I started smoking pot pretty much everyday about 7 months ago. I used to somewhat enjoy the high even when it made me tired as fuck and a bit paranoid, but everyone I was with did it so, what the hell?

Then 2 of my mates started becoming drug fucked. Well, not drug fucked, but they became really lazy and poor, and I didn't want to end up the same. I wasn't even getting stoned anymore, just tired. So only about 2 or so weeks ago I decided to stop smoking pot, and so I did. I went 2 weeks without smoking and I felt great. I was comfortable, had no paranoia, looked better and even met a nice girl.

Then last night I decided to have a celebratory bong. I got way higher then I normally did, but along with that came the paranoia. I got really uncomfortable and started to think everyone was judging me. I felt like shit.

I hate to sound like an uptight schizo, but I honestly think I am one while high. Everyone loves pot sooo much and some people I know can't function without it. Is there anyone out there who has smoked pot but didn't like what it did to them? What bad effects have you experienced after smoking?

I quit smoking approximately eight months ago and didn't experience anything noteworthy afterwards. Maybe didn't sleep as well for the first few weeks and had strange dreams at night, possibly even a slight bit crabby, but it's quite easy to deal with.

Now I spend about $300 less per month, don't worry about legal troubles, and get out much more often meeting members of the opposite sex.

It's one of the better decisions I've made.

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This is actually a common "Theme" that tends to happen to allot of people. Including myself.

Pot was awesome and kicked ass for a while, then it changed into something horrible.....causing panic attacks, racing thoughts, ect. ect.

It happens, Pot is no longer available to you, and may never be again. Move on, and enjoy the fact you arn't doomed to become a nobody stoner whos only great quality is taking a 5 four foot bong loads in a row, without passing out!

so don't smoke? its better not to than to fake it till you make it...

You could be psychotically analytical like me. I know I have some mental illness but I am unaware of the extent of it. When I smoke, it's like you just split me up into 7 people, gave me some uppers, and told me to dissect any part of anyone and/or any part of existence/reality. Also, weed has drastically changed as a drug since my start into psychedelics so that might be an option.

I've been quitting off and on for about a year now. I go clean for a long period of time, smoke a few joints for the weekend/days after and then stay clean for a while. I find that I don't enjoy the high enough to want to risk having it in my system. Hard drugs ftw!

Different weed
Tolerance break
Actually do something after/during smoking.

We usually would go skateboarding but I found myself not doing anything because I'd get too unco and think I was going to break a bone.

pot only sucks when you do nothing once you're high.

weed, and life in general, is better when you stay active and productive.

I've been gradually quiting for about a month now. It's been eight days for me and I have no desire to smoke. I feel good without putting anything in my body. I have more time, more concentration, and more money. I actually get shit done. I'm thinking of not smoking for at least 3 moths, sometime in feb. I'll be able to pass a hair test. I'll finally get a job. My body no longer needs canabis. It was a great run, I learned a lot, now it's time to move on.

I find if i just take a couple hits i enjoy the high, but if i smoke a shit ton, i hate it.

meh more weed for me ;)

moderation is a good idea... i only like getting really blazed when i have nothing better to do

I sorta see weed as a tool or complement now, instead of a drug itself. When I started (2 yrs ago) I made it a big deal, and kinda focused the events of the day/night around smoking. Now, it's more like I smoke, then do something awesome with friends, and pretty much plan smoking for right before doing something specific, like a movie, eating, anything really. Smoking before work is pretty cool for me, makes it go by alot quicker and makes meaningless things seem like epic quests.

Now, this tool thing started pretty much once I tried shrooms...then acid...now THOSE I use as an event to themselves, with pot smoking to help along the way :)

This is actually a common "Theme" that tends to happen to allot of people. Including myself.

Pot was awesome and kicked ass for a while, then it changed into something horrible.....causing panic attacks, racing thoughts, ect. ect.

