Weed as in marijuana.

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?

4. Is weed very addictive?

5. Does weed affect your judgement?

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?

/omgdrugsarebadmmkay?

I dunno. Never smoked.

1. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

2. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

3. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

4. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

5. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

6. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

7. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

8. You're thinking way too much. Pick a good few hours where you don't have to do or worry about anything, toke up, enjoy yourself, and decide for yourself how you feel about it.

If you're really worried about question 2, I would not smoke. Weed makes you really paranoid.

1. Can weed make you hallucinate? Yes, but not in the sense of Salvia or LSD- just slightly altered perceptions of space and your surroundings.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia? I have no idea- it seems like a stretch, but I suppose anything is possible.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober? It depends on what kind it is and how much you've smoked. Enough THC and you'll be all kinds of numb and silly, but a little bit and you might just be calm and mellow. It varies person to person.

4. Is weed very addictive? It isn't addictive like tobacco is addictive, but it definitely has the 'come back' to it. Just like alcohol or tobacco, you can become dependent on it to a point, but like everything else, moderation is key.

5. Does weed affect your judgement? Most definitely.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms? No.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings? It can be a stimulant and a depressant, but for the most part, it's rather uplifting. If you are feeling anxious or low chances are you'll be feeling better once you smoke.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there? I'd assume so. It all depends on if you trust who you are buying from.

[As for weed making you paranoid, it seems like the more you smoke, the more intense whatever you are feeling will be. If you just want to chill out and relax don't go smoking a whole ton of it, just take one or two drags and relax. The effects take around 10 - 20 minutes to go into effect, so don't smoke more and more if you feel nothing at first.]

Not necessarily from personal experience

My experiences and knowledge

1. It can, but it's nothing intense. Like SAJN said, it's not like acid or anything. I have only "hallucinated" in the truest sense 1 time, and it lasted about 1.5 seconds.

2. Although I do not think much would happen with weed in particular, mixing schizo with any mind altering substance could possibly end with a bad experience. I would argue however that this paranoia would only happen the first time, or maybe the second. More than "hearing voices" or anything, people tend to "freak out" the first or second time if they get really really high. But the more you smoke, the more in control you will be.

3. I can act sober all the time, but I can act crazy too. For me, weed has always been my favorite because it's very environmental. When I'm smoking with my buds, jamming to Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill for example, we get pretty funny. But when I'm by myself, or if I need to be in the company of someone, I can "gameface" it instantly. I have gone to dinner with friends just absolutely baked beyond belief, and they had no clue. As long as you have some eye-drops, usually you can't tell.

4. It's habituating, but not physically addictive in the sense that your body will shut down without it. Just like anything on this Earth, you can become mentally dependant on it, but the great thing about weed is that all you need to stop smoking is just some will power. Nothing chemically in it wants you to seek out more of it. So again, it's not addictive in that your body craves and will seek out more, but people with little will power might make it a habit.

5. It probably could affect your judgement, never happened to me though. You will notice people who are very high are no where near the same type of impaired as someone blasted drunk. I am very collected when I'm high, and I can perform almost ANY task high, which is not the case drunk. Whether I can perform that task to the best of my ability is a different question. I can honestly say I've never done anything high that I wouldn't of done sober. But again, people are different :/

6. Only withdraw symptoms would be for example if you used to smoke a lot before you went to sleep, you might have some trouble sleeping for like 2 days. That's basically it.

7. If you are feeling low, marijuana most likely will make you much happier, especially if you are with a lot of other people. Although I would begin to question someone who is depressed who just smokes some weed and sits around. That's irresponsible use.

8. As long as you buy from someone you trust, you should be fine. A good way to buy is just make sure the person you buy from smokes from it too. Most people will smoke you up just as a sign of goodwill for a deal. I've heard of laced weed being somewhat more out there in Europe, but I've never come across here

In the end, if you are asking this because you want to try it, just get with some good friends, listen to some music, and enjoy yourself. As long as you are in a good environment, bad first times are tough to come by.

