I only started smoking 2yrs ago. Once or twice tried before in HS, (I'm out of college now) when somone was willing to share, of course i didnt know shit back then so I didnt know how much i needed or if i was even taking a deep enough breath, normal first time problems.

But ive always had a suspicion that i would have a high tolerance. I was right.

Nothing has ever really felt like it worked for me. I hate taking standard medications. Pills have too many side effects, and the times ive tried (from insomnia, to anxiety, to just basic allergies and pain meds) NOTHING has done a god damn thing ever.

The 'real' first time, the time i got high (4th time smoking with this person, maybe 6th time total) somone gave me a dab of their 80% thc wax from a big ass bong right before bed (they truly suggested this to help me sleep since i had been awake for what felt like days and they smoke every day). I fully greened out and i knew it too. I had the moment where i looked at the cabinets in the kitchen and thought "shit, it finally happened, i'm high" and it immediately turned into "wait thats too high, i need food and a nap, im not dying its just my brain". Except, this friend had already gone to bed, so i was just laying on the couch working through it myself (not their fault, and I never even told them what happened).

I had a good few months of that "this is the fun feeling its supposed to be" and none of the bad stuff when i was smoking by myself. Then it mellowed out of course as i used more for sleep or anxiety, and it worked for both.

I had maybe a bowl a day and sometimes i just didnt do any. 1/8th could last me a month or more. Id take one or two hits from my little bong and be set for hours. Full body tingles, out of my mind relaxed, tv shows i used to hate are the funniest shit ever.

but edibles? 100mg minimum from the start. My tolerance has never been lower than a 100mg minimum.

About last fall I could smoke a whole bowl and not even feel medicated. I once took 20 consecutive, 4 second hits from a vape cart on a really shitty day and all i felt was "not angry".

but if take one too many hits from a vape cart NOW? and i think im having a stroke. (4 hits max). For this reason alone im not doing carts anymore. And yes, they are from a local dispensary. I was never a really a fan, just got them when for convenience.

I switched to a dry herb vape for convenience now, but if anything its made me use more and now i just feel nothing. I could sip on 2 bowls a day with my dry vape and not a single time i would feel anything other than "slightly less anxious", physically, but my mind still races.

Ive never tried to smoke more than 2 or 3 bowls, (even 2 is pushing it on a normal day) because i never wanted to develop a high tolerance too fast. Ive always tried to keep it low, slow, and take some breaks. Even with the few months when i was definitely going through some shit, and i smoked every day. I still never used more than 2 bowls even if 2 didnt do anything.

I know my tolerance goes down when i take a break, but its just not the same. I haven't felt high, or even decently buzzed since, maybe, last summer. And thats even after taking a one month break. When i do a T break, and i come back for my first sesh after a week, i can tell it takes fewer hits, but its only in my head and the moment i move / stand up its gone. Its not even really "mind altering" either. Theres no making things funnier, or more relaxed, or a little spacy and out of my mind. I still have full, clear, coherent thoughts, i just dont feel as inclined to be overly emotional about those anxious thoughts.

The body high is completely gone now. Its not relaxing anymore, just mildly medicating. And sometimes when it does start to work, it just gives me sensory issues that i didnt have before. Like being too hot or too cold, or clothes fiting too tight or too losse, hair poking my neck etc. None of this is a problem when im sober and none of it has ever been a problem when i smoked before.

What gives? 2yrs in of inconsistent, low dose use, and now im either mildly medicated or greened out. no buzz, no high. My brain either goes from 0 to 5 or 0 to 300, no inbetween. I am so confused.

My buddy swears that taking Turmeric with cannabis gets you "much much higher". He always orders a big curry meal on 4/20. I've also heard a few older hippies mention that turmeric supplements give you more bang to your buck.

I recently started taking turmeric supplements (for general health) and swear I'm getting way too high on way less product. Uncomfortable high.

I remember reading a study about this, but it was over complicated and didn't understand it. I tried googling it again, but can't find it.

I've never used it, but the Kratom bros claim that turmeric also super charges their highs and they do have research papers on it (not sure how quality they are, I'm not a scientist)

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Anyone have more information? I tried google and AI, but coming up blank.

