Wired Hatred 420

I could not find a better spot than this to post such a topic, so I understand if this topic gets moved. My question has to do with people's eyes getting red when they smoke weed. My eyes get extremely red, as well as slamed. This I know to be normal when smoking the herb. What trips me out is how a few of my friend's eyes never get red. They hardly slam too. They never look stoned. How can this be? Did they enharet some kind of stoner gene(jk)? Im just trippin that they can get stoned whenever they want without worrying about having that bottle of Visine ready. Its my best friend...besides my pipe.

Panama

This will be at home in the Chemical and Physiological forum.

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HillBilly

Howdy WH420!!

Red eyes are a bummer. Some people's eyes are just more sensitive to smoke irritation. Some people have a greater vasodilation reaction (when the blood vessels relax and get larger allowing more blood into the eyes). And some people, I've seen em too.. no matter how much they smoke... no red eye, no puffy eyelids. I think you're right when you related it to genetic make-up. If a person has allergies to mold, house dust, cat hair, common environmental things, chances are, they'll have an allergic reaction (red eyes) to marijuana..

I could get into great detail about the release and blocking of histamines, and how levels are altered by cannabis, and the outcome is usually red eyes. But that would take forever and a day.

An eye drop or 2 before smoking keeps the red away for me.

~~hb did I answer your question?

GhostPimp

my eyes used to get red when i smoked

then i started to smoke everyday and i never get red eyes anymore...

unless its a new strain of pot...the first time i smoke it i will get red..but never again...

like other stoners whos eyes don't get red i have bags around my eyes when im stoned too

TheDude0306

Still to this day (only been smoking heavly for about 5 months) my eyes get BEAT-DARK RED when I am stoned.

And the only time they dont get red is if I didnt smoke enough, and then I know I am not stoned.

But when I smoke enough, WOW LOOK-OUT my eyes EXPLODE INTO RED. Sometimes they get SO RED that you dont even see the veins anymore.

I hope this problem goes away, its impossible to HIDE, I was almost snagged for sure once, just because of the EYES, you cant help but notice how bad they get when I am stoned.

Doesn't matter what type of weed either, good stuff, bad stuff.. doesn't matter.

Pimp

My used to get read red...when I smoked lightly.


But now that I smoke multiple times daily I can be around family members {that I've known for years} and they aint got a clue...

Do you smoke daily or just couple times a week ?

TheDude0306

I smoke about 3 times a week, and am currently having trouble with that. I find myself wanting to smoke whenever I have the chance.

But right now I mainly smoke in the evenings on Thurs, Fri, Sat.

Pimp

I aint trying to get you to smoke more than that , but smoke it everyday for a couple weeks and see if it'll help. Some people there's just nothing you can do , one of my friends is pretty much the same way...


Have you tried putting eye drops in before you smoke like HillBilly said ?


Peace

Cloak

I smoke mary jane in my room and my eyes get bloodshot.. I tried Visine at first, and when I ran out I decided to give "Clear Eyes" a shot.. Its great, and removes much more redness than Visine I think.. Give it a try!

OverDrive

When I get stonned, my eyes get totally red!! Even if I'm just buzzin' a bit... I don't get the puffy eye-lids, just alot of red in my eyes with hardly any white left. If I put in a couple shots of Visene, they clear right up in about 10 minutes.