I live with some people who like to light up. They have tried to get me to go for it but I refuse consistantly. I hate the smell. I don't deride them for partaking in it, it's just not my thing. I don't like any kind of smoking. Cigs, cigars, pipes, weed.

Yeah I'm probably stuck up.

Nah, I feel the same. Tried it at uni, wasn't particularly bothered by it, let my friends carry on if they wanted to. Most (but not all) have grown out of it.

Answers from my experiences:

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?
Yes! High dosage smoked, but more likely if you eat a very high dosage. Not really recommended, and not the goal of most recreational users.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia? I believe so. I have had it trigger a depression, and have encountered people that have definitely changed "up there" after smoking large amounts over a long period of time. I don't think that 99.999% of users will experience this.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?
Depends on how stoned you are - if you are just on a small comfortable high it's fine. If you are half asleep, people will be able to tell what's up.

4. Is weed very addictive?
Tough Q - not for me, but have seen many others become addicted. Definitely psychologically addictive, and I would suspect possibly also physically addictive.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?
Depends how high you are - but even when you are completely stoned, not as much as alcohol, for example. I would say no, not really.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms? YES! Anything psychologically addictive will have withdrawal symptoms.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings? This is kinda like 2. You should be in the right mindset when you smoke - but generally no it doesn't. If tasting something high-end, whether its an indica or sativa strain would probably also affect this answer.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there? Pretty hard to prove anything on this one, but I would say hell no. There's crappy weed, but I wouldn't call it contaminated. I don't think I've ever seen 'contaminated' weed, and I'm not sure what the motivation to do so would be...

CP, people lace weed with other stuff all the time. Sometimes dealers do it to try to get their customers to get hooked on stronger drugs.

Despite responding to each question, I agreee: Just try it. It's not like losing your virginity. If you don't like it, you won't do it again. If you do like it, you'll learn more as you go. I also think if you don't have the BEST first time, try it a couple of times before completely saying no. All of my friends have had terrible first times (mine was amazing). Only get as high as you want to, and feel free to ask questions.


Only if you eat it, or you're really tired and imaginative. It's going to be something you can control, if you do see anything fantastic at all.


Sort of. Pure THC (which is usually what they use in rat tests) causes extreme paranoia and mild schizophrenic depressive emotions. This is why they think that the combination of certain chemicals in Marijuana is what causes its effects, and thus if you find a certain strain effects you worst, pick something on the other side of the spectrum.


Everyone reacts differently. I smoke enough to where it's my normal status, so it's not a problem at all.


If you're a behavioral person, yes. This is less the weed and more your own problem. Be a responsible adult and you'll be fine.


Technically, very much so. You lose a lot of reaction time and possible depth perception. [I and many people I know are much better at videogames while high] However, as far as judgment of people, decisions, or ideas, I'd say it depends on what kind of a person you are. I find it gives me more clarity, but some people feel very confused or scatterbrained. This also depends greatly on the strain.


I don't know if you really experience physical withdrawals, but depending upon how often you consume it, you may experience emotional detachment and crabbiness.



Yes. The mood you go into when smoking will be carried on throughout your high most of the time, unless it's simply fantastic stuff. I think there is a certain amount of stress relief, but this is more detachment than anything else, and is only temporary and may reverse and become very extreme towards the end of the high, making you very depressed. Besides stress and anxiety, I do not think Marijuana is a good emotional treatment for sadness or depression. I'd suggest a glass of wine before I'd suggest a bowl for breakup night.



This is very related to your location. Learn how to spot problems, but most of the time, people are obliged to keep giving you good weed, or they can't keep business. People usually try to rip you off if you seem inexperienced, so always start out with someone to take you under their wing and get you accustomed.

Usually, people are too paranoid and anxious around dealers, and it makes them easy targets. Play it cool, act like you would if you were buying ingredients at a store. Check to see if it's a good cut, smell it, inspect it, weight it, thank the man and give him his money. It's that easy.

