High for a Month

) Doesn't marijuana stay in your fat cells and keep you
high for months?

No. The part of marijuana that gets you high is called
`Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol.' Most people just call this
THC, but this is confusing: your body will change
Delta-9-THC into more inert molecules known as
`metabolites,' which don't get you high. Unfortunately,
these chemicals also have the word `tetrahydrocannabinol' in
them and they are also called THC -- so many people think
that the metabolites get you high. Anti-drug pamphlets say
that THC gets stored in your fat cells and then leaks out
later like one of those `time release capsules' advertised
on television. They say it can keep you high all day or
even longer. This is not true, marijuana only keeps you
high for a few hours, and it is not right to think that a
person who fails a drug test is always high on drugs,
either.

Two of these metabolites are called
`11-hydroxy-tetrahydrocannabinol' and
`11-nor-9-carboxy-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol' but we will
call them 11-OH-THC and 11-nor instead. These are the
chemicals which stay in your fatty cells. There is almost
no Delta-9-THC left over a few hours after smoking
marijuana, and scientific studies which measure the effects
of marijuana agree with this fact.
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Now most of you have probably read this fact and believed it as true. Except theres on problem in my case and I want to see if anyone here can relate. The first time I smoked the herb it was at 7pm on a school night. I went to bed at 10pm and was still stoned. The thing is though is that I felt what I like to call "the after affects" where I can kind of notice the stone from earlier. I felt this after effect a full 2 days after smoking. Now of course it doesn't happend anymore because I have a higher tolerance then before. But would this not basically disprove the "marijuana only keeps you high for a few hours theory? I mean do you think it is somewhat there at an unnoticeable level for up to a month after?

That my friend is called cannabis psychosis.

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Originally Posted by delta9thc06

That my friend is called cannabis psychosis.

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Are you sure? And if so am I physcotic, because it only happend that first time.

i think it only happened the first time for a number of reasons. number 1, is that if you're a lightweight then you will definately notice a difference in perception for a while afterwards. secondly you might have thought you were feeling high , but only because you were constantly thinking about it.

Well I know it wasn't physcologicall if that's what you mean by constantly thinking about it. Although I do have to agree I am very light of weight having 5% bodyfat (mostly muscle). Basically, are you saying that it's a few hours for "most" people and more for lightweights? Because I'm still extremely low in bodyfat and it doesn't happen anymore (due to tolerance). BUT! Wouldn't that mean it's not true about being done with in a few hours time and leave the option for up to a month possible?

Its because your minds not used to the intoxicated state and is in a little phase that you can sometimes achieve after smoking for a entire day of non stop smoking. Its nothing permanent and does no physcological damage that im aware of.

how old ru.. cuz when i first toked up when i was like 13 it did that to me..

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Originally Posted by ThePurpleMan

how old ru.. cuz when i first toked up when i was like 13 it did that to me..

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I was 14 when I first smoked.:pimp:

Seems to me like most of you are agreeing that it is in fact possible to be high the next day. Are you guys also agreeing that the above fact is false and that it can last for more than a few hours?

First time I was 16, did it at about 11-midnight, woke up at 8AM and still felt it.. like I'd play a video game and just space out on it, and just push buttons not paying any attention to what I was doing

The reason you might find your self to still "feel like your under the influence" is because when you smoke marijuana it retards some of your brain cells. So the next day especially your first time you might notice you still feel traces but that is actually a hangover and your brain cells are just a little slower then normal and you really notice it the first time because your not used to feeling a little slower.

^^ not worded the best because im stoned lol but close enough

one of my friends came over with a roor and it was my friends first time ever hitting a roor and he packed a bowl and i made him clear it all and he was high the next morning lol and he smoked around 7at night

Its not as much as a high but more as said before a cannabis hangover. Its just that ur brains not use to the substance and is in a sort of stupper for the next day or 2. This also happens alot when u smoke tons of the stuff and the next day ull feel like a high or like what me and my friends call the "weird phase". Its perfectly normal and i highly doubt it has any negative effects on ur brain.

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First time I was 16, did it at about 11-midnight, woke up at 8AM and still felt it.. like I'd play a video game and just space out on it, and just push buttons not paying any attention to what I was doing

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This is exactly what I'm talking about right here! just spacing out!

and to the above poster you are also very correct, it's not like im stoned still but it's more of a hangover...

