Is it normal to feel like this during and after a high?

Okay so I don't smoke weed very often and yesterday I had a terrible experience from using it, one that makes me see why it's illegal. I had gotten drunk the night before with a friend at someone's house that she knew. It was in a different town that I don't know anyone in. Well the next day we woke up at the same house and the plan was that her mom would take me home, seeing as I came to that town with my friend. Her mom refused to drive me back and so I was stuck in a town where I didn't know anyone, I went back inside the house with two guys I only met through my friend (who was now gone) and they were smoking weed and so I decided to take a hit to calm down and then I would make a plan. So pay attention here cause this is the strange part, I started feeling time go very slow and I couldn't move or talk, the room was spinning and it seemed like it had been going on forever and that it would never end. When I did talk, to ask for help because this wasn't good, my voice seemed distant and like it was someone else speaking. I went outside because I was trying to get to the ER and everything looked blurry like a painting. I could not focus on anything. I remember it felt like it literally had always been that way and I couldn't remember my life before it. I wanted it to end, like to make it stop and I was certain that I had gone crazy so it would last forever. I walked out into traffic, I was trying to make it end or I would go to the ER. I could've died, it's a wonder that I didn't. I remember getting the attention of a white car with an elderly man, it felt like I had gone to heaven, like this was very familiar, it felt like this was the cycles had went through before I was born. I have the man my sisters phone number, and I remember laying down and doing snow angels on the street. (I know this is very weird, but also keep in mind what was going on in my head.) I was lying in the middle of the road when the ambulance came. Everything still looked like a painting, I knew I was crazy and I was certain I was going to be put in a crazy home because this feeling would last forever. I actually accepted that. They took me over to a curb and I started to be able to see a little bit of real life. I didn't know if this life was real, had ever been real, or if I would ever return to normal. At some point I thought I was dead, ...they put me in the ambulance and whenever I talked I heard my sisters voice. I remember saying I didn't want to die. I made it to the hospital where they took blood ect. But it felt like eternity. I was in that state of mind for probably 3 or 4 hours, where I couldn't tell if life was real, I couldn't remember memories and if I did it felt like someone else's memories. I had no concept of time, I didn't have any concept of past, present, or future. I eventually came down but it still feels like that didn't happen to me. It feels like that happened to someone else, I think right now though I'm just in denial. I'm home now but it still seems like life isn't entirely real.

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  • shade_ilmaendu

    You're totally fine with drinking alcohol but you think weed should be illegal. Ah child. XD Alcohol will rot your mind much more effectively than cannabis. Actually cannabis won't rot your mind at all. O.o

    Honestly it sounds like you smoked some laced shit. Either that or you've never been stoned before and didn't know what to expect. If weed were this dangerous to everyone who smoked it it wouldn't be so widely used.

    What you're describing sounds like the time my ex had psychosis from a high dose of psilocybin. Did it taste normal? It could've either been laced bud or spice blend. I've heard stories like yours with people smoking spice before.

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    • vicariousvulgarity

      C'mon man, you can't *really* be asserting that weed has no lasting effect on a person's mind, can you? That's the same kind of logic that alcohol lovers use to attack proponents of recreational cannabis, and it's false in both cases. Alcohol is certainly more harmful, but that doesn't make weed some kind of magical drug that has no lasting effect on the brain unlike every other drug in existence.

      Careful use of weed won't harm most people in any appreciable way, but who's to say that this person isn't one of the few people who really DO have problems caused by cannabis alone? Ignoring these problems won't make them go away, and it's irresponsible to put innocent people at risk by ignoring the potential downsides of the drug. Doing so will only harm legalization efforts; every drug that's currently legal comes with a list of warnings so that people know what could happen if they take it.

      I get where you're coming from and your heart is in the right place, but you might want to reconsider your stance.

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      • shade_ilmaendu

        You're ignoring one crucial fact in your argument... the FEW people who do have those problems usually have underlying psychological issues, especially true in cases of anxiety and schizophrenia, although some schizophrenics actually use it to treat their symptoms.

