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Scare me away from weed...

I came to this site to look at the pot stories as i wish to give it away myself and was just gandering at the ex stories and i think i have something to say on the subject ...

One of my best friends recently had a drug related psychosis from this drug. He recovered... or so they thought. I went to his house the other day to drop off a video game and his mother called me into the kitchen. He was asleep, passed out on prescription valium. He had had another psychosis. I spoke to him that day, he was nothing like the person i knew.

Still to this day he is not the same person... i don't fully understand what he went through but all i can say is it tore me to shreds on the inside to see what had happened to me and scared the absolute fuck out of me. After seeing what happened to my mate i never touched it again...

So to all those out there who think they can handle it, think it's fine, think they're fine... so was my friend. He thought he could handle it, I thought he could. The doctors say that if he has another psychosis it could become a permanent disability...

Now if only something could scare me away from weed like that...

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Oh i wanna give you a hug... my friend touches it and that happens to him all the time. You just don't know who they are anymore and they think they can handle it but deep down you know they can't.
it's pretty impossible to get psychosis from weed in my opinion. maybe mushrooms or lsd was to blame.
i kno wat weed does to ppl... my group of friends at school r all on weed... im the only one who isnt and im slowly breaking away from them because they r so different... so different it scares me... i wish they would stop...
i like ur story because all the rest encourage it so thank you and good luck to ur mate. i feel bad for you.
i was the one in my group to break away and smoke pot - bad mistake it scares me knowing how much i have changed.... you're strong to stay away!
maybe it differs from person to person, but i dont see how weed could ever give someone a mental disorder like that...i have psychosis and weed has actually helped me discover what im really like, because when im high, the "voices" cant tell me what to do...i mean they are still there, but i dont have to listen to them...its freedom.
Nice story
I just wanted to say that pot CAN cause serious mental health disorders over long term use and that psychosis can be a direct result. Don't take my opinion for it but do the research, be informed and you will realise it has so many more affects then just getting high. Like did you know it can cause sexual impotence?? Just read the information thats out there before you start declaring you know everything about pot cause you smoke it.
The problem is that weed is fine for some people, maybe even most (as far as pschosis goes) but if you are predisposed it can really fuck you up. A mate of mine always stayed away from it when I was getting high cause he had some issues and although I got over it and never had these kind of probs he might have. Another guy we both knew was always a little off but he went off the rails once he started pot. maybe it was going to happen anyway, but why risk it.
I have smoked pot for a few years now. I thought i was lucky as i seemed not to experience the negative aspects of it. Before i started smoking pot i was quite a bright student. Unfortunately over the years my sense of knowledge decreased and my education was affected immensely! I also lost my job because of it. Recently i have been seeing a few things here and there and that really scares me. i have also lost a great deal of my memory. Dont smoke its just not worth it.
It's amazing to read all the excuses and justifications that people have. "I'm all right now so I will always be alright!" is a common attitude. You might think that you work that way, but the drugs sure don't. They don't follow your rules, no mater how adamant you are that you are right. In the end you are only fooling yourself, making yourself pot's bitch.
psychosis as far as I was aware is from using various drugs, and in my experience of friends developing psychosis, it has usually been linked to speed or ice. However in saying that, I have had a friend develop schizophrenia from chronic pot smoking. Now that was a scary experience to watch a friend go through. His behaviours ranged from running around the neighbourhood with no clothes on, threatening to burn the house down, driving erratically and banging his head against a wall until he knocked himself unconcious. I lost him in the end... And i think of him constantly. I did everything I could... including getting him taken to the mental health ward by the police. There was nothing more i could physically or emotionally do for him... I dont know that you would call it psychosis with weed, but it certainly causes significant mental health issues - and in each person it is different... but equally as scary... and equally as sad if the person doesn't get help soon enough.
Weed definitely can be linked to psychosis - there is a lot of research to support that. I've seen it over and over again in my work. Most commonly with men in their teens or early twenties. the idea that its a harmless drug is rubbish. Those of you who say it can't cause psychosis need to educate yourself.
weed does cause psychosis. I got psychosis from weed and havent been the same since, no job, gained 30 kgs and have no sex drive whatsoever.
man weeds the best and im never gonna give it up :) like i dnt smoke it all time just wen im at a party or something .. and im ok so im gonna keep on smoking it :P
my boyfriend of three years slowly took over his life and now after being together for 3 years he has decided to end our relationship because he feels i am always nagging him to quit. after all he was always moody, had no sex drive, always angry and eventually i got sick of it. it sucks big time because when he is not smoking he is the nicest person i have ever met. weed takes over your life and destroys all the relationships around you.

My brother-in-law came to live with us some years ago after his marriage feel apart & he was slowly self-destructing. During the time that he was with us, he got completely clean of all drugs (got a clean blood test for job application purposes) after having been a frequent pot user (along with other substances we suspect) for many years. During this journey of getting clean, he had various panic episodes including be scared to leave the house & having to ask my wife to hold his hand when he went out shopping as a 30+yr old man, because he was so afraid.

As with most drugs (as can be seen from other comments) it affects different people in different ways & people have different tolerance levels to the same substance. It is like Russian roulette - except in the case of drugs, I suspect the odds are worse than 6 to 1. The point is, you never know & have little control over when the loaded chamber is going to come up with your name on it, so why play the game.

Ok, I am 16 years old. I've smoked pot every day nearly for 4 years. I know adults who do the same things. I, they, nd everyone else are fine. And for all of the peope who say that weed can cause things ike impotancy and psychosis, check out this website: http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/ this is a legit source. however, if you just don't want to do it, don't let me influence you any more than anybody else should. all the best.
I don't agree with the above mentioned myths and so called facts however I can see how u could get it twisted. Educate yourself as much as possible. I'm in the process of replacing my pot addiction with a lifestyle that is more productive and positive. I believe fear of myself and plain laziness have contributed to my continued abuse of marijuana and yes I am Mary Jane's biatch but hey I'm looking forward to waking up to my full potential and trully experiencing freedom!!! No longer being pacified legally or illegally in order to cope with my resentment toward what we're all lead to belive is life!!! Or "normal"!
People who smoke weed regularly freak me out... In class someone makes a joke. seconds later a creepy/goofy laugh is heard repeating the joke as if it is their own, looking around to see if other people find it as funny as they do, but we don't... I value my brain cells. people who smoke weed regularly soon become a joke themselves.
Pot does nothing. Your friend was probably dropping acid tabs or eating mushrooms. nearly exactly the same thing happened to my older brother, and it was because of acid tabs and mushrooms. he never smoked weed in his life.
i cant believe this site... what kind of weed do they have in australia? cause the shit in the states doesnt make you trip those sorts of balls...
My father was a Nursing Unit Manager at a psychiatric hospital for 35 years. Please believe me when I say that marijuana can trigger psychosis. Many people have a chemical predisposition to psychosis, marijuana is just the trigger to start the process. Many people were admitted to the hospital in the 80's with psychosis from a single try of marijuana. Think of it this way - would you play Russian Roulette? The bullet is in the chamber, would you pull the trigger not knowing if you would get the bullet? Psychosis is the bullet, marijuana just pulls the trigger.

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