DOSE:

1 hit

smoked

Cannabis

BODY WEIGHT:

145 lb

Psuedoseizure From Marijuana

4 hours prior to the incident, I had smoked some marijuana. I was medium-level high and it lasted those 4 hours. By then, I wanted to take another hit.

It was nighttime and dark when my boyfriend and I went outside to hit his bong. He had just purchased new weed from the dispensary. He asked for "mild stuff" but we didn't check the percentage of THC. My bong at home was a little smaller (also a smaller bowl) and it was dark outside so when I went to take a hit, I must have taken too much.

Sometimes when I inhale marijuana smoke too quickly, I get the "spins" where I get dizzy and it's a little bit painful. After I took a hit, I got the spins worse than I ever had before. I went to close my eyes and collect myself but then I saw black and started to dream a little bit. When I woke up, I was on my side in a puddle of bong water and glass with a gash in my hand from glass and little gashes on my nose bridge. My boyfriend says that I passed out, smashed my nose on the table next to me, dropped the bong, and fell into it. As soon as I fell to the ground (which was concrete), I started to convulse for 10-15 seconds. My boyfriend put me on my side.

When I woke up, I was still very high but completely calm. I couldn't walk very well so my boyfriend had to help me. At the hospital, they did a CT scan, blood work, and an EKG. Everything came back normal except that I had mildly low potassium-- but that was certainly not the source of what happened. They said that it happens sometimes with weed (or any psychoactive drug) because the blood rushes too quickly and causes fainting/convulsion. However, I had never heard of that nor had anyone else I talked to about it. Not even my psychoactive drugs professor at my university had ever heard of that happening.

Exp Year: 2022	ExpID: 116426
Gender: Female
Age at time of experience: 19
Published: Aug 15, 2022	Views: 489
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