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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chino on January 25, 2022, 12:08:57 PM
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I've debated starting this thread for a while now seeing as we've had an official beer thread for the better part of a decade. We've kind of had an unofficial cannabis chat as part of another thread in the PandR subforum for some time, and I think it's time to widen that discussion for others to join.
So use this thread to show off new pieces, discuss new strains you grew/purchased, ask questions, talk about new products, etc.. just don't do anything blatantly stupid like use the board as a means to arrange a transfer of goods.
As for any politics surrounding cannabis, there's already a thread here:
https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=34612.0
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I'll start.
This is my go-to piece and a recent harvest of White Widow. That bud is/was fresh off the drying hangers and hasn't had a chance to cure yet, so I won't know for another 18ish days how it came out. The mother plant all the clones came off was stellar, so I expect these jars to be the same (hopefully better as I improved my feeding schedule)
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Anyone ever try one of these Dynavap things?
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My buddy got one about a year ago and is still raving about it. I finally decided to pick one up and it came in the mail yesterday. I have to say, it's a pretty cool little device. It's a battery-less vaporizer - an evolution of the one-hitters I used to rip outside my college dorm building. I'm actually really impressed with it. I 3D printed an adapter to allow me to pull it through the pipe I posted above. It tastes sooo good.
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I am so happy you made this thread Chino. I was thinking about doing it myself for awhile now, but kudos for doing it.
I am very ready to celebrate this awesome plant.
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How does that vape work if it's battery less? I have a vape pen, not sure it uses the same cartiridges as that, but it's got a battery in it to charge. Vape is great for discreet on the go use, but I never use it at home.
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How does that vape work if it's battery less? I have a vape pen, not sure it uses the same cartiridges as that, but it's got a battery in it to charge. Vape is great for discreet on the go use, but I never use it at home.
You have dry bud in the tip which gets covered by a cap that you heat up with a lighter.
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UoQg6l4srUw/maxresdefault.jpg)
Here's a high-res illustration from the company's manual on how to use it.
https://external-preview.redd.it/Xa-bC8bp51g2sdveA5J5iklmNV-geEJZ422eXnEGTBw.jpg?auto=webp&s=061a07b8db6e54933c48a44029960785cd337c89
I am so happy you made this thread Chino. I was thinking about doing it myself for awhile now, but kudos for doing it.
I am very ready to celebrate this awesome plant.
Cheers :hat
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Ahhh OK, that's like a legit vaporizer. I've never used or seen one before, that's kind of cool.
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There's a dispensary within walking distance of my house. Don't think I have the patience to grow it myself. Nice pics Chino! :tup
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You kids these days and your fancy ass pot smoking...every stoner sounds like they got a PhD in weed without a care for those of us who paved the way for legality for you all. For every nugget of white widow or william's wonder, there was a stoner in the early 80s abusing his throat with stems and seeds that were laced in bricks of commercial Mexican brown weed. You got your fancy dispensaries within blocks of your house, yet there's zero appreciation for those of us who braved months or years in jail to progress that right. In the fall of 1987, on the steps of Sproul Plaza in Berkeley where the free speech movement was born, close to a thousand of us gathered to give the finger to the man and lit up in the first ever UC Berkeley marijuana smoke in (I was there, it was a blast).
So, each time you light up, give thanks to those who fought for your freedom to light up...
(just having fun, bud looks amazing Chino :D )
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
Don't think I have the patience to grow it myself.
Me niether. If it were legal, maybe I'd throw some seeds out in the yard and see what happens, but to actually grow quality bud, I'm just not too interested.
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
Well that's life though right? A lot of shit used to suck compared to today. But at least we are all here today to enjoy the advances in marijuana. I'm not old enough to have smoked the stuff my parent's did, but I'm old enough to at least know the struggle of trying to secure some bud, any bud, and not knowing what exactly you got.
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
Well that's life though right? A lot of shit used to suck compared to today. But at least we are all here today to enjoy the advances in marijuana. I'm not old enough to have smoked the stuff my parent's did, but I'm old enough to at least know the struggle of trying to secure some bud, any bud, and not knowing what exactly you got.
True.. Except now my ass is sober, haven't touched it in 12 years. If I took a hit of today's weed, it'd fucking kill me :lol
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
Well that's life though right? A lot of shit used to suck compared to today. But at least we are all here today to enjoy the advances in marijuana. I'm not old enough to have smoked the stuff my parent's did, but I'm old enough to at least know the struggle of trying to secure some bud, any bud, and not knowing what exactly you got.
True.. Except now my ass is sober, haven't touched it in 12 years. If I took a hit of today's weed, it'd fucking kill me :lol
12 years?! I've been 28 years. Pink Floyd and my bachelor party in 1994. :lol
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Almost 22 years here, when I became a parent.
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I haven't smoked weed in a bit but I eat a delta 8 edible almost nightly. It's been really nice to just wind down, get some great sleep and just take the edge off.
A little side story. I used to smoke all the time when I lived in Florida but when I moved to Charlotte 5 years ago I had no way of getting weed, I couldn't find a connection. Eventually I learned that you can just buy delta-8 bud and edibles. I ordered some and was skeptical so one night I took two 30mg gummies and took my dog out on our nightly walk. I thought these edibles were going to be a dud and I won't feel anything like when taking CBD.
Our walks are normally half an hour, towards the end of the walk I completely forgot how long we've been walking or how much I've looped around our neighborhood (we do 2 big loops). I then came home and sat down and was so high I couldn't move for hours. The thought of navigating the stairs to go to bed both frightened and confused me.
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What I wouldn't have given to just go to the Weed Store when I was younger. No more driving into the projects saying 10 Hail Marys.
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What I wouldn't have given to just go to the Weed Store when I was younger. No more driving into the projects saying 10 Hail Marys.
Seriously. That dark light out door, the door slightly cracked open. The mumbling, the money exchanged and getting to your car as your heart is racing. :lol
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I always hated buying weed in college because you buy it and they are like "lets roll a joint". No, I don't want to split the weed I just bought to smoke it with you.
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
Well that's life though right? A lot of shit used to suck compared to today. But at least we are all here today to enjoy the advances in marijuana. I'm not old enough to have smoked the stuff my parent's did, but I'm old enough to at least know the struggle of trying to secure some bud, any bud, and not knowing what exactly you got.
True.. Except now my ass is sober, haven't touched it in 12 years. If I took a hit of today's weed, it'd fucking kill me :lol
12 years?! I've been 28 years. Pink Floyd and my bachelor party in 1994. :lol
We were just joking about this over the weekend, when my Dad took one hit like 5 years ago at my house. That was his first time in like 30 years and that one hit had him completely out for the rest of the night :lol so funny because he joked in front of all my friends that he could hang with us right before taking that one hit.
I always hated buying weed in college because you buy it and they are like "lets roll a joint". No, I don't want to split the weed I just bought to smoke it with you.
Hmm, I think every time I got offered to smoke after a purchase from my dealer it was always from his/her stash so I always would partake.
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I would be just like your Dad Marc. Now alcohol I'm all in but damn, one hit and I'd be ready for a nap.
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:lol
but seriously, I respect the old school stoners who paved the way to making this legal and getting us to where we are today.
It's just not fair though, cause a lot of the weed really sucked back in the day.
Well that's life though right? A lot of shit used to suck compared to today. But at least we are all here today to enjoy the advances in marijuana. I'm not old enough to have smoked the stuff my parent's did, but I'm old enough to at least know the struggle of trying to secure some bud, any bud, and not knowing what exactly you got.
