Cannabis psychosis.. Anybody here have it?

[beachguy in thongs]

Somewhere, some kids got into trouble for giving the faculty potbrownies. You didn't hear about that? Check the Psychological Forum.

[RainyDayWomen1235]

nah, I tripped on pot twice.... it's pretty far out actually. You learn a lot of things about yourself.

[tootsie roll]

I was thinking that I might have it, it does get really bad tho, I would get really "out of it" as you said, shit like thinking I wasnt real, or the rest of the world wasnt, scary thoughts that severly challenged my concept of reality, and when I would toke it would get SOO much worst. I would even sometimes get the frames thing that you get on pot, when I was sober. I was and am still on Acutane, on the pamphlette they give you with it talks about a possible side effect being psychosis, so that might have been it too. But I definatly know where your coming from, I understand completely, it was a living hell. I think Im better now tho, but I still just try not to think about, because I dont want to go down that road again. Try and take like a month of EVERYTHING all forms of drugs, as many of em as you can, even shit like coffee, and tobacco, I mean EVERYTHING let your body detox.

I don't want to scare you or freak you out but if I didn't say something I wouldn't feel right.

Please be very careful and keep a close watch on how you feel. Acutane is a good product in that it does its job BUT there is a very bad side effect and it causes people to have suicidal thoughts/feelings.
http://www.onlinelawyersource.com/accutane/claim.html

http://www.adrugrecall.com//accutane/suicide.html

http://www.accutane-side-effects.net...disorders.html

[MelT]

Hi. Sorry for posting about a commercial product and something that I've mentioned on another board, but just in case I can help; I'm a 'career' Buddhist meditator, who has also taken quite large amounts of dope (both eating it and through a bong) pretty much every day for the last 23 years. My current intake has dropped a little and is about a quarter a week now, solely in the evenings. In light of that you can imagine that I've had the odd period of dope anxiety along the way.

As somebody who's very interested in any and all effects of cannabis I've spent a great deal of time looking for ways to get past the more difficult effects the drug can have. To this end I've just written a book, out next month, called 'Headstuff - How to be Good at Being Stoned' (Spellbound, Denmark), which I hope will help a lot of people lessen, if not overcome dope anxiety. I do realise there's a major difference in the kind of real bi-polar paranoia that some people with a genetical disposition can get and the slightly anxious feeling that dopers can get, but much of it really can be gotten rid of quite easily. I don't want to turn this into an advert, so no links here, no real names. But if anyone has an interest in meditational techniques that will help you get back a broader high and mental exploration of altered states, I hope this will be the book for you.

MelT

[beachguy in thongs]

Hi. Sorry for posting about a commercial product and something that I've mentioned on another board, but just in case I can help; I'm a 'career' Buddhist meditator, who has also taken quite large amounts of dope (both eating it and through a bong) pretty much every day for the last 23 years. My current intake has dropped a little and is about a quarter a week now, solely in the evenings. In light of that you can imagine that I've had the odd period of dope anxiety along the way.

As somebody who's very interested in any and all effects of cannabis I've spent a great deal of time looking for ways to get past the more difficult effects the drug can have. To this end I've just written a book, out next month, called 'Headstuff - How to be Good at Being Stoned' (Spellbound, Denmark), which I hope will help a lot of people lessen, if not overcome dope anxiety. I do realise there's a major difference in the kind of real bi-polar paranoia that some people with a genetical disposition can get and the slightly anxious feeling that dopers can get, but much of it really can be gotten rid of quite easily. I don't want to turn this into an advert, so no links here, no real names. But if anyone has an interest in meditational techniques that will help you get back a broader high and mental exploration of altered states, I hope this will be the book for you.

MelT

Hey, MelT. :stoned:

Welcome to the boards.

[MelT]

Thanks for the welcome

M

[mseerob]

Hey whats up..

I was wondering tho could it be that if you smoke a lot and a lot of weed everyday that the chances of you developing those are high?

What if your like me, who smokes weed like every so often (once every 3 - 10+ weeks) I know people that would smoke like 5 joints a day.. everyday. I can picture someone developing those if you smoke a great lot everyday, but in my opinion if you smoke once in awhile, I dont think you can develop it. Please quote me if Im wrong.

[beachguy in thongs]

Hey whats up..

I was wondering tho could it be that if you smoke a lot and a lot of weed everyday that the chances of you developing those are high?

What if your like me, who smokes weed like every so often (once every 3 - 10+ weeks) I know people that would smoke like 5 joints a day.. everyday. I can picture someone developing those if you smoke a great lot everyday, but in my opinion if you smoke once in awhile, I dont think you can develop it. Please quote me if Im wrong.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0630112652.htm
http://marijuana.researchtoday.net/archive/2/4/358.htm
http://www.hnrc.ucsd.edu/publication...348art2003.pdf
http://www.medicalcannabis.com/PDF/Chronic_Cannabis.pdf
http://journals.cambridge.org/action...ine&aid=255433

[MelT]

That's a very reassuring set of documents
M

[mseerob]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0630112652.htm
http://marijuana.researchtoday.net/archive/2/4/358.htm
http://www.hnrc.ucsd.edu/publication...348art2003.pdf
http://www.medicalcannabis.com/PDF/Chronic_Cannabis.pdf
http://journals.cambridge.org/action...ine&aid=255433

Nice information you posted beachguy!

Everytime I read about these studies on cannabis and the long term effects that it causes, it always says that there's no evidence that it causes brain damage or anything to that matter. The user could perhaps be doing other drugs besides cannabis that they probably didnt know about. That has actually been one of the reason why I dont go and smoke everyday is the fact that Im afraid to develop schizophrena. I smoke from only a valcano vaporizer.

So I guess there isnt anything wrong with smoking every once in awhile then..