Looking for a recipe for edibles for ~25mg gummies. I’ve done butter before, but never gummies/candy.

I’m a daily smoker, looking to go towards edibles instead of smoking, but I can’t find good quality hi-potency edibles consistently, so I’d like to learn to make them.

I’m imagine there’s some post or resource around here - if someone can recommend it would be much appreciated!

Hi friends! I write the blog Senior Savvy Cannabis and recently made a free PDF cannabis tracking for my audience to use.

I'd love to offer it to you guys for free and get some feedback. It includes everything I would want in a tracking journal but I'd love to hear from others.

Let me know!

I diary my stones and record use. Its a hobby :-).

I returned to weed after too long away. Resumed only 2y5m ago!

Over that time days of enjoying weed have stayed similar: 15-20 days a month.

Over tine I went from distillate and 5mg edibles to hitter/pipe to DHV and joints. I get dabs about once every 1-2w with friends). Over 2y from 1/8 oz/m to about 1oz a month.

My stones have stayed similar. I enjoy smoking (not healthy!) so smoking more is kind of a feature though I’m slowly shifting more to DHV.

Overall i am good with this. I could enjoy 2oz/m (smoke daily+) but I also enjoy 1oz/m.

I am curious how others have changed over time

First, I want to clarify that I take one Imodium daily to help with my IBS. I recognize it's not the best solution but for now, it works.

Past that though, I like edibles. Sometimes at least. My thing though is ive recently realized that edibles hit me differently and finally realized it may be due to imodium. So I wanted to ask, for anyone whos used imodium/uses it often, how do edibles work with it? Do you skip them entirely? Or, if you do them, how do the two interact if at all?

Would love some thoughts

so, i unknowingly mopped up a nug of georgia pie that was hiding in a crevasse and thoroughly dunked it in bleach water (with a cap to two gallon ratio) before seeing it on the mophead. i left it on the counter as a humorous reminder (i dubbed it the death nug, something to give someone you hate). i was wondering if its still okay to smoke? i looked it up to little info, curious is all

Had 3 separate strains, ounces of fire get contaminated by spores from an old contaminated pack I received being left in one of the jars. It’s devoured all 3 of them. Ammonia smell, white spores galore.

I’ve seen growers wash freshly trimmed stalks of flower with WPM on them in a bath of 3% hydrogen peroxide and water, and drying them in 12-24h. I’ve also heard that this only works with freshly cut flower.

Is it a waste of time to wash my contaminated, cured, and trimmed 3 ounces? Thank you dear friends. I appreciate any input

Edit: it’s been tossed out

Title. Recently ordered 2 oz of thca flower and I expect it to be coming in soon. This is my first time having this much on me at one time so I’ve been looking at a good way to store. I’ve read about boveda packets and that glass airtight jars are the way to go, but I’m a little confused on a couple elements.

1.) when storing in a glass jar how much space should I leave for air/circulation in the jar and does that change when I add the boveda packets for humidity control?

2.) I only have plain glass jars, do I need to go out and order the colored fancy ones to help restrict light? Planned storage method is in a drawer in a closet, realistically it should only be exposed to indoor light when I want to access it but idk how big an impact that might actually make.

3.) with boveda or any other humidity control, I’ve read using 2-3 works the best do I need to worry about how the packets themselves going the jar? Or is that not something I need to stress min maxing?

Sorry for the rant and thanks for the help.

My life is better as an elder with less getting high. I'm in my 40s, smoked for about 20 years. I now have 154 days smoke/vape free. I have a medical card and I am exclusively on edibles now. Sometimes I don't take an edible until the late afternoon. When I was a smoker/vaper, I started as soon as I woke up and then every two hours until I passed out at night. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. My tolerance was so high; I was spending about $800 a month at the dispensary on carts and flower. I like myself better now. I feel less like a Pothead/addict and more like a grown up taking my medication. I don't have horrible withdrawals either. I am also spending a lot less, about $100 a month, sometimes less.