True.. Except now my ass is sober, haven't touched it in 12 years. If I took a hit of today's weed, it'd fucking kill me :lol
12 years?! I've been 28 years. Pink Floyd and my bachelor party in 1994. :lol
Funny you say Pink Floyd...the last time I smoked was during this song, at this show...around the 30th row...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhc0E9EVis&ab_channel=SonicDharma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khhc0E9EVis&ab_channel=SonicDharma)
Had no idea it'd be my last. I didn't smoke much in those days, was way too deep in my drinking, and it was 6 months later that I ditched everything.
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So my love affair with weed started actually at age 32. Never touched it before, despite having opportunities.
I saw my state had medical marijuana and bam it was off to the races. Never liked drinking that much or smoking cigarettes, but MAN do I LOVE weed. We go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I rock sativa edibles strait from the dispensary. My dose usually goes between 5mg, 10mg, 15mg or 20mg depending on where my heads at. And usually I use only like twice a week. I never crave it and God its so good. Food tastes amazing, music sounds incredible (better then it ever did), my whole mindset slows down and gets SUPER introspective. Its like substance enhanced self therapy.
It feels so fucking good to be able to work on my issues and stuff that is bothering me and it works so well. I truly love it.
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So my love affair with weed started actually at age 32. Never touched it before, despite having opportunities.
Haven't touched it since I was 32. :lol
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I've often wondered if this would help with my anxiety, though relaxation has never been a problem. I never smoked weed. My vice came in a bottle.
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So my love affair with weed started actually at age 32. Never touched it before, despite having opportunities.
I saw my state had medical marijuana and bam it was off to the races. Never liked drinking that much or smoking cigarettes, but MAN do I LOVE weed. We go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I rock sativa edibles strait from the dispensary. My dose usually goes between 5mg, 10mg, 15mg or 20mg depending on where my heads at. And usually I use only like twice a week. I never crave it and God its so good. Food tastes amazing, music sounds incredible (better then it ever did), my whole mindset slows down and gets SUPER introspective. Its like substance enhanced self therapy.
It feels so fucking good to be able to work on my issues and stuff that is bothering me and it works so well. I truly love it.
Nice...but tell me...have you ever looked at the back of a twenty dollar bill...on weed?
I've often wondered if this would help with my anxiety, though relaxation has never been a problem. I never smoked weed. My vice came in a bottle.
It's definitely worth looking into, maybe even trying some microdosing of it just to take the edges off.
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So my love affair with weed started actually at age 32. Never touched it before, despite having opportunities.
I saw my state had medical marijuana and bam it was off to the races. Never liked drinking that much or smoking cigarettes, but MAN do I LOVE weed. We go together like peanut butter and jelly.
I rock sativa edibles strait from the dispensary. My dose usually goes between 5mg, 10mg, 15mg or 20mg depending on where my heads at. And usually I use only like twice a week. I never crave it and God its so good. Food tastes amazing, music sounds incredible (better then it ever did), my whole mindset slows down and gets SUPER introspective. Its like substance enhanced self therapy.
It feels so fucking good to be able to work on my issues and stuff that is bothering me and it works so well. I truly love it.
Nice...but tell me...have you ever looked at the back of a twenty dollar bill...on weed?
Oh, I am definitely an "Enhancement smoker" :lol
I've often wondered if this would help with my anxiety, though relaxation has never been a problem. I never smoked weed. My vice came in a bottle.
I am like the poster child for anxiety and it works great for me. Usually lower doses work best. And strait non-THC CBD is excellent for when I'm at work.
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Last time I smoked weed was in 2009. First time was 2005 on my 19th birthday. Fun times were had, but I hate the smell so much now that I don't know how I was ever able to smoke it in the first place.
I'm not anti-marijuana, but I sure wish it had a different smell. Between the factories and it just emitting off people, it gets really annoying.
I do have an amusing and pleasant memory with smoking weed though. Being high and listening to Slayer produced quite the visual experience. I saw myself mowing people down like a lawn mower in sync with the drums.
Just wanted to share.
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I do have an amusing and pleasant memory with smoking weed though. Being high and listening to Slayer produced quite the visual experience. I saw myself mowing people down like a lawn mower in sync with the drums.
Dave Lombardo is a great drummer to listen to while baked.
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I've often wondered if this would help with my anxiety, though relaxation has never been a problem. I never smoked weed. My vice came in a bottle.
This is exactly what brought me back to cannabis. When I gave up drinking over three years ago, there were significant other obstacles to overcome. Anxiety and depression were both big ones - combined with therapy, I'm in a far better place now in no small part due to cannabis. I rarely use recreationally, more as a tool not unlike prozac or any other med my Dr would prescribe. Since I started, I have not missed a workout, advanced my career, and most importantly refocused my efforts on being a better person (father, partner, son, brother, and friend). Alcohol, for me, eroded all of that and left a lot to repair.
Plus it pairs beautifully with bbq.
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Plus it pairs beautifully with bbq.
Damn straight!
(https://i.imgur.com/I2TpMID.jpeg)
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I ordered on the dispensary's website for the first time and couldn't believe how easy it was. Just like shopping online except no credit card. Shop for what you want, add it to your cart, select a pick up time (1/2 hr increments) and show up with cash and driver license. I was in and out of there in less than 2 mins. :hat
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Plus it pairs beautifully with bbq.
Damn straight!
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Beautiful scene right here!
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What kind of perc is that? Faberge egg? Don't recall seeing anything like that.
Also, your ash-catcher is bigger than your bong. That's not normally how it works. :lol
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:lol
I have no idea what that perc's official style is called, but it does its job well.
The ash catcher might be a bit overkill, but it gets a lot of use and the extra water doesn't hurt. That angle of the pic is also a bit funky. It looks a little bigger in the pic than it actually is.
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I'll let rip with my paraphernalia. At least the bits I find interesting for some reason or another.
Daily driver:
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Erlenmeyer for the win. I wasn't totally sure what I wanted when I bought this, but it turns out this is precisely what I wanted. It's perfect across the board, from the height to the shape to the thickness. I might be inclined to go with a more robust perc, but I can't find one where everything else is the same. And in any case, it's a monumental improvement over what it replaced.
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This was my bong for probably 15 years. A birthday present, as I recall. The nasty bit of white silicon is because I replaced the hole in the back with a pull-carb. I normally took the time to make it look good, but it needed to be redone every few years, and the last time I didn't really bother. It only gets used once every year or two, specifically when it snows down here. One of it's unique qualities is that it's .125" anodized aluminum, so it conducts and stores heat amazingly well. It'll develop a solid layer of hard frost right up to the water line, or to the top when filled with snow. You might as well be smoking out of a pipe made entirely of ice.
Way back in my formative teenage years I lived on a suburban cul de sac. The neighbor across the street was the inspiration for Ned Flanders, right down to the mustache. He was the sort of guy that let everybody on the block have the key-code to his garage door, in case they needed to use his lawnmower, or borrow a gallon of gas, or something. As a rambunctious and hard-partying 18 year old he sure didn't like me, though. One year he gave everybody on the block tins of Christmas cookies. No doubt directed towards my mom, in this case. For some reason it amused me to use Ned's Christmas cookie tin for my stash box. Thirty five years later here we are. :lol
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Some time during that 35 years I went on a first date with some gal, and we went to see Tommy and Shelby Chong do standup somewhere. He was selling glass after the show, which as we all know was his downfall, and signing whatever people brought or bought. I handed him the lid to a tin of Christmas cookies. He looked at it confusedly, looked at me confusedly, then back at the lid, chuckled, and then drew a wonderfully ornate autograph on it. When everybody else was handing him album covers and DVDs, I think he appreciated something unique. And for that I've got my Tommy Chong autographed rolling tray.
