If you can be allergic to grass, why can;t you be allergic to "grass"? Several people have bodys the reject the chemical found in marijuana smoke.

I'm not sure if you can be 'allergic' to pot, but i have seen some first timers throw up and have really bad trips.

Actually, yes you can. As it happens I found this out the hard way. When I was younger, I smoked marijuana and got hives and a swollen throat. At first I thought it was a fluke because it was the first time I did it. Then FI continued to smoke I had the same reactions over and over again. I won't tell you how I remedied it, but to let you know it is possible.

I have been smoking marijuana for about 7 or 8 years now, and I cannot breathe to well out of my nose. I have allergies to many things and I am not sure if marijuana is one of them. I have quit smoking weed for 3 days now and I have an operation called a turbinoctomy coming up, I don't have any throat problems but sometimes after i eat my nose feels even more blocked up then it was before i ate.

OK, for those that do not think that people can be allergic to "pot" get a fucking clue... there are people that are allergic to peanuts, mushrooms and all sorts of things. I personally am allergic to marijuana... the first time I smoked it I went in to anaphylactic shock... meaning my throat closed up and I could not breath. Breathing is kind of important to this thing we call life... once you stop breathing you stop living. Since 1987 when I had that first episode I have run into stupid fucking potheads that say "you're lying there is no way that a person is allergic to pot". I have had 5 instances where these inconsiderate potheads had tried to test whether or not I am... and all 5 times I have found myself back in the hospital. Would you feed peanuts to someone that is allergic to them ?? or how about shellfish ?? so why in fucking hell would anyone test whether someone is allergic to marijuana ?? that is just plain fucking stupid. I suspect that everyone that has posted here say "there is no way that a person can be allergic to pot" is a pothead... to you I say grow up, and get a fucking life.

I am definitely allergic to Marijuana; when I smoke it, my nasal passages swell up and close. That doesn't stop me, it just makes me use Afrin.

of course you can. you can be allergic to almost anything. but most things only endanger a limited number of people. Marijuana does physical and mental damage even to those who are not allergic to it.

ive smoked for a cupple years and last thanksgiving i ended up pukeing then sezurs and eventually passed out. i though i ate something bad so ivesmoked up a few times sence and the same results sence

Sure, but the body's repsonse is sometimes different. It's not like sneezing, but you may get some adverse effects like nervousness, and even hallucinations. This is very rare however.

yes you can, and it hurts and sucks real bad

yes you can, and it hurts and sucks real bad

sure. You can be allergic to specific types of plants, to entire classifications.

I've heard a lot of people tell me they had bad reactions while smoking weed. One woman at a job I had told me she had to re rushed to the emergency room. It is a psychoactive drug the THC and it can react differently in people. It may not be right for someone at all, all moral issues aside.

I think I was. The few times I've tried it, it made me horribly sick and dizzy, even in very small doses. I hate it.

Yes they can.

I know of two people who had severe adverse reactions to marijuana. One became highly agitated and suicidal (because of hallucination) until the drug wore off, and the other person also becaume very excited and had an extremely unpleasant reaction.

I started smoking pot when I was 12 and had no problem with it until I was 15. I was smoking the usual amount of the usual weed, and within a minute after smoking one day, I noticed my pulse was fast and weak and that I was feeling dizzy and nauseous. I just figured I was getting sick or something. But it happened the next time I smoked pot, even after just a single hit. Then, a few weeks later, I smoked about 3 hits and, next thing I know, my pulse was going so fast that I couldn't count it. I was shaking uncontrollably and felt cold even though it was a hot summer day. I threw up. I had diarrhea. My skin turned pale and bluish. I ended up in the emergency room with doctors asking me what drugs I had used. They didn't believe I had just smoked weed. But that was all I had done, and it was the same weed all my friends and I had been smoking for months, and no one else had a similar reaction. I want to punch people who say, "You were just having a panic attack." Trust me, I smoked a lot of very good weed during my early teen years (initially without any allergic reaction), and have tried many other drugs since then, and I know what paranoia and panic are like. This was a very physical, real, allergic response. One doctor likened it to anaphylaxis, but said he couldn't confirm it because there was no legal way to test me for it. Peanuts, shellfish, and certain other foods cause anaphylactic shock in about 6% of the population, but any substance can potentially be the cause. If marijuana were decriminalized, maybe someone could do some research on this!

