Can someone be allergic to the smoke caused by marijuana???

I feel you can be. It never bothered me bothered me when I was younger but that was because I was never around it for long. But when I moved in with my sister the building had heavy smokers. It was in the hallways, daily coming under the door, through the walls, I'd open the window to find out there was no fresh air just really strong marijuana. Everytime at the house I would be sick, with nausea, disabling headaches, weakness and dizziness. But whenever I was out I'd feel better. But when I'd go to work the a co-worker smoked heavy and sometime kept his stash in the kitchen. I'd end up vomiting it was so bad and feeling ill all day. (There is such a thing as being allergic and breathing things in being an issue, another co-worker was allergic to beans her throat would actually swell from being in the same room and breathing in what ever perticles were in the air.

It took a bit to figure out what the issue was at first because I felt to ill to notice much else. Someone said that my issue was psychological but I find it doubtful because I never had thought secondhand weed smoke could be an issue until I had to stay in the midst of it being sick, Not to mention I went to clean up the counter at work where some had dropped and my hand and my arm started swelling and turning red.

Just because you enjoy something that physically bothers someone else doesn't make them a crybaby. When you feel weak, like your head is going to explode, and like your stomach had liquefied and just know the action of vomiting is going to really make you head explode, and all you can do is lay and hope anything will stop whatever is chiseling into your head that is called legitimate pain. That mess is worse than the headaches that come with pregnancy (at least for me) and those had me curled up on the floor of my job vomiting.

The fact that your friend will not be around it and will remove herself says something. You may not like it but she honestly may feel ill and you my guess is want to smoke around her. She doesn't seem like the baby in this matter.

I have had reactions to second-hand marijuana smoke my entire life, over 40 years. The reactions are the same each time. Blinding headaches set in within as little as a minute of exposure. The intensity is based on level of exposure. Nausea follows for up to a couple hours. It was first noticed when I was between 18 months and 2 years old. A friend of my parents would smoke and within a few minutes I would be screaming and pounding my fists into my head. It would last for up to an hour depending on how long I was exposed. According to my mother, this happened the same way each time, after 3-4 times she kept me away.

Flash forward to early adulthood when I was exposed to it at parties or concerts. Ended up in the ER, and it was completely dismissed by US doctors. After I moved to Canada, my doctors were very familiar with it and saw many cases like mine. They advised that I never attempt to smoke it or handle it. I work in agriculture and had the occasion to see a plant in a course I was taking. We each handled the leaves as part of it, and within an hour I broke out in a rash/irritation everywhere the plant touched my hand. While it wasn't severe, the reaction was obvious.

For my adult life I have consciously avoided exposure and my friends, who all know, will quickly tell me to stop breathing until I can get clear if they detect it in public. In the last year, an individual moved into our condo building as a renter, and sells marijuana along with who knows what else. I am unable to use one set of stairs, the front foyer, the entire floor he’s on, and the elevator on weekends due to the volume of smoke in the air from his customers in and out. Even with avoidance, due to the increased exposure I have gone from being generally healthy to having headaches 30-40% of the time, lung irritation, and nausea. When I am away from home for 3 days or more, the symptoms all go away.

I am a huge supporter of medical marijuana and I don't disagree with anyone's recreational use, so long as it is not in public. There are potentially countless people with allergies/reactions such as mine and others possibly more severe. Please don't dismiss those simply because they're not mainstream. Please enjoy responsibly and be considerate of others.

So sorry you're going through that! I am allergic to hops and cannabis. Avoidance is the best approach. Just not worth getting sick.

So you're a dealer with a license.

I have extreme hay fever reaction to Indica strains, but Sativa is no problem.

DelonixRegia i have the same symptoms and the ER doctor told me im allergic. It makes me hella sick even being around someone with the smoke on their clothes.

People don't realize not all drugs are good for all people. I know people allergic to penicillin drugs. I asked them if penicillin was smoked rather than taken oraly how theyd be affected n they shut up about my marijuana allergic.

Ive also been told it affects my heart problem.

Yes people do smoke cause it makes them feel good but you have no right saying they are incapable of enjoying life without it. You sound like the one who needs to enjoy life a little more cause your so judgmental against people who smoke weed!!.

