i recorded how each type of weed made me feel. And since then the one weed that made me feel like i was going crazy i stopped smoking it. But not all weed affects you in those ways. There is some that makes you feel like a million bucks. I think that you just have to be aware of what it is that you are smoking and who you're getting it from. Because some people tend to lace their weed with other drugs and substances for different effects and some people's body can't handle it. You have to know your body and how it reacts to certain weed and what you can/can't handle. I smoke weed everyday and i actually like how it makes me feel!!
sounds like your marijuana
sounds like your marijuana was laced with a hallucinogens or you had an allergic reaction. marijuana does not yield these types of effects usually. i have only heard of 2 other cases and in those cases the marijuana was combined with mushrooms once and lsd for the other.
research before you speak
The weed he smoked was NOT laced. And your claim that some people got weed laced with mushrooms and LSD is NOT TRUE. the pscilosybin in mushrooms is instantly destroyed when burned, Lysergic Acid Diethalymide (LSD) is also instantly destroyed when held to a flame so weed is never laced with shrooms ot LSD it would be more common for it to be laced with PCP wich is very unlikley that a dealer would sprinkle pcp and sell it to you thats just foolish. His weed was not laced he just smoked too much of some highly potent weed. next time take 1-3 h small hits when you buy a new bag to test how strong it is. When you smoke a lot of strong weed, you won't be used to it and you will have a lot of anxiety causing you to freak out. it happens a lot next time it happens just get to a comfortable place, listen to some music, and remember, YOU CAN NOT DIE FROM WEED.
Yeah man I get the same thing
Yeah man I get the same thing now everytime I smoke, I don't understand it either but it might be due to the fact that I smoke weed with large amounts of THC in it. That may be why you had a bad trip that night..your body isn't used to strains that strong.
Hey, last time I smoked I
Hey, last time I smoked I experienced almost all of what you described. I've had weed maybe 10 - 15 times, but it has never been this strong. I totally agree, it was scary. I felt like I had to focus on breathing or I'd forget to, and other stuff like you said. I tired so I'll keep this shorter.
Lucky for me, I had two guys next to me that were experienced. I'm a shy guy, so when I was feeling this, I tried ignoring it first. BUt eventually it got so bad and I got scared and so I asked them. but they know a surprisingly alot. They conforted me, telling me that its very normal - all of what you experienced is normal, but maybe you just reacted to it stronger (maybe you also haven't had that much).. Anyway, they explained most of it, and then (once I knew I was safe) I enjoyed the trip. I still had trouble breathing and shaking etc, but I was more amazed and then I starting getting all excited by the feeling and other thougts. In the end I was amazed by what it brought me so I looked up stuff on the internet and found this - a really good explanation that I agreed with (most of it).
anyway - i haven't smoked since, but i'm actually worried I'll get the same physical reaction in the beginning. I really didn't like it. but maybe it'l be different now that I know it's normal. I probably will. cya
help me
hey how long did the hard to breathe effect last on you ? it been on me for the last 3 days :(
I had the same experience. I
I had the same experience. I had smoked a number of times before and me and my friend had never smoked together so he decided to buy a bong and I took one good hit... I was alright but all of a sudden. I began to think about everything. I wasn't sure it was weed at all. I felt like it was all a dream. I was so scared I was shacking and everything. It was a bad trip... I swear. I did it again and it didn't happen again but I didn't take a big hit so who knows if i were to take a big hit
I have smoked weed for at
I have smoked weed for at least 25 years.A chronic user for the last 7 or 8 years.Recently I have started having panic attacks. I would smoke daily,not a lot but with a one hitter several times a day. Often I felt relaxed and went about my day usually very busy. Recently I had noticed a too high feeling after I would smoke and then one day a panic attack,which led to an emergency room visit. I was given Xanax, because of the reoccuring feelings of anxiety. I was the most laid back person I knew and I never smoked a lot at once, but I guess my body said "thats enough" A friend was smoking from the same stash with no ill effects. I will probably never smoke again. Who knows what people are fertilizing the weed with. If you are prone to some anxiety initially after smoking,dont smoke. Nothing is worse than a panic attack.
