[peterwwillis]

It happened to me at DEFCON. I was drinking a lot, and I ate an entire bag of marijuana popcorn, and probably some other stuff. I blacked out, but the stuff people told me I was doing was pretty weird. The stuff I remember about the crazy ward I woke up in involves sobbing, screaming, and being absolutely certain that the doctors were getting ready to remove my organs and sell them on the black market. I tried to escape but I couldn't figure out where the exit was. In the morning when I was finally sane again, I had huge cuts and bruises all over and bloody knuckles. I was told later I tried to punch a very pretty medic in the casino my friends were fireman-carrying me through, so I can't imagine what I might have done to whomever brought me to the hospital.

To this day i've never felt anything as extremely horrifying, and I also now know what it feels like to resign yourself to death. Incidentally, for months afterward, heavy drinking resulted in word salad. Once I drank too much at a club and tried to walk out of south beach, because aliens had taken over the island. There might have been other substances involved but I don't remember.

I've never done a study of my own experiments with pot, but generally speaking if I took it by itself, I was fine, with the usually documented side-effects. Other times i've tried marijuana (typically with alcohol) i've ended up like others have mentioned: misinterpreting behavior or intentions of others in potentially bad ways. Luckily by that point I was aware that my mind would simply make shit up when I was on drugs, so I would just hide myself until the effects wore off.

Don't do drugs, kids.