Bad hash reaction?

[Cuberun]

I got some fairly poor rock brown, decided not to smoke it as I wanted to get wasted and it's easier to just make tea of it then. As I normally do I took about 1.5-2g.
After about 1.5 hours the normal stuff happened, slow onset of being stoned. Then my legs were really starting to feel restless, like the onset of spasms. At 2hours+ I was having real bad spasms, pounding heart and my mind kept slipping into short illusions. I couldn't really stand or sit long, it was very hard to swallow a zip of water. I'm not sure for how long this lasted, it's hard to remember much but it was a fairly horrible experience. I've never had this before even from smoking excessive amounts.

[Nature Boy]

It might not have even been the hash, but then again if "rock brown" is soapbar, you wouldn't know what's been mixed through it to cause that reaction.

Here's some info I dug up on soap:

CANNABIS RESIN IS RARELY PURE, SO WHAT CRAP ARE PEOPLE SMOKING?


Mark Pilkington:

The best quality hashish, like Indian charas, should contain only cannabis resins, taken from the glands of the female plant. Such quality merchandise is very hard to come by however, and most hash is cut to some degree.

The precise dangers of dodgy dope are fast becoming apparent thanks to a study at the University of Edinburgh. Here chemists are examining the contents of "soap", or "soapbar", a primarily Moroccan hashish that is common in the UK and the rest of Europe. In France, where soap is very common, it's known as "Chernobyl" due to its foul chemical makeup. Some of the soap analysed contained as little as 10 per cent resin. Other constituents included boot polish, beeswax, turpentine, henna, ground coffee, vinyl, motor oil, glue, dyes, animal shit, milk powder pine resin, aspirin, ketamine and potentially carcinogenic solvents like Toluene and Benzene. Side effects of these last two potentially lethal chemicals include fatigue, nausea, weakness and confusion. These can be followed by spasms, tremors, slurred speech, loss of hearing, vision and memory, poor coordination and liver and kidney damage. Continuous use can result in Led Zeppelin abuse, and, in extreme cases, chronic addiction to late Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. You have been warned.

Credit: www.bizarremag.com

[Woodman]

Originally Posted by rkard

... my legs were really starting to feel
restless, like the onset of spasms. At 2hours+ I was
having real bad spasms,
... I couldn't really stand or sit long, it was very hard to
swallow a zip of water.
...it was a fairly horrible experience.

It used to happen to me too. I found it became more
pronounced when I drank coffee and figure it mudst
have something to do with the caffine.

For me, this was the beginning of the end as I could
no longer smoke without experiencing unpleasent
physical and psychological sensations.

[Cuberun]

I used to be a caffeine addict but I stopped drinking coffee months ago. I don't know what whoever put in that hash but I'm sure never going to gamble again. It's a shame that there's no decent stuff available, cannabis ingestion can be really great and lasts long.

[Solidly-here]

Good hash ... bad hash. Try them both.


Probably 99% of the Hash out there is just fine. I have been fortunate; all of my experience has been with the 99%. I have heard of getting the 1% (and now rkard joined that group, too). Probably this will never happen again (it hasn't for my Friend, anyway). She had her bad hash in 1992, and she smokes Hashish almost exclusively. Her time lasted about 2 hours, and she had spasms and difficulty swollowing too.


What I do is, Rack it up to Experience. I have faith that (almost) all the time I will get what I want. When that day comes (and I end up with a tainted mess), I will wait for the effects to wear off (and probably mix it up with my favorite High-grade Strain).


Then, (unless I happen to know someone who I really don't like), I will happily toss the rest of it out. Oh well, Live and Learn.


If and when Hashish becomes legal, I will buy mine at the local pharmacy, knowing that it is pure. Until that day, Uncle Sam wants me to buy it elsewhere ... so, I buy it elsewhere.Edited by: Solidly-here

[Nature Boy]

Originally Posted by Solidly-here

Probably 99% of the Hash out there is just fine.*

Not in our part of the world. Most hash in UK & Ireland is extremely contaminated and is frankly, unsmokable to average person with decent smoking standards.

[Cuberun]

Yea, there's some great hash out there I just love the smell and how it crumbles up
I have to agree with liam on the situation in UK & IRE. I think I've been lucky so far only ingesting hash which didn't have too much of the "bad stuff". I smoke most of it but I believe that when you just smoke this stuff you don't get too much of the crap in your system. As opposed to taking 2grams orally.

In all of the other European countries I've been to the hash has been so much better.