It isn't common but yes. If you can be allergic to the sun then you can defiantly be allergic to a plant. The degree of severity can be different for everyone, some people are just allergic to the plant matter. If this is the case vaporization can be used instead of smoking. When vaporizing the plant matter won't burn.

being 'HIGH' is the effect of having an allergic reation to any known drug legal or illegal, that's what it is so yes you can be allergic to it, if it affects you, you are allergic in some form or another to it.

Yes, I am. I started again after many years of not smoking. I start with a rash, that gets worse, and worse until i take a break for a while. If i smoke everyday, the rash seems to get progressively worse, i think it builds up in my system. Its great for stress relief, i just have to find a way to beat this allergy. Someone posting here said they found a way around it. If thats true id give anything to find out how they did it. Im in the medical field and havnt found a solution yet. Someone please help!!!!!!

I can smoke all day every day and be just fine but if I ever actually physically handle the plant I break out terribly. It's way worse than poison ivy. I have heard that a lot of people are allergic to the plant matter of marijuana and not the THC. That seems to be my case. Anyway, if you break out from weed, just try not to touch it and see what happens. And, I always wash my hands really well after I smoke just in case.

i am severly allergic to even the smallest particals of pot or the residue. if i come near it i could die in under five minutes becuase my entire respitory system shuts down. so the answer is yes, you can be allergic to pot

of course its possible- you can be allergic to pretty much anything! i've smoked weed for a long time coming on 15 years and over that time at different low points in my health weed has affetced me differently. Firstly you could just be allergic to weed full stop, touching it, smoking it, eating it etc- then i advise finding another drug! You could also just be allergic to touching it (skin allergy) but be able to smoke fine. It which case use a grinder & DONT roll up on your bed where your gonna lay in it all night! The other possiblity is that smoking may irritate and/or cause swelling etc this could be an allergic reaction or it could just be that your body dont like you smoking- try a cigar see if you get the same results- if you react the same try cooking it! start with pot butter- then pretty much put it in anything you wanna eat- see below http://www.smokingwithstyle.com/potbutter.htm i've tried pretty much everyway of doing weed, when i get a cold and or tonsilitis which i am prone to i cook it, if i'm feeling fine i smoke it and if i'm feeling unbreakable i bong that fucker fine style :-) peace to all fellow chongers!

i think the thing that most of you missed is the regular allergies from the pollen that you are smoking on the weed. there is a large amount of people that have seasonal allergies to plant pollen and it's basically the same thing. there is a ton of in the bud of a plant and since thats usually what people smoke you could just imagine. a lot of people tend to get cold-like symptoms after they smoke and this is why.

look ive sat here and read all this bullshit you fucking pussies are spilling out all at once there have been many many many studies done over the years and there is nothing NOTHING in pot for anyone to be (allergic) to it is what the dealer adds to your stash that you are allergic to, and as for pablopaul yeah same ol shit right yea try some new maybe your pussy ass system could handle something new..i am so sick of hear this fucking bullshit if any of you paranoid psychopaths can find any PROF scientific PROF feel free to get ahold of me mongo6696@yahoo.com

Here is my problem (im tagging on with another question) i live in a basement apartment of a bungalo. My landlady upstairs claims to be deathly allergic to smoke. I do NOT smoke cigarettes inside the house. Never have. I do hit my bong many times a day inside though (i exhale through a bounty-blower, use inscense, block off the vent, have a window open with a fan pointed to it, THE WORKS) Obviously i am a paranoid stoner. NOW! After a year living there, i get a 'note' put under my door, asking me and my brother to stop smoking inside the house. Perhaps it was because we were getting lazy with opening the window in winter, and the weed we just got was a bit stinky, but, lets just say a little bit of 'bountied' weed smoke gets through and finds its way up the plugged vent.... is this enough to have a negative effect on her proposed 'smoke allergies' (which might only be with cigarette smoke). bottom line -- am i going to accidentally kill my landlady?

It is a very real possibility. I am severely allergic to the stuff. Like full blown anaphylaxis and have to be carted off by the paramedics, if they make it there in time to save me, if I go near someone smoking it. And if I touch the raw stuff or anything made with it, like lotions, makeup, bags, clothing, or necklaces, I break out in hives and my throat starts to swell shut. For whatever reason people never believe me and want to test it and now anyone who does I turn them in and press charges, I am sick of being sent to the hospital because someone just wanted to see if it could happen. Avoid going near it because the reaction can become worse every time, I would recommend staying away from it as much as you can to save yourself from the troubles and possibility down the road of it becoming life treating like mine has. If it does get worse you will have a hell of a time finding a doctor who will prescribe an Epi-pen for this allergy, if you can find one at all because there is no test for it. And DO NOT use Benadryl as a solution to just cover up the symptoms because it will eat your stomach and some people can develop an allergy to Benadryl, not only that you can do irreparable damage to your body by continuing to let yourself be exposed to something you are allergic to. It sucks but you gotta make a choice marijuana or your life. Also for anyone who want to test if someone is allergic when they say they are not only is it childish to try but you are putting their life on the line. And with a good enough lawyer you can be tried for attempted murder and be convicted, and if they die you will be tried for first degree murder.

