So. This is a post that will probably get me mocked and possibly should be titled, “Idiot woman fucked around and found out” because that’s probably what a lot of responses will be but I’m writing it anyway because you can learn from mistakes…because recently I had a psychotic episode triggered by a perfectly legal, over-the-counter edible gummie and it was so awful that I want you to know about it in case it ever happens to you, or you accidentally eat something you shouldn’t and then fall into a terrible abyss.
Let me start by saying that I did lots of weed and acid in my youth and I currently take IV ketamine for treatment-resistant depression so I am not new to bad trips, but this was something else entirely.
I’ve taken thc/cbd gummies in the past to help me sleep and they basically felt like a margarita without the brain-freeze. I hadn’t had one in a year or so and so when my husband took me to a vape shop next to the curry place we were going to eat I looked for the brand I usually used and they didn’t have it so I asked the cashier what I should take to just relax and help sleep (because all of the packages are confusing as hell) and he handed me a package with a recommendation of one gummie. I told Victor that maybe he should try them and he rolled his eyes at me because Victor has never even had a contact high before. I looked up the reviews for the brand and saw a woman saying they helped with her anxiety and arthritis and I was like, “Anxious arthritic women unite! Clearly this will be fine.”
I took one and about an hour later I started to feel incredibly tense and sick and (very weirdly) my dog Dorothy Barker started growling at me and backing away like I’d grown horns and I told Victor that something seemed very wrong and that’s when he told me that he’d also taken a gummie.
And then I told him that one of us needed to be sober and he said we could always call an uber and I didn’t respond because who calls an uber driver to ask them to babysit them while they’re high…how would they even charge for that? (Later he told me he meant in case we needed to go somewhere. I don’t know, y’all.)
Then things quickly went from weird to worse as we both started projectile vomiting everything we’d ever eaten in our lives and then the walls started closing in like we were in that trash-compactor in Star Wars. To make things more interesting, I threw up so hard that I peed myself.
GOOD TIMES.
Our hearts felt like they were beating out of our chests and I was shaking so much I felt like I was having a convulsion and then time stopped completely.
This has happened to me before (time stopping) but never to such a crazy extent because the clock would not change and we were trapped in hell. Victor worried that we’d been poisoned and I felt that we were probably just too high but also I couldn’t stop thinking about the Tylenol murders and that maybe an anti-gummie extremist had infiltrated a gummie factory to poison everyone. I agreed that I did feel like I’d been poisoned but that also, time had stopped and that was definitely something that people say when they are too high, but then Victor was like, “Except maybe time also stops when you’re poisoned but we don’t know because none of those people survived and everything we know is just confirmation bias?” and that also sounded like something someone high would say, but he was kind of making a really good point and wasn’t sure if I was breathing properly.
So I decided to rely on science to see if time really was stopped and so I stared at my phone while counting out loud and it made time move again but only when I was looking at it and so I was pretty sure we were just too high, but then we started vomiting again and I felt like I was suffocating and so I texted a friend (renamed Katie to protect her privacy) : HELP US KATIE. WE’RE TOO HIGH
And 87 hours later she showed up (or 30 minutes her time) and assured us we were probably fine but then she looked at us again and I couldn’t stop shaking and she was like, “But maybe I should call 911?”
Reader. We called 911.
EMS was very cool in a “Jesus, this again?” sort of way and they took our vitals by looking at us and said we were just too high and needed to relax and watch some cartoons. I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to take someone’s vitals by just looking at them and so I suspected that Katie just texted a friend and told them to pretend they were 911 and then Katie was like, “It’ll be okay. I took a gas station gummie and it was awful and I couldn’t open my mouth for hours” and then I knew I was hallucinating because Katie has never done drugs in her life. Victor was pacing and I was curled up in the fetal position and in between retchings I had several funny thoughts that I thought might make for an enjoyable anecdote but I couldn’t write them down because my hands stopped working so who the fuck knows what they were.
I apologized to Victor that I couldn’t help him and he was like, “I am never doing this again. Nancy Reagan was right about drugs” and I nodded but I also pointed out that we’d recently said we needed to try new experiences and this was the first time we’d ever tandem vomited in the same toilet and then I fell asleep on the couch.
The next morning we still felt horrible (nauseous, incredibly tense, shaky, mentally off) and asked each other if last night was real because it seemed like a literal nightmare and so we called Katie and she was like, “Hey, Cheech and Chong” and I crawled into my own body in mortification. BUT she did confirm that she really had called 911 and that she was also confused about how they did the vitals over the phone and that she really did have a bad reaction to a gas station gummie in the past and didn’t mention to me before because it was embarrassing and this is exactly why I am writing this. Because I think this sort of thing actually happens more than we know and people are too afraid to talk about it, but I’m sharing because LEARN FROM MY DUMB MISTAKE, WORLD.
So why did we have this reaction? Well, I looked up the gummies I’d taken in the past that helped me sleep and it had one milligram of THC. Guess how much THC the new gummie had?
150 MILLIGRAMS.
So then I called my actual doctor because it had been 24 hours and we still felt terrible and the nurse was like, “Yeah, we actually get this kind of call a lot. What was the dose?” and I said “150 milligrams” and she made a choking sound that I think was holding back laughter and was like, “OMG. Yeah. That’s a crazy amount.” Turns out that acute cannabinoid intoxication causes intense physical reactions and even temporary psychosis, and while it’s near impossible to die from ODing on pot, the things you might do during a panicky psychosis can be incredibly harmful and it’s much easier to OD on edibles, especially the ones that are around now because they’re not really regulated and people like me don’t do their research and just take whatever a random vape shop cashier gave me (possibly in retaliation for Victor yelling “WE’RE NOT COPS” when we first walked into the store.)
All this to say that if you are reading this and time has stopped you are probably too high and need to watch some cartoons and…
- Just because it’s legal does not mean it’s safe. Do your research first. It’s the wild west out there regarding regulations.
- THC can affect different people in different ways. For example, it can worsen bipolar symptoms. WHO KNEW.
- Let your kids/friends know that they can call you if this happens to them and that you won’t judge them. It is terrifying and horrible and it can be very easy to make a dangerous decision if you don’t have someone who can talk you down and assure you that you’re not already dead. In fact, send this post to your kids. They may already know all of this, but maybe not.
- If you ever feel like time has stopped, etc. you may have accidentally ingested an edible and you will be okay but here is what can help if you’re greening out: A warm blanket, a tv show to distract you, water, chewing on black peppercorns (no clue why this helps), having someone on the phone or in person who can monitor you and remind you it’s okay, a bowl to vomit in, and time.
- Pay attention to dosage and ingredients. One margarita is fine. 150 margaritas is not going to be fine. Also many of the ingredient may make no sense. For example, my gummie also had something called “diamond sauce”. I don’t know what that is so I looked it up. “Diamond sauce combines THCA crystals with a terpene-rich sauce with a higher purity than live resin.” Awesome. I still don’t know what diamond sauce is.
This is honestly a little mortifying to write about but it’s very common and if I can save one person from a traumatizing night like this it’s worth it. Be safe out there, friends.
I bought some gummies but have been too chicken to try one, even though I used to indulge in THC on the regular when young.
Now you have put the fear of the Goddess in me.
Currently on a nice high from a fabulous edible. Found one that has been great for anxiety. Anyways, they are fabulous. I like bread. Goodnight!
100% happened to me too! Mine was an actual joint rolled by my son’s friend (nemesis? who knows?). I was watching Dexter, which, turns out, was a rather poor decision. I also thought time stopped and that I had died. I couldn’t move any part of my body except I kept shaking. My son, God bless him, took me to the ER, and I had to hear him explain “this is the first time my mom has ever smoked weed”. Sheesh. The things you don’t plan for in Lamaze class. They finally just yelled to me “stop shaking!” and Y’ALL, I DID. Felt fine afterwards. Hubby still doesn’t know I went to the ER or smoked pot or how much the hospital visit was because I paid it all back by tutoring after school.
When my husband got too high once I googled what to do and it said chew peppercorns so I gave him a handful and it made him less high. But maybe that’s just because chewing peppercorns was worse than being high. I dunno.
Mmmm yeah, the one and only time I tried gummies, this happened to me. On 50mg. Like I was walking like I was in a stop motion film as I was trying to go to my bed and see if I was going to die.
Something similar happened to me three years ago. I couldn’t move AT ALL, and I had to make myself keep breathing. My friends–all in their 50’s and 60’s–thought about calling 911, but they were too stoned. Three hours later –after we had played an entire round of canasta–I finally started feeling like maybe I wasn’t going to check out and not check back in. That was on one gummie, about which I knew nothing other than it was supposed be “stronger than pot.” Never. Again.
This happened to me too. The label was wrong so I took too many and OH MY SWEET JEBUS it was terrible.
The only way I made it through was lying very still and listening to Taylor Swift’s “Folklore” on repeat for 5 hours.
I ‘ve used marijuana regularly for about a 100 years and the last time I did a gummy will be the last time I do a gummy. The bag had been mislabeled and the dose was a million times higher (as were we) than what the bag plainly stated. We had a very similar experience to yours – tripping and sick and lost in space and time. PSA the more you know
This made me laugh, sigh, and sympathize – I’ve been through a lot of all of this. You are doing a good thing by making this PSA. And because of your last screenshot, I must recommend the “Hash” episode of Barney Miller (1970s very nice and good cop show). High-larious!
I took one that was 25 mg at a family reunion. I thought it was the usual 5 mg. I thought I was dying. When my husband and I finally left, I was convinced we were driving a stolen navy blue car. We were indeed driving our very own black car. I took a 2-hour nap and managed to pull it together (I think) for dinner. Dear reader, I did not pull it together for dinner. It was absolutely the next day before I could function. Lesson learned. Read the label. And maybe stay home.
That does sound like a cannabis OD. The nausea and heart pounding are how you know you’re not dead despite the fuzzy, sluggish brain tempo. Which comes with the fun side effect of questioning whether you’re dying, partly out of stoney paranoia but also because your meatsuit feels all fucky.
Modern stoner tip: Don’t take advice from the budtender, their tolerance is gonna be way higher than yours as a rule. Whatever they suggest is for habitual potheads, not people who use once in awhile, if ever. (Lookin’ at Victor, here.)
Tandem puking in the same toilet sounds like a sweet, fucked up bonding experience. Achievement unlocked, I guess?
I took half of one to help me sleep… zonked out so bad that when I got up in the middle of the night (as we do in our *ahem*ties) I fell asleep on my feet, crashed into the bedroom door, and woke up on the floor with one of my fingers in a position it really isn’t supposed to be in. I got back in bed, pulled my finger and popped it back into position, and went back to sleep. Broken finger now reminds me not to do THAT again.
