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I am posting this to see if anyone knows how to smoke weed and not have a panic attack. I have been smoking weed for a little time now, and 9 times out of 10 it gives me a panic attack. My eyes start to feel really weird, everything (including me) starts moving in slow motion. I start to feel scary things in my body (veins pulsing, head throbbing, fast heartbeat, etc). I don't think that this should be happening to me everytime I smoke weed. Only two times did weed make me feel normal. I took about 2-5 hits and it just made my eyes low, I was very hungry, and I would laugh at random shit. I don't think this is normal and I want to be able to smoke weed and feel like everyone else does. How do I do this? And please don't post telling me to not smoke weed because I will do it regardless. All answers are greatly appreciated.

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Come to peace with it, experience helps also. Take it slow, one hit at a time and only inhale so much.

But that sounds normal to me, that is what used to happen when I first started smoking. Man was that great, I miss the laughs for no reason and the slow motion(frames) with feeling really heavy at times where I wouldn't\couldn't get up. Then noticing yourself(like heartbeats, w/e)I also had, but it never really made me scared I just ignorned it untill I was "normal" again. It wouldn't last long if I just forgot about it, but if I dwelled on it, then it would get worse.

All that's happening though is your getting high, which is actually making you focus more creating a panic attack since the high is obviously foreign to you. You just have to remember that your getting high to be happy, so you want try to think happy thoughts and put yourself in a happy mood before hand if your not already. But not a forced fake mood though.

Personally, I miss the old days, that high was much more foreign and new. The laughs were the best, such a blast with friends. Really makes you go retarded for a minute, laughing at nothing and at really dumb things.

That soon changed a year(months?) later with tolerance and just growing. It's been a loonngg time now but it does not matter if I stop for a long time or not, I can't get those effects back.
Poop, cherish it while it lasts!

Post edited at 11:26 pm on Oct. 10, 2008 by Xusk

I can still smoke weed but they key is low doses. Only a few tokes of a joint. Or one or two hits off a bong. I used to smoke by myself but for some odd reason I can't anymore or I get panic attacks. I smoke only around friends now and I feel much better anyways. It used to take me a 1/4 to get high and now it takes less than a gram to get me completely f'ed up but good.

It was hard for me to cut down. I used to smoke two Bob Marley joints a night. They are effing huge, like four regular sized lengths and three times as thick. Pipe bowls are a good way to cut down.

Post edited at 12:00 am on Oct. 11, 2008 by Count Suckula

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