In the public imagination, people don’t understand the severity of weed freak-outs. jessesingal writes
Can’t talk, coming down. Photo: Michael Reaves/Getty Images When news broke that Miami Heat shooting guard Dion Waiters had had a panic attack that sent him to the hospital as a result of a marijuana gummy, I initially reacted the way the rest of the internet did: by making jokes about it.
Since this is an endlessly politicized subject on which it’s easy to get misunderstood, let me throw my anti-anti-weed-hysteria bona fides on the table: I’ve written and edited a number of stories about how harmful the war on pot has been over the years, which have debunked questionable claims when they’ve popped up. The United States is just now emerging from a tragic period during which its marijuana policy has been insane — that’s the only word that really describes it.
Until: When I was 20 or so, I had a pair of genuinely terrifying experiences while home from college. They were basically protracted panic attacks in which I experienced serious derealization — something had shifted suddenly, and reality became significantly less concrete. I’d never experienced anything like it. Other people’s weed freak-outs spark fears of heart attacks and the like, which is why people end up in the hospital.
I think normalizing and destigmatizing this sort of experience really is key. While we don’t have the details, it’s almost certainly the case that Waiters went to the hospital because his freak-out felt so physically severe he was convinced something was dangerously wrong with his body.
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