The Dangers of Combining Alcohol and Marijuana

This sounds like it is potentially dangerous to everyone but it is mostly pointed towards new/young users.
I have never seen this occur in the drug addicts I knew, and I knew a lot of them.

I've been drinking beer and smoking weed together for 47 rs. No problems here. And i enjoy it. Looking forward to marijuana being legal here in NY soon.

I combine marijuana and alcohol in responsible amounts almost daily and I find it to be a peaceful interaction. The marijuana taken in small amounts with a couple cocktails spaced apart and a meal in between drinks is gentle enough for my body. When I smoke or vaporize marijuana it helps me pace myself with the drinking. As far as for weed preventing vomiting, most people aren't drinking enough to need to throw up. I know a lot marijuana users and none of them are binge drinkers. The interaction you are describing sounds like it is targeted to young people who are new to drinking and have no sense of moderation. Perhaps you should mention in your article that not every combined drinker/marijuana user will face these problems when common sense and moderation is applied.

Ive been drinking and smoking together since i was 18, i used to go out as high as ever, while driving.... drink all night til like 2 or 3, drive home with no problem, get even higher.. and go to sleep.. the only times i ever pued was when i drank way too much, im 20 years old now, never had a trip experience, neither have i ever became ill from smoking weed, but im tired of them both now, i even caused myself a stomach ucler so im gonna take a 6 months break.. my brain really needs it.. btw does anybody think 6 months without drinking and smoking is enough to feel a difference? i just feel really cloudy and dull

puked* not pued sorry

Everybody is different I guess. But it happened to me. I drank before I smoked. I did not drink enough to give me alcohol poisoning, but enough to make me pretty drunk. I thought I only had two bowls but apparently I had more than that. It became hard for me to walk and my boyfriend guided me to the car. When we got home he had to carry me because I couldn't walk. Then I started panicking hysterically. I felt so nautious and I couldn't puke. I was trembling and crying one minute and laughing the next. My boyfriend tried to calm me down but it was like he wasn't even there. I felt like I was going to die. Finally I threw up and it lasted for hours. It was a constant cycle of me throwing up, passing out, him waking me up, me panicking, and throwing up again.

Not long ago I mixed weed with alchcol and it caused a harmful affect that harmed me and my friends, I had quite a lot to drink, almost 7 cups of vodka and I'm a lightweight, then my friends convinced me to try weed for the first time I didn't think about the affects as I was drunk, not long after I didn't know what was happening I started getting panic attacks and was very paranoia and scared, I Rememever crying an hiding from friends in weird places like behind gas tanks and things, and I also harmed myself by cutting my arm (My friends ended up helping me) I went to bed and woke up forgetting eveything that happened that night, I have been drunk before and I have rememberd things the next day but the first time I mixed weed with alchcol really intoxicated me and it is very dangerous.

I have to say, I drink and smoke, but never together. I decided to try it. Had a bowl on me, and I was pretty drunk. I was always told that if you smoke enough, you won't feel drunk, but just really high. WRONG. I have never been so sick in my life. I was sweating, I could barely see, and I had to be walked to my bedroom. Threw up, had a full blown panic attack, and my body went into shock. I was pouring sweat, but I was so cold. I would not reccomend doing this. I felt like I was going to die.

Give me a break.... Death? I want empirical evidence for such a ridiculous claim. Prove it! Show me a case where some drank alcohol, smoked marijuana, and then died. Unbelievable!

I just drink whisky before smoking weed and the reaction stayed in my body for 6 days and on the 7th day I was normal but after 1 month I drink alcohol again and now I think the reaction has came back I cannot concentrate. It's now 5 days I am high again . I need u to tell me how can I be normal again

I'm a light weight toker, heavy weight drinker. I get super lazy, and wasted when I combine the 2. I just did it and am tired and ready for bed. Been doing this for 2 years now. I'm still alive. Key thing is to know you limits. If 1 bowl sends you to the moon and back and 2 beers get you drunk, not a good I idea. If 1 bowl or 1 24 pack get you wasted then party on.

If one starts to feel sick after smoking when drunk, what is the likelihood to continue to drink to a deadly level? Personally when I drink and take a puff from a joint I don't feel for drinking more. When I was younger I have experienced that "bad" feeling when being drunk and smoked more than I could handle. And I can promise that you are not up for another drink when that happens.

Me and a couple friends went out and we had alcohol i drank some vodak and it wasn't alot then i took three big chugs of some fireball after that i took 3 big hits of a blunt after that i waz feelin fine but then i felt weird and my body started to shake then i asked my friend to take me home when i got home i shaked for hours. The next day i still felt the same but i felt extremely paranoid this has went on for days. Today is friday and i had drank and smoked sunday its been 6 days im feelin a little better but im still paranoid but not as much. Am i ok?

"According to Northeastern University, marijuana has an antiemetic effect, meaning that it makes it more difficult for the body to vomit."

Antiemetic effect? You mean, really, that it is the best dysphemism for antinauseant to date. Find something better to do, this is a terrible article written by someone with zero experience or knowledge. Marijuana cures cancer (among a plethora of others). Do your research, don't purport garbage.

Smoking cannabis and drinking doesn't lead to death. The so-called "multiplier effect" is grossly overstated.

The only real adverse effect to combining the two is if you've drank to the point of nearly being in the spins, marijuana will put you into them.

The information being communicated here is so inaccurate and ridiculous that it's scary.

There is no such thing as "greening out". This woman is crazy and so are you for eating up these OUTRIGHT LIES.

One more thing. Marijuana will not save you from being the porcelain king.

