SoulRider wrote:NYCBud wrote:This can happen often when taking uppers (stimulants) and downers (depressants) in conjunction with each other.
A good friend of mine had heart palpitations and had to go to hospital after taking Pills and drinking a shit load of booze and smoking weed.
The depressant (weed, alcohol) slows your heart rate down and the stimulant (caffeine, ecstasy, nicotine) increases your heart rate and when taken together can cause your heart to beat erratically and when stoned can make you paranoid, which was probably the caused the anxiety.
All i can say to you is stick to the more indica dominant strains and take it easy with them.
Don't want to sound like a nanny, but I'd just like to correct something here
Alcohol is a Depressant, Marijuana is neither a depressant nor a stimulant, it actually has the effect of balancing your system, so it is working in harmony.
Marijuana (Sativa) introduces the body into a relaxed state of total awareness, by combining the two effects of both a Stimulant and and Relaxant. It causes you to breathe slower and deeper, bringing the body into a relaxation mode. This has the direct effect of increasing the amount of oxygen in the blood per mg. This results in your muscles being fed with better quality blood. This increases the stimulation of your brain, allow for more information to be picked up for your senses. The heightened sense of perception you get when stoned, audibly, visually and mentally, are not actually 'high', they are merely your body functioning as it should
As you relax, your arteries and veins also relax, meaning they widen, and allow more blood to flow, easing any restrictions to the blood flow. This causes a drop in blood pressure, which is why it should never be taken with blood thinning tables. If you cut yourself, you'd probably bleed to death.
On the stimulant side of the reaction, your body is put into a state of alertness. Your heart rate is raised slightly and your body is ready for immediate action, as in the fight or flight mode, but because you are relaxed, there is no muscle tension, and no unbalanced chemical reaction, you do not tire or become stressed by these elements.
All in all, your body performs at it's optimum level when you are 'high'. That's why you will always get high off a spliff. Your body always performs as it should do. smoking more than a spliff every four hours, is that moving you above the natural state into further levels of high, which then cause sensory overloads, as your senses begin to work on a level above that which we humans currently operate on.
May I recommend -
http://www.benefitsofmarijuana.com/index.php
as a very good read on the Medicinal and Scientific resource, as well as a spiritual one, on this wonderful plant. It is a book, you have to buy it, but I have learned so much truth from this book. I can verify it with my own personal experiences, so that makes it the truth to me.
Read it, go on, you know you want to.
i suppose you could say it is a hallucinogen or perturbator?
