Hopefully the moderators see the post for what it is, and not a post that “fosters or promotes illegal activity.”
Despite my successful efforts to avoid anything that is associated stereotypically with the label pothead I am still called that due to the amount I smoke. I have decided to quit trying to shake this label and embrace it with a chance for the straightdope crowd to ask questions of me.
This thread is a chance for anyone who is curious, or has questions about marijuana use, to ask away!
Embarassing for me to admit, but I inhaled from a container that was used to contain pot. About two hours later I was ready to fall asleep because I was so drowsy. I’m I correct in suspecting that I’d probably go into a coma like state if I do ever smoke pot?(Not that I’m planning on doing that; after doing the above I felt like crap).
Pot, for many people, is a depressant. For myself, however, it works in the complete opposite way; oftentimes it makes me more energetic and less lazy, which people have a hard time believing. I don’t know if you’re a female Asian, but many girls I know who smoke say that it does indeed make them very sleepy.
Your question confuses me though: You say that you inhaled from a container that “held” pot? Well, was their smoke in the container or what? Because just inhaling a container that marijuana was STORED in should have no real effect. Plus, after two hours who knows what other factors may have lead to your sleepiness.
And no, I’m not female. The effects were gradual, over the two hours I felt drowsy until the point I was almost falling asleep walking around. Other than that, the effects were what is typical decribed as what happens when you smoke pot(munchies, everything is funny, you react slower). One positive effect was that for some reason I drew better.
I believe it was smoke, I was defintely was inhaling something scented. And it was the smell I remember from this guy I knew who smoke a lot of pot.
If you say that you had the typically described effects then you must have been high. Marijuana, after the initial high wears off (which is about 45 minutes to whenever, depending on the smoker), does make many people sleepy. But, I guess you will never know for sure until you try, which I won’t recommend; since who needs another habit?
You say that you drew better? I don’t find that unusual at all…many artists smoke marijuana. I have quite a few friends who are artists and prefer to do their art while under the influence of THC.
Oh, I don’t know…I have seen many a young’un fooled into smoking oregano, and claim it was the best weed they ever smoked years later.
I think psychological factors have a lot to do with how any drug (or percieved drug) affects you, so if you THINK you might get high from doing something, chances are, you will. How do you think banana peels got into the Anarchist’s Cookbook?? (I mean, come on.)
lol, been planning on trying the banana peel thing :sarcastic:
What has been the most retarded/funny thing you’ve done while on pot? I remember one day trying to open the microwave to pull some pop-tarts out of the toaster… not that funny now I guess, but it took me a full 5 minutes to tell my friend what had happened… (pissed me off too… laughing too hard at the time to eat my pop-tarts…)
One time, a friend of mine hosted a small get-together at a rod & gun club. After a night of partying (which included alcohol, aside from pot), we got out these walky talkies and went walking on trails that were out in the woods. I followed my trail for a ways and decided to turn around before I got lost. Well, turns out I was too late and was already lost. It took us forever (about 40 minutes) of broken up conversations on these ghetto walky talkies to finally direct me back to the main building. It was the first time in my life that I was ever really lost.
There are many more, but this one is probably my favorite since it demonstrates the humor and danger that a weed/alcohol cocktail entail.
OK this is a bit of a hijack because I don’t want to ask, but will TELL you something stuupid I did (well, percieved) while I was stoned.
I was living in a studio apartment one cold winter and watching the news one night. When the weather came on, they were picking up some odd radar images in the sky. That was the news at 6 PM.
On the 9 PM news they ran with this story. I am like WTF??? Are we being invaded? It kept getting closer and closer to the U.S.
By the 10 PM news it is on all three channels…I call a friend who has no TV and we begin to get paranoid.
IMAGINE MY SURPRIZE…when they begin to make out the outline of this object and it is a sled being pulled by reindeer…:o
I was really stupid a few years back (some say I still am, but I’m in denial) and decided to go to work (I waited tables) stoned. A good majority of my coworkers did it on a regular basis, and it was my last shift so I thought “what the hell.”
BAD MISTAKE. I’ve never been paranoid while stoned, except for that day. I was convinced all my tables knew. They KNEW!! Every time anyone looked at me I’d look away really quick and be extra careful with everything. I almost gave myself a heart attack. I must’ve looked like a complete idiot.
Then there was the time I was visiting my brother and we all sat around and got high. I went and fixed myself an obscenely big plate of food. Right then my parents walked in. They looked at me funny and said “hungry.” All I could do was sit there and think “ah shit.”
This doesn’t “foster and promote”? Sigh.
It’s part of your experience and that’s valid. You wouldn’t believe the quirks, kinks and jaw-dropping hobbies of many of the folks here. ( “Ask the pedophile” was a real winner.) No matter our name, we’re an on-a-shoestring site in a world full of hungry lawyers. It doesn’t help that casual folks riding the 'net boogie-board for drugs quite mistakenly end up here.
Not faulting your impulse, SecularPriest, but we hafta draws lines and this is one of 'em.