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I love that last story. That's classic.
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That's fantastic
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That's freaking fantastic.
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Was feeling super apprehensive this morning about something coming up soon. Did a 10mg sativa edible and was able to work though things and now feel way more at ease.
And it was nice as well putting on the fireplace channel and watching the snow come down while listening to The Vangelis Blade Runner soundtrack.
Overall a great time.
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I've often wondered if this would help with my anxiety, though relaxation has never been a problem. I never smoked weed. My vice came in a bottle.
It's definitely worth looking into, maybe even trying some microdosing of it just to take the edges off.
I'd like to but I have no idea where to start. Is there a Weed for Dummies thread?
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I'd throw some caution there Chris. Not to butt in, but if you had a vice with booze, I'd worry about replacing one vice with another. I'd consult your doctor about your anxiety first before you try anything. :)
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Sound advice. I am in a much better place now. The bottle was not a problem, it was a symptom of my problems. Once I recognized that I was able to move forward. Same with the anxiety; I have tools now that I didn't have before.
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I'd like to but I have no idea where to start. Is there a Weed for Dummies thread?
I would say this is a decent thread to ask beginner questions, and I would be happy to answer anything you wanted ask about.
Personally, I started with CBD. There is no buzz, there is no high and it is not physically or mentally addictive. It just calms things down and the anxiety subsides. Also there is no THC in them. For just strait up day to day anxiety, I preferred using them over THC since there is total clarity of mind with CBD.
Peace of mind, but feeling totally sober at the same time.
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If the CBD works for you, I think that's great. Personally, I don't notice a difference with CBD, but if I use it with THC I've noticed a more calming high.
Soooo I finally cooked last weekend with my kief I had been saving for awhile.... and wow these peanut butter cookies are POTENT. If anyone recalls from the other thread, my edible tolerance is really high so I was quite shocked that one of these small cookies really got me too high. I took a bunch of pictures of the process I'd like to share, but haven't uploaded yet. It was quite time consuming to make the butter and I was very skeptical of how potent they'd come out so I am quite shocked.
So some funny and some bad stories regarding these edibles, we made them Saturday and I ate one around 9pm that night. My gf and I had a few drinks so I was not sober. I really didn't think one cookie would do much to me so I ate it thinking, whatever, if I get a little high that'll be fine. We started watching a movie and I actually fell asleep during it around 10pm. I woke up near the end at 10:30 though and I was high as a kite. So high that I demanded I pay the $4 on amazon to stream the movie Black Sheep and I couldn't fall asleep until 3am. I felt great overall. But I woke up with a slight tummy ache. I had no plans on Sunday since my concert that night got postponed so I decided around 1pm to test out another cookie. I wasn't sure how much of that experience the night before wass due to being a bit drunk already. So without any alcohol I ate a cookie. I was wayyyy too high for about 5 hours. Not a too uncomfortable high, but higher than I'd like to be and confirmed my suspicion that these edibles are VERY VERY strong.
Now the problem became my stomach. It started hurting really really bad that night. It's only now just fully gone a few days later. Some research shows that too mcuh marijuana has lead to some people getting really bad stomach pain and I read the only thing that helped was a hot shower and bath, which funny enough was what I was constantly doing because I noticed (before doing any research) that it was the only thing helping me.
So I think next week when I feel my stomach is fully back to normal, I will try eating just half a cookie, I have 20 more left including 4 more servings of cannibutter :lol
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Wow, that sounds like quite an adventure :lol
I've definitely been too high before, but luckily haven't encountered the stomach ache. But I have encountered it from too much munchy food, lol
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Now the problem became my stomach. It started hurting really really bad that night. It's only now just fully gone a few days later. Some research shows that too mcuh marijuana has lead to some people getting really bad stomach pain and I read the only thing that helped was a hot shower and bath, which funny enough was what I was constantly doing because I noticed (before doing any research) that it was the only thing helping me.
I had this exact experience when I stared eating edibles and had too many one night. The stomach pain was something else.
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Never tried edibles because I'm an instant gratification kinda guy. Much prefer the "blaze up" method. :biggrin: :hat
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So, asking for a friend... if someone wanted to start with CBD - bearing in mind that my friend has been experiencing a fair amount of pain in the last three months, in the shoulder and neck area, possibly stress related - where would you go? I am.. I mean, he is, reluctant to just buy a bottle of gummies at the drugstore (I don't like the texture and taste of gummies anyway; I might be the only person on the planet that doesn't like gummy bears or those silly gummy worms. Uh, and neither does my friend. :) ). I know a (different) friend of mine used a CBD oil, I think he said a couple drops under the tongue, and I'm going to ask him when I see him next. But what do the experts here say?
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So, asking for a friend... if someone wanted to start with CBD - bearing in mind that my friend has been experiencing a fair amount of pain in the last three months, in the shoulder and neck area, possibly stress related - where would you go? I am.. I mean, he is, reluctant to just buy a bottle of gummies at the drugstore (I don't like the texture and taste of gummies anyway; I might be the only person on the planet that doesn't like gummy bears or those silly gummy worms. Uh, and neither does my friend. :) ). I know a (different) friend of mine used a CBD oil, I think he said a couple drops under the tongue, and I'm going to ask him when I see him next. But what do the experts here say?
You'll pay a premium, but consider taking a trip up to NETA in Northhampton MA and take a look at their creams and topicals. They should have a menu on their website!
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So, asking for a friend... if someone wanted to start with CBD - bearing in mind that my friend has been experiencing a fair amount of pain in the last three months, in the shoulder and neck area, possibly stress related - where would you go? I am.. I mean, he is, reluctant to just buy a bottle of gummies at the drugstore (I don't like the texture and taste of gummies anyway; I might be the only person on the planet that doesn't like gummy bears or those silly gummy worms. Uh, and neither does my friend. :) ). I know a (different) friend of mine used a CBD oil, I think he said a couple drops under the tongue, and I'm going to ask him when I see him next. But what do the experts here say?
You can get them in a local CBD store, but I buy them online. The ones I get are a 10mg capsule.
https://joyorganics.com/products/cbd-softgels?variant=29897690939491
They also have drops as well if that is preferred as well as creams that can be rubbed directly on the point of pain.
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So, asking for a friend... if someone wanted to start with CBD - bearing in mind that my friend has been experiencing a fair amount of pain in the last three months, in the shoulder and neck area, possibly stress related - where would you go? I am.. I mean, he is, reluctant to just buy a bottle of gummies at the drugstore (I don't like the texture and taste of gummies anyway; I might be the only person on the planet that doesn't like gummy bears or those silly gummy worms. Uh, and neither does my friend. :) ). I know a (different) friend of mine used a CBD oil, I think he said a couple drops under the tongue, and I'm going to ask him when I see him next. But what do the experts here say?
You'll pay a premium, but consider taking a trip up to NETA in Northhampton MA and take a look at their creams and topicals. They should have a menu on their website!
INSA in Springfield is super convenient off 91, and has a pretty robust online menu as well. The premium disclaimer applies here as well, but should for medicinal grade extracts. I cannot imagine the 'convenience store' offerings have the same rigor around production.
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Some pics of making the ultra potent cookies last weekend
The kief spread out on "the parchment" (up the irons :metal)
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After decarbing the kief, mixed it into melted butter and let that go over boiling water for 3 hours
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I had a lot of trouble trying to strain the kief out, but what we did was just let it sit in a glass cup and all the particles fell to the bottom, so after letting it harden up, scooped it out of the glass and just removed the bottom inch of butter filled with all the leaf particles
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Then used the butter to make peanut butter cookies, 22 of them
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Had some extra butter so used these ice trays I had to make some kittie shaped butter servings
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKToOE5XoAI58nj?format=jpg&name=large)
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Hot damn. You acquire all that kief from your grinder(s)?
