This be an email I sent to someone who went through something similar:

"It all started last night. I'm used to smoking medium-quality marijuana. I'll smoke a bowl, feel very relaxed and happy, then crash and sleep for a long time. I bought an eighth for 35$; the dealer said it was "extremely good mids but I wouldn't call it dank". I don't know, I guess he's a real veteran because this was the highest I've ever been.

I rolled a joint, stepped out onto the back porch, and smoked it. 3/4 of the way down and I knew I'd over-done it. I quickly put it out, turned the computer off, and went to lie down in bed, hoping to get to sleep. That's when it hit me. I had the fan on, and every tiny vibration in my bedroom melted into this one rhythm. Almost like techno-music. Everything was vibrating. I could feel my heart racing a mile a minute. I was certain death was coming.

With the vibrations came an extreme sense and awareness of my body. I could feel each individual cell pumping blood, and I could tell my arteries were clogged. I knew I was going to have a fatal heart attack.

Then came the hallucinations. Out of the body-buzz, as I closed my eyes, I slowly realized a fast-moving pattern. Like a music video to the patterns of the universe. I can't really describe it. The visuals were very specific and if I had the skill I could probably replicate them on a computer, but I don't and I don't really want to revisit this experience in that amount of depth anyway.

I saw my spirit that night and I could draw it if I had the skill. It was shaped like an alien skull composed of two different shades of brown: one was darker and made up the borders/the "nose", the lighter brown filled everything else. It was twitching and moving in and out to the eternal rhythms, twisting and flying through a psychedelic landscape. Every sense in my body, even the taste of my extremely dry mouth, was filtered in an odd way and was perceived as pure Rhythm.

I still don't feel sober. I keep questioning my existence, and going through small "fits" where I just space out and sometimes go unconscious, realizing that the thoughts in my head aren't my own. I was hearing voices for a while, but they've subsided.

I feel like I'm getting better, but it was still terrifying. I'm so envious of the people who can just enjoy cannabis without tripping their nuts off

Anyway, I hope you're feeling better now. I don't know if I'll ever smoke again. If I've learned anything from all this, it's that cannabis is a powerful drug (and not a very nice one either). Mary Jane is a cruel mistress, and her lessons are hard to accept."

Anybody else experience anything like this? I had no idea the pot rabbit-hole went so deep.

I've had the exact same thing happen to me, seriously...But dont let it scare you, from what experienced pot gets better after this happens. Ive had alot of my friends who have been smoking a long time tell me they have had the same experience of "holy shit what is happening to me". They said weed has gotten better for them after that too.

I'm not shitting you, pot actually got more enjoyable after this, closed eye visuals that are pretty cool, but its pretty terrible if you dont know that you are actually tripping off weed.

actually after reading the last part...take this into consideration cut back some, my friend had this happen to him and he hasn't been the same since. He cant smoke any more because he trips...I dont know, its up to you if you want to smoke more though.

Yeah I definitely am cutting back. Besides that way on 4/20 I'll have a nice, low tolerance.

that's exactly what happened to me, resulted in my quitting smoking pot altogether. the irony was that it was going to be the last bowl I smoked for the semester 'cause I needed to focus more on school (I was getting ready to graduate). I smoked a bowl of middies in like 10 minutes, and about 20 minutes later I was leaning over my computer when I felt my heart beating out of my chest, and proceeded to have a 2.5 hour panic attack.

It kinda ruined pot for me, every time I smoke now I just feel like shit, real thick headed, no energy, mild headache. I'm told by my friends who smoke that If I just pick it up again that those symptoms will go away, but I don't see any reason to, I used to love smoking pot too.

I say don't call it curtains yet if you don't want to, but I was basically looking for an excuse to tone it down when this happened, so I used it.


I forgot, I got stoned one time after that, we went to chili's and then to see land of the dead, I was freaking out a bit, but the food really helped, and the movie was awesome, and I had a good time, so even for me it wasn't the end-all be all.

if you want to have an enjoyable 4/20, I'd suggest you smoke a little bit in the days before to get used to it again.

Kids these days can't handle their herbals.

Never happened to me before.

A friend of mine made a batch pot brownies from her Jamaican homegrown when I was pretty new to smoking. I bought two and went home, expecting a great night. I ate one of the brownies and while I waited for it to kick in I made my fiance and I a nice spaghetti dinner. After about 45 mins of "damn, this sucks, im not even stoned", I finally started and it was pretty nice for about an hour to an hour and a half. But then it started getting crazy. I was laying on the couch for hours and hours just watching the commercials go by. I couldn't really focus on any one thing, it was like I was focused on everything. I had to lay with my head sideways, I couldn't handle moving it. I had eaten a lot of spaghetti, and I wasn't drinking much of anything(stupid). Eventually I tried getting up and moving a round a little and I threw up. Not fun.

Wild Horus. Never had anything remotely similar happen to me on actual weed. I got dusted at a concert once, but thats not the same thing.

You sure this stuff is clean? Maybe paraquat contamination or something.

Posted by Jonsered Wild Horus. Never had anything remotely similar happen to me on actual weed. I got dusted at a concert once, but thats not the same thing. You sure this stuff is clean? Maybe paraquat contamination or something.

Nah not paraquat. The US government only assumed paraquat would be harmful; an actual study conducted by . Jenny PronCzuk de Garbino, stated: "no lung or other injury in marijuana users has ever been attributed to Paraquat contamination".

I don't think it was laced either. The only smokable hallucinogen (besides dmt) is PCP and this doesn't sound anything like that.

Interesting about paraquat. My dad worked spraying pot in Mexico from the air with diesel in the 70's. Some people still smoked it. Maybe one of these new weird designer things?

I like your tag line by the way!

Well my tolerance skyrocketed I can say that much. I just went up to the park and shared a J with three people I've never met I got high but not nearly as stoned as I should've considering one joint got me pretty much higher than I've ever been.

I think the best solution to panic attacks is to smoke less though. Instead of smoking bowl after bowl until you can't walk straight, I've learned to take 3-5 hits, wait a few minutes, then smoke a little more in a couple of hours. I used to do that but I've drifted since I started getting better prices.

Smoke like a rasta, maintain the high

the time it happened to me was on the last bowl of a quarter, the rest of it was fine, I think it was that I smoked it too quickly.

Posted by Mr.Coffee the time it happened to me was on the last bowl of a quarter, the rest of it was fine, I think it was that I smoked it too quickly.

Yeah that might've been it with me too. I was smoked the whole joint in like 45 seconds, hit after hit not even stopping for air because I didn't want to waste any.

I have never had a problem like that really, last saturday we had a big blunt, about an inch thick and about 6 inches long, and we smoked it in about 20 mins because we were running late for a movie and we wanted to pick up liquor first so we could get drunk while we watched grindhouse. Blunt that size would usually take us at least 45 minutes. I didn't even think we could smoke it that fast. Ah well, I guess I smoke too much.

I've had a pretty bad experience where my vision was like throbbing in black and white, hard to describe. I was pretty much immobilized I was so out of it.

Laced?

Posted by Rustblade Kids these days can't handle their herbals. Never happened to me before.

Seconded... I guess its the killer Canadian we smoke...

this has happened to me, not as extream though....but one day... it was april 05 I suddenly became aware that I had some cavaties and it made me REALLY paranoid.... since then I can feel everything thats WRONG with my body... its good to know that i need to change something but scary as HELL to go through esp when you heart is racing....