Holy shit! 150mg!! We have dispensaries where I live and I haven’t seen anything higher than 20mg. I’m glad you guys are better. Sending hugs.
Oh, Jenny…you poor, poor bastards. If it makes you feel any better, I piss myself pretty much any time I have to puke; at least you had the excuse of tripping massive balls! (I’m thinking about baking edibles as a side hustle, although making sure the dosage is OK is but one of several problems that would be involved, and I’ve never even *eaten* edibles before in my life. (*Why* does this seem like a good idea again?)
Such a great post! And yes, this happened to me in college and I called the dean of students and campus Security and my parents and 1 million other people to tell them all my friends had poisoned me with bad LSD laced pot (whatever that is).The most unbelievable part is all my friends are still friends! And I’m 65!
OH my god. I had a couple edibles once and fell asleep after saying “I don’t know, I don’t think they’re working, I feel nothing?” and suddenly I feel veeeery lucky.
Omg…I only do 5mg at a time. I once made “pot corn” which is like popcorn but with thc in the oil. I got as sick as you did. IT. WAS. AWFUL. It was way too strong even though it tasted great. NEVER again!
Thank you for this post. I have been thinking about edibles to help with my terrible sleep ability. While I have enjoyed all sorts of intoxicants over the years pot was never one of them. In fact I just smoked a clove! I hate to say it, but back in the 80s and 90s you could trust your street drugs. No more. Pharmaceuticals are your best bet. I may be old(er) but I remember the good times. Now a glass of cheap wine and a clove. But I am also very, very cool in my old(er) age. So there!
According to a couple of articles on the internet, peppercorns, and lemons lemons contain terpines that “tame” the ones in cannabis that can cause anxiety and paranoia. It’s science!
I see you. I once took a gummy and started to have a panic attack, so I took my Rxed Klonopin, and it turns out that was a TERRIBLE DECISION. I ended up being fine, but I apparently tearfully called my husband at work because the dogs needed to go outside and I couldn’t get off the couch because it would disappear if I left it. Polypharmaracy is real, y’all, stay safe.
Oh no!! Do the research, friend! I have a certain brand of sativa gummies I love. There are ten 10mg pieces in the bottle. I cut them in half, and often in quarters. 2.5mg is a lovely little three hour buzz. I cannot imagine what 150mg of any strain would be like! So thankful you had people to care for you.
Wait. Wait, wait, WAIT…you can buy weed gummies at gas stations in Texas?!
Huh. No wonder people still live there.
i work in an ED – we had a 70 year old come in after trying a gummie for the first time while watching football. it had 420mg 😳. he ate the whole thing.
Happened to me on the way home from Vegas. Decided to take a cute, little apple-green gummy on the way to the airport for the flight back to SAT.
Soon after settling down in my window seat, my heart decided it was going to grow *real* big. The flight attendant and I made eye contact. And we both knew… This was going to be a long flight.
Poor hubby was like, “Chill, babe.” And I was like “I need to fold into myself…”
Never again.
Are you sure there was nothing wrong with the curry? No one knows what’s in that either.
OMG. I didn’t even know it was legal in Texas. Well – that may not be for too much longer (says the Maryland girl). Pot is soooo much stronger than it was when I was a teenager, as I found when my then 17-year old daughter and her BFF ate a brownie a former boyfriend of hers gave them. They were both hallucinating, and her BFF was getting very paranoid. I ended up dropping her off at her parents and then we had to have a long talk with them the next day. Both were okay and learned a lesson. My daughter had wanted a party for her 18th birthday and after that I said no way. lol She is a fine upstanding citizen now at age 28, homeowner with a good job.
For what it’s worth, I am completely sober and I ALSO thought Victor meant you should call an Uber to babysit you.
Goodness! I’ve not tried any, but I have arthritis, anxiety, etc.. and have been curious about it.
But no clue what to get.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Lisa
CBD. It is the ONLY route to go when you’ve ingested too much THC. Girl, I cannot imagine how uncomfortable you were…. And peppercorns contain caryophyllene, which acts kinda like CBD in that it calms anxiety and panic.
I want to be a fly on the wall when Hailey lectures both of you. Including the whole egg thing of “this is your brain…”
I once had a very small piece of a pot brownie my friend made– he usually knows what he’s doing with that, he accounted for me not usually having edibles… but maybe it interacted with my psych meds? We were about to go to a close friend’s art show, but instead I was insisting that sitting on a particular spot on the kitchen floor made me feel safe. It was outlined in purple in my brain. Feelings had colors. Small laugh: yellow dot above my head. I was pretty convinced that nothing was real. Sometimes he could talk me down and i would be like “nothing bad will happen, X is here and we’re safe, and it will end… Unless none of this real!!” -in repeating waves.
Eventually we did order food and try to watch a movie, but I kept making him rewind it and was worried I had been making him watch the same 15min repeatedly for six hours, but then our pizza arrived, so I have to assume it was not quite that long.
I’ve done this! I got Delta 8 gummies from a vape shop and had a very similar reaction. Time absolutely stopped. It was awful, and I threw them away. I’ve switched to Delta 9 and buy online from online places that have done lab testing. A bad trip is AWFUL! You aren’t alone!
Whooooah! I have serious insomnia ands I take 40 mg every night. After a few hours I just drift off to sleep. Much better than benzo’s/ambien I was stuck with for decades. When I say serious insomnia I mean I wake up in the middle of surgeries 😵💫
Cannabis is legal here but only medical patient’s like me can purchase gummies with that high of thc and I have NEVER seen 150mg before. That would wack me out even with my high tolerance. So sorry you experienced that.
Thanks for posting this. I was thinking of trying edibles but I don’t think I will now. Or if I do, I’ll be sure to check the dosage. I’m sorry you and Victor went through this. I’m glad everything turned out okay though.
I’m cackling but in sympathy bc so…I sometimes get Very Strong Emotions! And cbd has helped me chill tf out so I have some 25mg cbd/5mg thc gummies that I take when I want to scream and nuke my entire life. And it *specifically says* *on the container* that you can take another if it’s been at least an hour!
So at work, in an Emotional State, I took one gummy. Then, about two hours later, I took a second gummy. And about 30 minutes later I went “huh, why am I dizzy? Am I having a migraine – OH MY GOD I JUST TOOK A 10 MG EDIBLE. AT WORK.”
Y’all the first friend/coworker I quietly told nearly fell over laughing at me and I was high as a fucking kite for the last four hours of my shift. The only saving grace was that we have music playing and the songs helped me make sure time was real. I regret many choices but, to be fair, I was in a great mood.
Ok, so I smoked and ate gummies for years. Never had a problem. I quit for about a year, then started again. It was probably the 3 rd time since restarting, I took too big of a bong hit without eating all day. I have never vomited from pot, and I didn’t that night either… but I did start pacing, saying every thought in my head in monotone and in time with every footstep. If I stopped moving, I would die. (That’s how I felt). I kept telling my hubby to call an ambulance. Luckily, he knew what was going on and helped me through (without EMTs) and I was dead on my feet the next day. Never. Again.
I can relate. I wanted to try an edible, having never tried THC-anything before. I was at a tattoo conference so there plenty around. I got a chocolate bar, thinking I could easily eat that (sometimes gummies and I have texture issues). Took the recommended tiny square. Didn’t notice anything so took another. It was cool, not much but a bit wobbly. A little bit later was hungry (ha!), found the chocolate bar, ate the whole thing. Big mistake. No vomiting but lots of the other symptoms, including time dilation. Interesting experiment. Not sure I want to repeat.
I had a similar experience, minus the vomiting. I was convinced for three hours that I could not move. Lots of hallucinating. I am very careful now because I’m WAY too old for that shit!
ZERO judgement and much thanks for writing this post. I have never done any drugs because Tylenol and NSAIDs make me hallucinate. I have begun thinking ‘Hey, maybe I should try some gummies for my anxiety/trauma responses/insomnia’ but this definitely ended that curiosity so my body, brain and wallet thank you.
For the new people who’ve never done a gummy: 1-5mg is all you need. If you’ve never eaten a gummy 5mg is the max amount. You can cut a gummy into tiny pieces and it still works. It may take awhile to kick in but don’t eat any more. I use my gummies for depression, suicide ideation, and anxiety. I only support legal use. Ask the cashier for the lowest dose they have. And if it’s over 10mg, just walk away. P.S. I cut my gummies.
Holy shit, Jenny! I’m reading this on the train home and dying of laughter. If you’re ever stuck outside of space and time again, maybe see if you can call The Doctor instead of 911? Maybe that would’ve been more helpful.
Also, this has totally killed any interest in trying edibles. I’ll stick with alcohol,thanks. At least the dosage for that is pretty standardized at this point!
This happened to my dog once. Yes, dog. We were living in a hotel between the sale of one home and the purchase of a new one while moving from one state to another. The hotel was also home to a large group of construction workers who were busy on a local project during day and who partied hard at night.
Hotel staff were very good about cleaning up the leftover cans and bottles in the parking lot, but they didn’t always get the snacks. Our dogs would always go for the snacks so we were very careful about not letting them get anything they shouldn’t. One morning I didn’t see a little gummy bear that had clearly bounced away from the rest of the pack and landed behind a tire. My elder dog grabbed it and down it went.
I recognized his response to, “Yay, found food!” curtailed our walk, and went back inside hoping that they were regular gummies. Reader, they were not. Luckily they were low dosage and I was able to induce vomiting. Our good boy survived the experience, but he was wobbly, tired, and absolutely not ok for most of the day. I’ll add to Jenny’s PSA to please be careful with your edibles. Even in low doses they can kill pets and wildlife. Our dog has lived to tell the tale. He’s 16 years old, in good health, and still stealing snacks.
Maybe it was your dinner?
This sounds absolutely terrifying, but thank you for sharing. This is a real cautionary tale.
This is why when I decided to dip my toe in the gummie pool, I went to the OG source and buy from Cheech and Chong. If you can’t trust them, who can you trust?
Bless your heart, I am so very sorry. That is just the worst feeling.
I’m a retired nurse, smoked a ton of weed in my teens. Accidentally OD’d on extract drops. Decided to chart the experience. Knew I wouldn’t die and ER couldn’t help. Charted 3 pages of “no bueno” over and over… Husband found me, put on my headphones and popped in a Harry Potter movie. Worked like a charm.
