I know this is old thread, but I just wanted to chyme in to other things people said. My reaction to even small amounts of weed is a little exhadurated, what people describe here after a few bong hits or blunts I could get with 2 bowls.
Basically it starts off as highly elevated heart rate, I'm not talking about 80-90, I could easily hit 160-180 on an average day. Then really intense anxiety, it feels like the whole world is coming to end kind of anxiety, I start seeing everything in what few others here have described as "strobe". I've studied this effect in myself a little, what it's more accurately described is like seeing your eyes actually capturing each image. You see it in frames, it's not like it lapses or strobes, it's continuous, but I visually see each frame that my brain processes before it's processed, it also shifts sometimes, like it spins a little. Through much research I have attributed this to an effect on memory, weed basically disconnects your hypothalamus, which form short term memory, when that happens it effects how you process everything.
I am also very familiar with time distortions, which is also the result of the same effect on the short term memory, your brain doesn't recognize that a moment has past and it seems like it takes forever. This also often leads into what other user described as temporal branching. This is a highly stressful thing for me as it sometimes gets to the points where I'm not sure if I imagined a branch or it actually happened. I'm sometimes not sure if I said something or if I imagined saying it. I think of this as seeing your brain make decisions, before that decision is made in split second, and I get confused if I made the decision or just thought about making that decision.
The last one is extremely discomforting as I don't know if my actions are imagined or true and I get extremely anxious in social situations in such a case as you can imagine.
This is only a part of it, I can get tactile hallucinations, it can feel like my feet are huge, or my head is really really far from my body, or that I'm a different shape, I've thought I was a snake before. I can get extreme euphoria, this euphoria is uncomparable with any other drug I've tried, not even close, doesn't compare to heroin, vicodin, oxycodone, lsd, mdma all of which I'm very experienced with. The only thing I can relate it to is a 30 second orgasm that is about twice as strong. It happens when I close my eyes and lie back on a chair, it starts of as slight acceleration feeling, it builds up fast to the point where it feels like my body is flying a thousand of miles an hour, it's so pleasant I can't describe it, it feels like my head is about to explode from this built up tension, sometimes I have to open my eyes because it's such a strong feeling, it feels like I will die if I continue, but if I ride it out it ends in about 15 seconds and I get light headed.
In general I strongly consider weed a hallucinogen, albeit a non standard one, it effects me in such a way that no other drug can, a lot of time it's stressful as fuck but I still love it, I know if I take a toke I will be in another dimension, and that gets my heart racing even before I start smoking.
I can definitely see how it could cause a heart attack, a stroke or other similar effect, but that could also be caused by being in any highly stressful situation.
Just wanted to add this, as I feel like it's an exhadurated version of what most people experience in some way or the other.
-------------------- The box is locked, it is dangerous. There are no windows, so I can't see what is in there. There is only a little grid, no exit. -{Plath
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