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Originally Posted by m1rr0r dash

..sorry to hear about your friend. that's terrible. i also had a psychotic episode after smoking weed. thought my tv was communicating telepathically with me and the cia was trying to kill me. it was like a seriously bad acid trip.

never really blamed the weed though for several reasons.... saturday night i smoked a lot of weed, took a painkiller (don't remember what kind only that it was an opiate with acetaminophen) and ate a bunch of nutmeg (found out later that it wasn't enough to cause any psychoactive effects). sunday night smoked a little weed. monday morning as i was getting in the shower i realized i was still high, and thought that was strange. as i was getting dressed in front of the tv, i realized it was sending me messages... went downhill from there.

given the combination of drugs i had taken, the amount of time that had passed since taking them, and the fact that i had already been struggling with depression and mania for years before that, the only role (and a small one at that) i think pot had in that incident was as a trigger, not a direct cause.

...at any rate i still smoke it.

i'd lay off it for a while. tv messages? damn!

james hillman's definition of paranoia is "the literal interpretation of metaphors". metaphorically, sure, the tv is 'sending you messages'-- but literally?

you need a shot of whiskey to ground you a bit.