I've tried enough different edibles to have an informed opinion on the different varieties. I like the 5mg "Focus" gummies that have Ginger. It get's me in a good mood, motivated, but not too stoned to concentrate. The 1:1 CBD:THC ratio edibles are great at tempering the high and allowing me to feel good but still be able to concentrate and hold a conversation.

When work is done and it's party time, 20mg is enough for a good time and 50mg will send me to the moon. When I was smoking/vaping, I took a 100mg edible and felt nothing. It's also opened up travel for me, no smell, no obvious paraphernalia, indistinguishable from non-medicated gummies.

Overall life is better as a Cannabis user than as a "Pothead."

For me a stoner temple is a place where I feel a spiritual connection to weed and to my fellow stoners who have risen there.

All near me have a connection to water, stone, sun, and nature. I live near the confluence of two grand rivers where rail and road have made bridges. These are smoke spots and can become stoner temples. I know of 6 I can reach in a bicycle ride. At each i have smoked and risen many times.

Tell me of your stoner temple experience? Are you blessed with one nearby?

I usually smoke 1/2 oz a month. On a weed holiday, when i smoke what i like, I’m smoking at 2-3oz/m rate.

I feel like I’d happily smoke 2oz a month if i could. Which would have seemed impossibly large 2-3 y ago. 💭

What’s your ideal amount?

Hey all,

I'm 42 and I have a medical card and I am allowed to grow five plants. I did some indoor hydroponic grows and got some good results, but I decided it's too much work keeping the system functional (heating, cooling, humidity, pumps, lights, water quality, etc).

I'm thinking of going more simple next year and growing outside in organic potting soil (no pumps, lights, heating/cooling, etc). Previously I was growing for maximum THC. Since I quit smoking/vaping I'm curious what strains (if any) I should grow if my goal is specifically to make great edibles. I have made cannabutter from my previous hydro-grow but sometimes I get a bad headache after taking some. I never get headaches taking the gummies from the dispensary. I don't know if that is because my hydro-grow was all chemicals (not organic) or if the strain didn't have enough CBD or CBG to balance the THC or if I just took too much.

Thoughts?

I used to write an annual “state of the cannabis” blog. The re-election of trump made me go back and look at what I wrote the last time he was in office. Things have changed a little. We got a couple more legal states, more medical states, and the DEA was forced to reschedule. Which of course isn’t gonna happen now that agent orange is back in power. But yeah, here’s what I wrote:

https://danktownesfinest.com/2016/11/30/marironin/

You are nicely blazed in nature. Suddenly you realize you don’t have your glove, glasses, lighter, etc. what do you do?

My routine

• make a note of where I am on my phone. Don’t assume I’ll remember that moment
• look at any photos you took. Were you wearing it? What was last stop!
• as long as you know weed you started it’s ok to start looking locally. But if you don’t find the item in first 3-5 min you might as well relax and enjoy your weed.

In 20min you will stand up and immediately see you stepped on the lost item in the first minute of looking for it. Searching while blazed is kind of hopeless.

I’m in Colorado, southwest Denver metro area, UHC insurance, if anyone has good recommendations.

Also curious, though, about any apps/sites good for this, if there are none, might see about putting something together.

Not looking for an MMJ doc specifically, just a primary care doctor that isn’t opposed to the therapeutic benefits or recreational use.

If i use a lobo in my room in my windowless room, will my room smell like weed and what kind of air purifier should i get?

The longer weed is part of my life the more there seems to be two polar opposites in my relationship to it. On the one end there is - of course - addiction. As soon not being high doesn't feel good anymore, there is attachment to being high. An issue in priorities that starts metastizising into all other parts of life. Some kind of inner scale is out of balance, more and more steps lead into ultimately wrong directions. I've definitely been addicted at times.

On the other end there is something altogether different. A fulfilled life with plenty of opportunities to sneak in a great time and get some perspective to the rat race. A crutch for balance on an inner level. A tool for integration of other aspects of life. More and more things fall into place. New ideas appear out of nowhere that help us out of seeming dead ends.