Five years later – husband is working in marijuana industry, gets some gummies to test. Manages to OD himself, and I can’t find his blood pressure. Called 911 extremely embarrassed because we knew, but I needed young ears to take his BP to ensure he was okay.
Edibles are a problem because they seem somehow less scary than smoking pot to most folks. But the truth is that the dosages are usually a lot higher for what folks perceive as a “dose”. And the high lasts a LOT longer.
I very much recommend a vape that uses loose flower. This vaporizes the active compounds without combustion products, cones on fast so easy to dose, and passes much faster. Great for dropping off to sleep.
Sorry your husband’s first experience was so awful! It is really common these days.
I felt adventurous and drank one of those THC/CBD drinks a few months ago and was 10000% convinced I was dying. I was seconds from asking someone to take me to the ER. 4 hours of fetal position shakes, paranoia, panic attacks. Absolute hell. I FINALLY got to a point of relative sanity and curled up in bed to sleep off the rest…only to be jolted from sleep at 1 AM. OUR HOUSE WAS SURROUNDED BY 30 COP CARS. FLASHING LIGHTS. ARMED MEN FLASHING LIGHTS INTO THE WINDOWS. ARMORED SWAT TEAMS POUNDING ON THE DOORS YELLING FOR US TO COME OUT WITH OUR HANDS UP.
Yup. The worst night of my life, barely holding on to a thread of sanity/reality/life after too much THC and I GOT F&*$?ing SWATTED!
Never touching anything stronger than Advil so long as I live.
Okay holy shit. I take a lovely FIVE mg gummy every night which helps me relax and sleep. I am stunned that you didn’t ask or read the label (although they are very confusing sometimes).
I’m really sorry that happened to you, but I do appreciate the PSA! I occasionally visit the US (from UK where anything beyond non-THC CBD oil is still strictly no no) and up til now, a gas station gummy would sound really appealing for my anxiety. And in the middle of an anxiety attack, reading the label carefully is unlikely. You’ve saved many of your readers from a Very Bad Time this day!
I think just about everyone has this story! The budtenders don’t emphasize nibbling enough. Google says the weed we had in the 70s 80s were about 4% THC. Now 40% is considered low. I asked friends if I could find somewhere where the weed is super low, like 5 – 10% and I got laughed at. I know someone who ate a whole bag of weed pretzels and the fire department came, she called because she thought she was having a stroke! I also did the “ate too much of a big fat weed cookie” and screamed at my husband that he was driving too fast (40 mph on the freeway). I didn’t touch weed for a year!
I work at a hotel bar and one of my regulars/long term guests was having sleeping problems. He stopped at a local station and picked up some Delta 8 gummies on his way to dinner with the boss. The directions said to take them a few hours before bedtime and apparently he figured he’d be good since he was no newcomer to THC. He was wrong, and apparently became extremely high at dinner. In front of his boss. His coworkers made sure he was okay and brought them back to the hotel safely (they were staying as well) but I don’t think they will be letting him forget it anytime soon. We all decided that friends don’t let friends buy gas station sushi or gummies. The stories from that night were pretty hilarious, though.
This literally just happened to my husband and I a few weeks ago, and yes, it was also a gas station gummy. We take gummy‘s all the time, but never from a gas station. Lesson learned. We both literally thought we were going to die.
Reminds me of the time many many years ago, when I decided I was going to be a real Gardner. I bought some morning glory seeds thinking about the beautiful flowers I would grow. I dutifully soaked the seeds in water to help them germinate faster. After a few days, I planted them, without wearing gloves- of course. Feeling satisfied, I got in my VW bug & went for a drive, blasting my music. All was serene, until I started to notice that I was feeling really weird. Then I noticed, I also felt sick. When I became disoriented, I pulled over & began to panic. What was happening?? I tried to reason with myself: I hadn’t drunk any alcohol, hadn’t smoked any weed, taken any pills, so I must be going crazy. After about an hour, I gradually started to calm down & feel better. When I got home, I talked to my roommates, one of whom, was a botany major. He told me that I had just dosed myself with a hallucinogenic that is contained in morning glory seeds, and soaking them made them easier for my skin to absorb.
My youngest has done legal gummies and been fine. I’ve been wanting to try some to see if they help with my sleep and anxiety issues. Your PSA is VERY funny! However it makes me wonder if I too will die while not being dead even with a small amount. Damn that Nancy Reagan and Victor too LOL. I’m glad you’re not dead and could still find the humor in your experience.
Ok, listen to me. This is very important.
Which Cartoons?
Yikes!! I do have some gummies but have been scared to try them… if I do.. I’ll read the ingredients IN DETAIL before consuming.
Thanks and I’m glad you two are ok!!
I think we visit the same gas station.. I had this happen in June… in my case, floating in a pool like a “sensory deprivation chamber” for 9 hours helped. No I didn’t tell a friend but it was a public pool and a sweet lifeguard asked me if I was ok, so I told him.. he said “DUUUUUUUDE! I’ll get you paper towels to put in your ears to block the noise, and I will MAKE SURE you don’t drown!! And he made me put my legs up in the edge!!! Total hero!!!
150 mg?! My gummies are 5 mg and that is enough for me. 150 would definitely kill me.
Edibles are not regulated as well as they should be and you don’t know for sure how well the hallucinogenic content is distributed in the batch. So while you might get the edible that has all the hallucinogen, another may have very little, depending on how the batch was made.
Plus, don’t buy stuff from gas stations, convenience stores or other questionable places. You’re much better off going to a licensed cannabis distributor who also produces and grows their own stuff and knows exactly what you’re getting.
Sigh, we have to make retailers more responsible and regulated about this stuff to keep it legal.
I had tried cannabis multiple times and never got high, even though everyone else around me did. Then I made the mistake of trying hash brownies.
Same reaction you described, copious vomiting, high for three days, and time and space stopped.
I’ve never again tried any psychedelics.
I’ve since learned that any opioid given during surgery causes the same reaction in me. So I’m allergic to opioid related pharmaceuticals but I don’t seem to react at all to cannabis.
I’ll just live with anxiety, thank you very much.
And people with certain mental health conditions can reach badly to certain drugs, so you should research that info before you partake.
friend gifted me a 100 mg package because it had melted together. i thought when i cut it into 10 pieces that meant 10 milligrams. took one piece. nope. within about 15 minutes the shakes started, and within a half hour i literally could not move. and any movement definitely made me nauseous. think it was almost an hour before i could pick up the tv remote. then 2 or 3 hours later when i had to go to the bathroom, i crawled on hands and knees to the toilet sobbing like a baby, ( which took about half hour i think). it was agony pulling myself up and took another half hour. crawled back to the couch, since it’s half the height of my bed. was on the couch for a solid 24 hours after that. the migraine, the full on body pressure, and the nausua lasted for almost 72 hours. i swore off edibles for close to a year after that. nowadays it’s 2.5 or 5mg doses from a reliable dispensary, no melted anything ever again.
My bestie and I once made cupcakes with some THC gel that her boss brought back for us. We didn’t read the package before putting it on the top of the cupcakes. Because why bake it into the batter when you can just put a drop on the top of all your cupcakes and then eat six of them in one hour.
Let me tell you….. we were both sooooooo sick for the next 48 hours with the dizziness and the vomiting and all the wishing for earth to stop rotating. We swore we would NEVER do that again and I always read the dosage and instructions now.
I stick to gummies under 10mg and cut them in half if possible.
Lesson learned there.
Oh Man, I use less than that on a 24 hr train ride. Like, I am a firm believer in Cannabis use, in control and careful dosing, and knowing what you’re in for. Something like that, is just not cool. Reminds me of the time I got alcohol poisoning while camping. Laying there like “so this is how I die huh?” while time loses all meaning is not the experience one wants, with anything. I’m a big guy, and have used a lot, for years, and I use one fifth of that at a time. No one need that kind of dosage.
I took RSO once and thought I was dying. I remember thinking “if I could talk, I would tell someone to take me to the hospital” because I was also catatonic. No clue how long I was catatonic and sure this was the end because as you mentioned, time gets really strange. I couldn’t sleep because I kept twitching, although my husband told me later I was not twitching at all. Taking too much edible is just a bad time.
40mg has me laying on the bed trying to stay on while wishing that the migraine it was getting rid of wasn’t worse.
I do believe that 150 would make me have a come to Jesus moment, in the bad way. I’m happy you and Vicrot are feeling better.
Yes! This happened to me after a nibble. It’s the Texas Gummy Vomit Revenge. When I was in Oregon, where It’s really legal, I had no trouble at all. Mike’s Mints. Like weed Altoids. Handled anxiety perfectly.
So, one time me and my husband got really high and were laughing about something while lost in our neighborhood. Yes, lost in our own neighborhood. My husband laughed so hard and long that he rebooted himself— literally went hypoxic, fainted and then came back to consciousness in the space of 10-20 seconds.
On that note, anyone looking for very low doses for pain or anxiety: Look for 20:1 Cbd:thc blend. A dose is usually 1 mg, which is plenty low enough for most people, even the newest of newbies. There are also some microdose 1-2mg sized candies, mints, etc. available if you look for them.
This one time? Long ago and far away, we made butter from freshly harvested leaves. And then made brownies.
Everything was fine until the three of us went to our respective homes and them we all thought burglars were breaking into our house.
No vomiting, tho.
That was with the lsd.
My husband gave me some chocolates, he said take what is in the package. AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGEMENT, I did. I knew something wasn’t right because the chocolate was scored in four pieces. He insisted it was one dose… so I threw the thing in my mouth and I had a very horrible, no good afternoon. Each section of the scored chocolate was 25mg, so I took 100mg. I had a ton of stuff to do around the house that day, but I couldn’t move. Tried to watch TV, but couldn’t focus. My brain was going berserk. I ended up putting on headphones and an eye mask. I listened to guitar solos for 6 hours. Glad you’re ok!
In the words of Karen Kilgafrif, It’s gonna be fine
I’m laughing and horrified all at once. Personally, I can’t consume THC in any form because I get horribly paranoid, so it’s the opposite of a relaxing experience – I think people are trying to kill me or are looking for me to kill me. But I’ve never projectile vomited! I’m glad you guys are okay. And good advice!
Oh my goodness! I hope all is well now! For me, I eat half of a Cheech and Chong cruise chew every night an hour before bed and it really reduces my anxiety and helps me fall asleep. There are good ones out there, if you haven’t given up completely. Love you guys!
Well, I am so sorry you had that incredibly awful experience! Our friend took half of a 10mg gummy of ours, which is what we take for sleep every now and then when things get out of wack, but she had a similar experience to yours. We don’t know why, but there it is. Thanks for writing about it so we are aware of what could happen.
