Have been smoking weed for about over 2 years and now since I got sychosis I can’t smoke weed the way that I used to I hallucinate really bad and the voises start to really mess with me when I do. The experiences is extremely scary and the voices start to show me scary stories like the whole world is gonna get taken over or some thing, does this happen to any one else when they smoke weed? I really wish I could smoke
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Absolutely. I use to really enjoy pot. It was a great experience, i found it very psychedlic too…
But about a month before my diagnosis i started hearing voices and get delusionally paranoid when i smoked it. I tried to get back into to it but anything more than a small hit off a joint will be 6 hours of living hell.
A couple months ago I had about a 3 week encounter with weed. I hadn’t smoked in about 14 years but OMG I’m still the BIGGEST ■■■■■■■ pothead. I only smoked at night but it was all I thought about all day.
As it turned out I had had a few sleepless nights and swore if I made it through and slept I would be through with smoking weed. It does suck because it really makes me feel so much better, even when I wasn’t smoking it.
So now I’m back on the wagon. No alcohol, no weed… meh, life could be worse
Did you get tactile hallucinations?
I did once. Dont think it happened more frequently than that
I’ve seen too many friends get messed up by weed
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Yeah I used to smoke hasjish alot in my younger years. It made me super sensitive and hearing voices in my head more clearly.
I used to smoke weed every other day and every weekend after school with my friends. Was such a great way to kick back after a week of hard work and school.
But after I got psychosis and schiz it just amplifies the voices and my obsessional tendencies. Glad to hear a lot of people have had the same experience though. I miss it like a best friend. It’s ironic that back then it was so difficult to get but now it’s totally legal where I live and I can’t smoke anymore 
Do get scary visions like worlds gonna end or something?
I’m assuming you’re asking me?
The voices just seem a lot louder and they seem to try and mess with me more when I’m high. Also get anxiety / panic attacks. Start to obsess about every little thought I’m having because thought broadcast seems a lot stronger.
I drink alcohol every now and then instead but its nowhere near as fun
I can’t toke at all either for the same reasons.
Yea i used to smoke weed but now when i smoke i get tormented by demons which tell me they are gods and to die tends to make me more schizophrenic than usual so i dont touch it any more.
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Do you get hallucinations that are really crazy and almost seem real when you smoke?
Do they tell you that you are jesus or the one?
I was a daily smoker my last 1 1/2 years in high school. After high school my use slowed down but I still smoked a lot. And 90% of the time back then, it was really fun. Then I became schizophrenic at age 19. I tried smoking it but the affect had changed drastically and it just made me paranoid and crazy and it wasn’t fun at all. I kept smoking it a few times in my first group home but it was a bad experience culminating in a time it made me so high that my instincts told me there just was no way that I could do that anymore. So I quit for a few years.
Picked up again and it was the same nothing had changed. Unbelievably, I didn’t quit. It not only messed with my mind but it scared me, and made me extremely self-conscious in public or at work or anywhere else I was. I didn’t smoke it often but it never got better.
But in 1990 I quit all drinking and drugging. No more of those. Quitting is hard but not impossible. If you can learn at this point that smoking it is never going to get any better you will be doing yourself a huge favor. If you quit now you’ll save yourself a lot of misery (and money!).
I know there’s other factors in play like maybe your friends all smoke it and put pressure on you to join in. Maybe they won’t like it if you quit or maybe they might think you’re not cool. Or if you are a person who smokes alone maybe marijuana gives you a 90% bad feeling but maybe you smoke it just for the 10% good feeling it gives you. Maybe you’re addicted. An addiction to marijuana is not like being addicted to heroin or meth or crack (my drug of choice way back in the eighties) but it is an addiction nevertheless. But addictions can be conquered. Whatever your reasons it will pay to stop smoking it. I got lucky because I smoked crack for four years along withn marijuana but I got kicked out of my housing and had to move so I went to stay with my dad (I was 29). Then I got put in a group home.
But I had moved away from all my friends who I use to party with and I moved away from the places I bought and used drugs and I had no car. These factors contributed to helping me get clean and then I joined AA, CA, and NA and the programs helped me stay clean.
Good luck to you, I just wanted to share my story to illustrate my experience and how possible it is to get clean and sober. I hope you got something from all this.
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I myself was a long term pot head. But like everyone says - there comes a point with this condition - that you simply cant tolerate it anymore. The paranoia was too intense for me to continue smoking it. If you want the benefits of weed without the thc - I suggest you take CBD Oil instead. That way your not risking wrecking your mind when your after short-term relief from your anxiety.
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Weed was the easiest thing I left behind after I became psychotic. Till then I was smoking regularly but less…just grief because buds would do my head in. Had no idea.
It’s not a bad thing. I had bigger troubles giving up cigs. That really was a journey. Even booze was a problem but something I overcame. You can do that too!
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Thank you for sharing your story
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Yes, my delusions dealt with judgement day, being jesus. All types of ■■■■. I had to quit weed just like others but my life is waaay better now.
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