Does pot ever make things worse for you?

[moeburn]

I'm not talking about a bad trip. I'm talking about when you had a really bad day at work, or at home, and you smoke a joint thinking it will relax you, when in fact it just makes you go paranoid or crazy and you end up feeling worse than how to started.

Is it just me, or does that happen to anyone else around here?

[modest moon]

i get what you're saying and i think that's only ever happened to me once...just about anytime I smoke it manages to change the situation for the better.


come to think about it, that's never happened to me before lol weed always helps. sucks tho! sorry to hear :(

[psteve]

Nope.

[nightlight]

I have never experienced anything like that, but my sister does almost every time she smokes.

[the yeag]

pot has never changed my feelings...it only washes them away. I do not get violent...of course..... i do not get sad....i do not get happy..i do not get anything...that is the only problem. that is why moderation with all drugs is important.
If you cannot both control the amount you smoke and still enjoy it at the same time....ya need to take a break.

[geonagual]

I get what your saying. but it does not affect me in that way..it helps break down the walls inside my head that block me from seeing things the way they are and not the way that I percieve them to be.

[Matt the Funk]

It can alter my perception and magnify my emotions or numb them. Very versitile. But yeah it's happened to me before, but not very often now.

[I just love weed]

ive been sick for a week and a half or so, and ive been smoking a good amount thinking itll make me feel better, but 2 of the 3 times ive smoked its just made my throat hurt and given me a shitty headache, so ya it happens but proly only cause im sick already.

[420marijuana420]

I'm not talking about a bad trip. I'm talking about when you had a really bad day at work, or at home, and you smoke a joint thinking it will relax you, when in fact it just makes you go paranoid or crazy and you end up feeling worse than how to started.

Is it just me, or does that happen to anyone else around here?

how is that different than a bad trip?

[papa roach]

Me tnk dis time yu lost bethren.Go see some of dem de shrinks coz if ya say yu dem blaze an' feel shitsh:mad:

[Jah420]

Nah that's alcohol for me, that why I stopped drinking... all alcohol does is exaggerate whatever mood i'm in.

In theory so should cannabis, but nope :)

[Souproller]

when i started smoking it was almost 50/50 good bad sometimes at the same time.
Now rarely feel that way just learn the right settings and mood and ofcourse experience/tolerance.

[Bob the Awesome]

It can, it depends. If it's stress-related, and I just need to get my mind off of things and relax, cannabis helps a lot. That's one of the things it's really good for.

However, if I'm feeling depressed because something bad happened or something of the like, cannabis won't help, and can sometimes make it worse. I generally avoid smoking when I feel depressed.

[higher4hockey]

it made things a lot worse for me that one time i got pulled over...

[Reefer Rogue]

All good. no bad.

[Frivolous248]

Sorta, but thats usually when I don't really get high. Like I've had highs turn into shit because things got too boring.

Like one time in school, fuck, shit sucked. Teacher was being a bitch 'n made me 'n my friends sit near her to play some jepardy game, I sat right next to her 'n my friends barely talked to me all period 'n I had to deal with the teachers bullshit. That brought my high down like 10x, I wanted to fucking die. I hate that teacher. I wanted to find chloroform just so I could pass out all during her class.

But in the right setting weed is always good, sucks when you don't get as high as you want though.

[Nocturnal Stoner]

it only makes getting busted worse because I prang out and spray aerosol like mad then suffocate in my room and pass out in a haze of lynx

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

thats not ganj buddy. sounds like crack.

[Budsmokeronly99]

Nah that's alcohol for me, that why I stopped drinking... all alcohol does is exaggerate whatever mood i'm in.

In theory so should cannabis, but nope :)


its the complete opposite. Weed magnifies whatever mood your in for the most part. Alcohol numbs your thoughts but can also magnify whatever your feeling.

[robo scat]

Sorta, but thats usually when I don't really get high. Like I've had highs turn into shit because things got too boring.

