DOSE:

0.5 g

oral

Cannabis

(tea)

BODY WEIGHT:

73 kg

Before writing this, I have to make a premise. I know the dose of cannabis that I took was very low, yet it had still a potent effect. Maybe it's because I dropped acid months before this happened, I don't know. I decided to share this particular experience because I couldn't imagine before such a strong psychedelic side of cannabis, and I think it can be useful to somebody. In other words, I'm posting this for harm reduction, because people tend to underestimate the power of cannabis. I will sometimes compare the things I was experiencing with the feelings that I had during my previous 150ug LSD trip in order to explain, in my very subjective opinion, why I say I experienced the psychedelic side of the plant. One of the lessons that I learned from that day is not to underestimate the power of a substance, even if it's usually compared as a very light drug.

This had been my first time consuming cannabis orally. I decided to make a weed tea by boiling some cannabutter right after lunch, so the THC (being not soluble in pure water) could dissolve into the butter. It was friday, and I thought it would have been a good time to make this experience because I didn't have to go to school for the rest of the day.

15.15: I finish to drink my cup, and I obviously don't feel anything for the moment.

15.45: I feel a little stoned, the effects are quite similar to the ones that I used to feel when smoking cannabis. I laugh and I tend to stare blindly at the objects that stand in front of me.

16.15: The effects had vanished, and I thought this was the end of a disappointing experience. I decide to study a little.

17.15: Here begins the actual experience. I am sitting at my desk, and I start to feel like my body is turning into a very hard, glassy material. It feels like my feet are generating some high-voltage electricity that flows through my entire body, and I start feeling like my body and my mind are transmuting into some alien-like entities. I look at my hands and arms, but I can't recognize them; I decide so to stare at myself at the mirror, but I neither can't recognize my image. I thought 'well, this already happened to me on acid', but it was quite different for the body load: this time I'm having tactile hallucinations, like my body is turning into hard steel.

17.40-18.15: The effects are becoming overwhelming, so I decide to go to bed in order to better observe my thoughts and to learn something from the experience. The body load doesn't disappear for the entire experience: I have few periodicals muscle spasms. After a while I completely loose connection with reality, when I open my eyes I can't recognize my own bedroom. I start panicking a little when I look at the clock because I know my parents will soon arrive home, and I thought before that I would have been perfectly OK for the time of their arrival. I'm not sleeping, yet it feels like my daydreaming is so strong that it replaces reality. My visual hallucinations are influenced by the things that I hear around me. I start feeling my mind turning into some child-like mindset, and I think 'the mind of a child seems pretty simple, when compared to my usual state of mind. That's the difference: you experience things in a much simpler and stronger way, you don't relativise your emotions or your thoughts with other experiences'.

Then I start experiencing something completely new for me: my hallucinations are starting to recall very precise moments of my life, I start to see the people that used to have a strong impact on my life, but I see them only one at a time with some background music, just like it is at the end of a movie, where the credits begin to show the main characters with the name of the actors. I see both 'good' and 'bad characters', and I sometimes see them as the archetypal perception that my inner child-like subconscious use to experience. I think that 'these perceptions that I'm having very well resume the essence of the person, in both its bodily and soul features'. I soon think that 'I won't be normal ever again' and all of that paranoid thoughts that I used to experience when high on acid, but this not being the first time that I was experiencing these thoughts, I could manage to limit the panic I was having. I think 'it's just the weed, you'll be back to reality within hours, so try to enjoy and actually learn something from this'. Time becomes to slow down: I frequently look at the clock, but I can't understand what time is it. I feel like my bed is my emergency raft in this psychedelic 'madness': if I cling to it and wait, I'll be safe in the end.

18.20: My mother enters home and greets me: I somehow explain that I'm feeling particularly tired after one week of bad quality sleep (which was the truth, because I was going through a period of high school final exams). I hear my voice like it's traveling all across the infinity of the universe. I then start to feel every muscle and every nerve of my body as I breathe and move. My mouth is turning really dry, my hands and foot and nose are becoming ice-cold, even though it was the end of April. I start to see again moments and emotions of my entire life, and while I observe these scenarios, I try to tell myself 'this is the lesson behind this past experience'. Sadly I don't remember much about this part of the trip (while I still can recall many things that I felt during my acid trip), but I do remember a few of them. For example, I understand that I must spend more quality time with my little sister, otherwise our relationship will start falling apart. I must not be so judgmental towards other people. I must find back my courage and risk more in my life, obviously in a smart way and only to gain the things I long to. I mustn't be scared for all of the changes that will soon come, like choosing where to study at university (I live in a country in which my language is a very minority, so I'll have to live and study in another language, which isn't similar to mine), not knowing where I'll bet sent for my obligatory military duty. I realize that I can do all of these things one at a time, day by day, and that all of the fear comes by thinking of my entire future life, which is being made by the present moment, so what do I have to worry about?

19.30-20.15: My sister tells me that dinner is ready. I'm still tripping, yet I force myself out of bed, I'm still interacting with reality in auto-pilot mode. This makes me think that maybe we really don't have any free will, and I'm thinking about Hume's philosophy, which is too long to explain in this report. The point of the matter is that our choices entirely depend on our past experiences and the ones of our ancestors (in other words, on our genes). Otherwise I couldn't explain myself how did I manage to take a very basic conversation during dinner's time. When I eat, I can feel my food going through my esophagus and entering my stomach. This had been for me a common feeling even when smoking cannabis. I don't eat much, and I excuse myself out of the room by saying that I'm going to have a shower. While I'm showering my father arrives home, he greets me briefly and then goes to eat dinner.

20.15-21.30: During this time I start to come down, after lying in bed a little, I 'wake up'. I still have mental hallucinations, but now I can recognize my room and myself, and the body load starts to lessen. I see some faint 'little, electric visual fractals' in the shape of a circle in front of the objects I'm looking at.

22.00: I decide to sit on the couch of our living room and I read a little, I now feel tired.

22.30: I decide to go to sleep. I say everyone goodnight and I lay again in my bed. I still have some crazy dreams, but this time I'm actually sleeping.

The day after I get a little bit of a hangover: my reasoning is more difficult and slower to conclude, and even though I slept 12 whole hours I feel tired. Eventually it fades away during the evening, but I'll have to wait another day to fully recover to baseline.

Exp Year: 2016	ExpID: 108369
Gender: Male
Age at time of experience: 19
Published: Oct 31, 2025	Views: Not Supported
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