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Hot damn. You acquire all that kief from your grinder(s)?
i've been saving my kief for quite a while (years). I filled up a tiny mason jar, like the size you might get in a ketchup side at a fancy restaurant (where it comes in a sealed tiny jar, not a packet or bottle). I don't have a scale so I had no idea how many grams that was. The website I was using to guide me said no more than 5-6 grams per 2 sticks of butter. I thought that seemed fine, but maybe my guess on the weight was way off or that kief is just way more potent than usual (my grinder captures only the very fine kief particles so I usually don't get that much out of it actually hence the years of collecting).
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What does it taste like? Regular butter? Or is it richer?
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What does it taste like? Regular butter? Or is it richer?
I used basic unsalted butter, but with the kief, it tastes like marijuana :lol Not richer or anything, although I only just licked my finger of the butter. I didn't really want to have a full taste of it being that I didn't know if it would mess me up.
The cookies themselves tastes like peanutbutter cookies with a side of marijuana. It's not overpowering but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't noticeable. Definitely doesn't taste bad or anything, very enjoyable to eat still.
This was all a first for me, so definitely a learning experience in terms of making it but also dosing it. My stomach is finally better so sometime soon I want to eat half of a cookie and see how it affects me.
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I'm no expert here, so I may be way off base, but my understanding of it is that tummy problems stem from eating plant matter, rather than just the canabinoids. Perhaps if it wasn't fully separated that might be your issue. I don't know if that would apply to the tricomes, though. Still, if other edibles don't bother you and these do that may be your issue.
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I'm no expert here, so I may be way off base, but my understanding of it is that tummy problems stem from eating plant matter, rather than just the canabinoids. Perhaps if it wasn't fully separated that might be your issue. I don't know if that would apply to the tricomes, though. Still, if other edibles don't bother you and these do that may be your issue.
I don't think I've ever been so high from an edible before so hard to compare to other edibles I've had. Some limited research I saw didn't mention plant particles which I thought could be possible though, but I did filter a lot of it out but definitely not all of it. You can see some speckles in the kittie butter to have an idea of how much plant matter made it's way into the cookies. Definitely not enough to notice in texture since the kief is so fine, but I would imagine that's a possibility.
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Update on my cookies... earlier in the week I ate half a cookie. Felt good for about 2 hours, no stomach ache. I then ate 2/3 of a cookie another night and felt really good for about 3-4 hours, no stomache ache. I think I figured out my dosage situation. Just still can't believe how strong these came out.
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Glad they are working out for you Cram. Figuring out the dosing is always a little tricky, but oh so satisfying once its sorted out.
For today I took 10mg edible a littler earlier and I'm just chillin on the couch staring at light snow coming down with child like wonder in my eyes.
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Some low bar media outlets are trying to make a story out of Snoop being photographed smoking weed before the Super Bowl halftime...probably be more of a story if he didn't get high before it :lol
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Some low bar media outlets are trying to make a story out of Snoop being photographed smoking weed before the Super Bowl halftime...probably be more of a story if he didn't get high before it :lol
Yeah, I don't see the surprise or big deal. Yeah, you aren't allowed to smoke anything in that venue, but just because he did doesn't mean it's news worthy.
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Some low bar media outlets are trying to make a story out of Snoop being photographed smoking weed before the Super Bowl halftime...probably be more of a story if he didn't get high before it :lol
Yeah, I don't see the surprise or big deal. Yeah, you aren't allowed to smoke anything in that venue, but just because he did doesn't mean it's news worthy.
It's California too, weed laws are looser than tobacco. You can actually get in bigger trouble on the streets of Berkeley smoking tobacco than you can smoking weed. They have fines for cigarettes on the street, but none for pot. (again....because of trailblazers like me who challenged the laws back in the '80s)
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Some low bar media outlets are trying to make a story out of Snoop being photographed smoking weed before the Super Bowl halftime...probably be more of a story if he didn't get high before it :lol
Yeah, I don't see the surprise or big deal. Yeah, you aren't allowed to smoke anything in that venue, but just because he did doesn't mean it's news worthy.
It's California too, weed laws are looser than tobacco. You can actually get in bigger trouble on the streets of Berkeley smoking tobacco than you can smoking weed. They have fines for cigarettes on the street, but none for pot. (again....because of trailblazers like me who challenged the laws back in the '80s)
Kind of ironic, actually. As a coin-carrying member of AA I figured you were supposed to fight for the right to chainsmoke reds like your life depended on it. :lol
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Some low bar media outlets are trying to make a story out of Snoop being photographed smoking weed before the Super Bowl halftime...probably be more of a story if he didn't get high before it :lol
Yeah, I don't see the surprise or big deal. Yeah, you aren't allowed to smoke anything in that venue, but just because he did doesn't mean it's news worthy.
It's California too, weed laws are looser than tobacco. You can actually get in bigger trouble on the streets of Berkeley smoking tobacco than you can smoking weed. They have fines for cigarettes on the street, but none for pot. (again....because of trailblazers like me who challenged the laws back in the '80s)
Kind of ironic, actually. As a coin-carrying member of AA I figured you were supposed to fight for the right to chainsmoke reds like your life depended on it. :lol
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By the time I made it to the rooms, AA had started to distance from that image, at least bay area AA did. They still remember fondly the days of rooms filled with smoke to eye level.
For my first year I think I was at 2-3 packs a day :lol
Thank fucking God I dropped those as well, before they spiked to 10 bucks a pack.
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Nice thread!!! I wasn't able to smoke for the last 31 years because of piss tests. Now that I'm retired my wife loves that I'll take a hit at night with her. It really helps with my anxiety, as does the CBD caps I started taking after retiring :)
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I took 2.5 ounces of trim last night and made some butter. Thought it'd be good to have some edibles for the show this weekend :metal I'll bring a bunch just incase I drop a few on the ground or something ;)
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That's awesome.
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I've also been messing around with "nano-grows". More of a hobby/exercise than an attempt to grow a large and efficient plant.
Gotta smoke 'em all :hat
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:yarr
is the nano thing similar to a bonsai plant?
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I don't do anything that I'd consider "bonsai", but some guys are true masters of that craft.
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That will take the Zen garden to the level :lol
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That is so cool
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That's bordering on the 'lol stoners' edge... Pretty cool though.
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Over the years I've severly cut down on my drinking. I was never a huge home drinker, and only drank out on the right occasions. It got to the point where I would drink a handful of times during the year, usually at festivals and such. Well, about a year or so ago I started having access to edibles regularly and I have pretty much no desire to drink again. I have never enjoyed the "smoking" aspect of anything (other than a very occasional cigar), so smoking weed never appealed to me, but as I slowly had edibles more I certainly have enjoyed them. So now I generally am able to enjoy once a week.
At ProgStock this past fall I got to see a Pink Floyd tribute band while high, and as someone who has enjoyed prog-rock most of his life I feel as though that was an overdue checklist item!
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My Nick is growing up! Lol Love you man.
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Over the years I've severly cut down on my drinking. I was never a huge home drinker, and only drank out on the right occasions. It got to the point where I would drink a handful of times during the year, usually at festivals and such. Well, about a year or so ago I started having access to edibles regularly and I have pretty much no desire to drink again. I have never enjoyed the "smoking" aspect of anything (other than a very occasional cigar), so smoking weed never appealed to me, but as I slowly had edibles more I certainly have enjoyed them. So now I generally am able to enjoy once a week.
