did you ever have bad effects from smoking pot?

Another time, from a bigger bong, my legs got super numb, I could barely, uh... drive.

But if that's not the case, yeah, it just does not agree with some people.

Oh man this nearly happened to me last night. I ended up biking home from this party. I could barely see past the handlebars of my bike. I tried to keep the yellow center line of the road on my left. Oh god, it sucked. Thank god a cop didn't see me because I was wandering all over the road. I have a bad habit of clipping curbs and getting a little hurt when I am fucked but this time I doubt I would have stayed on the bike.

As has been mentioned smoking after booze can cause nausea. Then there are the psychological effects such as paranoia. And I've noticed that if I smoke too much I get an irregular heartbeat and high blood pressure which really freaks me out!

Thankfully I don't get the urge to put on New Agey music, but others do.

we call it a whitey, as when it happens you go white and puke.

had this many times.

the secret is, don't drink loads then smoke, smoke while drinking. you won't spin out then.

Was just about to post this. It's never happened to me, but when I was younger this used to happen to a friend of mine all of the time. She totally cain the joint & then be throwing up in the toilet 5 minutes later. We'd ask her if she was alright & she'd always say "yeah i'm fine, I've been suffering with sickness & diarrhea! [sp]" She hadn't.

hello pink, how was your glasto?

in my belly. if i knew what you looked like i could've saved you one. did you have a good time/ survive the flood?

A friend fetched me a cup of cola and I felt better, but it was a very strange reaction indeed. My face was lima bean green. I think a switch to hash is in order. How can such a benevolent drug, one I've had such a great relationship with, turn on me so??

wise words. all this drug education in school, you'd think they could at least mention this kind of thing.

Many of these problems are most pronounced when smoking the modern hydroponic stuff. If it was easy to get hold of mild stuff I'd probably still smoke a bit, but as I can only get hold of industrial-strength weed these days I don't bother.

Amen to that. If my dealer described his current batch as "mellow", I'd buy it. Otherwise: nah ah.

it makes me too introspective, unable to make conversation and slightly paranoid

Bingo. Same here. This is why I will probably never pick it up again. It was a lot of fun before it started affecting me in these undesirable ways, but I have no room in my life for anything that makes me any more anti-social or socially paranoid than I naturally am.

Another thing I hated about weed, was that it seemed to last forever. I remember taking a few hits at 10am on a Saturday morning and still feeling like a zombie at 8pm. So much for doing anything that night.

the only problems i've ever had with pot have been after having far too much to drink and then smoking - as has been said already in this thread. i think my blood pressure drops so much that i half pass out, tend to have to throw up, and also lose memory. so, erm, that's not good and i do not recommend it, esp to people who, like me, have lowish blood pressure to begin with.

other than that: weed!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w86hDdUD03o&search=magick

I get anxious and something almost like paranoid, but not really.

I used to smoke every day for a couple of years, but then things went sour.

These days I feel uncomfortably aware of everything all at once. And I can't help but analyze everything, every sensation, thought, word I hear or say, motion, etc etc etc etc and also I analyze my analysis of things. It is paralyzing and thoroughly unpleasant with no redeeming qualities, whether alone or with others.

The exception is that when I am pretty drunk I can take a toke and I just get more fucked up and it doesn't bother me too much, but by that time even a slap to the face wouldn't bug me either.

That;s TMI I know, but the thing is I was suffrin w/undiagnosed Crohns disease at the time, and it's recognised as something that can help suffr's. (Imagine if I'd been allowed a prescrip! I'd've been the most popular kid in sckowl)

I'm gonna give some weed to my electrician now.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s777336.htm

http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevention/cannabis.marijuana.schizophrenia.html

I used to smoke every day for a couple of years, but then things went sour.

These days I feel uncomfortably aware of everything all at once. And I can't help but analyze everything, every sensation, thought, word I hear or say, motion, etc etc etc etc and also I analyze my analysis of things. It is paralyzing and thoroughly unpleasant with no redeeming qualities, whether alone or with others.

it is exactly what happened with me.

Association does not imply a causal relationship in either direction. Australian making logical fallacies, so fucking shocking!

Well I did say 'apparently'. Association doesn't imply causal relationship, but if you click on that link you'll find we're talking about more than mere correlation, and that there is a body of research into what the causal relationship might be. Also, I'm guessing that people who design expensive trials know enough to be able to factor out non-causal associations.

You must be new to this drug war misinformation campaign.

Yeah, I guess that's right. People with a disposition may get sent over the edge. The implication is also that not everyone who has a disposition is going to go over the edge, but they're more likely to if they smoke dope. And they're even more likely to if they smoke dope as teenagers, when the brain structure is still developing.

St. Pierre also noted that previous scientific reviews regarding marijuana's impact on health, including a 1999 study by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM), have played down links between marijuana use and psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. "Daily cigarette smoking among adolescent boys is more strongly associated with psychiatric disorders than is any use of illicit substances," the IOM concluded.

In addition, some researchers believe that marijuana may actually play a role in treating schizophrenia. For example, a 1999 study by scientists at the University of California at Irvine speculated that the body may produce higher levels of the THC-like chemical anandamide to combat the effects of schizophrenia.

"Arguably, this research is in it's infancy," St. Pierre concluded. "However, epidemiological evidence gleaned from thousands of years of marijuana smoking indicates that if there is a risk associated with the use of marijuana and these ailments, then that risk is exceptionally small."

which i don't think means that pot-smoking "causes" schizophrenia.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/graphics/art3/0317061candy1.jpg

For me, the closest thing is opiate pain pills like Vicodin etc, but they're hard to get.