Dammit, this makes sense; there go my hopes for the AIDs saga. Still, it's good to know he continues to be addicted to pain meds. How long has it been since he fucked up his back now, like 5 years?
Also, are there any potential side effects to mixing weed, prescription painkillers and titty skittles? That seems like a hell of a cocktail, but I'm no doctor.
It depends on which painkillers and titty skittles he's on. Most painkillers the weed won't do anything interesting (though I will give more on what will happen below), same when the titty skittles interact with the weed, though titty skittles can through your brain out of whack, and weed can do some fucked up shit to people who are out of whack, not dangerous shit, but the type of shit that just ain't fucking fun. I am not sure how titty skittles and painkillers interact, however. I can also say the most common side effect of weed is actually
anxiety. See THC tends to do one of two things to you psychologically most of the time which are immediately noticeable. You get to chill the fuck out, or you get hit by anxiety, paranoia, and irrational panic and fear. It also can either kill or massively boost your sex drive, which is notable for perverts like Jim, since it means he's either trying to over compensate for the death of his libido due to titty skittles and weed (both of which can fuck your sex drive), or the weed is making him even worse.
Back to the weed and painkillers, as well as other prescription medications, to quote a friend of mine when he decided to smoke weed for the first time on painkillers after a few weeks to get used to them during his Friday joint "Man, I get high so much faster on these."
A weird thing about living somewhere where weed is legal is that when the doctors ask you "do you smoke weed, even casually with friends?" and you say "yes", they just offer you everything known about the interactions first verbally, then they add a note on the prescription so that the pharmacist knows to run you down the interactions again and provide the special stoner pamphlet.
For most painkillers, anti-psychotics, anti-depressants and ADHD medications (which are the medications people I know are on), the thing I keep hearing is "Doc says not to smoke for 2-4 weeks so I can get used to the new meds and we can spot anything weird they are doing more easily. Doc also says once I start smoking again the effect might be stronger, so I should smoke less when I do until I know how they interact".
Similar to alcohol in many cases, many medications absolutely annihilate your previous tolerance, however, unlike alcohol, it doesn't put any additional strain on your liver from what I've seen. It can massively impede coordination and motor function, and can greatly slow reflexes, absolutely fucks your ability to think clearly and remember shit, and in the case of painkillers it seems like it can really numb your sense of pain to the point where accidents become more likely to result in injury.
If you
have to choose between weed and alcohol when on medication, weed is definitely the safer pick, but both are irresponsible if you don't intend to just sit on the couch watching TV before heading to bed. You should know that however much you normally smoke/drink, yeah cut that down a shit ton, otherwise you'll be too fucked up to enjoy it and that's just a waste of money, so let the medication help it get stretched a bit further, enjoy the saved money, and be extra cautious. Or, better yet, just fucking don't do it.