Lots of people would argue you have to buy a bag of bunk at least once before you learn. I have never seen this theory proven wrong, so be expecting to make at least one big mistake. Just don't smoke mold.

why not!

Weed as in marijuana.

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?
I've personally never experienced this... but apparently it can.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?
If you have problems to begin with, I think it can worsen them. but I don't know for sure. i do know that a friend of mine is schizophrenic and he really hates weed, it makes him go all paranoid more so then he normally would, but I guess is varies from person to person.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?
I've gone to work completely baked and worked an entire shift, even blazed while at work and no one was able to tell, but them i'm kinda goofy anyway so it wasn't much difference. But it also depends on the person as well, some people get really droopy and their speech can slur and their reaction times are slower, similar to being drunk. can depend on how high you are but again, it varies from person to person how you handle it.

4. Is weed very addictive?
physically, no. Mentally. yes.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?
It can. again it varries, one of my friends used to get high and drive and he was fine, myself.. I drove like 15 blocks to go to 7-11 at 11:00 at night on little used residenal roads and I was going like... 5km/h...but I also had 4 loud friends in the car with me. haha. good times.

but, if you do get high, I'd test your limits, find out what you can and cannot do.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?
nah, you can get hooked on it mentaly and think you need it all the time, but I've gone months, up to 6 months at a time not smoking and never feeling any negitive effects.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?
It can make you paranoid, I've often been alone and kinda bored, i just smoke some pot and watch discovery channel... and I cheer up a bit. ha. But if you are in good company then you usualy never really feel down or depressed. I've sometimes reflected on my life and thought about the last few years and what I've done with myself and honestly felt a little bummed, but then bob saget was on the comedy network and I cheered up.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?
This is actually more of a myth then you might think. you hear alot of bad stories and stuff about pot laced with lsd or other harder drugs and get scared off by it. thats what those stories are for, you scare you away from it. if you are smart about it, you'll be 99% sure to get good pot... well, maybe not good pot, but contamination free pot at least. Just network a little, make some connections to a good dealer through friends you trust, don't buy off the guy on the corner down the street.

Dealers have reputations too, if you get bad pot from them, their rep is hit and they'll loose customers who don't want a sketchy dealer.

I didn't read anyone else's response but heres my take:

1. Can weed make you hallucinate? no

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia? it can help it

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober? no

4. Is weed very addictive? depends on the person

5. Does weed affect your judgement? I would say yes, but not like how alcohol does

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms? it could make you feel aggravated

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings? no, and if I'm feeling depressed nothing helps more than some pot.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there? probably, if you mean laced with something. That's why you should get it from someone you know. But I've never ran into this.

Be sure to keep in mind any potential repercussions down the line - if you're ever considering a career in law enforcement / etc.

1. YES
2. I don't have those, so I don't know.
3. NO
4. NO
5. NO
6. NO
7. Maybe
8. Depends.

I can understand you saying this.
But I've smoked with so many people ACTIVE with government jobs and law enforcement. Even more that did it in the future.

It doesn't freaking matter...

If they get caught, it will freaking matter.

Past MJ experimentation isn't a problem..but if you smoked last week and want to be a cop the next week..yeah, not so much.

I am not comfortable with someone who uses a gun during their job smoking weed 24 hours before work. The same can be said for many mechanical operators and anyone who drives regularly. Potheads need to realize that it's a recreational thing, and if you have to do anything dangerous, it's not something you want to be on.

As my "other self" (hint) is sitting here re-reading this thread and my post, he just wants to retract everything and edit it with "Weed is the best.....period"

Weed is awesome everyone should do it all the time.

*giggle*

like most everyone else, this is just from my own experience.

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?

YES! the first time i ever smoked i started to see little blue ghost..ish blobs with cartoony animal faces crawling around on the ground. it was not like a normal hallucination though, it was more of a background thing that only barely registered.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?

i have no idea.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?

the few times i smoked it was very difficult to act sober. but, the person i was smoking with and i smoked waaayyy too much of it.