It happens, Pot is no longer available to you, and may never be again. Move on, and enjoy the fact you arn't doomed to become a nobody stoner whos only great quality is taking a 5 four foot bong loads in a row, without passing out!


Yeah, but this has happened since I first started. So I smoke like once every 5 months just for shits and giggles, it's not even that fun for me.

I guess that happens with some people, not much you can do about it except for try smoking in moderation, or just smoke like once every 2-3 weeks or something. If none of that works good, then I guess the chemicals in pot are just not for your brain.

Also if it's difficult for you to gather enough money for pot and still afford more important things in life, it definitely is something you should stop spending money on.

Not to be redundant but yeah I quit smoking weed last april. Best decision of my life. I started being much more productive and just felt all around better about myself. Also... I started using harder drugs.... And if this had been three weeks ago I would have said Hard Drugs FTW too but.... I think.... Sober FTW.

This.

I personally don't like weed so much either. I may be doing something wrong or I am just a bitch but the following happens:

1. During the experience I can't stand looking at myself in a mirror because I become extremely paranoid that I have a stupid expression on my face.

2. I have really low tolerance and always end up getting extremely stoned to the point that I end up passing out after an hour of agonizing paranoia.

3. For a long time after I get really trippy at night when I am about to sleep. I always suddenly wake up not really knowing that I was asleep and I get weird delusions like for instance, I smoked weed a few days ago and I was sleeping over at my girlfriend's last night and I kept drifting off to sleep at the beginning but then waking up and having the urge to continue a conversation I thought I was having with her but it was all a delusion...

The night immediately after the day I smoked was the worst because I got extremely lucid dreams and I kept forcing myself to wake up from them because they would always get too intense (like they'd always start off as a normal day and gradually become stranger and stranger to the point of ridicule like I'd end up being chased by predator or something). This happened to me in the middle of the night and a pattern of me waking up and then going back to sleep continued over the course of about two hours and I thought I was actually going insane until I passed out.

I can only attribute this to the marijuana I smoked because it didn't happen before that. I'm sure it'll pass as soon as the THC leaves my body but I really don't like it.

Sober FTW.

Nope.

Nope.

2nded

I personally don't like weed so much either. I may be doing something wrong or I am just a bitch but the following happens:

1. During the experience I can't stand looking at myself in a mirror because I become extremely paranoid that I have a stupid expression on my face.

2. I have really low tolerance and always end up getting extremely stoned to the point that I end up passing out after an hour of agonizing paranoia.

3. For a long time after I get really trippy at night when I am about to sleep. I always suddenly wake up not really knowing that I was asleep and I get weird delusions like for instance, I smoked weed a few days ago and I was sleeping over at my girlfriend's last night and I kept drifting off to sleep at the beginning but then waking up and having the urge to continue a conversation I thought I was having with her but it was all a delusion...

4. The night immediately after the day I smoked was the worst because I got extremely lucid dreams and I kept forcing myself to wake up from them because they would always get too intense (like they'd always start off as a normal day and gradually become stranger and stranger to the point of ridicule like I'd end up being chased by predator or something). This happened to me in the middle of the night and a pattern of me waking up and then going back to sleep continued over the course of about two hours and I thought I was actually going insane until I passed out.

I can only attribute this to the marijuana I smoked because it didn't happen before that. I'm sure it'll pass as soon as the THC leaves my body but I really don't like it.

Sounds like:

1. you think you are making goofy expressions and then you look in the mirror to find yourself looking normal, what's wrong? The only thing would be is that you are having some weird thoughts but keeping a serious expression on your face, if you're at a place where you're not concerned with people knowing that your stoned, why not let your face match your thoughts?

2. like you are smoking too much when you haven't had much experience with this plant. Also sounds like you need to try to talk yourself through this stage of paranoia with your logic, or someone else's logic.

3. you were just dreaming of talking to her when you woke up, your brain was set on talking to her and probably made you happy, so you wanted to continue doing it. If you would have tried to go back to sleep, your brain probably would have continued thinking the way it was.