        I'm rather in pain right now so I'm gonna make this breif, but look up the cannabis FAQ on Erowid. It gives honest, down to earth facts about the risks and benefits, and trust me I'm not saying that everyone should go out smoking weed. Any mind altering drug is going to have bad effects on certain people, but as far as weed is concerned it is the SAFEST. That doesn't make it failsafe, but it can't compare to alcohol by a long shot. :/

        But seriously, try to find out if that shit was laced or spice. Reactions like that from weed are pretty rare. How many times had you been stoned previously?

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        • Ekho

          This. Ain't nothing wrong with smoking weed, it's just not agreeable with a small number of people. But I'm not gonna start a debate on this. There's just too many ignorant people that can't be convinced out of their narrow minded views.

          As to the OP, sounds like you smoked some laced shit. Your experience seems very similar to an acid trip I had once. If you've never smoked before or rarely do, you could've just been going through some acute anxiety. Generally people who are of the opinion that marijuana is bad tend to have bad experiences when they try it, believe me, I've seen it and its pretty funny to watch.

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  • thestarsarecrying

    Are you sure it wasn't synthetic marijuana? I had a similar experience smoking that.

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  • westoptic

    I smoke weed every other day pretty much, and I've never had that kind of experience using it. It sounds as though it was laced with some other drugs.

    Also, alcohol is 100x more damaging than the strongest kinds of weed out there. How sad that you've been sucked into the propaganda that encourages you to poison your body but not to smoke a harmless plant.

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  • Either it was laced or youre just not used to getting stoned and had some kind of panic attack.

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    I have smoked entire blunts before and not had anything like that let alone from a few pulls

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  • Shackleford96

    Not your typical weed experience right there... It might have been laced with something.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    The code is strong in this one.

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  • VioletTrees

    People are asking if it was laced or something, but it sounds to me like you could easily have smoked, started to dissociate, and then had a panic attack. Anxiety can feel like that with no drugs at all, and cannabis can cause paranoia or worsened anxiety in some people. You were already in a stressful and unfamiliar situation, which makes panic attacks more likely, too.

    Dissociation isn't uncommon with cannabis, and anxiety can makes dissociation worse. Dissociation can also be alarming and stressful sometimes, especially if you're not expecting it. Hearing your own voice and feeling as if it's someone else's, not knowing if what you're experiencing is real, feeling far away, feeling as if your memories or thoughts belong to someone else, and feeling dreamlike and unreal are all part of dissociation. The other symptoms you mentioned—blurred vision, thinking you were going to die or already had, vertigo, etc can all be caused by anxiety.

    I've had panic attacks, by the way, and I'm saying this partially from experience. Although the symptoms are psychological in origin, they're very real, and it's understandable that you'd call an ambulance.

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  • redlipriot

    Sounds like that weed they sell in gas stations, dude.

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  • i.eat.rainbows

    I think it sounds like you smoked salvia, not marijuana. You said yourself that you don't smoke often so you probably wouldn't notive the difference between the two herbs. i'm actually certain about this. Salvia is a powerful hallucinogen that has a wide variety of effects.

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    • VioletTrees

      If they'd smoked salvia, this post would be way more interesting.

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    • isitnormalwtf

      You're joking right? Salvia does not last 3-4 hours.

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  • markyftw

    Sounds like you had cannabis and synthetic cannabis combined (and a large dose of synthetic).. That would be my closest guess. If anything else was in it you would have been able to taste it straight away ie. DMT or Hashish

    I've seen this happen to people and its not nice... Best advice: don't do drugs.

    If you do decide to, though, make sure you got it and know exactly what It is or from someone you highly trust. There's no guarantees and you can seriously mess your mind up with drugs if not taken with extreme care and diligence.

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  • j-u-s-t-i-c-e

    You obviously smoked weed that was laced with something a lot harder.

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  • timisagodamongmen

    Haha u just got some bad weed, and its not illegal everywhere, it was prob laced btw do u trust who u got it from

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  • dirtybirdy

    Did that weed smell like angel dust?

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    • shuggy-chan

      I think there was trace weed in his angel dust

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  • somethingsomething815

    Indica btw is a type of weed if you did not know that.

