Alcohol and weed mix. Experience counts for both. If you're drunk and you take a hit of pot after laying off for years, you're pretty much in for the best of both worlds, and a lot of people don't expect it and get floored by it. I happen to like waiting after a good 8 beers before taking bongrips. The pot just seems to bring out the best in the euphoric, happy feeling of the onset of drunkeness, while at the same time giving me the best effects of pot. I love the two together to no end.

Its just that, having little to no experience with either, then throwing them both on the same body at once is asking for something to go wrong. Pot is marketed on the street as an ametuer drug, yet is one of those drugs that can permenately scare people away from drugs because of paranoia fits, which is what the original story sounds like. Weed + even just 4 or 5 beers is going to elevate your level of intoxication quite intensely. Where before you may have barely felt a buzz from alcohol, after a few rips, you're going to feel hammered and very high all at once and all rather quickly. Like I said it is easy for that to floor you and it has and still does floor me. You're going to feel like you're hammered, because that;s what weed does when it mixes with other drugs. It enhances the effects. I use it after drinks and during mushroom trips when it feels like things have plataued... or however you spell it.

Mixing things with low to no experience is always a bad idea. Especially when it involves alcohol. Shit like that happens.