The difference is fundamental. On the wrong end of the spectrum, there is a gradual decent into repetition compulsion, laziness, avoidance. On the right end of the spectrum, there is more adaptiveness, more joy in the details of the flow life.

This is a pretty thin rope to walk at times. I keep sliding into subtle or not so states of addiction. Whenever getting high is too much a goal, rather than being part of an overall situation, truly in line with the mood of the moment. But I kind of notice how I can improve this by getting my shit together. In many ways, weed can even help with that. It all seems to be about whether or not we use it to integrate other aspects of our life of as an end in itself. If we really want to use it for integration, "fasting" seems to help. In the sense of: not taking in other substances. Especially not alcohol and other heavy hitters. But for even better effects, why not also cut caffeine and sugar? This turns taking weed more and more into a ritual where we "make room" for it in other aspects of our life. It's kind of hard to describe. It is as if this kind of focus allows us to get actual work done as opposed to messing around and doing nothing of substance. Does that make sense? How is this in your life?

Maybe first we became a Stoner. A committed lover of weed.

Then maybe we became an older Stoner.

Then one day we are talking with fellow weed lovers. Talking favorite strains, or tips and tricks for portable DHV pleasure, distillate vs resin pen, mixing strains and modalities …

and we realize younger Stoners look to us (maybe in shock?). We have become a Stoner Elder.

Do you remember when that happened to you?

My son recently started college and dorm life, which of course in California means smoking more cannabis than when he was at home. I’m not thrilled about that but we have open communication and I’ve done what I can to instill moderation and responsible use, stick to flower, etc. He has a med card.

Being a broke college kid, he’s likely trying to make his weed last as long as possible.

As a DHV (dry herb vape) enthusiast I’m sold on the health benefits compared to smoking, and also how much less flower i now use as a result of switching to DHV.

So I’m torn on whether to get him a DHV as a present. On one hand it’s a harm reduction tactic and a way to save him cash. But I don’t want to encourage him into abusing weed.

I use dynavaps but they’re not practical for dorm life, so I was thinking of a mid range device like the Lobo.

I’d love to hear your opinions. Thanks!

Been a daily smoker for 10 years. Smoked before that too on and off but not daily. Weed always got me so so high. Didn’t seem like it mattered how much I’d smoked before. I was just always a lightweight. Totally fine with it. 6 months ago I quit drinking and got on an antidepressant ( Zoloft). I was a habitual drinker and it was annoying to me. Seemed like such a chore and I wasn’t enjoying it. Also hit the doctor up and he said I’m depressed and gives me the pills. I started taking them and kept smoking. I’m blessed to live somewhere with a seemingly unlimited network of caregivers and dispos.

Lately I’ve just not been getting high from flower. Not like I used too at least and I’m trying to figure out if it’s the Zoloft or if I’ve just smoking so much since I’ve quit drinking that I need a t-break.

Some backstory. Currently in my 30's and haven't smoked in about 4 years.I was a daily user in my late teens/early 20's. I quit smoking around the age of 23 because of a new job. From the age of ~25-27 I smoked a handful of times.

The times I used flower (which was literally a lightly packed 1 hitter) I got crazy panic attacks which i found strange since I had used to smoke multiple times a day every day no problem. But the few times I used a cart it was fine.

Now I'm 31 and looking to start using again from time to time as my job has laced a lot on using and wondering where I should go from here. Should I get a cart with low THC content or am I going to get completely blasted from the years I've been off? My plan was to only take like 1 second hits and hope I only get mildly buzzed.

I feel silly even asking all this but I'm feeling out of touch hoping to maybe run across someone that went through something similar.

So im not exactly sure how to describe my problem but lets just start:

I harvested a purple punch strain a few weeks ago. Directly after drying it for 1 Week me and my wife tried it. And it was fuuuuucking amazing. Like out of this world good. We were so high, so happy and had one of the best nights ever.

The next day we tried it again and this super intense feeling was gone. We were high but not as good as day 1. Well obviously not every night and high can be the same and i thought "yeah sure thats tolerance building up".

So then we took a break again for 8-9 Days. I cured it up nicely made sure its in a cool dark place, and humidity is around 55-60% in the Jar. (burped it too)

We tried it again and now we need way more to get high and dont reach the same level. Although the first time we only vaped like + - 0,2g.