At ProgStock this past fall I got to see a Pink Floyd tribute band while high, and as someone who has enjoyed prog-rock most of his life I feel as though that was an overdue checklist item!
The last time I got high was while watching Roger Waters perform Comfortably Numb during his Wall tour. Figured that's as good a session as any to count as my last.
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Over the years I've severly cut down on my drinking. I was never a huge home drinker, and only drank out on the right occasions. It got to the point where I would drink a handful of times during the year, usually at festivals and such. Well, about a year or so ago I started having access to edibles regularly and I have pretty much no desire to drink again. I have never enjoyed the "smoking" aspect of anything (other than a very occasional cigar), so smoking weed never appealed to me, but as I slowly had edibles more I certainly have enjoyed them. So now I generally am able to enjoy once a week.
At ProgStock this past fall I got to see a Pink Floyd tribute band while high, and as someone who has enjoyed prog-rock most of his life I feel as though that was an overdue checklist item!
Edibles are my jam too. Totally different high, and it sometimes gets quasi psychedelic it its level of introspection which I find very therapeutic.
And this goes for all weed consumption methods, but oh yeah the enhancement of music is unreal. Its like I'm hearing all my albums for the very first time.
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Ready for the show later!
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I had two on an empty stomach first thing this morning to get a baseline of their potency. They're exactly where I wanted them. Perfect level of mellow and chill while still having all my faculties. Though, that was only 90 minutes ago. It's entirely possible I'll be couch locked a half hour from now.
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The "unexpected" couch lock is always an experience :lol
I am so grateful to strait up have pills that say 5mg on them from the dispensary. Its almost always right on the money of what I am looking for.
But yeah, those cookies look bangin :tup
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I’m a junior grower.
I don’t smoke it.
I don’t test what I grow.
I give it all away.
I just like the plant.
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Went to the dispensary in Las Vegas called Planet 13. Apparently they are the worlds largest dispensary. It was pretty big and cool place just slightly off the strip. Quite expensive, but such a cool experience. Soooo many options. It was a bit overwhelming and there were like 100 different budtender stations. Got an 8th, a vape cartridge, and 5 pre-rolls. Spent $180 which is the expensive part, but the quality is great and the experience was cool.
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Budtender? Is that like a weed somalier, or do they have a totally different and higher (pun intended) position for that?
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Budtender? Is that like a weed somalier, or do they have a totally different and higher (pun intended) position for that?
Kind of. Basically if you go to a dispensary, you will work with a person there to get you what you want (the budtender). It could just be you telling them what you want, but it's more fun when you ask questions and get detailed answers about the products. For example, I like sativas because I like the more active high than the sit on your couch high from indicas. I asked the budtender for some recommendations based on that and for low price. The lady found me a cool strain, it was hybrid (Super Lemon OG), but more sativa dominant and she explained some things I didn't understand which was cool (I need to do more homework on these things) about why this strain would be good for me. Must say, this strain has a great citrus taste to it and the high is really enjoyable. I've got a couple grams with me back home now :hat
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Cram nailed it.
They just are the ones you talk to about what you are looking for in effect. You talk about what you've tried, what you like and don't like. And they can make recommendations, and then sell you the stuff.
I've always found them to be pretty friendly and helpful.
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I forgot what the place is called, but it was in Colorado Springs. The place had descriptions for the effects of each of the strains. That was really helpful and I said to my friend, "Every dispensary should do this." It's informative and it helps people make quicker decisions while they wait.
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I forgot what the place is called, but it was in Colorado Springs. The place had descriptions for the effects of each of the strains. That was really helpful and I said to my friend, "Every dispensary should do this." It's informative and it helps people make quicker decisions while they wait.
I figure they all did.
That said, it's also widely variable by the individual. I can tell you that indica dominant strains tend to wire me out somethin fierce, which is certainly not the norm. Also, while some strains do make me a bit sleepy, I've never found any grass conducive to sleep. It might help me fall asleep, but it won't be very restful. While most of the people I know do appreciate the info on the labels, they've never been particularly helpful to me, except to find patterns as to why they're wrong. :lol
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Its kind of wild how complicated it can get with the different terpene profiles.
I usually find it easier to just pick a strain and experiment until I find what I like.
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Jesus fuck you kids are spoiled these days....I had a solid old man rant loaded up...but I'll show some discretion. :lol
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/federal-marijuana-legalization-bill-officially-scheduled-for-house-floor-vote-next-week/
So even though it already passed in the house before, they didn’t think it would pass the senate, so they retooled it and will try again.
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/federal-marijuana-legalization-bill-officially-scheduled-for-house-floor-vote-next-week/
So even though it already passed in the house before, they didn’t think it would pass the senate, so they retooled it and will try again.
I wouldn't hold my breath with the senate, though it should be close. Anything that might let "less desirables" out of the slammer, or removes a road block to immigration is going to be unpopular to republicans. It'll be up to some of the so-called libertarians on the right to push it over.
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Now this bill just takes it off the list of schedule 1 drugs, right?
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Federal legalization passed in the house today. Hopefully, it will now go to the senate
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Recreational is now legal and went in effect today. Might hit up a store later, but I still have enough to last for another month, which should give the dispensaries time to wind down on the hype.
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I was thinking about getting one of these LED corner lights to liven up my sessions.
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Now this bill just takes it off the list of schedule 1 drugs, right?
I believe it would allow Federally insured banks (including credit cards) to do business directly w dispensaries, as well. This will also open the flood gates for investors who have been playing international cannabis markets.
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Now this bill just takes it off the list of schedule 1 drugs, right?
I believe it would allow Federally insured banks (including credit cards) to do business directly w dispensaries, as well. This will also open the flood gates for investors who have been playing international cannabis markets.
Interesting...we'll see how it plays out, though here in CA, they have so many regulations on the market that nobody can get a foothold, at least a profitable one. The old, underground market is so well established, and tax free to boot, I'm not sure how the legit market will ever pull ahead.
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I was thinking about getting one of these LED corner lights to liven up my sessions.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0151/8174/2134/files/MoodSetter_480x480.gif?v=1603664307)
I have one. It's pretty cool! :tup
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Now this bill just takes it off the list of schedule 1 drugs, right?
I believe it would allow Federally insured banks (including credit cards) to do business directly w dispensaries, as well. This will also open the flood gates for investors who have been playing international cannabis markets.
Interesting...we'll see how it plays out, though here in CA, they have so many regulations on the market that nobody can get a foothold, at least a profitable one. The old, underground market is so well established, and tax free to boot, I'm not sure how the legit market will ever pull ahead.
This is an ongoing issue here in Canada, and we're now in our 4th year of full legalization. The cost per gram from a legal source (based on best available bulk price) is still around $9, and much higher for small quantities or pre-rolls. The black market price we pay is about $2.50 per gram (full disclosure: we buy 1/2lbs at a time, so the bulk price is pretty damn low). For us to switch to a legal source the price doesn't have to be on the same page, but it should at least be in the same book!
Lots of folks will buy from the dispensaries solely because it's legal, so they're quite profitable. However, I don't think they'll ever be able to eliminate the black market. I can order online, pay a ridiculously low price, and have it delivered to my house in the mail. I see almost no reason to go to a physical store to buy my weed.
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Now this bill just takes it off the list of schedule 1 drugs, right?
I believe it would allow Federally insured banks (including credit cards) to do business directly w dispensaries, as well. This will also open the flood gates for investors who have been playing international cannabis markets.