My question then is this... Does this "hangover" last subconciously for a month? I say subconciously because I don't feel it anymore the next day due to tolerance. In fact I can smoke earlly afternoon and not feel a hangover by 6pm. But if I take like a month off the process repeats. I could smoke and feel it slightly (hangover) for the next couple days. Is it there subconciously for a month? Could it being there effect sports!?

i get the feeling like i dont realize what i was doing like 5 min after i do it

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Originally Posted by ThePurpleMan

i get the feeling like i dont realize what i was doing like 5 min after i do it

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Same here! To this day even, although I can't notice a high at all. It might really be there subconsiously for a month like they allways have said.:(

Need more opinions though before I could make a conclusion.

yea i trip out... but ive noticed that happens also when i first wake up in the morning... like i was cold turkey for awhile like 2 months but when i wake up in the morning i would take a shower and then like go in my room throw on clothes and be like.... danm i was not thinking at all how did i take a shower.. its trippy

hm, maybe it's all physcologicall

but i do know that first time was for real

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Originally Posted by Captain Hanks

hm, maybe it's all physcologicall

but i do know that first time was for real

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I think its just how the chemical interacts with ur brain cause i kno exactly what u are talking about. Its like everythings working right but there is a crack head running around in ur brain reaking havic.

thats a good way of putting it^^^

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Originally Posted by Captain Hanks

Well I know it wasn't physcologicall if that's what you mean by constantly thinking about it. Although I do have to agree I am very light of weight having 5% bodyfat (mostly muscle). Basically, are you saying that it's a few hours for "most" people and more for lightweights? Because I'm still extremely low in bodyfat and it doesn't happen anymore (due to tolerance). BUT! Wouldn't that mean it's not true about being done with in a few hours time and leave the option for up to a month possible?

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Let's put it this way.

When you get high for the first time, it feels very different and new. You experience sensations which you didn't know your mind was capable of producing. Now, when the drug wears off (which usually wears off in a few hours for most people , and even less time for those with tolerance), it does so gradually.

When you smoke pot, the THC is absorbed into your bloodstream through your lungs. The THC flows through your veins, through your heart, saturating every organ in your body with the chemical. When it reaches your brain, the THC attaches to the appropriate receptors in your brain. This causes a series of events and chain reactions which cause neurotransmitters to build up in certain parts of the brain. When the neurotransmitters are building up, you are coming up on the drug. When everything is set in motion and the chain reaction begins, you are "high off the drug". Obviously because marijuana is a drug (and causes slight chemical imbalance with neurotransmitters in the brain), your brain needs to re-adjust back to normal. So while your brain is adjusting back to it's normal , un-stoned state, you are essentially high. When you feel fully functional again, the high has wore off, and your brain has more or less returned to it's normal, original state.

Because it's the first time your brain experienced the high, and it was such a novel experience, there are several factors which might make you feel "stoned" still. What I recommend you do is smoke another joint and see how you feel. If you're totally unaffected by that joint, then I'd say go to the doctor (it's confidential). However if you get stoned off the joint, I'd say you're imagining things. It's virtually impossible to stay stoned for 30 days. It's got to be in your head, because for you to be literately stoned off THC for 30 days, you'd need a continuous supply of the drug to reach your brain. And even then, you'd build up tolerance to the drug, noticing less effects as time progressed.

There is a noticible difference between feeling the "weed-over" (after-effects of marijuana which cause you to feel slightly out of it but not totally stoned) and being stoned off your ass.

My theory is that you're thinking too much about the weed. Or possibly, you have mild HPPD (don't get scared). HPPD is hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, and is usually experienced by those who have acute reactions to LSD, Psilocybin, Mescaline, and even cannabis in extreme cases. HPPD is characterized by open-eye and cloesd-eye visuals, extreme shifts in perception (similar to the feeling that you're constantly on a psychedelic drug), or a geneal sense that you never really came off the drug (essentially drug psychosis). As of today there's not been much research done on this condition. I doubt if this is your case though.

I'd say that since it was your FIRST high, that your brain is still putting all the chemicals in their proper place. meaning that your brain is still recovering from the THC. don't worry. It'll all be good.

You'll notice that as your tolerance increases, this effect diminishes. I'd say that you're very sensitive to THC because you've never experienced it.

Don't worry, it'll work out.

Have u ever heard the best cure for a hangover is another beer?

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Originally Posted by IanCurtisWishlist

Let's put it this way.

When you get high for the first time, it feels very different and new. You experience sensations which you didn't know your mind was capable of producing. Now, when the drug wears off (which usually wears off in a few hours for most people , and even less time for those with tolerance), it does so gradually.

When you smoke pot, the THC is absorbed into your bloodstream through your lungs. The THC flows through your veins, through your heart, saturating every organ in your body with the chemical. When it reaches your brain, the THC attaches to the appropriate receptors in your brain. This causes a series of events and chain reactions which cause neurotransmitters to build up in certain parts of the brain. When the neurotransmitters are building up, you are coming up on the drug. When everything is set in motion and the chain reaction begins, you are "high off the drug". Obviously because marijuana is a drug (and causes slight chemical imbalance with neurotransmitters in the brain), your brain needs to re-adjust back to normal. So while your brain is adjusting back to it's normal , un-stoned state, you are essentially high. When you feel fully functional again, the high has wore off, and your brain has more or less returned to it's normal, original state.