It feels like the curing made the weed weaker. Even though it smells great and tastes great and i think ive done a good job preserving terpenes. Def no mold.

So i dont know, can anyone relate? Did my weed got weaker in the jar? Does it need more time to cure? Do we need to take longer breaks?

I consume twice a week, but its a bit on and off. I regularly have 1 Month breaks because i dont like the feeling of needing more and more to get to the same lvl. And had a longer break before that first session with the new purple punch.

But my wife rarely consumes and that made me a bit suprised by this. She is a bit dissapointed now because after the first session she was like holy fuck weed is the best shit ever and now she is like where has that feeling gone.

I usually smoke flower but I have a disposable distillate pen (eureka indica)that I’m finishing. I’ll take 3-8 hits depending.

Odd things I notice

1. It feels harsher on my lungs than smoking flower. Much harsher than DHV
2. I don’t like it by itself. It’s best 3-6h after smoking
3. Big pink eyes effect
4. It takes me down hard and fast in a way flower doesn’t. Great bliss but I’m down for an hour and pretty wiped for hours

I probably won’t by any more after this one - for me DHV and smoking are both way better

Anyone else like me?

I had my appendix out in early 2023 and I didn’t smoke for about a month. I went from needing 2 or 3 bowls to feel high to having 2 rips and being super panicky. I get that having a tolerance break will change how much I can handle but it seems crazy to me that after nearly 2 years I still can only handle 2-4 rips off one bowl before I’m too stoned and on the verge of greening out. On one hand I’m not complaining cause I’m not using as much product so I’m saving money, and on the other I’m curious of why my tolerance hasn’t gone up at all really in the last 2 years. Maybe it’s just in my head?

Also, I’ve never had paranoia with weed before. Ever. I’ve been smoking since I was 16 (26 now) and before this surgery I could smoke more than any of my friends and not get paranoid or have a bad high. I was smoking daily and it was always fun/relaxing for me. Since the surgery I’ve had panic attacks and motion sickness a lot even when I take one rip every few days. I’m considering not smoking at all anymore just cause it usually starts out as a bad high and kinda mellows itself out, I hate the first 20 min after smoking now

I’m curious how common this is

I smoke about 1/2 oz over about 20 days a month. The other day I smoked 10 500mg prerolls over a fun day. So average tolerance right?

Thing is I realize I get 80-90% as blissed with 1 joint (or DHV chamber) as I do with 10. The main benefit, other than smoking pleasure, of smoking lots of weed is I stay stoned a lot longer.

But a lot of time I can’t be stoned super long.

Anyone else get this? I’m going to try smoking less than I usually do just to see if this holds up.

Currently am smoking a couple hits each nights, every night. Helps me wind down, is enjoyable, and helps me sleep. When I frequently travel out of state for work, I don’t have any issue not smoking. I have a young child and consequently a wife that can’t partake. Because of that, I want to cut down a bit and I currently don’t smoke at all until the little one is asleep. However, when I’m home and I don’t have a specific thing stopping me on a random weekday, I struggle to not smoke. Anyone have any tips on how to go from daily smoking to limiting yourself to just a few days a week?

I've been smoking a lot lately and I've finally realized why: I hate the comedown. So I may wanna be high for just a little, but when I'm high and come down, I just feel blah. I'm fine when I'm sober and come up and peak but the come down just blows.

I'm sure the answer is just be healthier and or do less weed but in case there's anything else I can do, I'd love some thoughts. Or just to know that I need to be healthier/smoke less

I was researching CHS and REM rebound recently and again noticed a lot of the research is 1970s. Crazy!

My impression is current speculation is that for daily users the brain adjusts somewhat to cannabis by upregulating compensatory systems. If cannabis stops we feel the effects of the now unopposed compensatory systems.

With CHS in particular it’s speculated that the weed/upregulation balance gets brittle, so upregulated systems induce nausea/cramps on awakening that progress to CHS.

All speculative given the state of research.

Anyone seeing progress on the research side?