Interesting...we'll see how it plays out, though here in CA, they have so many regulations on the market that nobody can get a foothold, at least a profitable one. The old, underground market is so well established, and tax free to boot, I'm not sure how the legit market will ever pull ahead.
This is an ongoing issue here in Canada, and we're now in our 4th year of full legalization. The cost per gram from a legal source (based on best available bulk price) is still around $9, and much higher for small quantities or pre-rolls. The black market price we pay is about $2.50 per gram (full disclosure: we buy 1/2lbs at a time, so the bulk price is pretty damn low). For us to switch to a legal source the price doesn't have to be on the same page, but it should at least be in the same book!
Lots of folks will buy from the dispensaries solely because it's legal, so they're quite profitable. However, I don't think they'll ever be able to eliminate the black market. I can order online, pay a ridiculously low price, and have it delivered to my house in the mail. I see almost no reason to go to a physical store to buy my weed.
There are similar issues here w legalization. As soon as you go down that path, there is substantial overhead that has to be passed on to the consumer which results in higher prices. I've read that CA's biggest issue was that the laws are kind of tailored to keep 'mom and pop' type operations out of the legal process, it's just too expensive for them to keep up. So they continue via black market and hope for the best. Here in CT, I can see that same scenario playing out (albeit a much smaller scale, we're not really known for our strains over here). The rumor was the cost to apply for a license to even get into the legal end was $750,000. That's a LOT of capital just to be in the game, and doesn't even get you where you'd need to be to invest in hardware, software, logistics related to the business.
Personally, I prefer having a legal path - it helps to ensure I know exactly what I'm getting. There have been too many stories of fentanyl finding it's way into products - I'd rather not risk it. Similar to liquor, some will always go the black market route - others just stop in the packy and know what they're getting is controlled.
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I'm not really concerned about fentanyl getting into my supply. I think that would be more of an issue when buying from street level dealers vying for business, and needing the 'best' product to remain competitive. The operation we buy from is clearly a well organized criminal operation with investments in their infrastructure (packaging, website, app), and the selection is superior to every dispensary I've visited. I can't see why they'd want to risk killing their customers. Also, it seems like you're most likely to encounter opioids here when using coke or heroin (neither of which we use). The narrative in the news makes it sound as if most of the folks are already taking opioids or similar intentionally, and it's just being laced with fentanyl (apparently the market for valium is booming. Who knew?). Our province tracks the opioid deaths, but they don't ever provide details about how they happen.
On that subject, we do keep a naxalone kit in our house. They reverse OD's, and are freely given out in pharmacies here. Apparently they're restricted in most of the US, which is absolutely absurd given how rampant fentanyl deaths are.
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I'm not really concerned about fentanyl getting into my supply.
Yeah, this is kind of unheard of to mix fentanyl into marijuana. Or really to put anything dangerous into marijuana is very rare and basically a non issue.
As for the black market talk, I will most likely continue using my dealer once shops open up here in NJ. It'll likely save me a good amount of money, but I would probably still sample things in the store because from experience they usually have some cool strains that are worth trying out. I paid ~ $60 for an 8th when in Vegas last month which is much more than what I'd pay under ground, but that strain (Super Lemon OG) was SOOOO good that I wouldn't mind having small amounts of super high end stuff. My dealer gets really great stuff for low prices, but it's usually not THAT good compared to what you can get from a high end dispensary.
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I'm not really concerned about fentanyl getting into my supply.
Yeah, this is kind of unheard of to mix fentanyl into marijuana. Or really to put anything dangerous into marijuana is very rare and basically a non issue.
In truth, I'd be more concerned about the non-fentanyl chemicals that often go into legal bud. When that much money is involved shortcuts naturally come up. I know for a fact that what I smoke is 100% organic, and I appreciate that.
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I'm not really concerned about fentanyl getting into my supply.
Yeah, this is kind of unheard of to mix fentanyl into marijuana. Or really to put anything dangerous into marijuana is very rare and basically a non issue.
It’s less ‘mixing’ and more apparent cross contamination from individuals who handle both products before sale. I never would have guessed it was an issue either until I started seeing news reports locally. Who knows for sure, I still err on the side of caution now that what I perceive to be a safer option exists. Also love edibles and being able to monitor/control the dosing can’t be understated. YRMV.
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We're allowed to grow up to 3 or 4 plants (can't remember which) if we want, but it seems like too much of a hassle. My friend grows some in a fancy tent setup he got for $1500, but honestly the product isn't great. I'd rather just pay.
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I guess I can see what you mean by cross contaminating now, but I never really thought of it like that since my dealers in the past were not (as far as I could tell) associated with opiate dealing.
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If you want to be safe about, just grow it yourself. That's the only safest way to know what your smoking isn't laced with stuff or using any chemicals.
It's akin to people growing their own foods to not want the pesticides that are on the produce at the grocery store.
But a bit of research is what you can also do when choosing a place to buy. Ask them where they get their supply, what goes into the soil during the growing process, they will tell you and you can even look up the supplier, if you so desire.
Most of the people I bought my stuff from would grow it themselves, or knew others that grew it. One knew when his product was shit and would discount it because it wasn't that great.
The other one went even further into the business aspect and started knowing people who knew how to grow, how to make cartridges, and they even made their own hash balls.
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I eat way worse stuff than what my marijuana is grown in. I'm personally not worried a single bit.
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We're allowed to grow up to 3 or 4 plants (can't remember which) if we want, but it seems like too much of a hassle. My friend grows some in a fancy tent setup he got for $1500, but honestly the product isn't great. I'd rather just pay.
Practice, practice, practice. As somebody who calls himself SchecterShredder can surely appreciate, it takes time to hone your craft, which is really what we're talking about here. Once you get the hang of what you're doing you can definitely grow some excellent bud. And again hearkening back to your handle, if it's an art you can appreciate, the work you put into mastery can certainly be enjoyable.
That said, it really can be a pain in the ass. If you'd rather pay somebody else to do it I can't really blame you.
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To me, it's not different than growing your own veggies. It's possible and if you got the set up, could be relatively easy to keep it going.... but it's work and it's a passion. And for the same reasons why I don't have a garden, it's not something I'm interested in. Having said that, if it were legal in NJ to have some plants. I'd totally throw some seeds in the yard and see what happens. Worse case is nothing happens, best case I have some bud that I can use to cook with. Speaking of which, I still have 9 of my peanut butter cookies from a bit ago. I may eat 3/4 of one tonight. I grabbed some more edibles from my dealer, great deal of 200MG chocolates for $15 but it's no where close to the bang for buck I got out of those homemade cookies. I really wish edibles were super cheap because it's such an enjoyable and relaxing evening when I down 100MG.
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We're allowed to grow up to 3 or 4 plants (can't remember which) if we want, but it seems like too much of a hassle. My friend grows some in a fancy tent setup he got for $1500, but honestly the product isn't great. I'd rather just pay.
Practice, practice, practice. As somebody who calls himself SchecterShredder can surely appreciate, it takes time to hone your craft, which is really what we're talking about here. Once you get the hang of what you're doing you can definitely grow some excellent bud. And again hearkening back to your handle, if it's an art you can appreciate, the work you put into mastery can certainly be enjoyable.
That said, it really can be a pain in the ass. If you'd rather pay somebody else to do it I can't really blame you.
No doubt i could make it work with time, research and effort. But then i wouldn't be able to shred so much ;D
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I was thinking about getting one of these LED corner lights to liven up my sessions.
