I am not a long-time user.\u00a0 I used casually for about six months, but then suddenly had a terrible experience with marijuana-induced psychosis.\u00a0\u00a0 I had moved from a state where is was illegal, to Washington.\u00a0 A dispensary sold me something incredibly strong just recently, in March.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a joint mixed with a marijuana wax- I didn\u2019t even know what that was.\u00a0 I was SO naive, but there is literally NOTHING out there that lets consumers know that ANYthing even remotely bad can happen.<\/p>\n
As long as I didn\u2019t drive under the influence, what could go wrong?\u00a0\u00a0 I thought all pot was \u201csafe.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The irony is that I am nearly 40, a stay-at-home mom with honor roll kids, no history, ZERO history with drug usage, or ANY depression, mental illness etc etc.. NONE.\u00a0 I never used marijuana before I moved to Washington. I literally just set out to listen to music and unwind while I got the house clean\u2026.awaiting the arrival of my husband who was gone on a business trip.\u00a0\u00a0 My kids were on Spring break, at a friend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
About halfway through I felt very dizzy and unbalanced\u2026 So I thought I just needed to sit down, or maybe eat.. I looked at the glass of wine I had poured\u2026 and dumped it in the drain\u2026. Then I had a sudden disturbing image of myself biting THROUGH the wine glass\u2026 It came over and over.\u00a0 Bite the glass\u2026.. the words wouldn\u2019t leave my head\u2026. I\u2019m biting glass.\u00a0 My heart began to race, my hands began to shake. I felt freezing cold, yet was sweating. Then I was feeling a sudden surge of Adrenalin and was panic stricken.\u00a0 I began having suicidal ideations, in MINUTES\u2026<\/p>\n
Shooting Myself and Biting Glass<\/strong><\/p>\n Over and over and over\u2026 shoot yourself\u2026 bite through the glass\u2026 shoot yourself\u2026and much worse.. it was as if a tape of my worst nightmares were playing over and over and over again in my head\u2026and it was just as physical as it was psychological\u2026.. With absolute sincerity, I tell you that I barely made it through that night alive, and even the subsequent days and weeks\u2026 I still suffered terrible suicidal ideation\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n NEVER, ever did I have suicidal thoughts or feelings in my life. I am happy, well-adjusted, and a warm, outgoing person with lots of friends and a solid marriage.<\/p>\n Within days I began researching, because I KNEW what I had experienced was from smoking\u2026again, I reiterate, I had nothing else in my system or history to indicate otherwise\u2026.and there it was.. All the research indicating that it WAS the pot.. Marijuana-induced psychosis is a proven thing and all too common. There is ZERO safety put in place in these recreational pot stores.\u00a0 They don\u2019t warn a consumer about strength, concentration or side effects.\u00a0 It as if you are buying a glass of milk to them!! I later found out that marijuana wax is known as a \u201cdab\u201d and I am still unsure of what they really are\u2026<\/p>\n No Warnings Against Psychosis! The ER in Olympia Washington sees on average TWO cases of marijuana-induced psychosis a DAY!! Yet we don\u2019t hear of this!? Why not? I would have NEVER tried any medicine or drink that could even remotely do this to me, but thought I was using something as harmless as a glass of wine because they say it is.\u00a0\u00a0 I can\u2019t even fully describe the horror of that night as it\u2019s very, very hard to revisit. Thank you for warning people.\u00a0 I am glad I was able to use some of the resources and information you have shared to help recover\u2026\u2026.People need to know.\u00a0 Marijuana can be deadly.\u00a0\u00a0 I almost lost everything to very casual use.<\/p>\n I am lucky to have health insurance and lucky that my husband could be with me.\u00a0 My husband had to take an entire week off to stay home with me! Again how fortunate I am and I\u2019m in the position to have someone that could do that.<\/p>\n I am lucky in that I am NOT an addict or addicted to it. So not using isn\u2019t an issue\u2026.. I would never smoke pot again, but the suicidal ideation was so intense and such a terrible and traumatic experience\u2026. It is hard to describe how horrific it is was and I\u2019d rather be tortured than ever experience that again\u2026. I just never thought that was even possible\u2026.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From BK, Washington<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.poppot.org\/2017\/04\/14\/biting-glass-biting-my-way-delirium\/<\/em><\/p>\n Please share this post with every concerned parent you know! The Parents Against Pot website has many very useful and interesting articles and testimonies and we would thoroughly recommend anyone interested in the arguments for and against the use of marijuana (pot) to log on to: http:\/\/www.poppot.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not a long-time user.\u00a0 I used casually for about six months, but then suddenly had a terrible experience with marijuana-induced psychosis.\u00a0\u00a0 I had moved from a state where is was illegal, to Washington.\u00a0 A dispensary sold me something incredibly strong just recently, in March.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a joint mixed with a marijuana wax- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,30,68,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brain-and-behaviour","category-cannabis-marijuana","category-drug-use-various-effects","category-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}