What are the symptoms you get when smoking pot?

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That is a succinct and honest appraisal that closely matches my own, although I sometimes get <i>very</i> hungry. I will say that when smoking more freely, the euphoria is reduced but so are the side effects. Oh, and it seems to affect math more than language, I can talk, read, and write, but short-term memory, imprinting into long-term memory, and ergo the "human calculator" thing that amazes my friends takes longer, and I can't do more complex operations. As far as Aspie symptoms go, my thoughts race less, and I converse with NTs better when we smoke together, maybe because we're both high. No long-term effects, the next morning I am back to "normal", and less groggy than from Ambien or Restoril.

I would advise teens and young adults to avoid making a habit of it, and to always know what you are doing, where it is from, and who you can trust. When I was much younger, I knew a kid who went to the hospital because he bought stuff laced with Raid insect spray. Also, know the laws, because some states a little marijuana is a ticket, but in others it is serious jail time.

One more thing, make sure that if you do buy it, you support the local farmers and not some international drug cartel, a high isn't worth the death and terror that international drug gangs wreak on U.S.-Mexico border towns. To me, the difference between supporting a struggling family farm in your area and making a drug lord richer is like night and day. Sorry to preach, but people who kill out of greed disgust me.

I'm in Oregon, can you get a card for Asperger's? That would be beyond cool.

sounds like ur maybe allergic to the stuff, but i would of said that this pot was very dodgy
ur symptoms sound like you have been poisend. alot of weed is just not safe, if its not grown, and cured properly
then theres a good chance you smoke all the left over nutrients,fertilisers,bug killers and metals, theres allso mould which is very common
and in pot very bad for you. and then there is all the chemicals it might be sprayed with it might of even of been
sprayed by the goverment to try an kill it.

wow! I never thought of that!
mostly you have to have glaucoma or chronic pain from something physical.
that's something to figure out. I am not interested in flouting any laws, either.

Merle

I don't know where you live, or where you get your weed, or if you've ever even touched the stuff, but not a word of that rings true for me. Where I live, suppliers are reliable; lacing, mold, and chemical contamination are unheard of. And poisoning by the government? What orifice are you pulling this out of?

well, in the 1970's the Government DID spray lots of Mexican Marijuana fields with Paraquat. I did smoke some of THAT weed and I gotta say it was noxious. So that information is not so much wrong as it is out of date.

but I suspect the OP that wrote the scare story is just that. . writing a scare story.

Merle

as far as i know they are still doing that for the crops they cant reach or get to easily. if its not been sprayed by the goverment there is still a good chance its been sprayed by the grower, for many reasons. pestasides, mould, enhancement,fungi are just a few and you can bet they wont wait till these poisons have gone before they harvest. there is a certian type of fungi that can be found in tobaco and pot that can be very harmfull.

i live in the uk and the pot hear recently has been very dodgy, it doesnt smell look or even taste like pot, the rumour is that it has been sprayed with a chemical that will make you feel stoned and i can well believe it. allso we have some pot here that has been sprayed with small glass particles, or grit sand makes the pot look like its full of white crystals.
you obviously dont know much about growing the stuff and what goes on, if the grower doesnt flush there plants properly or allow time for all the chemicals used to disapate before harvaest then there are still all the nutrients,chemicals, metals, phosphorus, and what ever they have used to grow with still in the plant which are very harmfull. if a growers plants goes mouldy do you think they are going to bin them all and start again. dont think so.
if your looky enough to know a grower who grows for pleasure then no doubt you can trust them, unfortunatly if you dont and your supplier doesnt then you just dont know what ur smoking. fair enough you probably think you are getting a good smoke but have a look
at what chemicals are used to grow any crops these days, and i think you will agree that smoking pot with these chemical traces still
there is not good.

toby2 speaks the truth..

also mold IS a serious concern, and for everyone - weed only needs to stay in an enclosed space for a short time to start mold development.

i always felt really good, i always compare smoking pot to my drinking, when i drink i feel good, but my motor skills fail alot, when i smoke about a single joint i feel good, and walking goes a little harder but my motor skills arent really failing, i also combined drinking a smoking pot alot, wich ended up with me staring interested at a wall a friend of mine always gets really hungry from smoking pot.

but if it's not legal you shouldnt use it, here it's legal so i use it because i can.

i generally feel good, don't really get the munchies. when i smoke with people i don't really know, my AS becomes more apparent and i kind of really go into my own world and get awkward with them. when i smoke with people with whom i'm comfortable it feels great and i can really open up and talk freely and uninhibited. i find that no matter how much i drink i'm never quite uninhibited but marijuana helps me talk with more ease.

Keep in mind that these are highly abnormal symptoms (if they were caused by cannabis at all).

Pot sounds fun. I have nothing against breaking the law from a moral/ethical standpoint in this regard (because marijuana laws are complete BS anyway), but going through the hoops to obtain it are just plain annoying. If I ever go to Amsterdam, however, I look forward to smoking a lot of it.

There are plenty of places where marijuana is decriminalized, especially the use of medical marijuana. I could get a "card" for it for my chronic pain where I live, but I can't use the stuff. I've had daily pain for over three years due to a combination of an injury and medical malpractice and have tried everything for the pain, including cannabis. Tried smoking one hit only, tried ingesting it by baking brownies, but it never got rid of the pain - just made it less noticeable, and I hated how it messes up my head. My head is messed up enough. I have pretty severe anxiety and pot exacerbates it. I wonder if there's a connection between pre-existing anxiety and paranoia occurrence with cannabis. I wish it would help because I don't like taking opiates for my pain and I don't like being in pain. Then again, I can function at work on opiates but there's no way I could do my job while stoned

I have experienced...EXTREME paranoia, delusions, a great feeling of dread..an exaggerated sense of the great impermenance of everything...I have had tactile (felt like a hand that was not there grabbed the top of my head).....and visual hallucinations(ghosts and such)....If there are people around, it will seem like everyone has sinister motives...With extended use, I have gotten the delusion that I was reading minds...and that I could hear this barely audible language that I thought dogs were speaking in...I had invasive and ongoing thoughts that a particular band we practiced with had written all their songs about me (NOT TRUE)
um....(with a few casual puffs)...I will regress into my childhood sometimes and start crying and revisitng bad things that happened that I generally have comfortably repressed....my very tenative as it is "sense of self" (something that most people have that keeps them going from day to day)... will crumble into dust...and it will take me a few days to recover..during which time I will be very tearful and irritable and anxious.

Oh yeah..and rather than kill pain, it might make me hyper-aware of my aches and pains..

These are a jumble of symptoms I have gotten from smoking pot...and the reason why i DO NOT touch the stuff.....
But I did smoke it regularly when I was younger and in a band and before I knew any better, and I became very OCD and um...borderline schitzophrenic.

I have not read the rest of the thread...i might have already responded earlier if this is an old thread....

I am all for the abolition of marijuana prohibition....I, for some reason, have an atypical reaction to the stuff.....so duh...I stay away from it.

as my AA sponsor said to me "People like YOU just shouldn't oughta drink!"

Merle

I've smoked pot one time.


It made me less constrained about maintaining self-image and more humorous... which scared the people around me (it was at a small party, and only knew one person there. Luckily he stopped me before I made too big of a scene). This was more me thinking that I was funny than any loss of control.

Also, when I closed my eyes, I saw similar kinds of image flashes as I do when I'm fighting sleep (even though I was perfectly awake).

Negative emotions were also brought to the surface.


The effects were all rather subtle. There was nothing particularly noteworthy, and it's illegal, so I don't think I'll ever use it again.