Having talked my daughter down from two episodes of being too high I feel your pain. She thought she was going to die both times. I ended up sleeping with her just so she has physical contact with someone. It’s horrifying for the person. She doesn’t eat edibles any more.
And this is why I’ve never tried any kind of drug. I’m too terrified, because everyone has at least one story like this. No thank you!!! I’ll stick with wine, thanks.
Dear Lord, 150 mg. 😳😳😳 This is a great PSA, because I think everyone’s done this to some degree or another.
I once ate an entire dispensary brownie and went to the beach with a friend. I mentally woke up sitting on the beach, laughing hysterically without actually knowing what I was laughing about. Once my friend realized I was WAY too high, she decided we shouldn’t be in public anymore we somehow managed to walk our way to the car, briefly stopping to throw away our trash. When we got to the car we had the horrifying realization we didn’t have the car keys.
We spent eternity searching for the car keys digging in a beach trash can. At least it helped kill the buzz a bit.
Glad you came back to yourself!
Hyperemesis, https://gi.org/topics/cannabinoid-hyperemesis-and-the-cyclic-vomiting-syndrome-in-adults/#:~:text=Cannabinoid%20Hyperemesis%20Syndrome%20(CHS),-CHS%20usually%20starts&text=A%20lot%20of%20people%20can,what%20is%20causing%20these%20problems.
Marijuana is not a benign drug.Alex Berenson wrote a book called Tell Your Children.
Government in US has figured to cash in on sales and are quite willing to hide dangers from the folks who are doing it thinking it’s harmless.
Perhaps your earlier use affected your current mental health, I know it did my nephew. Read the book stunning greed allows for ignoring the consequences
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Someone I know helped himself to brownies he found at his adult kid’s house. He is very strait-laced and proper and serious all the time. Tried to make a phone call later and thought he was having a stroke, so went to the ER. Yep, he’d eaten half a dozen edibles as a snack.
OMG! That’s an insane amount. Low and slow is the mantra. 5mg is a good starting dose. In NJ I’ve not seen a gummy with more than 10mg THC.
Ya, as a habitual user myself (🇨🇦 here!), that’s A LOT of THC at once! Here the packages say to start with 5mgs!!! That’s a crazy way to spend your night! I’ve had the throwing up thing only one time in 15 years. And I was still drinking back then so it’s hard to say what caused it. But I do have lots of friends who just don’t like the high. 🤷♀️
Oh dear LORD, you poor things. As a Colorado gal, i’ve heard lots of these stories, mostly from tourists visiting CO and being like, “Let’s go to a dispensary and buy everything!” But i have NEVER heard of anyone taking 150 fucking milligrams!!! Even my seriously potheaded pals don’t do that much in a single dose — most of them top out around 40 — and they’re PROs. So glad you stayed home and used your phone-a-friend option.
Man. I am tired of trying to teach alol y’all the rules about gummies – and about more importantly, about microdosing. And never f’ing buy gummies from a gas station. NEVER NEVER NEVER.
I know several people who have had BAD experiences from gas station crap. And now that includes you and Victor. I use I mg- one! Rarely 2 (two mg.) And it is always Indica. And it works. I can’t imagine a dose that high, I would be dead and not just pretend dead.
I laughed at this column, but next time you want to try something, call me first. Okay?
That’s really awful for you to have gone through. I had no clue that how many MG can vary so much. I never liked the feeling I got from pot, so I don’t even try. Gosh, it would be something like 40 years since I had some. Wow, time may have stood still for you, but for me it’s flown! ;p
Your friendly neighborhood weed delivery driver* would like to remind everyone that more than 10 (TEN!) mg THC, especially if you are unused to it, is going to hit you like a fifth of tequila. If you are susceptible to motion sickness, yes you will be throwing up. Always read packaging carefully, and don’t take anything that doesn’t tell you where it was grown, packaged, and with an inspection number and date – that’s a really big sign that you’re using an unregulated product.
I have never co-vomited in a toilet and the very idea of it fills my soul with horror.
*California is fun
I cut 8mg gummies into quarters and I’m still couch locked for 5-8 business hours! 150mg would have me in a cozy little coma until 2028.
Wow! First of all, let me say that I buy gummies at my local dispensary and literally cut each on in half; sometimes I quarter them. I am what you would call a light-weight. Honestly I don’t even remember the last time I had one but there are still a few left in my freezer.
That said, I am actually interested in the IV ketamine you mentioned. My depression is ongoing and severe. I don’t want or need to “talk to someone”. Recent events have only made me feel worse. So, how did you get to try the presumably legal ketamine. Do you have to get it prescribed by “shrink”? My only encounter with a shrink was when I was in the hospital recovering from surgery and was really depressed. The nurse had a shrink (I don’t know if he was a psychiatrist or a psychologist) come and talk to me. He said if I was going to talk “that way” he would have me put in a place where I could not hurt myself. That scared me and pissed me off, so I have little trust in “shrinks.” Anyone here who knows more about this subject, please chime in! I’m just so tired of being sad!
Oh, Jenny! I’m so sorry that went sideways 🥺 but thank you for sharing the hilarious tale of toooooo hiiiigh! Was it some of the Delta 8/9 stuff? Texas Monthly had an interesting article on it recently. I know a couple of people who have had Delta-based products go poorly. Most importantly, can either of y’all look at curry ever again??!
A few months ago, our 41yo DD came home with some homemade, cannabis cupcakes, made by a friend.
DH & I each had a half, DD had quarter.
After about 40 minutes, I felt it start to take effect, got my dogs out to pee, & on my way to my bed, warned my husband that the stuff was strong.
We were all out for hours! My DH has sworn off cannabis because of it, & my DD is more cautious.
I’m still waiting for the recipe
😀
A former girlfriend thought that too much weed causing illness was a myth. After she cooked way too much thc oil into some alfredo, I found out that it isn’t a myth. We also found out the hard way that not all gummies are the same so read the content labels and always take a fraction of a dose of something new just in case.
To dndgirl, my son has dealt with debilitating depression and found some therapists to be unhelpful as well. He did find a Psychiatrist who helped him get ketamine treatments as well as many other treatments and medications that did not help. They did finally find a medication that has helped him immensely. Please don’t give up, but understand finding the right treatment can take time as well as trial and error. It can also require authorization from a licensed medical professional to get what you need. Everyone is different and help can come in different ways, so keep trying, but be safe.
Ah, yes. “Wake and Bake” morning yoga at the local oil/crystals/Delta 8 store. Got a little too high and threw up in front of the whole class. I did not pee myself, but that was an anomaly. The two go hand in hand in my world. So, yeah. Never trust a gas station gummie.
Alexa play “Too High” by Lil Dicky
Good heavens, you poor thing. What a terrible experience. I’ve never done any kind of drugs – and this is why. Even though I want to try edibles I’m so totally terrified that I’ll be one of the people with the weird reactions that I’m too scared to try it, even though I know a lot of people who find them really helpful. 😳😬😦
Ugh. My daughter did something close to this to herself. When she came out on the other side she went back and read the instructions and told me “oh my God, mom… we were supposed to eat a small portion … I ATE THE WHOLE THING!? F#CK!!”… She lived. She should have died of embarrassment…but she isa formidable young woman so she lived.
Hang in there tribe and be careful when you enter the circus. Yeah it’s fun and there’s cotton candy and pop corn but there are also lions and elephants and you can die. Much love tribe!! ❤️ ❤️❤️❤️
I’m laughing so hard I’m literally crying. I’m glad you’re ok, but thanks for sharing this 🙂
I just want to post here, but not on FB cause I don’t want the world to know, but my sister recently tried to kill me by smoking pot and I have the EXACT same story!! I drink but don’t smoke. She smokes but doesn’t drink and usually we get along fine, but this summer she was like “try some, it’s great!” and I succumbed to peer pressure and… Afterwards I recognize it as all they symptoms of an allergic reaction.. but at the time…. First I got hot dog fingers, which isn’t as fun as it sounds (swelling) Then I thought I was going to die (impending sense of doom), then I could not move my limbs (paralysis), and started vomiting my guts out. I couldn’t even swallow when she gave me a Benadryl to mitigate the symptoms… I wanted her to call 911, but she told me “grrl, Kaiser is not going to pay for this!!” so that talked me down… I too laid in bed and vomited for hours on end, mainly because time stopped moving.. Long term effects were a feeling of disassociation (that this world wasn’t real) for at least 2 days. I will never indulge again. It is just proof to me that my brain is wired differently, what is fun for others is a nightmare for me. And I legit think I am allergic to THC.
Wow, 150 mg is a lot…How is that even a thing that they sell? I only take a 10mg gummy and if I want to get really high I will 1 1/2 of them, so 15mg and that is as high as I want to be. I can’t imagine what 10 times that amount feels like.
Jenny, how awful!! I’m so sorry you guys went through this. Thanks for sharing. You’ve likely save a zillion people from the same experience. Weed anything just isn’t like ditch weed of old. Hope you’re both feeling better!
I’m very glad you and Victor are okay and sorry it was such a bad experience. The person you bought the gummy from was either entirely irresponsible or ignorant because there should have been a warning with something that potent.
I have many friends who find relief from pain, stress, and insomnia from various forms of CBD, CBN, and THC, but there’s a *lot* to learn about it all first. I’m still moving very slowly trying it myself, but I do think it can be a very valid path to take.
OMG, how horrible! I can relate, at least a little bit because I ate 1/3 of a 10 mg gummy and then had four or five hits off a joint and threw up three times. I was WAY too high. I can’t even imagine 150 MILLIGRAMS?! Oh holy night. I’m glad you had someone to call, and I’m still confused about the 911 people.
Suzy Q
I made cannabutter once. I ate 2 teaspoons because it tasted good. It was probably around 100 MG. I thought about going to the ER because I thought I was having a heart attack, but I thankfully fell asleep. I never take over 10mg now. I’m glad you and Victor made it through okay.
Karen
Whoever sold you those needs a talking to. I’ve never seen anything above a 10 mg gummy! Why would someone recommend to you Gummies with that high (no pun intended) of a THC dose?I can’t have more than 2.5 mg or bad things happen, so I can’t even imagine… I’m so sorry that you went through that.
People talk a lot of shit about California, but I am insanely grateful for our stringent THC regs. This experience feels like Amsterdam. You go for coffee and they’re just like, yeah, here’s a brownie with some weed in it. May the odds be ever in your favor
That sounds horrible. Glad you’re ok! I haven’t tried a gummie, but if I do, now I have safety knowledge I wouldn’t have had otherwise. But seriously, who knew?