4. you were smoking too much weed, sounds like you need to try less. Also if that still happens with less, before you go to sleep, try thinking about positive things in your life, things that interest you. That way it will increase the chances of you having a lucid dream about those things, and a lucid dream like that can be an awesome experience, unlike the ones you said you've been having.

Well Said

i get paranoia so much when im high, especially around girls i dont know.

But do i quit? Helllll no. You have to fight all of that shit.

When you win the mind battle weed gives you, its more rewarding than giving up and quitting.


ONLY QUITTERS QUIT.

Spoken like a true stoner. Although you shouldn't think of your thoughts as a mind battle, or else you might end up doing something you wish you never did down the line.

"Desire fogs lenses, and it's hard to see through foggy lenses!"

I don't get how after a long time of regular use of weed, you get worse paranoia. I had the exact opposite effect. When I first started smoking pot I was always worried and paranoid, always thinking my parents would know I was stoned, or just worrying about irrational things. Then as time progressed and I got more used to being high, all of the paranoia and bad vibes went away, causing me to enjoy smoking pot even more. I haven't gotten paranoid off of weed in a long ass time, that was like noobish shit to me.

I guess drugs effect people differently, I don't want to quit smoking pot even though it would make me more active. I however want to cut down so I do get more active, but most of the time I'm pretty bored so I'm like 'lets get some weed'. If you replace your normal activities with pot, then you will not mature at the same rate a normal person does. And then once you quit pot after smoking it regularly for a long time, you will find that you don't have much to do because all you've done for the past couple years is get high.

Personally, I love weed. Works great for me. I only rarely get paranoia, and I love being stoned.

Ever tried benzodiazipines like 30mg of valium we get valium around here for 50p so for £5 = 10 blues and incase any ones interestead there rima made in ireland blues really helps with the parranoia on weed and makes food taste even better.

Benzo's and weed FTW

i dont like smoking weed in my opinion it is the worst drug i dont know why it is so popular

Honestly, how many times have you tried it, and why were those times so bad? Also, if you don't mind my questioning, why do you think THC/CBN/pot is the worst group of compounds/drug?


Also considering you said it's the worse in your opinion, i'm guessing you've tried putting other compounds/drugs into your brain, if so, why is pot the least favorite one to enter your brain and make you think differently?

If someone gets paranoid from smoking weed, maybe there is a reason why THC/CBN shouldn't be put in their brain, and trying to counter that reason with another chemical compound might be bad for it. Maybe that person just needs to stay away from pot and realize why they get paranoid in certain situations after smoking weed, and not when sober, then start smoking when they figured out why and learned to keep their paranioa in check.

I'm sorry totseans for the double post, as I believe this is the first time I have ever done so, I realize that this isn't neccessary as I could have quoted that person in an edited last post, so sorry that I have just commited the sin that is jewed bandwidth (I think so anyway...)

I've been gradually quiting for about a month now. It's been eight days for me and I have no desire to smoke.

*starts slow clap*

I used to smoke pot and it got to the point where every time I got high it just made me extremely self conscious, paranoid and depressed. I actually think the perceptions I have while high are pretty accurate though, which makes it worse.

I find it much easier to pretend that I'm not severely lacking in many departments when I'm straight.

When I'm high I rediscover the faults I spend so much time ignoring. Such as my tendency to sit around letting things pile up. Instead of forging ahead...somewhere.

So I just got up. Packed up the garbage & put it outside. Perhaps it's even a start to get the trash out for when the truck comes. Instead of slacking off & missing the last trash day.

Sometimes small things like that that you manage to get done can be a real mellowing relief on your head. Say something simple like that or if the winter weather happens to be good, but the weatherman says that it's going to turn nasty & shitty in a few days?

