Help with a VERY bad trip

[birdgirl73]

Moderating

Just a reminder, folks, that you need to limit discussions and speculations about bad-trip causes to cannabis and/or legally prescribed medicines and leave out mentions of other illicit and/or herbal substances. Had to delete three posts above that went beyond the cannabis-only policy, which is always regrettable.

[muzick]

WTF IS A ZONG?

a zong is a company that makes bongs

[tomm01]

As for the person above me, what kind of cannabis were you smoking? I've smoked some pretty crazy strains and never had that reaction. If it was regs/schwag, its possible it could have been dipped in something bad or possibly "laced" with who knows what, although I don't know very many people that still do that. If that is the case, you can thank the War on Drugs for a tainted and unregulated cannabis supply, but if not, I'm afraid I am of no help as I have never had an experience like that.

It is a panic attack, I'm amazed at how many people have never heard of it. One of the nights at schoolies (holiday with mates after highschool in case americans don't know) I smoked and got a massive panic attack, even though I had smoked the same weed every other night during schoolies and been fine. I started thinking about what it could have been laced with and then saying nah it's alright I had it last night etc then saying but it could just not have been in that bit etc etc rationalizing my fear. I just got caught in the emotion and started sweating cold and all those typical panic attack symptoms such as hypo and then hyper-ventilating. Light headed, massive head buzz, everything in the environment kinda fades away as you only pay attention to your emotions. I walked over to a quieter place and passed out, woke up a minute later and was perfectly fine. haha but I had taken 2 Xanax (prescribed to me) before I started smoking and so I guess it must have just kicked in maybe because my heart was racing faster, circulating it quicker or something. Very handy though.

Pretty much jsut do as everyone else has said, don't do shrooms coz if you have a bad trip on that you will be a million times worse then a bad trip on weed. If you want to continue smoking then just go with small doses. Indica strain. I actually found that smoking a tiny bit, couple tokes of a joint, not really enough to induce panic attacks or even get you that high, just to relax, and then relaxing completely for about 15 minutes or until you feel really comfortable with smoking more, it really helps. If you don't wanna smoke more, don't. Simple as that. Don't let people pressure you or anything, doing so is basically asking for trouble, the reason you decide not to smoke more is because you don't want to, you're at a comfortable level. Don't let other people change that.