Quote Originally Posted by Dr.G.H.
Hello.

I am an M.D. (Neurology).



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

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.
The incident is rare but if it does occur it seems to happen to new smokers more than chronic or experienced smokers. Sometimes people don't get high the first time they smoke so the next time they try to get they smoke a lot and then the effects hit them and they have a bad experience. I know of someone who got high for the second time this past weekend. The first high was enjoyable for him but this past high he lost complete time/space orientation and became paranoid that everyone in public knew he was high. A couple of things may have contributed to this:
-He was having a very bad day to begin with before smoking.
-He smoked a lot because he was afraid that he wasn't going to get high.
-The setting was not a good mellow one for him as he is shy out in public to begin with.

He is going to try again but this time he will smoke a little, wait about 10 minutes, then smoke again is he needs to. He has also arranged a better setting including exactly where, who will be with him, activites such as music and movies, and even his snacks. Maybe your patient should assemble a game plan like this and slow the smoking down, start low and go slow, wait, then smoke as needed.

Yes there are a lot of strains and even a big difference between the strains. Marijuana can range from plants that should barely be qualified to be called pot to a middle grade of well grown pot that comes from a "mutt" strain or maybe another level slightly better than mid grade that consists a pot from a high quality seed strain but wasn't grown to its full potential to high potency pot that was taken from a high quality seed strain or a clone of a high quality plant and cultivated to near perfection. It has been a while since I have grown pot (12 years ) but you will find many people grow indoors and spend thousands of dollars on the equipment and it shows in the product. If they go through the trouble of spending that much,. they will start with very high quality stock of seeds or clones. In this case, the type of high that will be produced is know before the plants even start. There are even basic differences between pot grown outdoors versus indoors that others may be able to explain better. If the pot contains seeds then basically the female plant has been pollinated and spent some of its energy on those seeds instead of producing THC.

Also, someone mentioned it might be laced. If he just smoked a day or two ago, you may want to drug test him to see if he is positive for other drugs that might give you an idea as to whether or not it was laced with other drugs. Hopefully you are aware of how most drugs have very short detection times in the body (3-5 days) except for THC.

Too bad Marinol is not indicated in MS or you may be able to go that route.