Like one time in school, fuck, shit sucked. Teacher was being a bitch 'n made me 'n my friends sit near her to play some jepardy game, I sat right next to her 'n my friends barely talked to me all period 'n I had to deal with the teachers bullshit. That brought my high down like 10x, I wanted to fucking die. I hate that teacher. I wanted to find chloroform just so I could pass out all during her class.

But in the right setting weed is always good, sucks when you don't get as high as you want though.

That's when I leave the class and go for a walk. :)
By the time I get back, ( 15 - 20 minutes ) they've either cooled off and forgot about it, or written me a pass to see my house dean. Either one is fine, because detention is relaxing. :p

[Pink_Floyd]

When I first started smoking at school I would have a guilty conscious and start having bad trips D:
Time has passed now and I never have bad trips anymore :D

[moeburn]

No.. Not really. Although, once, it did make me even sadder about something that I was already sad about.

Exactly! Thats what I'm talking about! Thats what happens to me. When I smoke weed when I'm sad about something, I'll probably end up crying about it.

And have you guys read this?

Pot triggers psychotic symptoms, brain scans show (http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/01/marijuana-psychotic.html)



While D'Souza had intended to study marijuana's impact on schizophrenics in more patients, the study was stopped prematurely because the impact was so pronounced that it would have been unethical to test it on more people with schizophrenia.

Pot makes people with schizophrenia or psychosis quite a lot worse. Now most of us hear aren't that unstable, but if it can make them worse, can it do the same to us?

[KingsBlend420]

Sometimes if I smoke when I have a headache or a cold, it will feel a lot better when I'm high, but it gets worse as I start coming down. That's basically it if you don't mean bad trips.

[nevaquit01]

I had never had an experience like this until a week or so ago. I was with a lady friend who wasn't too keen on smoking. I am already kinda insecure around girls, always have been... It usually isn't too debilitating but once I got high I started to FREAK OUT! I seriously never had a high like this. I felt like I was insane I felt like I was going to die. I read up on it and I was having what most websites describe as a panic attack.

I haven't smoked since... =/

[psteve]

The weed didn't make you insecure. It just let you see it in a new way.
Get up and try again!

[moeburn]

The weed didn't make you insecure. It just let you see it in a new way.

Riiiiight, the weed didn't make him in secure, it just let him see the situation from the perspective of an insecure person.

Thats gonna be my excuse if I ever get caught driving drunk. "Honest, officer, the alcohol didn't make me swerve all over the road, it just let me experience driving in a new, swervy way."

Pure comedy gold!

[JMRinFLA]

Never. With weed I feel better, sleep better and generally enjoy life more.

[mseerob]

Hey whats up

Cannabis has made my experience a bit worst than the positive side, only because I have bad asthma. Everyone is different, but I no longer agree that cannabis is good for the asthma. Smoking joints had me develop bronchitis twice and 2-3 days of using the bong has put me in the hospital, I've gotten a bad asthma attack from it. I grabbed my rolling papers and threw them in the garbage. I might as well give away my bong that I have as well. I will no longer be smoking cannabis anymore regardless if Im at a club, at a friends place etc. Luckely I own a volcano vaporizer so I'll see if my cannabis usage will continue. If the same things occurs when I use the volcano vaporizer then my days of using cannabis is done.

[carbonblaze]

hey mseerob, ever tried eatin the bud? getche fucked uppern whale shit and no smoke in the old lungs!!

[Adelaide]

That's never happened to me...if I have a bad day, smoking one helps me relax and think about whatever's bothering me.

[GonzoForever]

Yeah It happens to me a lot...but I decided to change it first hand by ignoring thoughts about my life problems....

It seems if I get real bored I get to thinking...which leads to thinking about things that stress me out....and the stress me out even more if I'm high...

Now though I just ignore this and tell myself that I'm high...and now is not the time to think about your problems. It works....I've been having clear headed highs since I stopped.

[cannabis campbell]

Only the paranoia part apart from that it makes everything better to me

[4twentE]

Pot makes you feel? It kinda takes away all my feelings. When I'm high, I don't feel a damn thing. That's what I like about it.

[WalkaWalka]

I have a hard time talking to people I don't like when I'm high I can't control what I say very well..