runawayfetus

hey all, i dont know if this is the right forum, but here goes.

im worried about marijuana. Can you overdose on it? is it easy to do and dangerous?

Im worried because i got alcohal poisening a while ago, and so im concerned about smoking too much or taking too many hits in too short of a time. Is it safe to smoke a lot? averagely i take like .. i dono 10 decent hits, it gets me prety high but i dont think i experience the best of what marijuana can do.

Any help on any of this is appreciated.

thanks

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maynard0012

You can't overdose on weed, unless it's laced with something. Many times I've smoked until I could physically smoke no more, with no adverse effects. Smoking too much makes your short term memory worse, but a week or two after you stop, it goes away.

Bob Biter

The only thing smoking too much pot does is increase your dry cleaning / laundry bills.

I've always favored people who grew it themselves, because I knew where it was coming from and the process they used. I never grew it myself, though, because I'm a lazy bastard (naturally lazy, not because of pot...).

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runawayfetus

hah k thankss

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Rodney

In my limited experience, the only way to get so much marijuana in you that you're basically nonfunctional is to take it in brownie form. Everybody makes the same damn mistake the first time: they eat one and nothing happens (because THC when ingested takes longer to take effect), so they have _another_ one. Ten minutes later, both hit at about the same time and BAM.

You do want to know where your weed is coming from; as maynard said, it could be laced with something. Years ago somebody offered me a joint and said it was special in some way. I turned it dowwn. Turned out to be laced with PCP, and everybody who toked off it was seriously sorry that they did.

bigbad

Another thing you might have to watch for is smoking resin, I've done it twice and the first time I had to be carried/dragged to the car because I couldn't even walk. The second time they managed to convince me it was the combination of beers and resin that did it, still fucked me up big time though.

sprocket

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis.shtml

Read up! If you choose to use drugs, I definately encourage you to know the facts. Erowid has a "slight" bias towards drug use, so view what you read with skepticism. Same goes for government sponsored drug information sites (they just have the opposite bias). The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

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trust me, erowid is far less biased then the government sites.
Government sites are a complete joke.

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Nanz

You cant die or OD but if you pull a whitey you will feel like shit and probably feel like your dieing but after 15mins or sleep you will be fine.

Long time chronic use can put you in a position worse than death fucking your brain up serverly but thats only if you smoke some ridiculous amount.

runawayfetus

ok thanks all

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krwlz

In the end, I doubt you can smoke enough to permanently fuck your brain up. You will find at some point that each bowl smoked increases your high less and less, and at that point, it no longer becomes worth it.

Jim Kata

Thats BS!! I smoke all the time and I aren't burnt.

Dragonlich

My brother used to smoke weed for years, and he's seriously fucked up. Not necessarily because of the drugs, but it didn't help his situation at all.

Perhaps weirdos are more likely than "normal people" to use drugs, which leads to the general population seeing drug users as having weird problems because of the drugs.

moonstrucksoul

how can you say that? Dude your eyes are bleeding,

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lol, no offense but I have to laugh here. First of all, you are perhaps right about the drugs not being why he is fucked up. Weed alone can't fuck you up unless it's laced or you are doing other drugs with it.
But wierdos and normal people? lmao. There is no such thing. There are people with issues and people without issues. Those with issues are the ones we call fucked up, but we can't blame them, although they can choose to get out of the rut they are in, but sometimes their issues are deeper than bones, but never deep enough to get out of.
I smoke weed almost every day, once a day, and I have no issues. I have a wonderful family, great husband, and a beautiful son. Life is alright, I am happy, I choose to smoke to let loose at night, but I don't depend on it. Does this make me a wierdo? Nah. Just a person with no issues who enjoys the gonja.

MSD

Smoking 6 pounds in an hour won't OD a 180lb male, you'll be fine. A friend of mine tried with his bowl that can hold 1/4lb, because he wanted to test the theory that an OD would require smoking your body wieght in an hour.

Laced with other stuff, you're going to be fucked up.

saltfish

Laced, what a joke. If you have ever found someone who sells the nuggets that would be willing add something else in with your nuggets, that's just an added expense. A wise businessman would never consider this practice.

Lacing weed is just another pot-head urban ledgend. You'd be suprised how each different strains of pot can contain different amounts of canabanoids, these can cause differing stimulant/depressant/hallucinagenic effects.

If you've ever grown a quantity of ganga, and have had different indica/sativa strains, you know how they can be wildy different.

The same goes with strychnine in acid and heroine/pcp in ecstacy. It's all urban ledgend.