Also… the packaging can be tricky. It sometimes looks like it’s 100 mg per gummy, but that’s the entire package of 10 gummies, so they are 10 mg each. I started off taking a quarter of one of those when I first started, and slowly built up from there. 😣
Oh thank you for helping me know I’m not just a wussy. Recently I took a gummy and then got hungry. I ate a chocolate covered caramel and then my jaws were glued together and I was going to die. But I counted and had put four caramels in my mouth before finishing the first. My jaws didn’t work again for hours, maybe days.
Ha! I’ve got 25mg on board right now, I can’t imagine 150! But I offered my sister 20mg the other night and she scoffed at me and told me to ef off and took 5mg.
Oh yeah been there 150 mgs *especially* if your system isn’t used to that amount will absolutely green you out. I’m glad you’re on the other side of that, and don’t feel too embarrassed it happens to the best of us. Sometimes shit just packs a whallop you weren’t expecting
FYI- CBD counteracts the psychoactive aspect of THC and can be taken to counteract being “too high.”
Not sure of the mg dosage to have the helping effect though, so you’d need to look it up. We used to keep some around just for that.
I am a super metabolizer. Edibles don’t work for me. I’ve taken up to 200mg with no effect. I eventually gave up because it was getting expensive. Vaping works great, so I stick to that.
I’m a 911 Dispatcher. We get these calls all the time! I’m glad you made it through to the other side. Definitely always check the milligrams before taking anything, and pro tip, before you try a new one, write down what your took and how much next to the phone because when you are having a bad reaction you aren’t going to necessarily remember and that makes it harder for us to help lol
Damn that sounds horrible. Glad you got through it. Good on you for sharing the experience.
Thanks for sharing. That was very brave of you. Was a wonderful bonding story you and Victor can now look back upon and share
well that is terrifying and messy. really i have been wanting to try a gummie ( or 12 – since early nov ) but now…maybe not.
So, when weed was first legal in our state, we tried making our own edibles.
The process of making canna butter means you end up with oily weed. I got a recipe for ‘high chai’ and made some.
My adult kid lived in a legal state already, so I asked how much we should drink for sleep.
The expert kids said no more than a cup. So, DH and split a cup to be safe.
An hour later, nothing.
So we each had another 1/2 cup.
Rookie mistake.
And we’d even been warned against it!
In any case…
A bit later, my husband (who was a hippy in the 70’s) says, “Do you feel anything?”
No. I did not.
“Imma going to bed” he says.
And he did, in a rather sloth-like way.
About 10 minutes later, I’m like, “HO SHIT!”
I crawl, slowly, up the stairs, repeatedly whispering to myself, “You can’t OD on wee. You can’t OD. on weed.”
The entire next day, we were both LIT. All day.
I have no idea how much we ingested, since it was directly out of my Instant Pot.
I will say, now we buy from dispensaries and read labels.
However. we have discovered that even with comparable amounts, for some reason gummies (at least the ones we got most recently) metabolize differently than the caramels and pot dots we’d ingested previously.
Also, interesting results.
However, nothing as scary as all that.
The amount of thc listed is not necessarily the amount you got. Turns out they don’t yet have a way to do that. Some studies are being made so eventually amounts will be regulated but we are a long way from that. One leaf is not equal to another. Different thc strengths so. Complicated. Glad you survived and are willing to warn others. Good luck.
This post is a true public service. And a much needed belly laugh. Thank you.
My son works in a dispensary (legal in Ontario). The budtender that served you should be fired. They should never suggest something of that dosage without talking to you about your weed consumption habits and tolerance.
I assure you that if you took something in the 1-2.5 mg range you would have been fine.
I’m glad you’re ok but it sucks that it happened and that you’re probably going to avoid weed altogether, which is sad because it does have some amazing beneficial properties.
Also, you took acid before??????
I would have loved to have a ring-side seat in your mind (which is amazing, hilarious and incredibly, deliciously left of centre!)
Love you bunches Jenny!
Been there before. I had one edible, I felt nothing. Almost 2 hours later, I popped another, and then BAM! The room was spinning, and I was nauseated. It was rough. Now I know my limit, but damn.
Girrrrrrl! I am Victor. I don’t normally do anything. I’ve tried infused cookies, chocolate, a lollipop…but all very mild effects if any. So when my mom died 3 years ago, my Colorado fam was visiting, and I was asked if I wanted a gummy. She said she usually takes them before bedtime to relax. I said sure because I was so stressed and tense. Now, she’s bigger than me which of course I didn’t even take into consideration…or the fact that she does this on the regular. I should’ve only tried half or less. I think it was 10mg. 😬 It did not make me feel good or relaxed. Instead, I kept feeling like I needed to poop. 🤦🏻♀️ In anticipation of it being a bad one, I went upstairs so as not to odorously offend. Nothing happened. I made several more trips upstairs with no relief and increasingly feeling kind of dizzy nauseous. I had to just sit with my head down until it passed. Affected my daughter the same way. Haven’t tried any since.
what’s really scary is you’ll buy like a mudslide gummy from Hometown Heroes and that’s one serving (10mg) but you get a “night gummy” and that is FIVE servings although it’s the same size. I just ordered some raspberry chocolates and they are two servings per tiny piece. And I have to freaking use the magnifying glass on my phone to see the serving size bc it’s written so small . I don’t know why there are no regulations or any attempt to keep people from overdosing. What happened to you didn’t kill you, but it’s still scary AF
Oh my. I’ve never actually been that high, but it sounds awful! Thoug you definitely get credit for trying new things.
Important fact to know: cannabinoid receptors prefer CBD over THC so if you’re ever too high again, take a big dose of CBD to help bring you back down. You know, assuming you’re ever willing to try it again. But yeah this is exactly why I don’t do edibles.
Unsolicited advice below:
My personal go-to is holding a 1:1 extract oil under the tongue for a couple minutes. Comes on fast, provides good relief while also being way less mind altering.
Also: you can get THC in gas stations?! That seems like a terrible idea.
I’m so glad you are OK. I’d add this mantra: Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Gas Station Weed. These hemp-derived THC products are largely unregulated (so some are great and some are contaminated / poisonous / misleading).
So – much safer: a dispensary in a legal state, where trained budtenders answer questions and everything is carefully tested and labeled. Second best: buy hemp-derived beverages and edibles manufactured in Minnesota, where we require lots of testing and labeling!
I fear all these terrible experiences will turn people off of trying cannabis again. It’s the terrible products, usually. Legalization would help a lot.
THIS, just this, is why I stopped smoking pot decades ago. It just would make me freak out and get paranoid about all that was bad (I imagined all my teeth falling out) and was NOT enjoyable.
On the funny side I have to mention that years ago my BFF Lenny and I saw the movie Requiem For a Dream (where ALL the major characters get addicted to different drugs) and as they were all suffering through horrific, sadistic torture brought on by the drugs, Lenny leaned over to me and whispered, “DRUGS ARE BAD.” We were laughing nonstop and almost got kicked out of the movie and to this day just the memory of “Drugs are bad” sends us into hysterics. You’re welcome.
Please tell me you’ve seen this. If not, highly recommend.
https://youtu.be/48oJH3bG6EU?si=C9VamVkD948NDLs3
I have a refrigerate-after-opening suspension. One fine night I decided that it was a good night to get high as balls. So I took three or four droppers instead of one or two; I figured that 15 or 20 mg of THC should do the trick. And I managed to suck up some of the sludgy stuff at the bottom (which was sludgy even after I shook it pretty good) and whoooo boy that was too much for me.
I wasn’t nauseous but I was definitely vibrating back and forth through time and getting a pretty vivid set of waking dreams. And I couldn’t find my water bottle (it was behind my tote bag, instead of inside it) so I waded very carefully through the house, selected a cup I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to knock over, and a straw, and waded back to bed. Thinking “okay team let’s concentrate on Not Falling Over” the whole way. I’d lift my head up and look at the clock a half hour later and only a few minutes had passed. Some of the things I was seeing as I went from being conscious of my surroundings to Not There had multiple colorful outlines, and I suddenly knew where some of the 1960s/70s aesthetic had come from. I kept thinking “am I going to die?” and then remembering that, no, time dilation and worrying that you’re going to die is a common side effect from Way Too Much Weed. So I stopped worrying about it and kept dismissing the thought every time I wondered if I was dying. And I realized that I shouldn’t ask my partner if they had found my waterbottle (again) as they wandered in and out of the room, because I was having epic time dilation and if I kept nagging them they’d be annoyed about it, and I didn’t want to be annoying just because I was monumentally high.
I eventually scraped enough consciousness together to find my phone between my pillows (where it was supposed to be), find my music app, and give myself some show tunes because that channel was unlikely to let me lose track of time as completely as more “trippy” tracks could have. After that I was all right. It was only a few days later when I was mentioning it to my partner that I realized that actually instead of a garden-variety medication error (took one or two extra and it was too much) that I had taken WAAAYYYYYY more than I thought I had.
I consider myself pretty experienced with cannabis and holy heck do I still manage to screw up my edible dosage sometimes. Fortunately I live in Canada where this stuff is all regulated and you can’t buy the really high octane edibles unless you’re a medical patient (5-10 mg seems to be the commonly sold dosages here in the dispensaries, which is great because I am a lightweight). Even then I still occasionally have experiences like that time I took 5mg to help me sleep. An hour later, it wasn’t working, so I took another one. Fifteen minutes after that, the first one hit, and the next thing I remember is being woken up about an hour later by a UFO hovering outside my 12th floor hotel room. (At least I think it was a UFO. The earth’s gravity had also increased, so by the time I managed to drag myself to a window to check, it was gone.)
When they say “start low and go slow” with edibles, they are not kidding.
My sweet, nerdy son has made an actual spreadsheet in Google docs for his friends of all the different kinds of weed/vapes/edibles available in Maryland, so that all his friends can make good choices when they’re at the dispensary. He promised to get me “some of the good edibles” for Christmas this year. God bless that kid ❤️
Sincerely, thank you for writing this.
I have been through this at least three times. It’s terrifying, and the puke is like being on the wrong end of an exorcism.
What helped me, when I felt like I couldn’t breathe, is coffee. Turns out caffeine is a bronchio-dialator, and it counteracts the anxiety and THC. It also helps me when a panic attack is coming on, and my airway starts to constrict. I do not recommend it if you can’t tolerate caffeine due to medical issues – I am not a doctor, just a stoner.
Jenny, THANK you so much for the PSA. I had a very similar experience just this week. Very good to hear i’m not the only one who’s been in the time warp/vomit cycle.