You hit Safeway first or crawl under your tranny & change your oil or some other outside shit that'll be way easier when it's above freezing instead of -20C with a wind... Sometimes just getting a bit ahead of the game can be pretty cool.

Make it just a celebratory thing, and remind yourself that although you may have some better perceptions with those chemicals in your brain, the ones you have of yourself aren't as good as when you are lacking that chemical balance/unbalance.

/ means I am not sure if your brain is unbalanced or balanced with or without the chemicals you can take from pot and put in your head.

A nice level of moderation seems to help, because I've been smoking straight for four years, and if you just moderate yourself and don't let yourself slip into what comes to term "abusing" a drug, instead of "recreational" use.

I know how you feel man. I have been smoking weed for 5 years. But now I just get paranoid and anxious. But that probably has something to do with my surroundings.

I quit smoking a few weeks ago. I feel pretty good, but I do miss the first good highs I used to get.

Its funny how much weed fucks you up and fucks your life up but as long as people smoke it they never see it and always defend it.

I know what you mean, I quit for quite a while now after Social life went down the pan through either sitting around doing nothing but smoke alone or being stoned and paranoid around people loosing a lot of my friends, stopping me from meeting more and giving me a shitty reputation. Also caused my work to suffer, fucked up my mental state making me pretty much insane at times as well as mood swings and lack of motivation (which I still have due to depression.) Every now and again I get offered a little smoke. Once im stoned I spend most of the time thinking how much this actually sucks, why I used to enjoy it so much and why do I bother? Even with those thoughts at the back of my mind if I have weed I HAVE to smoke it constantly till its all gone, it feels like me and weed is like a coke head to coke except I always feel better once its gona than whilst im smoking it.

Yeah, I think you just got too stoned for the first time in awhile. I take breaks now and then, and the first time that I smoke it is kinda tense and not the most pleasant experience in the world. Although, you just have to build your tolerance up again and you will begin to have enjoyable highs.

I finished what I had this morning, to begin a two week break. It is important, I think, to use herb in moderation, and not allow your life to be centered around it.

If someone gets paranoid from smoking weed, maybe there is a reason why THC/CBN shouldn't be put in their brain, and trying to counter that reason with another chemical compound might be bad for it. Maybe that person just needs to stay away from pot and realize why they get paranoid in certain situations after smoking weed, and not when sober, then start smoking when they figured out why and learned to keep their paranioa in check.

I'm sorry totseans for the double post, as I believe this is the first time I have ever done so, I realize that this isn't neccessary as I could have quoted that person in an edited last post, so sorry that I have just commited the sin that is jewed bandwidth (I think so anyway...)


Well the parras is a common side affect of weed there may be no reason sometimes he tokes he gets a parra trip maybe if he trys and trys again and gets that parranoid feeling out the back of his head when hes toking and just chill. Weed is a good drug how many times you woke up after being on the booze and saying never again because the hangover but you still go back to it thats like weed sometimes good experiences sometimes bad but most of the part good i suggested benzos because they would relax him making him forget the parranoia and then maybe next time he will think hey its just a one off thing and be fine for the rest of his toking life because he gets parranoid doesnt mean he has underlying conditions


Cmon people who hasnt hit a parra trip while smoking up?

My advice to you OP the more you think about it the worse it will get make that shit a memory and if it happens again just chillax and tell yourself its just weed im not gonna die or anything or as i suggested earlier get a few benzons pop them before you toke up no worries just bliss

And for the part i know my drugs maybe not as much as stupid noob and meta but i dont think he should give up on it
and right now im on 10mg methadone 60mg valium ( roch ) and 10 mg stilnox + been smoking weed all day

I personally don't like weed so much either. I may be doing something wrong or I am just a bitch but the following happens:

1. During the experience I can't stand looking at myself in a mirror because I become extremely paranoid that I have a stupid expression on my face.

