Heart pounding in your ears, mouth dry and palms sweating. Somehow, the room is spinning, and something worse — nausea. There’s a dreadful paranoia, a feeling of unfaltering danger and a desperate need to ask for help, but no one can be trusted.
Greening out is a colloquial term for a “bad trip” when consuming cannabis products. High levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, can overwhelm brain receptors and create uncomfortable physical and psychological responses.
Diego Carrasco, retail manager at The Syndicate dispensary in Long Beach, said he meant to split what he thought was a 500-milligram brownie with his brother…