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0151/8174/2134/files/MoodSetter_480x480.gif?v=1603664307)
For a gift I got a bunch of Philips Hue lights that I have in my office where I listen to music. It's awesome to have some music playing with the lights changing to what's happening.
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I find growing to be super easy. Between electricity and nutrients, I spend sub $200 a month for basically more weed and edibles than I know what to do with. I'm slowly converting my setup to DWC only, and I couldn't be more excited to be getting away from soil (one less expense). I could pay way more attention to my grows and really fill up my grow spaces, but my yields are fine where they're at. I have an awesome balance between time as an input and cannabis as an output.
My bud won't win any competitions, but it does everything I need it to with no complaints. I spend maybe 15 minutes at most tending to my plants these days. With the DWC setup, I need to set aside 20ish minutes a week to do a water change, but that's no big deal. I have a TV in my grow room and just put on a show while I do it.
Though the state laws are kind of dumb in how they define a plant. You can only have 6 plants per adult in the house, and I take more clones than that every time I do that process. I exceed the legal limit in just clones, even though when I cut them I know only 25% of them will end up being grown through flower (I take a bunch of clones and decide after a few weeks which ones are going to be grown to completion).
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I eat way worse stuff than what my marijuana is grown in. I'm personally not worried a single bit.
Right? Just by consuming alcohol, you're already consuming one of the most harmful things for your body.
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Picked up some stuff called Black Jack and Skywalker. :hat :omg: :2metal:
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Picked up some stuff called Black Jack and Skywalker. :hat :omg: :2metal:
The plant I have to the left is called "Skywalker OG" (The right one is "wedding cake"). I wonder if it's the same strain. She just started budding. This is my first go at both DWC and auto flowers. I'm never going back to soil and photos.
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I'm pretty sure I've had wedding cake before and heard of Skywalker.
The stuff I just got is called Sunday Driver. Looks great, but I had an edible last night so sampling the flower will be after work today.
I do love going to leafly.com and checking out the details of whatever strain I just got. My dealer usually has a few options but often doesn't even know which are sativas/indicas/hybrids so I usually just grab what I think looks the best and look it up after the fact. Sunday Driver is a hybrid for example.
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Its so wild how the different strains have their different effects.
Where as a sativa rocks my world all day, an indica will bum me out sometimes or at the very least have more a somber, cloudy day kind of feel. I have liked hybrids though.
And I agree about leafy, its so interesting the breakdowns of the different strains.
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On that subject, we do keep a naxalone kit in our house. They reverse OD's, and are freely given out in pharmacies here. Apparently they're restricted in most of the US, which is absolutely absurd given how rampant fentanyl deaths are.
On this topic, Jon Oliver did a piece last week, that like most, are worth 20 minutes of your time if interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o
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The online source I order from lets me filter by strain and potency. The majority are hybrids, but there's lots of indica and sativas too. We prefer sativas in this house. Indica just makes me sleepy. I knowing the strain so I can track which ones we like most, although most of the time we're limited to a small selection since we buy from the 'budget bulk' category whenever possible (prices as low as $300 for 1/2 lb bag). We also order our edibles from there, and they're absolutely fantastic. I find the dispensary edibles to be really expensive, and the potency is so low you need to eat a whole package just to get any feeling at all ($25 for a 25mg pack of chocolates vs. ~$2 per 80mg chocolate from the black market).
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Damn, and I thought the price of ~ 13mg per $1 was a great deal from my dealer. The costs of edibles at a dispensary are just outrageous for me. I think after taxes it was around $40 for 100mg pack at the Las Vegas dispensary I went to last month. Even at $20 for 100mg which I've seen before in Denver, it's still really outrageous for me.
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Picked up some stuff called Black Jack and Skywalker. :hat :omg: :2metal:
The plant I have to the left is called "Skywalker OG" (The right one is "wedding cake"). I wonder if it's the same strain. She just started budding. This is my first go at both DWC and auto flowers. I'm never going back to soil and photos.
Yes, Skywalker OG. What does the OG stand for? Haven't had wedding cake, but did try some stuff called strawberry short cake a while back. Been trying a lot of different stuff lately.
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Picked up some stuff called Black Jack and Skywalker. :hat :omg: :2metal:
The plant I have to the left is called "Skywalker OG" (The right one is "wedding cake"). I wonder if it's the same strain. She just started budding. This is my first go at both DWC and auto flowers. I'm never going back to soil and photos.
Yes, Skywalker OG. What does the OG stand for? Haven't had wedding cake, but did try some stuff called strawberry short cake a while back. Been trying a lot of different stuff lately.
Probably original gangster, as you'd expect. OG Kush has been around since the 90s, and has been crossbred with pert near everything. My hunch is that OG Skywalker has a significant OG Kush lineage. I don't know as it'd qualify as a primordial strain, but it's definitely one of the granddaddies.
Not familiar with Skywalker, but I've got some Wedding Cake at home. It's alright, but not as good as the rumours had led me to believe. However, I'm a poor test subject for these sorts of things.
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On that subject, we do keep a naxalone kit in our house. They reverse OD's, and are freely given out in pharmacies here. Apparently they're restricted in most of the US, which is absolutely absurd given how rampant fentanyl deaths are.
On this topic, Jon Oliver did a piece last week, that like most, are worth 20 minutes of your time if interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pdPrQFjo2o
That episode is exactly where I found out about the US restriction lol.
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NJ's recreational sales may start VERY soon, possibly even on Monday https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0 (https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0)
Kind of sucks that it's only going to be 7 stores in the whole state. Going to be long lines for awhile and since it's only the medical dispensaries that can sell for now, I bet it'll be VERY expensive too. Good thing I'm stocked up for a few months to let things die down before I even attempt to legally make a purchase.
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They tax the shit out of recreational purchases. I was also talking to a guy at the dispensary near me and he said ever since recreational sales became legal, the quality has taken a drop off. Makes sense. Higher demand, less quality. That's usually how things work until the supply can catch up.
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I bought me a shake box and put a mason jar's worth of trimming through it. This was the result. I have two more jars left :hat
(https://i.imgur.com/7qLeuaB.jpg)
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Wow Chino :tup
In other news, my grandfather lives in NJ and suffers from:
1. Depression
2. Physical pain and aches
3. Insomnia
4. anxiety
5. lack of appetite
He has never used before, but has seen how well it has helped me. I offered to help him get a card, I offered to even strait up give him stuff and all of which was unsuccessful. He said today that now that he can just walk into a store and buy it, he might finally try it. I'm like please do.
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I've heard that same story so many times. I'm glad people are finding their ways to the benefits like that. I'm seeing it in my parents' age bracket/circle often. Lots have taken to the vape pens for a night cap.
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I've noticed here that there were a lot of people about 55+ that were buying and trying for their first time. One person said they always wanted to, but didn't know where to ask and didn't want to just ask some random person in the streets.
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NJ's recreational sales may start VERY soon, possibly even on Monday https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0 (https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0)
Kind of sucks that it's only going to be 7 stores in the whole state. Going to be long lines for awhile and since it's only the medical dispensaries that can sell for now, I bet it'll be VERY expensive too. Good thing I'm stocked up for a few months to let things die down before I even attempt to legally make a purchase.
Part of me is annoyed that they were a week too late for me. At the same time, after learning how liquor sales work up here, I'm amazed it's even happening at all and it damn sure won't be affordable. From what I can tell NJ is pretty likely to seriously fuck this whole thing up.