Yes, I have had this exact
Yes, I have had this exact experience. It's probably because the weed you smoked was very potent (the "good stuff"). So basically you smoke WAY more than usual, and if you look up THC it's known to cause panic attacks sometimes.
And for the heart beating fast, weed does this as well. Normally, you didn't notice, but since you were REALLY high, you kept thinking about it, which made you more nervous, which made your heart beat even faster.
It might have to do with your mood as well. And, I was out of it the next day.
your report is wack
you should try to use it yourself before you want to talk about it instead of what you think of it by using test subjects first of all the report leave out a lot of thing like when it talk about memory loss it don't say that the memory loss is for a short while which isn't nothing because every one get flash backs it better than your pharmaceutical crap that doctor produce to people which cause more problems than good anyway when u high off of pot its raises your senses for example your sense of hearing increase you didnt write that in your report when people get paranoid people uses the drug and don't know what it does it raises your senses if people will know this they wouldnt get paranoid i know more but aint saying crap so keep hitting the book thinking you know whats really true and what is not
"Bad Trip"
I had a similar experience when I was a sophmore in college. My friends and I were at a party and decided to smoke some weed in a bedroom. I had had plenty before and had always had a very good experience when high. That night however, I felt a lot of the same symptoms you describe. I felt like I wasn't in control of my body, and I started freaking out because my vision was blurred and I felt dizzy. It felt like it took me forever to walk across the room to tell my boyfriend what was going on. I also experienced a lapse in time from when I would touch my body to when I would feel it. I don't know how many seconds it took to feel my touch, but it scared me a lot. I would drink water and it seemed like I could feel the water running all the way down my throat and dropping into my stomach. I wanted my friends and boyfriend to take me to the hospital, but they wouldn't because they had been drinking (underage) and didn't want to get into trouble. Like you said, I felt like I was in a dream or haze. I went to bed as soon as I talked my boyfriend into bringing me home, and felt normal in the morning. However, soon after that I began having anxiety attacks. I have been diagnosed with generalized anxiety (not situation specific). I have always wondered if this had happened to anyone else because most of friends can and do still enjoy smoking from time to time, and have never experienced something like that. I have also wondered whether I experienced this because I had a predisposition to be anxious and this coupled with marijuana created these effects, or if the marijuana changed something in my brain chemistry so that I now experience anxiety.
this is the first time i've
this is the first time i've ever researched effects of marijuana and i've been smoking for 10 years. i have seen this happen to a few people and heard many stories but only amongst woman. i've had bad trips my self but never memory lost. its happened twice to me in ten years. what happened was my vision became like a head rush like when you stand up to fast but then i lost my vision 100% shortly after i fell to the ground and was unconscious with my eyes open. i was woken up with a punch to my thigh shortly after hitting the ground. i noticed that my high dissipated within 5 minutes. i noticed that sitting when this starts to happen quickly brings things back into focus. in my experience ive noticed the trip you had is only common in female's and sometimes just takes a can of coke and a chocolate bar to take the effects away. ive noticed that marijuana also has the tendency to lower blood sugar levels which leads to the nausea. dont worry to much cause these kinda events should happen often in less malnutrition is a concern. some people dont relize that there are many things that come into effect when increasing and and things to the body can have many effects some good and some bad. if you take care of your nutrition then smoking pot is just a bunch of good times
DUDES
I have been smoking for 10 years.... and selling for around 4 only smoke dank and have had some bad experiences from smoking i once blacked out and smacked into the ground only to be awakened by my high friends laughing at me.. it was kinda scary but only happened once !
black out
I know a dude who smoked with us and the cops stopped us and he got so scared that he blacked out and got taken to the hospital.
