Was that something like a drug-induced psychosis?
I have only smoked a handful of times and at first, everything was loopy and goofy but the last two times were horrible experiences. I had thoughts that I was sure I was going to die that night, my body felt as if it were on mushrooms—very tingly, nauseated and dizzy. I had rushes of warmth and chills radiating up and down from my toes to my crown. I felt numb and disoriented. I was afraid to shut my eyes for fear I wouldn't open them again.
I had these two very bad trips about a week apart from one another. Is there any way this could be an allergic reaction to weed? Is that possible? I didn't notice any rashes or physical changes. I have stopped using and will never do it again—the sensations were too real and too scary.
Was that something like a drug-induced psychosis? I didn't hear any other voices, didn't see things or hallucinate although my hearing became very sensitive and I couldn't focus on anything. My short-term memory was impaired too.
Can you suggest anything that might tell me what the heck I went through? Much appreciation for a response!
At high doses or in sensitive people, marijuana is a hallucinogenic drug, and like other hallucinogens (acid, shrooms) can produce bad trips as easily as good ones.
Drug-induced psychoses can involve hallucinations in any sense organ. Usually, it is sight or hearing that are affected, but you can have taste ("gustatory"), orientation ("prioceptive") or smell ("olfactory") hallucinations. So your altered bodily senses/experiences could have been psychotic in nature. However THC also alters the way you body functions: it is a muscle relaxant, it alters blood pressure, causes changes in the spinal nerves, dries up tissues, induces fine nerve tremors, alters the body's temperature control systems, and changes heart rate. For a sensitive person, this could easily trigger the kinds of effects you talked about.
Then there are the "additives"—if you didn't grow and harvest the plant yourself, you have no way of being sure what it was treated with (poisons, insecticides, growth hormones) or how it was stored (the wrong conditions can lead to the development of dangerous spores and fungi).
The best advice I can give you is the advice you have already taken: this stuff is NOT for you.