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What Causes Panic Attacks?
I get panick attacks when i smoke cannabis this started happening out of the blue and was never a problem before ive smoked cannabis regularly for years and this is a recent development what do you think had caused these panick attacks and what should i do about them
Fri, 4 Apr 2014
Hi,
Thanks for writing to us,
Cannabis is well known to cause distressing symptoms in a state of intoxication in some individuals. Anxiety, panic attacks etc being some common ones. It can increase your heart rate and blood pressure as well. It may happen even years after the usage of the drug. It is advisable you reduce and stop the use of cannabis.
Hope this helps
Dr A Rao
Thanks for writing to us,
Cannabis is well known to cause distressing symptoms in a state of intoxication in some individuals. Anxiety, panic attacks etc being some common ones. It can increase your heart rate and blood pressure as well. It may happen even years after the usage of the drug. It is advisable you reduce and stop the use of cannabis.
Hope this helps
Dr A Rao
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