Experiences - Marijuana... The Best Hangover Cure?

[DiiZZy_D]

Everymorning after a long night of drinking i always wake up with a mad hangover... So i typically roll a fat joint or pack a nice bowl and smoke it to myself, and just like that my hangover seems to either be forgoten or just goes away. I swear by this and think that Marijuana is the foolproof hanghover cure... What are ur guys opinions on this????

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Avoid self-incrimination

[shanesmith7]

there was a recent news report parlaying the efficacy of mj in protecting parts of the brain from binge drinking.

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please elaborate next time...

[EscapeDummy]

Yep... so it seems to be backed up both scientifically and anecdotally. A lot of people here report similar experiences!

[chAos]

Swim thinks cannabis doesn't really "cure" hangovers. It just puts swim in a mindframe where he doesn't care anymore . Gbl cures hangovers in swims opinion (not that he has much experience with it).

edit: Since swim is sober these days (except for the occasional drinking spree) he just has to endure hangovers or take painkillers , which works as well.

[dj lovejoy]

I while I am happy it works for some.
swim thinks it just = a hangover + more stupor....

[I<3Salvia]

Swim finds weed a good hangover remedy in general. It may not necessarily protect one from the effects of whatever you did the night before, but it will sure help you feel better and allow you to complete your functions for the rest of the day, or sleep and recuperate, whichever you choose.

[RedBaron]

Weed seems to help with the comedown for sure but only for a limited time . Baron finds it will help by getting his mind focused on other things but as soon as you burn out it just amplifies the hangover you already have by adding the factor of fatigue. On a positive note, it does seem to get rid of the nauseous feeling when ya first wake up after a night of drinking.

[chillinwill]

Please see this news article on Cannabis protects brain from the damages of binge drinking

[rawbeer]

Depends on the hangover - a really bad one will just get worse, but the pot may help you sleep (but you'll awake groggy as shit). Sometimes, it just makes the hangover more groggy, confusing, etc.
But a minor, run of the mill, saturday morning hangover will be banished by the smoke in general. But over the years swim has learned to feel it out - sometimes you just have to accept what you've done to yourself, drink some water, and suffer.
The only real hangover cure is to drink more alcohol - this strategy leads to alcoholism. So in light of that, yes, weed is the best.

[vantranist]

For swim the only real hangover cure is simple more booze!

A bad habit it becomes too.

[sykes]

Marijuana is good for everything.

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This isn't really a helpful - or accurate - post.

[EscapeDummy]

"Marijuana protects the brain against binge drinking"

Here: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98586


seems to confirm what we've all been saying.

[damacles]

A much better hangover cure is to ingest plenty of B vitamins and water before you sleep.

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Yes, prevention is a good strategy.

[Josh88]

Swim finds that a really bad hangover will be made worse from blazing. But it helps with nausea in the morning. Small hangovers on the other hand are "cured" when blazing.

[cra$h]

Going by this logic, (almost) any drug can be a hangover cure. Swim would imagine some K, coke, speed, opiates, etc would be great. Pretty much anything but psychedelics. But hell, who knows? Maybe it'll work for some people. It's pretty much distracting the brain from the hangover by simply over powering it. In this case a drug.

Want to know the best cure? Another drink. Haha, but really, a drink or two will knock out the hangover and help ease you back into sobriety. But other than that the only real way to cure a hangover is plenty of vitamin B, and even more water, Water, WATER!

[gmeziscool2354]

swim feels that a users DOC will always be a great hangover cure. swim has about 30,000 drugs of choice, so this provides a wonderful of chemical hangover cures

[rawbeer]

Jack Kerouac once used psilocybin to cure a hangover and claimed it worked. Doesn't sound fun to me. And as for coke, well, coca cola was sold as a hangover cure years ago.
For SWIM, another drink works for a short while, but ultimately will just put the hangover off for a while - it comes back, sometimes worse. It's best to take any pain you're due for as it comes. To put it off...well, think of it like work. Keep putting off work, and soon you'll have 20 jobs that need to get done TODAY. Avoiding suffering just creates a backlog.
Every hangover cure is just a mask, and even getting drunk again only masks the hangover, its a different buzz than just fresh booze into a healthy system. Hangovers cannot be cured, only prevented (vitamin B and water are prevention, not cure.)
That said, THC makes a fine mask.

[Guttz]

Swim used to find marijuana by far the best cure for hang overs. After a night out with some speed or coke in the mix. Swim has to say that weed is by far the best hang over medicine he's gotten his hands on so far. But after he started smoking he's kind of stopped drinking. He hasn't gotten drunk in around 3 months and is quite happy about it. Weed is just so much better then alcohol.

[branderson925]

Love the morning after blunt after a night of partying. Don't know if it is better than the goodnight blunt after drinking/before passing out/smashing

[Bajeda]

If my panda smoked cannabis hungover he would just crawl back into bed. It never really helped him that he could tell, but the panda rarely gets hangovers and when he does they are of the ultra-strength variety. Cannabis just makes him more disoriented and still suffering, though a nice indica that could knock him out might have been ok.

Mentioned this in the Hangover Cure thread, but Piracetam + Choline is by far the best hangover treatment my panda has tried.

The choline is really essential. If you don't have it handy, just eating a bunch of eggs will help boost stores. I think most people are choline-deficient anyways, so wouldn't hurt.

Honey helps to quell nausea, and proper hydration is necessary of course.

But yeah, cannabis is far from the best hangover cure, though a LOW dose of indica might be helpful for a mild presentation of hangover symptoms.

Originally Posted by EscapeDummy

"Marijuana protects the brain against binge drinking"

Here: http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98586


seems to confirm what we've all been saying.

The study doesn't mention hangovers whatsoever. For all we know the results could be due to people drinking less alcohol when smoking cannabis, or binging less frequently because they are busy smoking.

Would be careful reading too much into these things, especially based off news articles reporting on the study, since the media gets its story wrong - or more often just misleading or exaggerated - so much of the time when it comes to scientific reports.

[podge]

Marijuana can be an excellent addition to curing a hangover but it wont do it alone. For swim its gotta be in this order : Toilet to remove all things unneeded from the body, then a shower, then breakfast - then marijuana. This usually does the trick. If swim is badly hungover and has a spliff before all of these it isnt nearly as effective and can sometimes temporarily make the hangover worse.