YES someone can be allergic to second hand marijuana smoke. I am. Typically my nerves become really agitated, I will have the shakes, hyper ventilate, and my lungs will feel like they are tight or burning up. Sometimes i will be nauseated. If my roommate smokes it at night, which she usually does, i will not be able to fall back asleep for the rest of the night. ( i have talked to my roommate about this, she said she would stop, but you kno, its been only 2 days since we had a talk and she's already doing it again. its going to get ugly... obviously i have lost alot of sleep because of this) My parents smoke and i am allergic to cigarette smoke and any kind of smoke(will have headaches, loss of appetite, i even have headaches from insense) but i CAN sleep through that. I dont kno if ppl who have marijuana allergy are always allergic to cigarette smoke. If you take into consideration the thousands of people who have different combinations of allergies then the logical answer is no. If she is allergic, then she is allergic. People with allergies typically dont lie about what they are allergic to, cuz that mess is nothin' to play around about. I've never had hives before but i dont think its one of those things someone would want to experience more than they have to. From another topic... Danny wrote:
If you only touch marijuana and do not smoke it, you can also be allergic to it, for instance rashes, shortness of breath and other asthma-like problems, fatigue or unusual mood swings. Also, if you are in contact with marijuana for a longer period, there is a possibility that you would develop contact dermatitis, watery eyes, sneezing etc. As the matter of internal allergic reactions, you could develop flu-like symptoms such as sore throat, headaches and fatigue. It would be good for you if you abstained from smoking it for a while and check if the sore throat would go away. There is a way to test if you are allergic to THC in particular, so if you can get a Marinol pill, rub it on a skin and see if there will be some reactions. So if you are not allergic to THC but in some other substances in grass, you could use water hash water-washed kief or ether-refined THC oil instead. The best solution for you would be to quit smoking pot for good, as it is yet making you troubles, but.. decision is up to you.
I smoked pot for years and had no problems with it. Then one day I started having symptoms that felt a lot like really bad hayfever or a head cold. I discovered over a couple of months that the symptoms were worst right after smoking the stuff and if I didn't smoke any for as little as 24 hours, they got better. After experimenting with different kinds (to see if it was a fertilizer or something that I was reacting to) I quit the stuff. It was marijuana I was allergic to: The more I smoked, the worse the symptoms were. When I smoked less, the symptoms went away. Hard to argue with that.
I've had other allergies suddenly crop up over time and I've had others go away for no apparent reason. Makes sense that it could happen with cannabis too, since it's just a plant - like ragweed, like dandelions, like any other kind of weed that people are allergic to.
I've come to carry and emergency pack of Claritin or any allergy pill that I can get a hold off just for emergencies. I've found myself at night clubs all messed up cause some1 in the room was sneaking a smoke in the corner on the far side!
People don't believe me, but there is serious medical explanations for it.
I also would like to contradict the person who claimed that it is an exception for someone to get hives from something that they did not come in direct contact with. That is COMPLETELY FALSE. It was, in fact, one of the first questions a doctor asked me when I came into the emergency room with terrible hives all over. Inhalation of an allergen is just as likely as contact although for allover hives, it is usually inhalation or eating the allergen.
I think you are a terrible friend. Learn basic courtesy. If you want to smoke pot, do it on your own.
But to whomever stated that she's 'afraid to get high', that's BS.
She broke out in HIVES.
It's an ALLERGY.
I've never HAD to smoke it to know I'm allergic to it.
All I had to do was walk in to my ex-boyfriend's house and take a few breathes and I'd start getting sick to my stomach and develop a severe migraine, because his house REEKED of the sh*t. And whenever he or his stupid friends would light up when I was trying to hide in his room away from it, I could STILL smell it because my allergy made me hypersensitive and it just spread EVERYWHERE, and ended up throwing up a few times on separate occasions.
Marijuana has a bad reputation because of its popularity as a party drug, but, it is a plant with medicinal properties just like any other plant used for medicinal properties in modern medicine. Just like many other prescription drugs, when used in someone healthy, it messes them up and gets them "high", whereas, in people who need it, it goes to their pain and can relieve their symptoms.
In my case, I am allergic to Naprosyn, Tylenol, raw eggs, milk, pine nuts, grass pollen, weed pollen, and yes, marijuana smoke. I can only hope that whatever drug works for whatever pain I have in my life will be available at the pharmacy by prescription, and that I will not have to go to a street vendor to buy it illegally because of some law that bans it completely without regard for its medicinal purposes. I think it is incredibly sad to hear stories of cancer patients buying marijuana from a drug dealer and risking their lives to do so, if a drug can help, we should, as a society, make that drug available, and not allow our preconcieved notions or prejudices get in the way!
For others asking, there usually is not a remedy to this except to avoid being around pot and its smoke.