It was my freshman year of college, and it had been like a month since I smoked weed, so I tagged along with my roommate to smoke. We were in her friend’s car in a parking lot right outside my school. Before we smoked, my roommate said it was crazy how the weed didn’t look […]
Tag Archives: synthetic marijuana overdose
19
Feb
Feb
I got picked up by some friends. I was in a depression with problems with my family, and decided to accept their offer of giving me spice – with the lack of knowledge that I had about the drug. It was meant to be taken in small amounts. I toked it about 5 times in the […]
Submitted Stories
“I was convinced that if I did not continue to focus on my breathing, I would stop and die” – Mangos
21
Dec
Dec
I began using Spice when I was unable to obtain 420, and used regularly for approximately 8 months at about 3g/wk. The high was incredibly intense, and soon the withdrawals were just as bad, then worse. Within an hour after using, the high would be gone and replaced with a sucking pain in my gut, […]
So my day started out like any other day! I just got out of school for the weekend. I had a lot of fun plans for that night. But before all of the fun could start, I had to go do my community service at the D.I. like I had to do every day after […]
02
May
May
People are suffering weeks of vomiting, memory loss and mood swings as they try to quit legal synthetic cannabis drugs, a Marlborough addiction counsellor says. Wairau Hospital addiction services youth addictions counsellor Francesca Bellingham said the service was seeing a big rise in the number of people reporting with problems from synthetic cannabis and wanting help. Clients reported psychotic episodes, seizures, severe vomiting, racing heart and feeling unable to stand after smoking the legal highs. One client reported “intense” memory loss and others had vomiting and feelings of intense emotions, crying and feeling overwhelmed while trying to […]