See you in the morning!!

This woman is crazy and you are fools for believing the 3% of America who still stand against CBD for intractable epilepsy. No one in their right mind accepts Schedule 1 for THC or CBD and these crazy effects she and the people here are talking about DON'T HAPPEN!

In case you didn't notice, these crazy effects this woman is describing don't even happen on hard drugs, let alone a drug that's less toxic, intoxicating and consequential than alcohol.

Marijuana does not produce these crazy effects that happen with intravenous injection. People only get effects like these from injecting real drugs.

Hi there,
It's decades ago for me, but i thought it worth sharing, and Dr your blog goes back 2014, but here goes.
I have smoked dope 3 times at age 18 to 19. All 3 times after a period of binge drinking. 1st time, was very terrifing, felt lke my windpipe was closing, heart slowing right down, went into a complete collapse, struggled to breathe, unconscious, with help came around and proceeded to vomit and then felt very sober.
Slow learner
2nd time at least an hour in the woman's toilet holding on for dear life, room spinning, could even balance sitting on a toilet seat, heart and breathing became difficult. Had to lay on bathroom floor for ages before it felt ok to get up. Don't trust people you are with, nobody new, missed me or checked up on me. I could have died and rotted.

3rd time not so bad, but did hit paranoia and suicidal thinking, end up walking a bridge railing before having to get of and lay down to stop vomiting. Never touched the stuff again

Stop being manipulative and falsely connecting your depression and alcoholism with recreational marijuana use.

Also, there is not one state in this country with legal weed where you can consume NOR PURCHASE alcohol, as marijuana does not want you to confuse the dire consequences of alcohol use with the less intoxicating, addictive and toxic marijuana.

Don't believe the propaganda you see here, people. You can't trust these so-called "experts". Anyone with any common sense and experience knows better than to trust these fools whose ignorance leads to the use of real drugs.

How? Kids find out you were lying about all these INSANE side effects that don't even happen on METH, let alone the weakest and least toxic and otherwise least harmful substance and then start experimenting with very harmful things because YOU TOLD THEM MARIJUANA WAS A DRUG LIKE ANY OTHER!

The bottom line: marijuana is less intoxicating and less harmful physically and socially.

Marijuana does not produce euphoria nor body high, unlike alcohol abuse. Marijuana does not disrupt sleep, nor does it impair judgment.

It does impair motor skills, but not in the same way nor as much as alcohol.

Marijuana is a less harmful and consequential substance than alcohol, let alone the abuse of real drugs. You are dishonest and manipulative with your data and I will not allow you to confuse these completely separate matters for any effect nor experience as a marijuana user.

If you still want to believe these manipulations and falsehoods (manipulations like claiming the effects of drinking too much happen as a marijuana user), you are a hopeless case and hopefully someone informs you that seeking a prostitute shouldn't be a 3-5 year prison term and a felony conviction that even the judge I saw wasn't giving to the guy who broke all the windows in the person's house.

I feel like a lot of these comments are obvious "shills" doing the FUD campaign thing (fear, uncertainty, doubt).
Yes, obviously, if you drink yourself into a blackout and go driving around smoking weed, you have a good change of killing yourself. Thats true regardless of the cannabis. Most of the "deadly" things she stated are true in themselves, and have nothing to do with weed. Its not cannabis that is the danger, it is the extremely high BAC that will kill you. I don't understand how cannabis was suddenly thrown in with alcohols toxic effects.
These comments about people freaking out for days, cannot be attributed to weed. If those stories are true, a big IF, then its due to underlying psychological problems already present, and its probably better that they confronted these issues.
The authors claim that cannabis will stop you from vomiting when you normally would from too much alcohol, is just complete BS. I can tell you from personal experience, if you are too drunk and try to smoke, the result is instant throwing up. In fact, most of the times i've thrown up while drinking, was because i also smoked weed, it was the weed that made me throw up. Whereas if i didn't smoke, i would have sat there already too drunk with more alcohol in my stomach to be absorbed, but if i took a couple hits, my body would instantly say "get rid of this alcohol".
But we are talking about alcohol excess here, which is the real danger. If someone is only having a couple drinks, and smokes a couple hits, most likely they will feel fine. Moderation is the key. Alcohol can be extremely dangerous to the body in large amounts. This is not true for cannabis, and has been proven many times. The feeling may become uncomfortable with too much weed, but not physically dangerous. And thats a whole separate side topic of cannabis tolerance, people need to know how weed effects themselves before they try it all drunk one night. Depending on tolerance, one hit may effect you like an entire joint would another person who smokes a lot.
The key is moderation. And like many already stated here, a couple drinks with some weed is completely harmless, and a daily event for some people. There is zero evidence to the contrary.
The original article somehow twisted alcohols dangers and dragged cannabis in with it, which is just childish. Its like saying "If you drink yourself to oblivion with a cellphone on you, you might die!" "Because you might get distracted on the phone and kill yourself" And then someone writes an article linking cellphones to alcohol dangers, talking about the lethal dangers of cellphone use. When really its the alcohol that is the root of the problem. This is classic propaganda, and its sad to read this kind of misleading info from a PhD. Most likely the author has some kind of negative personal memory, or lack of real life experiences, that resulted in such a fallacious article.

I drank and smoked after, and it was the worse experience of my life. I was not drunk at all, and started throwing up. My heart-rate was around 220 and I was SO sacred to have a heart attack. It was so bad. I had smoked before and stuff, but this experience changed my mind. I was scared to speak because I was scared that my heartbeat would increase even more if I would move, or speak. It was horrible