hi
Hello, my name is Kathryne and I didnt try pot until I was 18. Im 19 now, but before that, I was completely against it, and to be honest Im still saying the same things now even after I tried it. I notice a huge difference in my memroy, however, Ive only been doing it once a month. Maybe that weed you tried was laced with something, Im not sure, but even I get scared off being high. I was high this weekend, just sitting in a room where two of my friends were playing Call of duty, and I was thinking that there was a bomb underneath the floor that would go off any second. Time feels like its going by sooooooo sloooowwww. I do panic, but feel relaxed at the same time. I guess it maybe was a bad trip, but I never really had one. I notice if I go to work the next day(which is cooking in a kitchen, looking at the bill to get the orders done and is very multitasking if you ask me) Im slow as hell, I cant concentrate, and Ill screw up the orders. It was horrible the first time I tired it then went to work. But thats happened to me everytime, not because im not ''used to it'' Im one of those people that would probly tell you its bad, sicne in my opinion I really dont believe THC is the best for you like hello it stays in your body for 30 days. But anyways, if you want to do it again, thats your decision. But if I was in your shoes, I wouldnt if I had a bad trip like that. To be honest, I even regret doing it afterwards. But thats just me. Good luck.
dumb
dumb gettin high isnt scary it only effects your thought train its just easier to not smoke and think than it is to smoke and think you have to have will and brain power to smoke if you are feeling loss of memory because of smoking once a month you shouldnt smoke then because you need will power to smoke i smoke every day and my memory is nearly fine if i dont smoke for 1 day i get my memory back its that easy so if you lose it that easy you shouldnt smoke at all
My life changing experience
I know exactly what ur talking about. Me and my friends smoked last night and I thought I was gone. We bought a dime sac and like you, our dealer told us to be careful too. Well we rolled it up and smoked it. We used a technique called "ghosting" that's when you put it to your lips and inhale as fast as you can. After about 10 minutes after we smoked. I got to the point of high to where I saw everything that has ever happened to me flash right before me. I did know what happened. I had to even reteach myself how to breathe again. I felt like I was a dot in the universe and all these different worlds were just swirling around me. I was in my own world just thinking to myself.....who am I? What is my purpose here? What am I supposed to be doing? I thought I was a reader just reading my life story.... I saw everything that ever happened to again and it made me smarter in a way. I couldn't belive I was that high and my friends were just having there normal high while I thought I wasn't going to wake up this morning I thought I was dying cuz I close my eyes for two minutes and I acually felt my mind leaving my body. I still haven't return to my normal state of mind. I'm just glad I'm not the only to reach that level of high. It has made me much wiser for the world. But one thing is certain. That high was a bad high but I want to experience it one more time and this time I will have my guns loaded I will battle that high and try to discover the secrets of life. That is what hippies were experiencing and we can be the ones to discover something that is bigger than anything else ever dicovered. Thanks for readin
-andude supa pothead
I know exactly what ur
I know exactly what ur talking about. Me and my friends smoked last night and I thought I was gone. We bought a dime sac and like you, our dealer told us to be careful too. Well we rolled it up and smoked it. We used a technique called "ghosting" that's when you put it to your lips and inhale as fast as you can. After about 10 minutes after we smoked. I got to the point of high to where I saw everything that has ever happened to me flash right before me. I did know what happened. I had to even reteach myself how to breathe again. I felt like I was a dot in the universe and all these different worlds were just swirling around me. I was in my own world just thinking to myself.....who am I? What is my purpose here? What am I supposed to be doing? I thought I was a reader just reading my life story.... I saw everything that ever happened to again and it made me smarter in a way. I couldn't belive I was that high and my friends were just having there normal high while I thought I wasn't going to wake up this morning I thought I was dying cuz I close my eyes for two minutes and I acually felt my mind leaving my body. I still haven't return to my normal state of mind. I'm just glad I'm not the only to reach that level of high. It has made me much wiser for the world. But one thing is certain. That high was a bad high but I want to experience it one more time and this time I will have my guns loaded I will battle that high and try to discover the secrets of life. That is what hippies were experiencing and we can be the ones to discover something that is bigger than anything else ever dicovered. Thanks for readin
-andude supa pothead