Oh my word! I’ve been a lifelong pothead in some way shape or form since the age of 14, which means for the past 43 years, and the dosage of my gummies is 5 milligrams! Sometimes I take two if I need to try to get some sleep. 150 milligrams?!? Whoa. Respect.
150mg per gummy? That’s absolutely insane. No one should be selling that without a huge warning. It’s the stoner equivalent of a Paqui chip.
I am so glad I finally found someone that had the same experience as I did. The most horrible time I’ve ever had. Everyone thought I was crazy. Well, when you haven’t had edibles in a very long time this kind of shit is for real! Just thinking about that night gives me PTSD.
I had a very similar experience in Amsterdam as a teenager. Coming from British Columbia, I felt pretty worldly when it came to sampling the local greenery, but nothing prepared me for the giant joint I shared with a few friends during the obligatory visit to Amsterdam. I remember very little except spending at least 2 hours in a KFC bathroom tripping balls, vomiting, and generally being sure that I was going to die. The tour director had to come get me and carry me back to the bus. I swear that I felt my brain cells die that day. I only took weed once more after that – about 2 years later when a friend made brownies at university. Similar result, so I gave it up for good and won’t even touch a gummie now.
@#9 Holly: “Barney, Barney, Barney… are you from Killarney?”
@#76 John: Dude, GTFO with that Reefer Madness bullshit. Seriously.
Sweet mother of Bowie, Jenny… as a prodigious consumer of weed, that is a shit ton at once. Damn, pimp.
It Was Ever True back in the Before Times as it is now is these Days of Abundance: NEVER EVER EVER DO ANY KIND OF EDIBLE AS YOUR VERY FIRST TIME TRYING THC!!! I saw some of the greatest minds of my generation absolutely freak out that way: “Oh, I want to try weed, but I don’t want to smoke, so I’ll just eat some brownies”. Yeah, and you have NO IDEA what it even feels like to be high, so maybe trying it in a form that takes HOURS for your body to process is not such a great plan? Oh no, go right ahead, I had no other plans for my own high other than to spend the night convincing you that you haven’t left your body and the cat isn’t staring into your soul.
Party responsibly, dudes!
Storm the Klingon
Crap and more crap: the quote is “Barney, Barney, Barney… was your mother from Killarney?” Man, I wish we could edit our posts.
Your Pal,
Storm the Klingon
Accepted a cigarette from a stranger, tasted like old school menthol ciggies, turns out they stop your legs from working.
All right, former cannabis educator here and I too have fought for my very life after taking a gummy a time or two.
150 mgs is for consumers that have a super high tolerance built up and not for occasional visits to Gummyville. Anything that says diamonds on it, is not for you, boo!
If you just want to get some sleep, lower than 10mgs is your friend. Some people even cut a 10 mg into 4 pieces and still get the desired effect with fluffy feeling in the morning. Indica and anything with CBN, a cannabinoid that helps with better rest, is your best bet for sleep.
There is a great app called Leafly that helps advise good products recommendations, tasting notes and general cannabis knowledge and I highly recommend it. Pun not intended.
There is a trick that works for some people who are too high and that is crunching down on a peppercorn. It doesn’t have any true science behind it but, junk science says that the cannabinoids naturally occurring in peppercorns counteract the negative effects of a super high. I honestly think that it just makes you feel like you did something and reduces your anxiety.
A loved one had that happen to him, too. We were both totally freaked out, and I was about to call 911, but I Googled it first, and when it said how unlikely it is to have serious negative consequences from an overdose of marijuana, we just waited it out. It was awful, though.
Oh my lord. Thank you for the PSA. I think I’m with Victor. It really is the wild wild West out there.
Oh I so feel for you, Jenny! I’ve never tried gummies, but I had a similar thing happen back in my early 40’s…at a bar, had a glass of wine, an acquaintance offered a hit of a joint (is it a joint when it’s in a tiny metal tube? I was and am so pharmacologically clueless) and after one hit, every went sideways like I was walking in a fun house…made it to the bathroom, leaned over the sink and yell-whispered in a very tiny voice “help me” when people came and went…couldn’t move, couldn’t talk, heart racing, thought I was dying. I don’t know what was in that pipe but it was *not* the pot I had tried in high school! That was the last time for me…I know people who love their gummies, but not for me…never again. Thank you for sharing, you brave sharer, you! I’m going to repost…because as the comments show, you are not alone.
I might or might not remember watching a fellow high school student (heh, no pun intended) curl up in a corner and, while shivering and rocking back and forth, plead repeatedly and earnestly for a scarily long time: “I’m an orange. Don’t peel me. I’m an orange. Don’t peel me.” This scenario might or might also not be the reason I learned to avoid physically intaking any drugs while mimicking symptoms like a little narc in training. The buzz of contact high was my limit.
Dude. 150mg is insane. When gummies first went legal here I was having half of a 10mg one. I took a whole 10mg one just to see how that would go and I swear I sat on the couch for several hours just staring into space because I was convinced that if I moved something horrible would happen. I can’t imagine that times 15.
My experience is more embarrassing because I had been WARNED that you really have to wait after you eat one gummie for at least an hour to feel anything, but I am impatient and ate another in like 30 minutes, and then that didn’t hit, so I ended up eating the ENTIRE BOTTLE and then lying on my bed for hours with my heart pounding out of my chest, thinking I was gonna legit die. And yes, I did a lot of weed in my 20’s. The new weed is NOT the ditch weed of the 80’s!
I’m laughing so hard at work I’m definitely getting called to HR.
Bummer!!!! Gummies do not work on me, I have tried different brands in different states nor do store bought edibles. However I have had home made edibles that were great. I have never had a bad high but it sounds horrible.
Yowza. You just fully reinforced my decision to stick to CBD only. I was already concerned about possible interactions with my Effexor, but after reading this, THC is a definite hell no for me. Thanks for sharing your painful lesson. And thanks for sharing it with your usual hilarity. I feel kinda bad for laughing, although since you wrote this, I’m now guessing you are able to find some humor in the situation now that it’s over.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING! Great advice!
I once made honeysliders with some weed I bought (basically weed inside a frozen ball of honey). I ate two, waited an hour, and nothing happened. So I ate the rest of them, which was about a dimebag’s worth of weed (in my defense, I was VERY new to edibles). Thirty minutes later, while watching Parks and Rec, Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman turned into cartoons and crawled out of my TV. And that is how the worst trip of my life began. I was convinced that I was dying, and I was hallucinating like CRAZY. I ended up curling into the fetal position in bed for four hours, trying to hide from the hairless, albino demon who lived in my walls (no clue where this idea came from) and hoping that the train I could hear going circles around my house wouldn’t bust through the wall and set him free. When my then-boyfriend got home from work (Did I mention I was ALONE the whole time? Except for the demon and the train.), he made fun of me for the rest of the night. I haven’t had an edible since.
Oh dear! This happened to me except I smoked way too much. I ended up in the ER because I couldn’t stop vomiting. My potassium ended up being too low, so I had to have an ECG and drink a horribly sweet drink to replenish. I do take edibles regularly for chronic illness. If you are in a state where it is legal, it’s best to work with staff in a dispensary who can direct you to what you are looking for (and away from what you don’t want). CBG is the best thing for inflammation and pain.
Yeah, too high. I smoked some PCP and experienced the time going by too slowly. I swear to god, that ONE episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show lasted 6 hours. I don’t do any of that crap anymore.
Terpenes will make you very sick to your stomach. that is the culprit!
I do gummies on the regular and I have not experienced this. What I have experienced is that even if the package says 150 MG, that doesn’t necessarily mean the 150 MG are of thc. 100 MG could be cbd, and 50 MG could be thc, and also what it says on the pkg ypu usually have to divide by the number of gummies in the package. So 200 MG on a pkg of 20, means ea gummy is 10 MG ea. (You didn’t know there was going to be math, did you?)
Anyway, I’d be more concerned with that diamond ingredient. There are a lot of products out there right now that have psychedelic mushroom as an ingredient, and it actually kind of sounds like you had a mushroom experience. . . especially with the vomiting.
Rider 21: There was a funny news story about cops getting high and ending up in a tree a few years ago.
Geez Jenny I’m sorry. I’ve never tried or taken anything, but glad you’re warning and helping others.
What is causing additional symptoms of not being able to move limbs?
I am currently dead reading this and I peed my pants, 150 MG!!!!! You a boss Queen. I fucking love you but I’ve got to stop typing because I’m too high for this shit 🙂
Hello from Canada! One of our homegrown troubadours, Corb Lund, must have had a similar experience with gummies. He recently released a song about it, “Old Familiar Drunken Feeling”: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=luNFbvMHH8U&si=ezyAHinbpoSGaNR0
Literally you and Victor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1kTZRcKZ6Y “Please send rescue….we’re dying…we’re dead”
OMG, I am so sorry that you, and Victor, had to experience this.
Sounds like “Diamond Sauce” is concentrated Terpenes, and it disturbs me that they don’t say where they come from.
From what it sounds like, they used “Diviner’s sage (Salvia divinorum)”, and that is especially disturbing.
Screw “Proprietary” ingredients.
This stuff needs to be disclosed.
Hallucinogenic properties
“The active ingredient, salvinorin A, is one of the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogens and induces intense but short-lived effects.
Ingestion of moderate amounts of salvinorin A leads to changes in mood and body sensations, physical incapacitation, feelings of detachment, delirium, paranoia, uncontrollable laughter, mystical experiences, and altered perceptions of self and of time.
The hallucinations are often vivid and bizarre and have been described as film- or dreamlike.
Users might experience spatiotemporal dislocation, in which they feel they are in several locations simultaneously, or have a sense of overlapping realities.”
See more at https://www.britannica.com/plant/salvia-plant-species
Thank you for posting this.
VERY important information, for the younger crowd who never had to talk down/be talked down, from being too high.
I am very old, and yes, I had to talk down many a friend, from complete hallucinogenic freakouts.
For some reason Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” worked remarkably well for this.
I had a friend who got gummies and I asked for help and he said sure and bought me a bag of like 4 or 5. He said to eat a couple. That seemed like a lot. Talking to friends? I ate half. I ended up under the covers worried. And then I STILL didn’t learn my lesson and ate a quarter. STILL TOO MUCH.
Lesson: I am too old for pot.
I recently learned that if you take too much THC, you can counteract it with CBD. I rarely take more than 5mg, so I’ve never actually tried it. But would definitely be willing to try anything if I found myself unexpectedly in your situation. I mean, that is if I could remember.
