Freaking out on pot

the first time i ever smoked pot, i did it with a friend who was a HUGE stoner. she bought an 8th and smoked half before i got to her house. then, we smoked a blunt together. when she had smoked earlier, she said it was just a normal high. but later, the same weed made us both think we were dying. at the time, we were both prescribed the same dose of Prozac (i forget how much, bit it was low), and i dont know if that had anything to do with it.

what happened was our faces turned bright red, we started shaking so bad we couldnt hold a glass of water, and i got really dizzy and couldnt see straight. my gums turned white and my pupils were huge - like as big as when i tripped acid.

this was a long time ago, and the only other time something like it happened was when i mixed weed with snorting wellbutrin (another antidepressant). that time i got shaky also, but it was more like a bad trip - i kept having memory-repeats, and i thought i could predict the future. i was sitting in a chair in this guys room, and someone in the other room was watching tv. i could hear him talking to someone, and then i heard him say the same thing again, and the same noise would come from the tv.... then i got in this girls car, and i think started screaming, but like 5 seconds later i couldnt remember if i had screamed or not... then the music in the car started scaring the sh*t out of me and i cried.

was the first time in any way related to the second freak-out i had?
was there something in the weed the first time?

what the f**k?!

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  • Stephen

    There is no amount of marijuana that can kill you. Don't listen to the bloke above me.

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  • PandaGreen

    Nah, with your friend, smoking what sounds like almost that whole eighth since a blunt is usually a half eighth in a short period of time is a lot of pot at once so she was probably way tripped out. And the first time I smoked pot it was really odd and like I was on acid for some reason and I've never had the same kind of intense body high. So especially since you smoked a whole half a blunt the first time you did it was probably a weird effect. I'm on a mood stabilizer though and mixing pot with psychiatric medicine can mess you up sometimes, but I wouldn't say it would with a low dose of a basic antidepressant. Haven't snorted wellbutrin though haha

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  • theconstant

    Of course it was the Prozac!!!! you should never take anti dep if there not prec by a doctor especialy just once. that in itself was a very bad move. Pot can be laced but if that didnt happen with the first dime then it WAS the prozac. LEAVE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ALONE, they can be 10x more potent and dangerous that street drugs. I messed up my life more in one year on Xanax/vicodin than I ever did on 8 yrs of using Heroin. Ive been clean for 5yrs now but pres drugs are the one thing that really got a hold of me. I quit Heroin and thought I found a loop hole (pres drugs)but just found myself a complete mess crazy and violent. Ive hit bottoms that I never thought existed while abusing Xanax. But I made it out. Thank GOD

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  • scorpiomoon

    Icecreaminbed is right. I did that back when I used to be prescribed to antidepressants in high school. I always smoked weed and sometimes I would be okay but it made me feel like I was dying alot too. I thought maybe if I just kept smoking weed that it would stop happening.. but it never stops happening as long as you're on both things at the same time.

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  • icecreaminbed

    no its because you mix it with antidepressants...trust me from experience mixing the two will strenghten your trip by almost 7X's...its really bad because you smoke a tiny joint and the next thing you know you feel like youre dying...perfectly normal to have that feeling when you mix the two so i suggest either lay off of one or the other or start getting use to that feeling

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  • Mixing weed and antidepressants can sometimes make you trip a bit with significant hallucinations, the sense of "tripping", and even what at the very least seems to be genuine mystical experiences (like thinking you can predict the future). I'm not going to even bother telling you to not combine your meds and pot (although I personally would abstain from weed while taking the meds), just be aware of the risks of these sorts of experiences and be as safe as possible about it if your going to smoke on your meds ever again. First off, you cannot die of this combo as far as I know so your "death" was purely metaphorical for a part of psyche. You were tripping, not expecting it, and completely freaked the fuck out. Keep in mind that you already have mental health problems and this powerful combination of drugs may be very dangerous for you and could possibly worsen your psychological state. My advice if you do this again and suffer a bad trip, if you believe you will be better off in the end you most likely will be but I still would advise not risking it

    Source: Extensive knowledge of psychoactive substances, years and years of personal experience, extensive research, along with being an aspiring professional and third year college student in the field of psychiatric medicine

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  • woodoggy

    It wasn't laced pot. Weed is very unlikely to be laced unless you're looking specifically for laced weed.

    Think about it, who would lace pot and why? Most dealers buy a quarter pound or more of weed, then sell what they don't smoke to make enough money so that they can buy more weed. How does lacing the pot with PCP fit anywhere into that scheme, or any scheme? It would also make the bag of weed more expensive because the materials to lace it with cost money, it's not like they materialize it from thin air. The dealer would likely inform you of that fact that the bag is laced because they would know that they could profit off of it and snag a costumer who loves laced weed.

    The were a handful of true incidents of weed being laced and sold to unsuspecting victims. In either Europe or Germany, a few bags of weed were "laced" with lead to make the bags weigh more. For those who don't know how that is significant, that means that it would make the bags more expensive. People got sick from smoking the weed, and it never happened again to my knowledge. In another case, hashish or "soap bar" hash being sold in the UK was found to contain many disgusting containments. There was only one report of contaminated weed being sold to a couple of teens in the US. I don't know the nature of this story, though.

    You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacing_(drugs)

    Be sure to read these other common urban legends about drugs as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_about_illegal_drugs

    What probably happened to you was that you had a bad reaction because you're on anti-depressants. Most illegal drugs should not be combined with them because of the bad results. It's unlikely that you'll die, but you will be made uncomfortable.

    You could have had a panic attack as well. When smoking weed, it's best to start slow, and then adjust your dosage as necessary.

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  • BOYracer88

    @ ambermoon
    well said
    respect

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  • digitalnasty

    i felt the same fucking way
    except the memory repeats but
    i take welbutrin too so that's probably the source

    and power to the guy above me YEAH!

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  • wutsreallygoinon

    yes look anywhere u want not one man has died from to much weed not 1 look it up my friend

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  • wutsreallygoinon

    bs i smoke pot everyday sumtimes i drink and take xanax each drug has its own high and u can tell wuts makin u feel like wut i think u guys dont smoke much and the girl jus wanted u to do her they act messed up for that reson

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  • I think you may have gotten laced pot. I am on antidepressants (zoloft) and I smoke all the time and nothing like that ever happened to me.

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  • ambermoon

    I used to smoke shit loads of pot when I was at school and in the end I couldn't smoke it any more and had to stop cos it messed my head up. I started feeling paranoid and thinking people were talking about me and looking at me funny. I always thought it was a load of crap that pot could mess you up and thought it was better than booze but honestly im speaking from experience smoke to much and it WILL fuck you up !

    Also maybe I should also mention it lead to me doing harder and harder drugs until I ended up being hooked on heroin. I was a mum to a little boy had a nice house and no one would have know as I took care of myself and kept everything going I wasn't a skank or anything. Underneath though I was getting more and more dependent and in debt. Eventually I went for help and was on methadone for a year until finally I kicked that I have been clean for about 3 years and Im normal again.

    The reason Im putting this on here is cos Im a minority not many people can come back from drug dependence so Im asking you to please stop doing drugs of any kind and go enjoy your life cos you only get one.

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  • Jim_Pfoss

    You really should post your name. I can't wait to find it in the Obits.

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  • girlwithherguitar101

    dont smoke pot!! god!!

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