Inducing Placebo Effects into people

Zillerz

Active Member
I have thought of a theory, and I CAN call it a Theory because it has happened where I noticed it more than once.:bigjoint:

So, as the title says I believe that you are able to induce placebo effects onto people before smoking. For example, a casual marijuana smoker who Never drank milk after smoking weed. If you tell him that he'll get sick after drinking milk when he already drank some milk while high, that would then make the guy worried and would believe that something is wrong with him when there isn't. I did this to a friend of mine who ate some cereal after smoking for maybe his 7th or 8th time. He freaked out at first and then ran to the washroom a few minutes later thinking he is about to throw up. I was just there watching him, and he tried so hard to puke but nothing really happened. About five minutes from there, he felt completely fine as if nothing happened. That was probably the weirdest part. He hasnt drank milk after smoking since.
Another event that MIGHT have been placebo, or something seriously wrong with his health. Same guy, he experienced a mini-seizure back in may last year, and smoking weed was thought to be the case (it turned out not to be, mainly sleep deprivation and slight overdose on energy drinks and caffeine) however, this other time around september last year, me and that guy and a friend were just toking and then the conversation about seizures came up, and then talked about it for 5 minutes and headed to Subway for some munchies. At subway, he crashed and went into another similar seizure. Could that have been an actual Placebo effect? Maybe it wouldn't have happened if he didn't talk about it.

Thoughts?
 

curious2garden

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I have thought of a theory, and I CAN call it a Theory because it has happened where I noticed it more than once.:bigjoint:

So, as the title says I believe that you are able to induce placebo effects onto people before smoking. For example, a casual marijuana smoker who Never drank milk after smoking weed. If you tell him that he'll get sick after drinking milk when he already drank some milk while high, that would then make the guy worried and would believe that something is wrong with him when there isn't. I did this to a friend of mine who ate some cereal after smoking for maybe his 7th or 8th time. He freaked out at first and then ran to the washroom a few minutes later thinking he is about to throw up. I was just there watching him, and he tried so hard to puke but nothing really happened. About five minutes from there, he felt completely fine as if nothing happened. That was probably the weirdest part. He hasnt drank milk after smoking since.
Another event that MIGHT have been placebo, or something seriously wrong with his health. Same guy, he experienced a mini-seizure back in may last year, and smoking weed was thought to be the case (it turned out not to be, mainly sleep deprivation and slight overdose on energy drinks and caffeine) however, this other time around september last year, me and that guy and a friend were just toking and then the conversation about seizures came up, and then talked about it for 5 minutes and headed to Subway for some munchies. At subway, he crashed and went into another similar seizure. Could that have been an actual Placebo effect? Maybe it wouldn't have happened if he didn't talk about it.

Thoughts?
Here ya go, enjoy
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=placebo+effect+suggestibility
 

Zillerz

Active Member
Same thing when people think organically grown weed smells/tastes better. Or how unflushed buds taste like "chems."
Exactly, for example a dealer can just say "oh by the way, this is the craziest kush you'll ever smoke" and you'll be like oh shit, can't wait to try it!! Placebo kicks in, they're like "hooolllyyy crappppp kush so good :weed: " haha
 
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