2. I have really low tolerance and always end up getting extremely stoned to the point that I end up passing out after an hour of agonizing paranoia

i lolled at this as it is soooooo fuking true. especially the stupid expression paranoia.
I find i also get very awkward in social situations unless im completely comfortable with it anyway eg no new faces and the ones i do see are faces off friends i know well.
i think people are watching me and thinking i look stupid aswell. this usually happens with super strong strains such as this dutch my college friend had and the pineapple master kush from today.

I dunno I enjoy being high. It seems to me that most of the people who replied to this thread are people complaining about parinoia and how weed messes with your social habits. If that true you should smoke less and mingle with stoners and sober people instead of always getting stoned when you hang out people.

if you want to be a burned out old hippie keep on smoking your joints

i rather have a few beers and relax

I find that when I smoke pot now, especially with other people, our conversations eventually turn into nostalgia about how fun smoking pot used to be.

I started smoking about...3 years ago...about 1 year ago I quit smoking for about 8 months...then I started smoking again about four months ago, at first only occasionally...but now it's getting out of hand again...I just feel burned out all the time and I never experience the highs I used to experience.


It used to be: "Whoa...I'm fucking stoned...this music is amazing....the stars look beautiful...this is quite an experience! everything is so intense..."
Now it's like: "Ok...I'm stoned. Now what?"


Don't a lot of people get high to break up the routine and monotony of everyday life?
Well, I like to be sober for the same reasons.

Being high is nice, but being sober is nice too. I like to keep them balanced. Not too much or too little of either...lately I've been high too often. I need to correct it, and I intend to.

I think the way I'm starting to see it, is weed gives us some sort of enhanced vision of life. Our brain's become much more perceptive to the world around us by giving us this sort of "Super Psychic-Omnivision". This vision almost becomes a concentrated aspect of ourselves and separates into a split thinking mechanism, which then makes it seem as if we're looking into another potential idea of who we are thereby causing "self-realization" or "self-awareness".

This idea makes our immediate thought's become alert to what's really going (Judgements based on this separate potent thinking mechanism).

This alertness causes the paranoia.

I thought about this a while and realized what exactly is going on.

The reason we feel paranoia is due to the way our bodies are programmed to react to things such as smoking Cannabis.

This separate thinking mechanism by the way might just as well be the right brain. It is the the right brain after all that regulates our bodies vital functions. According to Jung it is the right brain, which contains the "collective unconscious" or a "a reservoir of the experiences (knowledge) of our species."

What's going in your left brain as you're getting a joint passed to you is "Alright, buddha, time to feel good, get high, and have fun!" That's you thinking to yourself.

Now what's going on in your right brain is "Oh no! More smoke! This isn't good! Must activate survival mode!", but of course you're right brain isn't just going to tell you "Yo dude, put the j down it's just gonna fuck us up more." This would almost give it a personality of it's own. Instead of it just telling you this, it activates this "survival mode" known as homeostasis causing your heart to beat fast, your body to sweat, and your mind to become extremely sensitive to anything slightly threatening in order for your body to survive.

This is how/why Cannabis causes paranoia according to my studies.

Nope.

lol'd

This.

i take 3 or 4 hits off some home grown. once a night after work i actually have a physically demanding job unlike half the nit wits here that deliver pizzas and draw unemployment.

really takes care of the aches and pains quite well.

It used to be: "Whoa...I'm fucking stoned...this music is amazing....the stars look beautiful...this is quite an experience! everything is so intense..."
Now it's like: "Ok...I'm stoned. Now what?"


Now you should attempt to roll, and I don't mean roll as in put the chemical MDMA somewhere on/in your brain cells, or any other structure for....................... that.matter....................................... .................................................. .
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How do you roll?

well I generally love smoking but usually only when I'm around people I am comfortable with because I often get paranoid and think way to much into things.I often think that everyone is staring at me and some crazy scenario is going to happen.I still smoke very often but I try to just keep it with people I'm close with.

Little bit every now and then when i feel like it is good. But it's gotta be in the shower. Best high i ever had :)