So I smoked for the first time and it made me freak out.

First of all relax, this has probably happened to 99% of the guys and girls who smoke cannabis. Let me give you the lo-down on what is going on in your body in order to assauge your mind:

THC drops blood pressure because it is a strong vaso-dilator. It expands your blood vessells. This in turn lowers your blood pressure, not by a super amount, but enough that your heart decides to beat faster and harder. You probably experienced a heart rate between 90 and 140 bpm. This sudden increase in heart rate, unexplainable to your subconscious mind initiated a flight or fight response, basically you had a mild panic attack, and with that the chemical cocktail that your body dumps during one of those, which then caused your heart rate, to probably, increase further, or for it to stay at that sustained level, freaking you out more, and more.

With that out of the way here's the kicker. This is absolutely, 100% harmless for a human who is physiologically normal and healthy. You will not die from, what is medically called, sinus tachycardia without some serious underlaying pathology. You have a higher risk of dying from jogging.

You smoked a little too much. My advice is to start with a joint. Take two or three small tokes. Wait about 15 minutes.

One of the first times I smoked cannabis, really strong hash, when I was 15 it trigger and underlaying heart condition called SVT, more specially atypical AVNRT; a very harmless, but quite terrifying condition. My heart rate went from resting to around 220 bpm. It felt like bees where buzzing in my chest. The hospital had to inject me with a drug called adenosine. This compound resets your heart. It stops it. Then it starts beating again at a normal rate heres a video, its actually pretty cool. Now imagine being stoned out of your mind, with a heart rate in the high 200s, and then your heart stops. That being said my condition is now cured, via RF ablation. I did not die. I've hate multiple episodes before being cured, I never once passed out, never fell over, never felt dizzy. Humans are really, really fucking hard to kill, your body does not want to die, there are redundancies after redundances that keep you alive.

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