SAME! Wow. I was alone and still felt SUCH embarrassment after. I had been sober for over 20yrs and someone gave them to me almost as a gag gift and I got a wild hair one night. The a portal to hell opened. My dog ate some of my puke and also puked. I was convinced there was a gas leak and the house was going to explode so I opened the door I could crawl to, to let fresh air in? In the fetal position I thought for sure my feet were going to have to be amputated, I think they were just cold, but I couldn’t feel them. I also watched the clock bc time didn’t exist. At some point I fell asleep with my head in my vomit bucket. This post and the comments are like a AA meeting. Thank you for sharing.
I think you might be confused, tbh. First, if you’d really been sold an entire bag of 150mg-EACH (??) THC gummies, you would have noticed quite a substantial price difference between that and the 1mg gummies you say you usually bought. Like, hundreds and hundreds of dollars. And then more hundreds. Second, the number printed prominently on the bag is the TOTAL dose amount of ALL the gummies in the bag. So you probably bought a bag of CBD/THC gummies that equaled 150mg. It’s not at all likely you took a single 150mg pure THC gummy. Look at the bag again.
(The bag says 3000 mg. They were definitely more expensive but I don’t think it’s pure THC because it also contains synthetic stuff like whatever “diamond sauce” is. It’s THCp, CB9, sativa, diamond sauce. The THC is listed as THC-P, which I’m now reading is to 33 times stronger than traditional THC. ~ Jenny)
Just today I read a headline that said something about marijuana and chronic vomiting but there was a paywall and I didn’t take adhd meds today. Naturally I just assumed I’d never learn more. Then this pops up! I’ll be honest, I enjoyed this blog much more than I would have enjoyed the New York Times article, so thank you!
But I’m allergic to black pepper…
I don’t think I’ve told you lately how much I love your stories. You make me laugh and you’re REAL.
I’ve never had an edible but I’d love to try something MILD if they were legal here without a prescription. I could possibly get a prescription but I have no clue how to get it filled. I assume you can’t just walk up to a pharmacy to get it filled.
My “high” stories are pretty much 100% based on 2017 when I was in the middle of a cancer scare leading up to surgery then recovering. I went from “my life is hell” pain to “kill me now” after a gastro did an up-and-down look. She was bloody amazing. She phoned me up to check on me, said “this is not normal” and ordered tests that diagnosed a cyst that had been growing for maybe 10 or more years. That woman is, in my opinion, the world’s best gastroenterologist. Nadeeka Samarakoon if any Australians need a gastro and are close enough to the ACT to access her services. She also got me a test for Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome. I’d first heard of HPS in 2007 and had asked several doctors over 10 years for a test but was refused every time. Nadeeka is a gastroenterologist but HPS is, primarily, a blood disorder. But that woman heard my story and got me in with her husband, a haematologist researching platelet disorders who organised a very very expensive test for free. It involved hand counting dense particles in platelets under an electron microscope. And thus I got the diagnosis of HPS after being told for 10 years that I could not possibly have HPS, it’s a Puerto Rican disorder and is impossible for a white woman of European descent to have it. (Personally I’d like to know how many women with heavy menstruation and other bleeding issues have it but haven’t been tested.)
I digress.
Thanks to Nadeeka, the cyst was diagnosed and doctors stopped treating me like a hypochondriac. The unfortunate side effect was that the colonoscopy aggravated everything and I really was in the “kill me now” phase of “pain management”. So the GP prescribed opiates. Then increased the prescription. Then I said “give me something else, I keep throwing it right back up”, so the GP gave me anti-nausea meds and a higher prescription. All heavily controlled and monitored in Australia, I assure you.
So, for the next 6 months I was on opiates. I did see angels and psychedelic lights that weren’t there. I was spaced out. I couldn’t think to focus on my studies: I was trying to do a masters and graduate to a PhD on representations of albinism in popular culture (University of Canberra refused disability access, a professor assaulted me in the refectory for about a distance of 20 metres so they destroyed the footage, expelled me for complaining and then tried to jail me. Fun times. And that’s why I never finished my masters let alone my PhD even after receiving awards for academic excellence from them in 2017 while I was going through all this hell.)
I spent a lot of time watching tv, including shows I probably would not have had the patience for at any other time. The stand out from that time was “Drop Dead Diva” I think: it was a tv series about a dead lawyer coming back in someone else’s body, cue comedy and romance and character development (very very slow character development). I did find tv comforting but I was also really careful about what I watched. Back when I was a teenager, watching the original Ghostbusters gave me a nightmare. While rereading Game of Thrones and watching the first season of the TV series a few years earlier, I woke up one night to find a white walker looming over my bed. Apart from the actual white walker, everything else seemed 100% real before I woke up properly to find no one was there. So there’s no way I’d risk anything that might trigger a bad trip or nightmare.
And don’t even get me started on ketamine. The only times I’ve had that was actually IN hospital, in 2017 and 2022. 2022 was after a bad reaction to a vaccine ended with, to put it delicately, a nurse said my urine sample was “the colour of a nice shiraz” before I was admitted and kept in hospital for 3 days. Ketamine also makes me vomit, VIOLENTLY. I’m not sure how much ketamine spacing me out in 2022 helped my hospital stay and how much was thanks to my seeing eye dog Silkie lying on my hospital bed for three days straight except when she was taken out to toilet and one time a staffer took her to a change of shift meeting. I’m pretty sure Silkie was like “Nope, don’t want your pats BECAUSE MY HUMAN IS DOWN THE HALL IN A ROOM WHERE I CAN’T SEE HER”, because she returned super fast and they didn’t take her to any more staff meetings after that. There was a fun time when two staff argued over who would take her to the toilet. My husband was WFH (Working From Hospital cafe) so he could take her but certain staff were like “NO. I TOILET SILKIE”. And that day 2 had an argument? They took it into the hall but I heard every word. The winning argument was “I’ve even brought my own lead, see?”
I guess my best stories aren’t anything directly related to actual drug use. But I think my stories are funny. I hope others do too. <3
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I work as a tech on an inpatient psychiatric unit and patients come to us with THC induced psychosis fairly frequently. I also have friends who very judiciously chill with a very tiny amount of edible that they are familiar with and comes from a familiar dispensary. Yes, know the product, know the dispensary and staff. Treat it like filling a prescription.
Excellent story well told
BUT (of course there’s a big but) why not post the brand of gummies and a photo of the package? I’d like to avoid this product, which would be a lot easier with a few identifying details.
Thanks in advance 🌼
(I’m a little afraid to in case they’re litigious but if you google “diamond sauce gummies” it should pop up. ~ Jenny)
THIS.RIGHT.HERE.
I used to smoke crazy amounts of weed and thought “gummies will be wonderful”. It was anything but….I took 2-5mg to start, waited about 45min and NOTHING…..so I took 4 more, waited 45 min and STILL NOTHING. Took 4 more and OMG…..it hit me all at once, BP shot up, I was laughing hysterically, then paranoia set in….turned on the tube to I LOVE LUCY. BAD IDEA. I started getting upset because I couldn’t understand why anyone would laugh at 4 people constantly screaming at each other and wanted to take up the issue with someone right then and there. Went looking for my husband who told me later, “You looked dead and all you said was, THIS ISN’T WHAT I REMEMBER IT TO BE” and floated out of the room again.
NEVER AGAIN. And I am fully 70 years old and a retired EMT-P and Emergency RN.
See, this is the reason I won’t try edibles. If you smoke it you know exactly how high you are within a few minutes and you can adjust your intake accordingly.
With edibles you don’t feel it as quickly and you don’t know when you will plateau. My anxiety can’t handle that.
I know smoking is bad for you and smells awful, but my twice a year indulgences can’t be cutting too much off my life expectancy.
Also, to those of you saying that 150 mg isn’t possible or would be wildly expensive, a simple Google of a few things Jenny mentioned will find you the brand and the bag that is clearly labeled “3000 mg THC. 150 mg each gummy” and it’s about $30 for the bag.
I’m just not an edibles person. I think this has cured the thought of ever happening, however, I just came here to say, based on this:
…and she was like, “Hey, Cheech and Chong”
And the snort I let out at that one line, I think we all need a “Katie” in our lives to keep us on track.
I hope you are both feeling better!
You can also just sniff a pinch of pepper until you sneeze.
Yeah, I accidentally vaped myself into a pot overdose one time. I found myself sitting on the couch, staring at “Chowder” (it’s a cartoon) and leaping up to puke every ten minutes or so. I horked up a nickel I swallowed in second grade. I’m 59. It was very surreal. I switched to 5mg edibles after, because fuck that.
I genuinely want to know where people are getting these 50 and 150mg gummies, because the states I’ve bought recreational gummies in (Nevada, Colorado, and Missouri) seem to be legally required to sell them with dosages limited to 10mg each. Even if you buy a whole chocolate bar, it is segmented into 10mg blocks, so you can dose yourself appropriately. What states dropped the ball that badly when they went legal?
As a budtender in the medical marijuana biz, we airways tell people “low and slow” to start with a new product. Always go with a low dosage and don’t take more for at least 3 hours bc it hits everyone differently. Especially with edibles where it’s not so much a matter of your tolerance level but your whole digestive system comes into play. I am a seasoned smoker and I can vape all day and feel just fine. But edibles hit me HARD!! So I mostly microdose them. Even 5 mg can sometimes be too much, depending on the situation. If in at a social function with other stoners, I can be comfortable with 10mg, but not if I’m trying to get stuff done. But one of my coworkers takes about 300mg bebe even stepping out the door! That’s often a sign someone is low in the liver enzymes that digest THC…Also a sign that he may need a tolerance break.
ElGuano, I bought a 100mg gummy in Oregon once. It looked like a big red glob. I sliced it into ten pieces. Some states allow high-dose edibles for medical patients. I know a guy who gets those and he gave me a piece one night. I neglected to ask the strength which was a mistake because I basically spent the rest of that night glued to the couch, staring at the TV, unable to move (which sucks when you have to pee!). Turns out it was 25mg.
I do take 5-10mg pretty regularly without issues.
Dearest, dear poor Jenny and poor Victor – For one, I’m so happy that you both survived 😁. And, horrified at what you went through – and thankful for the cautionary tale your survival enabled you to share with all of us – Egads!
Just a small comparator – a good, good one – from worst to best exists, in gummies –
I’m in Illinois and a medical user – hadn’t, before, ever.
I have stoopid fibromyalgia, and I’ve found that the Balanced 50/50, 5 mg., gummies work well for lower level fibromyalgia pain –
The only downside is, these “Chef Led Artisanal Edibles”, that I use, in the “Lush Black Cherry 🍒” are So Dang Delicious! That I contacted the company – to see if the sold them as PLAIN ! gummies – because they are truly, splendidly marvelously delicious!