Because it's the first time your brain experienced the high, and it was such a novel experience, there are several factors which might make you feel "stoned" still. What I recommend you do is smoke another joint and see how you feel. If you're totally unaffected by that joint, then I'd say go to the doctor (it's confidential). However if you get stoned off the joint, I'd say you're imagining things. It's virtually impossible to stay stoned for 30 days. It's got to be in your head, because for you to be literately stoned off THC for 30 days, you'd need a continuous supply of the drug to reach your brain. And even then, you'd build up tolerance to the drug, noticing less effects as time progressed.

There is a noticible difference between feeling the "weed-over" (after-effects of marijuana which cause you to feel slightly out of it but not totally stoned) and being stoned off your ass.

My theory is that you're thinking too much about the weed. Or possibly, you have mild HPPD (don't get scared). HPPD is hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, and is usually experienced by those who have acute reactions to LSD, Psilocybin, Mescaline, and even cannabis in extreme cases. HPPD is characterized by open-eye and cloesd-eye visuals, extreme shifts in perception (similar to the feeling that you're constantly on a psychedelic drug), or a geneal sense that you never really came off the drug (essentially drug psychosis). As of today there's not been much research done on this condition. I doubt if this is your case though.

I'd say that since it was your FIRST high, that your brain is still putting all the chemicals in their proper place. meaning that your brain is still recovering from the THC. don't worry. It'll all be good.

You'll notice that as your tolerance increases, this effect diminishes. I'd say that you're very sensitive to THC because you've never experienced it.

Don't worry, it'll work out.

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Thank you, that somewhat clear it up for me. I never felt high for 30 days (that was just propogandas theory). I just felt the "after affects" for 2 days after. Thanks again.

I just came back from a camping trip of constant stonedness. The first day back wasn't fun. All the effects of being stoned without the "high" feeling. I felt like I was changed, I couldn't return to my usual patterns of life, it was very unpleasant. But today it wore off. I'm slowly returning to the normal habits. Habits can be very pleasing some times... Safe. Reassuring.
Stoners... don't do ecstasy. It's too incredible. You don't need it.

yea i have experianced that too.. it feels wierd but i just went to the gym and worked out like no other sweating and drinking and sweating until i felt like a new man... great thing to do..

Iv been really high for 1 1/2 days....it was ingested about 5 strong brownies.

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Originally Posted by Captain Hanks

) Doesn't marijuana stay in your fat cells and keep you
high for months?

No. The part of marijuana that gets you high is called
`Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol.' Most people just call this
THC, but this is confusing: your body will change
Delta-9-THC into more inert molecules known as
`metabolites,' which don't get you high. Unfortunately,
these chemicals also have the word `tetrahydrocannabinol' in
them and they are also called THC -- so many people think
that the metabolites get you high. Anti-drug pamphlets say
that THC gets stored in your fat cells and then leaks out
later like one of those `time release capsules' advertised
on television. They say it can keep you high all day or
even longer. This is not true, marijuana only keeps you
high for a few hours, and it is not right to think that a
person who fails a drug test is always high on drugs,
either.

Two of these metabolites are called
`11-hydroxy-tetrahydrocannabinol' and
`11-nor-9-carboxy-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol' but we will
call them 11-OH-THC and 11-nor instead. These are the
chemicals which stay in your fatty cells. There is almost
no Delta-9-THC left over a few hours after smoking
marijuana, and scientific studies which measure the effects
of marijuana agree with this fact.
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Now most of you have probably read this fact and believed it as true. Except theres on problem in my case and I want to see if anyone here can relate. The first time I smoked the herb it was at 7pm on a school night. I went to bed at 10pm and was still stoned. The thing is though is that I felt what I like to call "the after affects" where I can kind of notice the stone from earlier. I felt this after effect a full 2 days after smoking. Now of course it doesn't happend anymore because I have a higher tolerance then before. But would this not basically disprove the "marijuana only keeps you high for a few hours theory? I mean do you think it is somewhat there at an unnoticeable level for up to a month after?

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Haha The first 10 times I smoked I only gut buzzed adn though I was high.
Then one day i smoked as much as I could with some friends while walking around then sat down in my car and did a whip it*bad fucking Idea)
I blakced out for a min then every thing was in bullet time and my heart felt liek it was in the sky. I was high all night from about 12 till the next dya when I woke up and for two days I felt the numbness htat whipe its cna cause.

It was onyl bad when I blakced out after that it would have been fine but I was really parinoid becasue I went form geting a small buzz of schwagg to mega fucked of really nice bud.

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yea i have experianced that too.. it feels wierd but i just went to the gym and worked out like no other sweating and drinking and sweating until i felt like a new man... great thing to do..

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Yeah, I've allways noticed that working out or any strenuous activity along with eating will kill the after affects or lower the high itself.