Why does the plant produce THC in the first place? I suspect it is trying to protect itself in some way... like nettles? Maybe it is just trying to get humans to cultivate it! I'm not surprised a minority of people have some allergic reaction... just like any other plant.

I used to smoke out for years on a daily basis. Then one day I got so dizzy I blacked out, fell and broke my jaw in the fall. I had no idea why, just figured I had smoked some killer weed and got super stoned. I continued to smoke out and continued to get complete black outs. So dizzy and sick I couldnt move for an hour. My lips would turn completely blue and my skin was white as snow. LITERALLY. The dizzy and spins were far worse then any night out drinking when youre hugging the toilet. FINALLY I realized it only happened when I smoked my beloved weed. So very very reluctantly I quit. I had to. I didnt have a choice. So, yes. You CAN be allergic to pot. Maybe you dont start out that way, but you develop an allergy to it over time, just like any other allergy. And I've missed my fresh beautiful buds every day for 10 years since.

I'm Allergic to marijuana too. I smoked almost daily from the age of 15 to 16 and a half. Then one day my friends and I packed a bowl and I took a few big hits and a minute or two later my hands were cold, I could barely breathe, and I was shaking so bad I thought I would seizure. The mental effects were also a lot crazier, I kept thinking I was going to die and feeling like I was out of sync with everyone. I continued to get high despite this fact though even though it was extremely uncomfortable. Now I don't smoke pot because of my negative experiences. I don't care if my friends do it around me but I won't do it!

Sure it is. :-) Sucks , huh? :-)

Yes.

I have been suspecting an allergy to marijuana for the last couple of years, as much as I don't want to believe it. I've smoked for over 20 yrs and thought I'd never quit. The pot is so different these days. I get a strange feeling someone is growing the stuff with unsafe chemicals we haven't found out about yet. My friends think I'm crazy to be so paranoid. Well what the hell is paraquat or however you spell the name of that chemical they were putting on the marijuana crops some years ago. So what if the weed isn't yellow to indicate is was sprayed with the stuff. What about chemical warfare? The Mexicans want to take over this country; They demonstrated that in all the big city streets not so long ago. It's not enough for our country to be weakend by the drug itself. Could it be the addition of deathly chemicals making us allergic and feeling like you're going to die of a heart attack? My other symtoms are simular to the previous complaints. I'm ready to quit the stuff now. I'm also hearing about the stuff causing teens to develope skitsophrenia for life, not long after they start smoking. It doesn't sound good my friends.

if you are really lucky, yes

I now believe that you can be allergic to pot. I have had it for years and just now figured out the cause. Here is the short version of a very long story. I recently have had some very bad episodes of chest pain, short of breath, dizziness, nausea and over all crappy feeling. This happened only after smoking pot. I went to the doc and had a stress test and lung function test. All came out perfect. After that, the light bulb came on that it could be the pot trigering the symptoms. Found out on line that other people were having the same symptoms. Anyway, it was then that I knew it had to be the allergies. I started back on over the counter allergy meds (Antihistamine/Diphenhydramine HCL, 25 mg)generic allergy medication and all the symptoms went away! I'm not saying that this is the cure for everyone, but this is what does it for me. I can now smoke my pot symptom free and get to the business of why I smoked it in the first place. Good luck to everyone with a marijuana allergy. Find an allergy med that works for you.

Absolutely. I am severely allergic to marijuana. My throat closes up, my breathing gets very labored, my vision swims, and if I inhale it directly, I start coughing up blood. This is also hereditary in my family, as my mother and my grandmother have the same allergy. It makes it very difficult living in college dorms, and I think it would be very awkward going to the doctor asking for an EpiPen "in case I run into weed." Feh.

yes you might get hungry

I'm sure somewhere there is someone allergic to it

Yes people can be allergic to anything.

I'm sure there's some components in it that people can be allergic to indeed, but don't ask me to name them.

Sure it's possible to be allergic to all sorts of things. Heck, I am allergic to Texas! Okay not really but...haha