Hello.

I am an M.D. (Neurology).

And I have a few questions to ask so I decided to ask here (since I don??t know exactly who to ask that would have extensive knowledge in this area).

I have a patient that has a very serious form of MS. The symptoms have progressed to a very terrible point. Many of the traditional meds have not been able to subdue the symptoms.

The patient decided to try marijuana to see if it would help (I was a little hesitant at first, but seeing this patient suffer a lot deeply troubled me, so I thought it wouldn??t technically hurt anymore than the symptoms do).

The patient never used marijuana before, and I had no knowledge than the basic medical and media knowledge of it.

The patient tried it. It worked unbelievably, and the patient said it was nice as well and ended up liking the feeling associated with it.

After 3 months of using it, the patient purchased some more, and used it. The results were not good! The patient suffered from a type of psychotic episode. The way the patient described it, it sounded like a very terrible hallucinogenic effect.

The patient said the effects were almost immediate. It included a complete distortion of reality, a distortion of the vision, and hearing. He said its like everything slowed down and that time was ??warped? and that his legs felt heavy. The patient said it felt like he was dieing. The patient said that he apparently started screaming in fear, and felt like he had jumped outside of his body (the way he described it, it sounded like a dissociative-personality type of symptom). The patient additionally described an extreme form of paranoia. And all these effects last for roughly several hours.

Since then, the patient has developed severe anxiety attacks, sensory-motor distortions, and he says whenever he thinks of the incident, he immediately feels like it will happen again, and he begins to shake and gets scared, and then a panic attack sets in.

I want to know if the incident that this patient felt was normal amongst marijuana users?

I decided to research this a little more since it didn??t make sense to me. How can this patient use marijuana for 3 months with no hallucinogenic effects, then all of a sudden one day completely lose control and have effects similar to LSD.

So I ended up asking the patient to tell me what (if anything was different than before) and this is what I found out. Apparently this patient first purchased marijuana that smelt good, he said it was a very nice smell, and that were lots of seeds. The marijuana the he purchased just prior to the incident was different. He said this new one had no seeds at all and appeared to have orange hairs over it, and that it smelt very different, almost like citrus and skunks.

The patient said the marijuana purchased with the seeds gave him a very relaxed feeling almost to the point of falling asleep (with no mental/visual/auditory distortions) and he said that it made him feel really happy. But this new stuff didn??t make him relax at all, it made him very terrified.

I??ve researched information on the internet about marijuana, and I never knew there were so many different strains.

My second question is: were his negative effects caused by a certain strain, or did it have to do with the fact of seeds or no seeds in the marijuana?

If it is a question of strain/type of marijuana, do you know which strain/type is relaxing and ??not trippy? (as the patient would say)?

Thanks,

Dr. G.H.
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