Ray64Casual Contributor
Psychosis from Marijuana?
I have a 19 year old backpacker staying with me who seemed fine for the first day or two. Then we noticed she would start laughing randomly she would say she was just remembering something funny from when she was young. Two days later I had my niece and their friends stay over and she had 2 or 3 beers with them. I noticed she almost skulled the first one. I found out later she shared 1 puff of a joint with them. My niece and friends went off for a couple of days and when they returned I told them I thought her laughing behaviour and almost vagueness had gotten worse. When they came back they all noticed it was worse. I felt her behaviour was like an OCD thing or even more like High Functioning Autism. I contacted her father. He denied that she had any medical issues even though she had told my niece she had the laughing thing since she was a kid. We could hear her laughing till 2 in the morning. She started sleeping in till 11.30 I allowed it because I thought she would be exhausted. He father asked about alcohol and drugs. He admitted she had some trouble with cannabis a couple of years ago and thought 1 puff could affect her. He said she could have been stressed waiting for exam results which could have made her worse. He told me to just get her up and working to keep her busy and occupied. Can someone have a psychotic episode like seemingly irrational laughing and occasional hand gestures from 1 puff of marijuana? Or could there be more to it? I will see how she goes helping me tomorrow if I feel it makes no difference then I might talk to her. Very hard situation.