4. Is weed very addictive?

not for me at least.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?

yes. the more i smoked the worse it got.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?

i think other people answered this one better than i can.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?

it can, again can also depend on how much you smoke.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?

yes. but just be smart and know who your buying it from.

Oh, about weed withdrawal... if you're smoking every day and then you stop, you will have minor withdrawal symptoms. The best way to describe it is intense boredom: you feel restless but have no desire to do anything. But you should feel fine if you're just trying it a couple times. It takes a while to build up enough to have withdrawal...

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?

No.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?

Yes, it can worsen existing cases of psychosis, it does not cause it.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?

For beginning smokers it's hard, for experienced smokers less so.

4. Is weed very addictive?

It is not physically addictive. One can evolve a mental habit, but that's possible with anything, from gambling to porn to gaming to you name it.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?

Yes. You start seeing things from a different perspective.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?

None whatsoever.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?

No, smoking a bit will relax you, and yes, smoking too much will worsen it.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?

Yes.

I've only done it twice, but both times my perception of time was all ****ed up. We'd do soooooo much and it would feel like several hours had gone by, and I'd check my phone and only a minute had passed. I tried to figure out what was going on with time and how it related to me talking at "normal" speeds and music, but I just confused myself to no end.

Answer: it owns

THIS.

It's a very trippy feeling. I strongly recommend it.

Don't buy crappy weed, it's not worth it. It won't get you high and it will make your head throb and possibly make you feel sick.

Good:



Bad:

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The nice green bud could just as well be invisibly contaminated with toxic pesticides.

Research in the Netherlands has recently shown that more and more weed is contaminated these days.

The irony is that some biologically grown weed from foreign countries (like Thai, for example), looks more like the latter image. (Although I have to admit this one really looks too crumbly.)

Just saying colour isn't a good indication.

I come from the Netherlands, so I've smoked some stuff, I don't smoke a lot

1. Can weed make you hallucinate?
No, not really, never experienced anyone who started to halucinate

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?
I don't know, I don't think so

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?
Well, when you smoke the average amount, most people take (a half to one joint), you're probably have a lot of trouble acting normal. The effects can vary, either you become very active or you become very relaxed. Either way it's not hard to tell when someone smoked weed. Also, the occasional bursting-out-in-laughter doesn't really help hiding it either. People who smoked weed also tend to 'stare into the distance'. The eyes of people who smoke a lot of weed tend to give them away, most of the time they have very 'red' eyes.

4. Is weed very addictive?
Not really, just as addictive as everything in life is (smoking, alcohol, sporting etc.), you can't really be physically addicted to weed, but mental addiction is, just like smoking tabacco, the main problem. Some of my friends (they smoke 1/2 joints a week) tend to take a break every once in a while, just to see if they're not addicted.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?
Yes, you seem to misinterpret the severity of certain things when you get relaxed under the influence of THC, so yes, it does affect your judgement.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?
Not that I know of, just the regular mental craving for a joint, I think.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?
Nah, not really. I think it works the same when you just sit down while some problem is on your mind. When the weed makes you very relaxed, and you think about problems in your life, you seem to feel lower.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?
Not that I know of, but here we can just get weed from a coffeeshop, the selling of bad weed rarely happens, because every batch gets tested. However, it is of course also available on the streets, I think a lot of bad/contaminated weed comes from the street.

As a Marijuana connoisseur for over 12 years, which includes growing and many other aspects I'll give my take, even though they've been answered already a million times in this thread..


1. Can weed make you hallucinate?
Sure can. If you eat it, it's worse because you can't gauge how much you need and when it'll kick in. You can eat one cookie, not feel anything and eat a second, only to have the first one kick in right after you've eaten the second. By that time, it's too late. When you smoke, you literally have a few minutes of a gap between when you puff puff pass and the effects are taking place. Marijuana can make you hallucinate but as has been said, not to the effect that LSD and other hard drugs give. The most I would say it does is alter your perceptions. For example, the other night I was walking around Niagara Falls blasted drunk and high off my ***, everything I looked at with the light and the nighttime started to make the trees, water and grass, basically the environment, look like it was straight out of Crysis, but I didn't see little asians popping up with guns.