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floydthebarber

I have to agree with saltfish.
I've never seen or heard of anybody buying or consuming laced weed in over twenty years of .....being around people that smoke

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Rodney

Well, I have -- but I must admit, it was in the 70s. Maybe we were wild, crazy kids.

The_wall

Well I've heard of someone having to go to the hospital because she smoked a lot of weed she didn't know was laced. However thats the only story I've heard around here of laced weed. So pretty much I agree with you saltfish.

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Crunchy Nipple

I have been offerd to buy pot that reeked strongly of amonina. The odor was strongest on the inside of the sack. I was told this was to keep the drug dogs from sniffing it out. Sounds like bullshit to me.
Anyway.

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jay-g

Yeah, you cant overdose on weed. Like everyone has been saying, as long as its not laced. If you drink alcohol and smoke, thats the only way you can get really messed up (hospital messed up). Worst case scenario? You will smoke sooo much, then pass out. Then wake up and eat everything.

Cynthetiq

watch the movie GRASS it's been playing on the Sundance Channel lately.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0214730/

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hah k willdo

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agball

Dude, 10 hits is more than enough unless you want to fall asleep. Weed comes in many different strenghts & varitey. If you get the real good stuff all you need is 2 or 3 hits. If its the Schwag (dirt Weed) you might need 10. I have never heard of anyone OD'ing on weed.

kutulu

I've smoked almost every day for almost 10 years with no adverse effects. There can be some dependancy issues if you stop after long time use. I stopped for a week for a DT once and had headaches, night sweats, and I generally felt like shit. Once I took the test (and passed, thanks to stuff from the local headshop) I started smoking again and everything was fine.

Since then I've stopped for a couple weeks at a time and had no side effects so maybe quitting had nothing to do with it.

tim2shady

can't OD on weed, but combine other drugs and you may find yourself in trouble......like duh n' shit....

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rothman

yup, ive never heard of any one having effects other than short term memory loss... nothing too serious tho...

Fenton-J-Cool

Word. Cocaine is literally 7-10x more expensive than marijuana. (1g of coke is $80 cdn in my town, 1g of dope is $10.)

Why the hell would anyone do that? No profit boost, and likely no repeat customers from what the PCP/Coke will do to them.

It's like you, a jeweler, selling someone a bronze ring.. but the joke's on them! You melted some gold in it!

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Jim Kata

Smoking it is bad for your lungs for sure. Any kind of smoke in your lungs is bad. But other than that I would have to agree with ya rothman.

runawayfetus

yea u get to a point where u just dont need to smoke anymroe.. tahts my experience now atleast. The more i smoke the less amount of hits i need to take to get high. and yea its a lot about the quality too

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stevie667

if i remember correctly, you need to smoke around 32 times you body weight of 15% (high strength weed, low strength skunk/bud) THC ganja to overdose.
however, long before you reach this point, you body initiates poison control measures, making you throw up, urinate and excrete loads, and general lay around feeling like crap. of course, this does nothing for you as the THC is ingested through the lungs and not through the digestive system, but try telling your body that...

it all depends on strength, at the moment there is some 30% THC (thats the kind of stuff that would put bob marley under the table) ganja floating around here, and it is seriously bad for your mental health, along with your lungs.

personally, i'd advise if smoking anything more than your bog standard weed to do it with friends, or watching something funny, because the last thing you want to do is have a harsh trip on cannabis (trust me, when you become that paranoid, you can't even move without having a perfectly clear understanding everything wants to kill you), or throw up (because thats just embarressing).

stevie667

what kind of shit stuff was he smoking?
not only must it have been shit for him to get thru it, but he must have lungs the size of zepplins to take it

runawayfetus

hmm interesting

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tekaweni

Nah you definitely cant OD on weed.. worst that can happen is you get paranoid enough to *think* you have (especially if you eat it), but like most of your perceptions while stoned - you'll be wrong.

But if you need 10 hits to get high, consider finding a better quality source...

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stevie667

actually, i say if your not battero within one spliff, you need a better source, 'aint got a fucking clue about all this hit shit.

macmanmike6100

you can't overdose per se on marijuana, but make sure that whatever you get is from a "trusted" (whatever that means) source. laced pot could hurt you so watch out for suspicious looking stuff. still, in the couple years i've been doing it, have never gotten a laced ounce.

have fun with it!

orange monkeyee

laced bud means your hookup is shadey , if you have a good friend to hookup with, its not gonna happen ( laced shit costs too much money)

blaze on brothea

kalashnikov

just dont mix weed and booze...you probably won't die, but you'll feel like you will

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