Getting drunk or high can feel similar to some people, while others describe the sensations as very different. The feeling of intoxication is different for every person. While one person might feel relaxed while drunk, another might feel restless. If you do get hungover, you might experience other effects, including headaches and diarrhea. As for the hangover aspect, weed can have some lingering effects for some people, including:. As with the short-term effects of alcohol and weed, the long-term effects differ from person to person.
When consumed heavily or over a long period of time, alcohol can have several long-term effects, including:. Both alcohol and weed have addiction potential. Alcohol use disorder is a relatively common issue. Cannabis addiction is surprisingly common, however, according to study.
Sian Ferguson is a freelance writer and journalist based in Grahamstown, South Africa. Her writing covers issues relating to social justice and health. You can reach out to her on Twitter. Alcohol and weed might sound like a mellow combo, but they can interact in surprising ways. We'll offer some tips for relief, take a look at the research behind…. In a study , 19 participants drank either a placebo or small amount of alcohol.
Ten minutes later, they used a vaporizer to inhale either a low or a high dose of THC. The researchers found significantly higher peak THC levels among participants who had alcohol versus those who had a placebo. This was true for both low and high doses of THC. However, this study was pretty small, making it hard to draw any firm conclusions.
The studies that do exist are old and mostly inconclusive. For example, a study had 15 participants smoke a placebo, a high dose of THC, or a low dose of THC on three occasions.
Weed appeared to slow down the rise of blood alcohol levels after consuming a high dose of alcohol. But a letter to the editor questioned this result. If using weed does indeed slow the absorption of alcohol, it might also delay feelings of drunkenness. This might seem like a good thing, but it makes it harder to know how impaired you really are. A review of existing studies notes that people who use alcohol and weed together tend to consume more of both.
This can increase your risk for developing a dependence on alcohol, weed, or both. A study from evaluated performance on cognitive tasks among 21 heavy weed users who had consumed alcohol. Those who consumed just alcohol had worse cognitive functioning than those who only consumed THC. Those who combined the two had reduced cognitive performance than those who only consumed alcohol.
Over the long term, combining alcohol and weed may be associated with decreased cognitive function and changes in brain structures, such as the hippocampus. In a study , 80 people participated in six testing sessions. In each session, participants consumed a different combination of placebo, low, and moderate doses of THC and alcohol. Then they completed a driving simulation. The researchers reported that combining THC and alcohol consistently impaired driving performance, with worse performance during nighttime simulations.
Adding alcohol to a low dose of THC impaired driving simulator scores by 21 percent. Adding alcohol to a high dose of THC impaired driving simulator scores by 17 percent. When mixing weed and alcohol, there are a lot of other variables to consider in addition to which one you use first. On alcohol, you can really misread the signs.
Even worse, alcohol increases violence and forced sex can occur. Compare that to marijuana: "Think of paranoia," Green says. In those cases when there's not fully informed consent, the paranoia-enhancing aspect of pot makes people pick this out — this is not cool, the person is not comfortable.
In this way alcohol and pot work on opposite ends of the continuum. I asked Lexington, Mass. She said in general, "most people have a more sensual experience on marijuana, I think. Music can be more powerful, touch can be more powerful. But pre-existing anxieties about issues like body image could be exacerbated by marijuana. Alcohol tends to loosen all the inhibitions in a more wide-ranging way. As far as the study, Zoldbrod emphasized it's very small, and mostly included young people, not in long-term relationships.
Still, she offered her general thoughts, here edited and condensed:. They reported blackouts and not being able to remember what happened during sex. Not so with the marijuana users. The high people got from alcohol was more of a sense of being numb.
Marijuana does not seem to have this effect. People get more into their own minds, less likely to approach people they did not know. You get lost in your own thoughts, your own associations.
Overall, says Palamar, who is an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health at NYU, more data is needed so that adults can gain a better understanding of what's in store for them when they use various drugs in sexual settings.
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