I have spent plenty of time with weed. For a long time it was my intoxication of choice. It still has been something that has helped me when I am at my worst. I have been trying to get off of it at my pdoc's request. I don't have much experience with it interacting with meds as I am only a few months into treatment. However I was sensitive to what the weed did to me. It wasn't until I got into the medical marijuana system that I really got heavy into what weed I. I found that I could control my moods somewhat by varying the type that I used.

There are different varieties of marijuana plants out there. The basic types are Indica, Sativa, and a hybrid of those two. But with growers mixing the strains there is as much variety of flowers available as there are varieties in wine. At the dispensaries I could get the same thing I usually get or something completely different. I found over time that Indicas would help calm me when I was agitated. Sativas would help when I was depressed. I had to be very careful with hybrids because it was harder to know what I might be getting. Those could be more Sativa or Indica, just more unpredictable. I found some strains that would make me very paranoid, easily agitated. Over time, I started to think of it as something akin to wine tasting. Figure out each strain as I tried them. My now wife even made up a survey for people to take to ask where they felt to weed. Head, body, arms, legs, brain fuzzy/clear.

I have seen people take a couple hits and just freak out. Drinking makes that worse, and if I was smoking cigarettes too, it would end up in the spins.

I tried coke a couple times in college, just sent me into a horny mania but being unable to follow through because too much paranoia. I would just end up locking my self in my room. I also tried mushrooms 3 times. The first time was at a private beach to residents in Malibu. 3 of my friends and I then tripped all day on the beach. We all had complete euphoria for hours, visual hallucinations, but a good time. The second trip I was more anxious and paranoid. I kept jumping between paranoid andeuphoric. I had to be really careful what I was thinking. My friend who had just gone through a breakup had a horrible trip. Just paranoid and depressed. The third trip was all paranoia. The only good that came from it was performance enhancing skills at Mario Kart that night.

I learned that I couldn't handle intense psychedelics A friend talked me into trying Salvia, it was like having a whole mushroom trip in 5 minutes. That was a mind trip!