I am now 44 and have been smoking marijuana off and on since I was 15. I stopped smoking entirely from 1988 to 1998, but had been smoking casually since then - until last week.



A buddy of mine has been growing some high-grade hydroponic weed in his basement. I bought some from him numerous times, and it was the best stuff ever. Looked like it was straight out of High Times magazine. However, the batch that I got from him two weeks ago gave me the splitting headaches that so many of you on this thread have discussed. Last Sunday night I smoked a few hits of it, and my head started aching so badly that I came very close to going to the hospital. I was up all night with the headache, and it lingered for about three days. Even now I can feel it faintly, but it is almost gone. I haven't smoked anything now for five days.



This was the first time I ever got a headache from smoking weed in my life. I attribute the headaches to exactly what several of you have mentioned: Growth hormones that my friend used to make his weed grow faster. These growers can get greedy to come out with a new batch quickly, so they begin experimenting with different growth enhancing chemicals. They don't realize that by doing so they could cause people to have these horrible headaches - which several of you have said you are unable to get over even after you stopped smoking weed.



I've always wondered about the weed that I smoke. We truly don't know where most of it comes from. As far as we know it may be from Columbian fields that were sprayed with poisons such as paraquat. We're probably lucky that we're not dead. I think that I have smoked my final bong hit, and am going to say goodbye to my longtime friend. It's simply not worth risking my health over anymore.



As far as the people who have mocked those of you who have complained about these headaches - get a life! How foolish to come on here and try to tell us that we have experienced these headaches due to lack of drinking water. How many people do you know who get high without a drink in their hand? Have you ever heard of cottonmouth? DOH!!



I think I'm going to head over to the Marijuana Anonymous chat room located at http://ma-online.org/chat.html now. Hope to see some of you on there.

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