Can Marijuana cause loss of consciousness without dropping blood pressure?

Recently, me and some friends were taking edibles.

One of them seemed to have some resistance, as she smoked weed several times (and she knows how to smoke) and even tried edibles before once without effect, so she thought it was a good idea to eat more this time (roughly 3x what we took).

Needless to say she was steamrolled, but there is one effect that happened in a way I didn't see before:

She was very dizzy, feeling like her blood pressure was low, horribly incoherent and having clear consciousness lapses even while laying down, but at the same time it didn't seem like she had either postural hypotension nor hypotension as a whole.

I say she was having consciousness lapses because she'd simply freeze for several seconds, sometimes even mid-speech. Her eyes would stop moving and gazing into nothing and all of her facial expressions would fade and relax, like she really had fainted at that moment, and then she'd come back a few seconds after.

That happened when she was laying down, so we thought her blood pressure was probably too low and decided to took her to the emergency care unit around the corner to confirm.

But then, as we asked her to stand up before taking her, we found out she had no big trouble doing so. That didn't seem to make much sense compared to our previous experiences, which weren't even that severe. We wouldn't manage to stand up if we were already struggling laying down.

And then, when we arrived on the emergency care unit less than ten minutes later, they measured her BP twice and it was normal in both readings, as well as blood oxygenation and blood sugar.

She wasn't having the same lapses anymore, but she was still horribly confused and feeling basically the same. She couldn't even speak for her self most of the time.

So that's why I'm asking: Is there any way Marijuana can cause those lapses if not by dropping the blood pressure?

Or maybe it just stabilized in those few minutes before while we walked to the emergency care unit?

Thanks!

 

Yes, and so did me and my friends dozens of times.

We're used to see people greening out, fainting is no surprise, specially with edibles.

The only surprise was that she was in a terrible state and could stand up and walk normally while me and all others would usually faint if we stood up even if we weren't as bad as she was.

We had those effects due to lowered blood pressure when we had, but it didn't seem to be the case with her.

That's why I'm curious, I assumed it was always due to lowered blood pressure or postural hypotension.

And, just to make it clear as some people here don't seem to understand: I'm not worried.

We took her to the emergency care unit because it's free and it's literally in the corner of our block, we wouldn't deny taking her there being that she was feeling terrible and that this would reassure her (and us too) that nothing was really wrong.

 

Marijuana was never legalized my country, you can stop being sarcastic now.

 

I'm sober for days already, the question is that virtually no weed (leave alone weed products) from legal markets reach us anyway.

Our consumption is large and has been growing but mostly in its own pace and not due to legalization elsewhere.

We don't have a growing problem of teenagers suddenly seeking medical help like they had in places where it was legalized due to tons of noobies doing edibles and greening out.

Plus, I (and the others) did advise her against taking more, but it wasn't her first time eating edibles and in the first it had no effect (on her, while it had on the others).

She was insisting in taking more, so well, that's on her. Now she won't do that again.

 

She was also feeling everything spinning and she did puke, just not too much. She puked twice while she was at the emergency care unit.

Maybe dropping the blood pressure and causing fainting isn't as common as we thought then, but it happened to some of us.

Once 7 years ago I abused edibles and I was blacking out, literally fainting. I didn't have spins as you're saying, but I would literally black out if I tried to stand up, even sitting I would struggle.

I went to the hospital and I fainted again while walking from the reception to the doctor's room, my dad and a nurse has to carry me to the stretcher inside the doctor's room.

I was completely unconscious and I only came back a few seconds after laying me down and holding my legs above my head.

And they measured my BP and it was in fact quite low just after fainting, although that it would quickly recover once laying or sitting.

 

I'm not saying that your fainting or that her dizziness was due to low BP, I'm saying that mine was more likely postural hypotension when I had it.

Even why I wasn't THAT stoned, really far from this actually, I was a bit over the comfortable dosage but had no other great distortions, the only thing that was bad was that I couldn't manage to stand up and walk without dropping on the floor after a while.

And by after a while I mean that, if I stood up slowly, I could manage to keep for some seconds before blacking out. I could walk small distances and I didn't feel so dizzy, things weren't spinning for me and I could hear and talk almost normally.

And well, my BP was measured and it was in fact low right after I was laid in the stretcher when I fainted, and then it normalized within a few minutes.

But I can't assure that weed wasn't laced in that occasion either. It probably wasn't but I can't assure.