YES and YES it is a different reaction than cigarette smoke because with cigarette smoke you're not inhaling a narcotic, psychotropic drug. Pot smoke is thicker, travels over longer distances, and dissipates slower than cigarette smoke. It's harder to avoid. I wear a mask when my asthma acts up and I can't smell cigarettes through it but can smell pot.

Cigarette smoke gives me a headache and causes my eyes to swell shut in huge amounts. In small amounts I just cough a few times and walk away. It has no effect on my brain or nerve endings.

If I do much as get a whiff of pot, not lit in someone's pocket, I feel sick like I'm going to throw up. Lit, even if I breathe a little bit...

First my body starts to feel heavy. My arms hurt and I can't walk. Then comes the heat. The back of my neck burns and my head feels like it's been set on fire. I get hot flashes and cold chills. It feels like a really bad flu.

Then my stomach spasms. I can see my intestine start to shake. I get heartburn, my body feels like it's been set on fire. I lay down to make the pain stop, or take a shower.

I'll fall asleep and then wake up 2-3 hours later in a cold sweat running for the bathroom and hope it's not puke this time just diarrhea. I usually have severe stomach cramping and diarrhea for 1-2 hours and if it goes beyond that I go to the hospital.

The last time some m***n literally blew pot in my face and told me to "stop being a p***y" I was hospitalized on an IV with a bedpan because I couldn't stop sh**ting myself for 8 days. When I got home I started carrying a super soaker because the only thing people like him care about is their joint getting extinguished.

I suggest you have some compassion if you're not too stoned to remember how it works

Honestly since marijuana users often complain that they are in pain, nauseated, or have red eyes, infections, and uncontrollable vomiting, Im pretty sure they experience the same symptoms I do but they're disconnected from their body by the drug. The minute they come down they end up in pain again or worse than before.

I pass out and seize when I smell it. It's happened at least 5 times since New Years. I honestly feel wherever I go there's always going to be someone smoking pot.
I don't go out because of it. Even in parking lots or parking garages people smoke it. Literally. I stay in my room all day due to the fear. It's everywhere.

I have the allergy AND CHS. The allergy has been around for some time. I was able to do a experiment once I realized it. I bought a pure Sativa and pure Indica. Virtually no allergies with the pure Sativa, but the Indica floored me. Sadly Pheonix Tears is very much deep hybrid/Indica. Allergy pills daily to smoke, and when I was doing the Indica even Dristan spray. Yes. I do have access to 30-40 strains though, if your on the street, you dont know what your getting.

I have exact same reation. I understand that people need medical weed, for pain. What I don’t understand is why people without pain would want to smoke weed? Everything stinks, the way you explained. It reminds me of people that get drunk. My neighbor has no pain, she smokes all the time. She couldn’t walk, and was falling down. I read that there is medical marijuana that doesn’t give the perso a high. It’s a liquid, with a dropper that allow you to simply put a few drops under your tongue. Instant relief. You can go to work, drive, do all normal activities without that high feeling. I don’t understand why people that have no pain want to use it? Is it like getting drunk, like many people do to escape from reality? It’s no different that booze, or taking opoids for only the high.
At least using a liquid for pain helps, but doesn’t affect the people that have to live near you in a negative way. If I didn’t have allergies, fro the smell, I couldn’t care less what others ingest. There’s a thing called consideration for others.
My husband died with cancer, but at that time there were no drops, so he suffered until death.
To think that people that have no pain, but use MEDICAL marijuana for only the thrill of a high seems so selfish.

Sorry about your husband. I also had a family member suffer from cancer pain. They didn’t have the drop form. Nothing helped.
Shame on people that use for recreational purposes.

To each its own and you don't know what kind of mental problem someone is going through. Just because they dont use it for a physical problem... Smh, If your neighbor look drunk, then maybe she was drunk. DID YOU ASK HER? I never ever stumbled when I'm high off recreational use. I never did a lot of dumb things you think someone could do on recreational weed. Problem is you don't know, you don't know how it affect each individual, so don't talk what you don't know. This is my opinion.

I don't smoke this stuff but my stepdaughter does I have severe headaches,chest tightness,and become very mean any advise would be greatly appreciated the smell of the stuff is a lingering nauseating smell. I have talked to her about this problem but it changes absolutely nothing