adverse reaction to low quality weed

[smiller1]

hi all,

i haven't smoked for maybe about a year. i've always smoked high quality weed (I'm from California). i tried smoking again last Friday while visiting my boyfriend last week, and the weed they had was mexican brick weed. i only took maybe about 6 small hits off a joint. while i was high I didn't feel anything that out of the ordinary, but what concerns me is how I've been feeling since.

the day after i felt incredibly spacey and out of it, and numb. for example, i couldn't feel sexual pleasure, which is quite disturbing. i didn't feel like myself at all. it's been getting better, but I still don't feel 100%. i feel very depressed and spacey, and my body still doesn't feel normal. my boyfriend felt teh same way, namely the spaciness. he says he's ok now though.

i've never ever had this kind of reaction to weed. i always felt 100% fine the next day. I'm concerned because I read that mexican brick weed contains a lot of banned pesticides.

any help is appreciated :) thank you

[WashougalWonder]

Well it sounds like possibly there may have been some chemical in the weed. That is the problem buying off the streets. Damn this stuff should be legalized so we can track who sold what and how it was grown.

I suggest give it a week, see how you feel. You seem to be getting better???

Bummer. Noting worse than sex you can't enjoy....specially when you are young enough......:rastasmoke:

[sativasuccubus]

It is so sad that we are sometimes victims of drug dealers that dont give a crap about us! Pesticides are used very liberally as well as fertilizers and herbicides, but that isn't even where the scary part ends! These drug cartels may be harvesting and processing more than just weed on their farm and in the trucks used to move the products, contamination by other drugs is possible. Then, in shipping, there are other contaminates such as gasoline that come in contact with the drugs as they are smuggled in tires, gas tanks, and all sorts of other ingenious and dangerous ways to get to your hands.

Even dispensaries aren't capable of protecting us from growers that would rather make a buck than let mites eat their crop, or neglect to flush the plants for the last two weeks before harvest. These things, along with mold and fugal spores are a very real reason people should have their products tested before purchase. All dispensaries should have a fraction of their medication tested with a certification about its safety and potency for all patients to choose what they want to put in their bodies.:jointsmile:

It is in the light of safety that we see a need in this developing field of apothecary pharmacies for quality control to protect the end user from harmful chemicals all too liberally applied to ward off bugs and disease. Fertilizers, pesticides and blooming agents are popular to increase yield size, but safety procedures such as flushing the plants for 2 weeks before harvest are not always used by the casual and large scale pot growers. These are the same chemicals used in commercial farming a lot of the time and can pass on harmful toxins in the processed plant products to the end user.Other considerations are given toward the possibility of there being fungus, mold or other microorganisms growing on the smoke-able plant that could be inhaled and possibly cause lung infections.

As a medicinal herb that is cultivated by licensed growers, it should be made available for patients to have access to medicine that they know was grown organically and has a tested THC score for controlled self medicating. The reason that this plant has healing effects is due to the molecules the plant produces. Called cannabinoids, there are more than 60 in the plant but only a few that cause the effects marijuana is known for; these include: delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, highly euphoric and psychoactive), cannabidol (CBD, psychoactive), trahydrocannabiverol (THCV, euphoric and psychoactive), cannabichromene (non-euphoric). THC and CBD are the most common cannabinoid profiles used. â??The breakdown is this: one gram is equivalent to 1,000mg. Therefore, if a cannabis strain has 20% THC and 1% CBD one gram consumed is the equivalent of 200mg of THC and 10mg of CBDâ?� (herbalsolutionsca.com/aboutus.php#lab). â??The resin of intoxicant types of plant is dominated by THC, whereas non-intoxicant types have resin dominated by CBD, and while THC is not narcotic in the sense of producing sleep, CBD has been shown to have sleep-inducing properties (Carlini and Cunah 1981)â?�. These studies show that it is important to know what ratio these chemicals are taken in. A person who needs medicine during the day would want a low CBD count, while someone treating their insomnia with marijuana would want a strain high in CBD. As well, it is important for patients to know how much THC is in their medicine due to its psychoactive effects.

Sincerely,
Sativa Succubus :thumbsup: