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marijuana induced panic attack
last night, my friend and i went to a party. she only got high but i got drunk. we went home after awhile and i smoked. i felt extremely relaxed and tired so i passed out. around six this morning, i woke up feeling restless so she and i smoked a bowl. i took 4, maybe 5 hits off the bowl and then we tried to go back to sleep. i had my eyes shut for about 15 seconds before i realized something didn't feel right. my eyes and brain felt like they were swelling and my heart beat felt like is was beating at an extremely rapid rate. i sat up and woke up my friend, who proceeded to calm me down until i felt like i could fall asleep. also, before i fell asleep again, she informed me that my heart beat was going at a normal rate, it was just pounding hard. what weirded me out the most was the eye and brain thing. my vision was off, like i was seeing all of my surroundings for the first time, even though i pretty much live at my friend's house.
anyway, i'm officially scared of weed. i'm afraid this might happen again. can anyone tell me what might have happened? could it have been laced?
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Is this the first time you've smoked marijuana? I used to smoke it for three years, and when I first smoked it, I had pretty much the same reaction. Marijuana (for me) was usually pretty relaxing. I would stare at a pillow fascinated with it for an hour, even though I have had aforementioned pillow for years. I cannot tell you the effects marijuana has on your brain because I am not a doctor, but as an EKG tech, I can tell you that it DOES speed up your heart rate occasionally.
Also - having a "normal" heart beat but your heart "pounding hard" makes NO sense. If your heart is pounding in your chest, your pulse is racing. It's most likely because you were freaking yourself out.
I wouldn't worry too much about it, but I'd recommend not smoking it anymore. It's not for everyone, and it certainly isn't a good habit to acquire.
It COULD have been laced, but given the information you've given me, I doubt that it was. You have to be careful though. If you're going to continue to use illicit drugs, there is ALWAYS a possibility you're going to get something really messed up. People selling drugs don't care about what happens to their 'clients'. They just want to make money. They can make more money by putting more fillers and less of the actual drug in a product.
Just don't do it.
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i will assume you are writing this from somewhere where marijuana smoking is legal for you.
firstly, laced weed is not a myth as matt says. its not the equivalent of getting a souped up car. weed is not by its nature physically addictive. if laced with something that is, it keeps you coming back to the dealer because when you get the weed from someone else it doesnt "work" for you. the dealer can then convince to switch to whatever it was laced with. its more like a free sample than a free souping up.
secondly, weed affects the brain. in the majority of people it behaves a certain way. some people however can have adverse reactions to it, such as a panic attack (this happened to a friend of mine). it can also exacerbate other underlying problems you already have.
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You were high. That's it.
As for the myth of laced weed, that needs to be addressed. Let's use some logic... the idea of laced weed means there's another drug in the weed. Now, some drugs (PCP for example) can be laced into weed because it's an easier way of taking the hard drug. That's always entirely intentional and that will never happen accidentally. You will never be dealt weed that's laced with something because that means it would cost way, way more; you would know. To just randomly have your weed laced with something while still paying the same price would be the equivalent of receiving free drugs. There's not a dealer in the world that would do that. It would be similar to buying a car from a dealership, and only after driving it off the lot do you realize that the dealership has given you the souped up version of your car with the sound system and sun roof for no extra charge; not gonna happen.
In conclusion, it sounds like you were just very high. You don't have to be scared of weed, you just have to be able to recognize whether it's for you or not.
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No, russianspy is wrong. The idea of a dealer intentionally lacing weed and then selling it to you at a normal weed price to get you addicted to it is a ridiculous product of War on Drugs propaganda. If I'm wrong, show me an example. It's basic logic... what drugs would need to be laced into weed to actually make it addictive? LSD and ecstasy are both non addictive, so it would have to be something like coke, H, or meth. What do those all have in common? They're extremely expensive. What russianspy is saying is that drug dealers will intentionally and secretly lace a comparatively extremely expensive product into a very cheap product while still charging you the cheap price. The drug trade is the absolute purist form of capitalism on the planet; you don't get anything for free. Drug dealers that are willing and capable of operating at a financial loss on the off chance that you'll become addicted to their product do not exist, I'm sorry. That's just conspiracy minded nonsense. In a fantasy land where that does happen, then congratulations, you just got free drugs! There's a reason that sounds ridiculous, and that's because it is.
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