From: lemay@netcom.com (Laura Lemay)
Subject: two mj questions
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:59:55 GMT


Two questions --


In the bay area recently, I've been hearing a lot of rumors about
"Stanford weed."  From culling together all the rumors, this stuff
is being produced somewhere at Stanford in conjunction with the
medicinal marijuana movement in SF (which isn't legal yet, as far 
as I know, which I why I mistrust this rumor).  The main quality of
this stanford weed is that its *strong.*  People who I know who have
cliamed to have had Stanford weed say that a single hit is enough
to leave you heavily stoned for hours

Has anyone in the bay area run across this stuff?  Does anyone happen
to know if its really from Stanford, or if its just a really good
batch of weed floating through the area?


My second question is sort of related.  I was fortunate enough to
be given a small bud of what my friend described as "really good pot."
she warned me that only a small bit of this pot would do the job.

I smoked perhaps two thirds of it over a two week period (I'm a
really casual pot smoker), and didn't notice that it was especially
strong.  But I never smoked that much of it at a time.

Until a couple days ago, when I finished off the bud with my boyfriend.
He hadn't smoked in a number of years, but we figured that there 
simply wasn't enough of the bud left to go overboard.

We each had about four hits a piece -- and small hits, not massive
brain-clogging breathing smoke for three days afterwards hits.

In about twenty minutes I found myself completely and utterly unable
to move.  Apathy is one thing with pot, but this was almost like
*physical* paralyzation.  Shortly after that the hallucinations started --
the crutains across the room were moving, and so was the carpet.  I
have never had hallucinations on pot.  The spins set in soon afterward,
which were ok to deal with as long as I didn't close my eyes.  Also,
time started to slow down and do strange things, almost exactly the
way it does when I'm on nitrous.  I had never noticed any time distortions
of this sort while stoned (except that its a great way to waste it :)

It was about that time (maybe half an hour after the last hit) that my
boyfriend announced that he wasn't feeling well and when I questioned
him more and more he got more and more panicked.  He's no stranger to
pot -- when he was in school (Humboldt State, no less) he was a severe
pothead.  He claimed afterwards that he was almost certain that he was
going to die, and had to keep repeating to himself that no one ever
died from pot.  I tried to reassure him, but his freaking out was
making me freak out.  He finally just slid off the couch onto the
floor and lay with his head down.  I coulndt get him to move anywhere,
and finally I just gave up since it was so hard to get *me* to move
anywhere.

It was another half an hour before either of us could move.  We went
directly to bed, and both of us had nasty nightmares all night. 
We compared notes in the morning, and he had much the same symptoms
that I had -- paralysis, visual and audio halluncintations, time
distortion...

Both of us are very experienced with pot in all strengths.  But this
was far above and beyond either of our exerpeiences, and it *wasn't*
pleasant.  I began to get a nagging feeling that the pot had been
coated with something.  But it looked and smelled just like pot,
and the first few tiems I smoked it nothing as dramatic happened.

So I draw upon the wisdom of the net -- did we just happen upon some
*really* strong pot?  Is this what's supposed to happen in extreme
amounts?  Or was it treated with something, and if so, what?

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Laura Lemay                              lemay@netcom.com
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