2. Can weed worsen mental illness/trigger schizophrenia?
Yes. Marijuana has been linked to being a possible cause of Schizophrenia in people later in life. I think a study concluded that people who smoked before their brains could develop properly (I think it was anyone under 18-21) increased their chances of schizophrenia 4x compared to someone that never smoked. However, take into account just how many hippies there are out there still kicking it without any issues and consider how many of them have schizophrenia.

3. When you are under the influence of weed, is it difficult to act like you're sober?
It's the same as alcohol. It depends greatly on the person and how much they've smoked, etc. A lot of people I know can handle their weed, and don't act any different when they are sober compared to being high. On the other hand, my girlfriend can't act 100% normal, or at least thinks she can't. For the most part, Marijuana doesn't impair your judgement to that degree, and you're still able to completely function. If you're an idiot to begin with, you're probably going to be a bigger idiot when high and unfortunately, there are a lot of idiots out there.

4. Is weed very addictive?
No. Marijuana has been proven time and time again to have zero physical withdrawal symptoms. The only things you may notice are slight irritability for the first couple of days or difficulty sleeping for a few nights, and these are only if you are a constant smoker. If you're someone that smokes a joint every weekend or at parties, when you aren't high you probably won't even think about it.

5. Does weed affect your judgement?
This ties in completely with part 3 somewhat, but yes it can to some degree. Again this is greatly dependent on the person and mscbuck gave the best answer I've seen thus far to this one. I can safely say that when I am high I have NEVER gotten the idea that I could fly, and I'm completely aware of what is right and wrong. You aren't out of your mind at all.

6. Is quitting the use of weed associated with withdrawal symptoms?
Only if you're a person that smokes a lot. See my answer to #4.

7. If you're feeling anxious or low to begin with, will weed just strengthen those feelings?
I wouldn't recommend using Marijuana to get away from those feelings first. However, this is a difficult question because it also depends on the person. For the most part, Marijuana does not make you anxious or low at all, in fact it does quite the opposite. However, if you smoke too much over your limit of it, you can have a bad trip. All you have to do is learn your limit and you'll avoid this easily.

8. Is there a lot of bad/contaminated weed out there?
This is a very misleading question because the real true answer is No, however it has happened in the past. Logically, it does not make any sense for a drug dealer to lace Marijuana with any harder drug because Marijuana is so much cheaper compared tot he hard drugs. They wouldn't want to waste their possible revenue in the hope of getting someone hooked. Not to mention that most street dealers (usually your friends) aren't so high class that they can afford to even do so. It has been known to happen int he past just like the mixing of any drugs by people. There are some easy signs to tell if your weed has been laced with another drug such as tasting a bud, and if your tongue goes numb it's laced with crack usually. Or just look at it, crack a bud open and see if the inside differs with the outside, etc. As for "contaminated" weed I assume you mean just weed that's gone bad or something, which happens a lot more often than laced Marijuana, but still even this happens very rarely. If you smoke moldy weed, you will get INCREDIBLY sick. It's a very bad situation to be in. However moldy weed is also easy to spot and even smell, so you'd have to be extremely dumb and not notice either of the two while cutting the weed up and rolling it. In all my years of smoking I have never once had moldy or laced weed.

Correlation and not causation.

As for bad/contaminated weed, drug dealers are business men. Imagine if I opened a delicatessen hoping to strike it big selling smoked tongue and braunschweiger. If I sold you pickled herring that went off two weeks ago I could hardly expect your repeat business. Word would travel and pretty soon I'd have to close down.

Yeah stat, but you forget - a delicatessen's primary market isn't a bunch of 'heads.

Indeed, it is just as likely that those already with schizophrenia are more likely to smoke weed.

Kroko, you don't need to develop schizophrenia anymore.

OH OH OH OH BURN

Kroko's not schizophrenic, and neither is Kroko

...why would you ever eat weed?