    Oh and were you hallucinated? Because if you were that means the weed was laced but sometimes you can mistake it for indica.

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  • somethingsomething815

    Ok ok I had a very similiar experience but thankfully I had my brothers there to help me. Either the weed was laced or it was indica. I think it was indica though because that is a body high and it can make your mind do weird things. There are different types of weed that most people who do not usually smoke often don't know about. So I believe it was indica. Don't worry. I had the same exact experience but less dangerous because I had people protecting me. Btw, indica can cause your mind to make you feel that you are not with reality. The side effects are different then the normal side effects of getting high. Indica also makes you feel weird and stupid days later, but you'll snap out of it and you'll be okay. If you ever considered smoking again, make sure you know what kind of weed it is. Always ask.

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  • That was laced with something else man haha

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    • OR it was spice. I've had a horrible experience with spice too I ended up spraining my shoulder and blacking out and thinking everything was satanic. Guessing it was spice. Stay away from that shit it's like the evil twin of weed.

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  • truthasker

    that was some dank crack you smoked....... fuck you

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  • Wh0Ar3YoU

    weed ruins peoples lifes.

    P.s Thumbs this comment down. Don't want the gov't to see this.

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  • Ghost-of-the-Marlboro-Man

    Smoke cigarettes instead.

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  • linefly1231

    Well, Eh. I actually had a very similar experience, you've got a terribly low tolerance since you don't smoke often and you also probably smoked very good weed. Getting that high, you won't know what the fuck is going on.

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  • Thatguy777

    It's probably just your first time smoking really dank weed, and it got you so stoned that it did that happened to you. I had a similar experience the first time I smoked strong weed and got really stoned. I was horrified at first and I thought I was going to die, but I was okay and now weed doesn't do that to me anymore. I actually miss it being stronger.

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  • Hollyjj

    Smoking weed is never good

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  • Violet_Heart

    My first experience was actually very crazy! I also hallucinated a lot and it was really scary, but when I got high another after that I didn't have such a bad time. I actually do see weird things though lol I think it depends on the person?

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  • vicariousvulgarity

    First of all, the people who are saying the weed was "laced" are talking out of their asses. Weed is a cheap drug to produce since it's just a plant, so any drug that could be mixed with the weed to "make it more potent" would cost way more than the weed. No drug dealer is going to sprinkle $60 worth of cocaine on their $20 bag of weed just so people get higher from it. The only other drug that could possibly have been mixed with the weed is PCP, but it's unlikely that neither your friends nor their dealer would know if the weed had PCP on it since it has a distinct chemical smell like burnt plastic or rubber.

    It COULD have been a synthetic cannabinoid blend like Spice or K2 that was sold as weed. The chemicals involved in those are relatively untested so it's not unusual for people to have a bad experience when using them; there have been stories about particularly crazy effects from similar drugs all over the news.

    If it wasn't a synthetic cannabinoid, then my guess would be that you smoked some moldy weed. There are many kinds of mold which are highly toxic, and for obvious reasons there isn't a lot of data on the effects of burning and inhaling toxic mold, but I guarantee they wouldn't be good. I know that a bone-marrow transplant patient died after smoking moldy weed (<a href="http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articleid=1061186" rel="nofollow">http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/articl...</a>) but that was probably because he had a compromised immune system from the transplant procedure. I'm not a doctor so I can't say for sure, but I doubt a single instance of smoking moldy weed would kill you unless you have a weakened immune system. You may still want to see a doctor, though.

    If nothing is physically wrong with you then you should start to feel normal again after a while. You had a emotionally traumatic experience that your mind can't make perfect sense of, so give yourself some time to cope with it. I wouldn't worry about feeling strange for a while after such a crazy experience; just do your best to move past it.

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    • Ekho

      Uhm. The OP said he smoked someone else's weed. People sometimes like to lace their own weed, the OP wouldn't know if it was. You're right that drug dealers wouldn't bother with lacing it. Lacing is something that users do.

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      • Q&A

        This was exactly my thought. After reading all that pompous shit all I could think was how can you be stupid enough to miss that point.

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