No, they don’t.
But considering your experiences, I wanted you to Know – there Are Good gummies to be found – – in non- catastrophic dosages 😇.
I love you guys so much. These comments are gold and are making me feel so much better.
PS – Public Service Announcement, sort of: My dear husband and I, in medical fields, attended medical CEU all-day class on modern Marijuana.
Take Heed: Since “the old days”, modern selective growing techniques over the decades – have increased the Raw THC content in all Marijuana by 10-fold, and Higher!
That is, the stuff that grows, ALL of everyone is smoking or nibbling, nowadays Is Far Stronger, far far Stronger, than it used to be.
And more Dangerous for overdosing And the dangerous CONSEQUENCES.
These Are much more likely now, and happening now, than it used to be.
Did you learn of these dangers and CONSEQUENCES from a CEU funded by the pharmaceutical industry? Most are.
Pardon me while I add a few grains of salt to my lunch here.
CBD can be taken to chill an “overdose” of THC, FYI. Also, source needed for these potent fu(kers please for research purposes. Holy they must have cost a lot? Typical here is 10 gummies is 100 mg and like $20. One gummy is 150mg? Lord. I fell in love with a strain I heard from Snoop. Green Crack. Delta8resellers. Enjoy. I have PTSD, generalized anxiety, depression, trichotillomania/OCD and want to be creative, uplifted. I microcode the flower in a small aluminum bat pipe that looks like a cigarette and a few hits makes me talkative and I could write for days.
WHY did I read this at work? I’m dying laughing, largely because I did a little acid back in the day, and I’ve been there. Never had the pleasure of barfing while high as the Empire State Building, thank fully.
This happened to me recently and I don’t even want to know what my heart rate was. It was the scariest experience of my life. DO NOT listen to the people who sell that stuff at the store. Make sure you know exactly what you’re taking. I know my limit and it’s my baby dose of 5mg.
Oh no! I normally take a 10 mg gummy and cozy up to (probably not) play some video games. My cat got sick so I bought a pack of beefier gummies and I missed the aurora borealis on 10/10 because my 20 or 25 MG gummy had me spinning so hard I decided to sleep it off.
150, I can’t even imagine. I hope you are feeling better.
One time my wife and I were in a store we hadn’t been in before and got a “fun” gummy rope thing with what looked like nerds on it, instead of our usual staid gummies. We each had one small bite and greened out so badly I was absolutely certain we were both dead and in hell for the next twenty-four hours. Solidarity! It can happen to anyone! We never went back there, our normal weed shop would never.
Holy crap, that is an insane amount of THC to ingest! It’s incredibly dangerous shouldn’t be sold. 5mg is normal. But also, the bipolar connection is real, and that’s scary.
Thank you for writing and educating people in a humorous way. I’m glad you are both okay.
If I drank too much booze, easy-peasy: just send it back. Pot is so ulgh-have to wait for it to wear off. I figured gummies were more of the same torture, so No. How was the dose you were given so high‽ I like the advice from another commenter- the budtender’s tolerance & “Normal“ is not the same as us rank amateurs. – Glad you’re OK Jenny. Hayley’s gonna hide you though!
Very informative. Thank you for sharing. But … 150mg? That sounds horrible. Once the vomiting starts, you know the evening has gone right off the rails!
This was such a timely PSA for me! I was just at a point of considering maaaaybe trying a gummy for sleep sometime, after many drug-free decades. This took me back to the time (70’s– just leaves back in the day) a friend had blended up some stemmy ditch-weed that wasn’t worth smoking, so he made brownies out of the powder– that ended up more skunky, green and chalky flavor than chocolate. Then we smoked a joint rolled from some better stuff. Then we took a hot bath– which concentrated all of the effects of all of the above– at which point an atom bomb went off in my brain.
(and I’d never had any hallucinogenics, so a surprise ‘bad trip’ was NOT on my bucket list.)
Fortunately I skipped the nausea; otherwise everything in your story checks out. Did I say friend? More of an on-again / off-again serial booty-caller. Not a bad person, fabulously interesting, a great date, just not a candidate for emotional support. And I was visiting from a 100 mile bus ride away at this point. I’d developed skills since childhood of lucid-dreaming my way out of nightmares, so I employed some of the same techniques to take care of my brain in that predicament, thereby avoiding the 911 call. I visited a closer friend the next day for tea, sympathy and a nap before getting my bus home.
[If I do get the gummy, I’ll ask for the 1 mg. dose, and then not trust that and maybe just lick it, or nip off a tiny sliver…]
I’m not judging. I actually think it’s very courageous that Jenny shared this and glad you’re alright. I’d be very angry at the street pharmacist though.
There is an increasing industry that can’t wait to take your money and very little education or regulation. I know people self medicate for all kinds of reasons, and worry that this will get worse.
Every brain is different. Some will be functional others will end up psychotic. So why even try?
I have yet to meet someone who got through tough times and improved their life while on them. Weed can’t kill you, but edibles aren’t closely regulated and the packaging isn’t that clear. They can add whatever they want. That’s the dangerous part.
Take care of yourselves. You only get one brain.
Not an OD story but….a 150 lb. English Mastiff can get high af from eating half a cookie she scavenged off the sidewalk.
The state of Oregon found that CBD products often have fairly substantial amounts of THC despite the label claiming otherwise.
What the actual fuck, 150MG THC?!? My husband has Sleep KNOCKOUT (actual product name, they work on a 6′ tall, 200+ lb dude) gummies that are 5MG THC with 50MG CBD! He’s had trouble sleeping since cancer & needed something to get & stay asleep. Glad you’re ok now. The idiot who sold you those needs a kick in the junk.
What the actual fuck, 150MG THC?!? My husband has Sleep KNOCKOUT (actual product name, they work on a 6′ tall, 200+ lb dude) gummies that are 5MG THC with 50MG CBD! He’s had trouble sleeping since cancer & needed something to get & stay asleep. Glad you’re ok now. The idiot who sold you those needs a kick in the junk.
You definitely have to check out the dosage and start with half or quarter the gummie.
Wow, this is a brave and honest post. I’m so sorry you went through such a terrifying experience. It’s a valuable lesson for everyone, especially those who are new to edibles. Thank you for sharing your story to help others. Your advice is spot on, and I hope it helps prevent others from making similar mistakes. Stay safe and take care of yourself.
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Thank you for writing this!!! Just because something is sold over the counter doesn’t mean it’s safe. Please do your research and ask questions. I received my MS in medical cannabis science and therapeutics and am an advocate for cannabis but with all “medications” do your research and make sure you know what questions to ask. I’m glad you are both ok.
Holy smokes-150 is too much.
5 is a normal dose-10 if you need more.
We just had a similar experience while visiting Amsterdam recently after each eating a space cake (mine was even gluten free)! We were told they had 3 mg in them, so thought that sounded mild. When it hit, we thought we were going to die. The experience was as you described but we were spared the vomiting. Never again!
This is especially true for home-made edibles. We got cookies from my aunt that made me feel like i was falling down a dark pit for eternity. The next morning I was still in shock and had to go out to breakfast with my family.
I done this a time or two by mistake, and it is memorable. However, one time I dropped a pretty big bud on the floor while packing a bowl and my small dog immediately ae it. He was about 16 pounds and the bud was about the size of my thumb, so it was ALOT. Google was kind enough to confirm that he would not die, but advised that he WOULD be high as fuck for the next several hours. And, OH BOY, was he ever. We had some guests over at the time and we still talk about this story regularly. If you’ve never watched your dog see god, it is an unforgettable experience. PS He did not die that day.
So you know how time only moved while you were watching it? Apparently that’s a thing. Not time specifically but in general physics works differently if you are watching. (And time doesn’t really exist maybe?) I’m not a scientist but I did watch this episode of Nova about entanglement (https://www.pbs.org/video/einsteins-quantum-riddle-ykvwhm/) and that’s what I took away from it. Def don’t watch it after taking even a small bite of a gummy.
I ate a gummy from a gas station several months ago, and something similar happened to me. I was lying on the kitchen floor and I COULD NOT GET UP. I really thought I was dying, and my wife tried to calm me down but it didn’t work. I wasn’t able to communicate to her that I had eaten the gummy, so she had no idea why I was freaking out. I kept trying to call 911, and she told me that she would take me to the hospital and that we didn’t have to call 911, but I couldn’t get up. So the paramedics came, and I told them about the gummy, and my wife found them. They took me to the hospital, and while they were trying to get me down our front steps, they shifted and I thought I was going to fall, so that freaked me out even more. They gave me IV fluids at the hospital, and I threw up several times. They didn’t give me any nausea medicine, and all they could do was watch me until the gummy left my system or I was sober enough to leave. It was a LONG night.
Then a few months later I went to a local apothecary where you can buy and consume legal THC, etc. I had about 2 hits of what I bought and a bong hit from another person’s weed (the store provided disposable mouth pieces), and I had to go lie on the bathroom floor. It wasn’t as bad as when I took that gummy, but it was pretty bad. They couldn’t let me stay on the bathroom floor, so I had to crawl to the back door and sit there until I came down a little. Needless to say, I have never been back there again! And, I am very, very careful with what I consume now.
Hi, I’m just jumping in without reading so pardon me if this already been covered. I had a much milder unpleasant experience with edible when I was taking them for pain. Back then the dose was kind of “guess we don’t know”. And I didn’t have almost any experience with THC.
So I went to a dispensary class for using THC for pain management, and they gave me two pieces of advice for blunting an overdose’s effects. One is to keep pure cbd oil on hand. Apparently Cbd/thc ratios are a thing and CBD mellows the effect of the thc even if you’ve already taken it.
But he other was to eat a lemon wedge, but it was a decade ago and I don’t remember why that works.
And if you want to feel better about the whole experience go read Maureen O’Dowds account of getting high for the first/last time.
Sheesh dispensary employees should know better
I did this once but from one of those pens that vaporizes concentrate. My intention was to take a light hit and get in bed. Well first the vapor was so hot it was like I’d inhaled fire, so I was in immediate pain and was afraid I’d permanently damaged myself. Also, before I could get out of the bathroom I was insanely high. I managed to get in bed but spent the next several hours with a racing mind, worried I was dying and feeling like I was having a telepathic connection to my father, who is dying with Parkinson’s. I would have called someone except I couldn’t get my body to move, so I just laid there being miserably out of my mind high. It took me a long time to touch weed again and will never do one of those concentrate pens again EVER.