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NJ's recreational sales may start VERY soon, possibly even on Monday https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0 (https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-s-marijuana-businesses-wait-on-word-for-when-sales-can-begin?fbclid=IwAR2qGpVjJesAtKji4bPOzHXXNnRkggw5nVC6egghhP2kjtHjRixVLVs_8v0)
Kind of sucks that it's only going to be 7 stores in the whole state. Going to be long lines for awhile and since it's only the medical dispensaries that can sell for now, I bet it'll be VERY expensive too. Good thing I'm stocked up for a few months to let things die down before I even attempt to legally make a purchase.
Part of me is annoyed that they were a week too late for me. At the same time, after learning how liquor sales work up here, I'm amazed it's even happening at all and it damn sure won't be affordable. From what I can tell NJ is pretty likely to seriously fuck this whole thing up.
They already fucked this up by starting sales on the 21st and not on 4/20 :rollin
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They already fucked this up by starting sales on the 21st and not on 4/20 :rollin
I know right, :lol
Anyway, yesterday I got nice and effed up on sativa edibles. It got a little quasi psychedelic, and I love when it goes in that direction. Listened to The Beatles and David bowie and it was rad. I was in heaven eating haagen daz vanilla bean ice cream covered in rainbow sprinkles.
Random thought, and I don't know if anyone else feels this way. But when I get high, it makes me feel like how childhood felt like. Like I'm a little kid again and its a nice warm spring day. There's no pain, no sadness, no fear. Just joy and optimism. Simple things that seem jaded in adult life, I look at again with a child like wonder and awe. I truly love it.
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I don't think I ever thought I felt like a child again, but I do agree about the feelings of joy and optimism. Also seeing things in a different light.
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Just saying hi from my flower tent!
Happy for you and Jersey, Cram!
(https://external-preview.redd.it/RhCE9YHxzSZM7Nx4fKBOryPSugkngisOPS0hLcu1C4c.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=fd188be770386d5505cc37a8098a3fadbb200a3c)
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Just saying hi from my flower tent!
Happy for you and Jersey, Cram!
(https://external-preview.redd.it/RhCE9YHxzSZM7Nx4fKBOryPSugkngisOPS0hLcu1C4c.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=fd188be770386d5505cc37a8098a3fadbb200a3c)
Looking like they're off to a great start! I'm going to give this a shot a bit later in life. Things are just too busy right now to entertain dedicating the time and space required. But I've always wanted to take this up as a hobby.
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Damn Chino, that looks like a professional grow operation :tup
Also, Happy 420 everyone :metal
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Happy 420 stoners.
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Those plants do look awesome!
Happy 4/20
In Call of Duty they just released a Snoop Dogg bundle, you can play as Snoop Dogg in the game, smoke a blunt with an emote, and if you use the weapon bluerints, the guns shoot a marijuana plant art onto whatever you hit :lol it might be the first time I actually buy one of these bundles in game.
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I eat way worse stuff than what my marijuana is grown in. I'm personally not worried a single bit.
Right? Just by consuming alcohol, you're already consuming one of the most harmful things for your body.
I'm not a huge drinker by any stretch, but this has come up a few times especially given the legalized status currently active in my state.
Currently, I usually drink a drink or two a week - generally, a pretty stiff one, on a saturday night, while watching a movie or some anime and just decompressing from the week. So, it seems like a no-brainer - why not switch to the less harmful thing?
For me, it just comes down to booze being the devil I know. I've never tried THC. I have a young child at home. I can let loose, a little bit, but I can't be a complete n00b with a new substance, at least not now. So, maybe, one day I will try it. But I suspect there will be kind of an initiation period of not knowing how to use it, using it awkwardly, and not knowing my limits, and I'm just not in the place of life right now where I can entertain that. I don't think there's anything wrong with partaking responsibly when you have kids, but I suspect most who do learned how to be responsible long before kids came along.
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That's a reasonable approach. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, admirable to not want to buy stoned in front of your children :lol But maybe there will be a time and place where you can test the waters.
My gf never smoked marijuana... until she met me. She's been at times in that awkward state of not knowing what to do (even if I help her) and not knowing if she's feeling anything (likely due to not inhaling) but she's done it enough now to have a good idea on how to hit a bowl and how to know when you start feeling it and what that feeling is like. It didn't take long, but definitely helps having someone guide you and be with you just in case you get uncomfortable.
I did end up giving her a small bite of one of my cookies and she did say she did not have a good time from that, I can't believe that one small bite was too much for her, but then again my cookies will put you on another planet it seems.
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That's a reasonable approach. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, admirable to not want to buy stoned in front of your children :lol But maybe there will be a time and place where you can test the waters.
Yeah, I'm sure. My coworker is 45, and did not test the waters himself until after his (older) teenage son starting bring it home :lol
The times they are'a changin, I suppose.
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Hmm...been out of the weed game for a while, but if we're measuring the debilitating effects of a stiff drink compared to a hit of today's chronic, I'd say for anyone without any tolerance, that hit of chronic will put your dick way deeper in the dirt than a double jack and coke will. As someone who hasn't smoked in over a decade, today's weed literally scares the shit out of me, and with very good reason.
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That's probably true. Although some light weight non drinkers would probably get drunk off a single stiff drink, generally you are probably right. Most people have some alcohol tolerance to have no issues with just one, even stiff, drink. One good hit of some dank weed, will likely get you very high even as an experienced smoker.
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I'm so glad I didn't have kids while exploring and figuring out my dose.
there were times where I literally could not move off the couch or that I could just barley crawl around on the floor like a baby. Now keep in mind I only rock edibles, but right now after lots of trial and error I know the dose I want, when its appropriate and how to get there.
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/delaware-senate-approves-marijuana-legalization-bill-sending-it-to-the-governor/
Looks like delaware will be next
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Noice!
Here's one of the plants I have growing at the moment. Based on what I see under my microscope, I'm thinking another 10-14 days before she's ready to chop. This is Wedding Cake from Barney's Farm. It's an autoflower growing in DWC (first time doing either). I know genetics with autos are hit or miss, but I am absolutely loving this one. The fact it took on that shape 100% on it's own without training of any kind is awesome. I have two more seeds of this strain. I hope the phenotypes persist.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/HyNENQuML0x8-ofLM_L060VmjaFYgEdZQjOphek5E00.jpg?width=576&auto=webp&s=a292c5c386eebe277743c098e67a2944b9d3c5f6)
Here's another plant that's coming close to chop time (this one is a soil grow). I'm thinking another two weeks should do it. Trichomes are plentiful and just starting to cloud up. I let this one veg a little long on purpose, and it's a bit too big for my liking. She's a fifth generation clone and she's struggling to handle the weight of her buds. The fall colors are starting to come in nice though :hat
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And here's a pair that I chopped on Wednesday night. The buds are super dense and reek to high heaven (in a good way). I'm trying out a new drying environment for the first time with them and hoping to get better results as far as flavor goes than I saw from my last few runs. (the colors IRL look much better than what's reflected in the image below.)
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Bob helping me trim.
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That is awesome, I am salivating a bit
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Chino, I think you found your calling
The pic of Sagan in the background is perfect. I was so anti drug for the longest time and when I found out he was into pot, it really helped change my viewpoint.
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I got called in to interview for an assistant grow room manager position at a growery not far from me. We never made it to the actual interview though because on my initial call I spent nearly 10 minutes trying to get them to tell me the pay. They finally told me it had a cap of $16.50 an hour, which means that's probably not what I would have started it. I thanked them and ended the call.
If I was in a position in life where I could have afforded the pay cut, I would have liked to have pursued it, but I'm a single income paying a mortgage and didn't have much of a choice :/
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Follow up to my image dump above. The pair of twins, one of which Bob Ross is riding, got the trim last night after eight days of drying. I gummed up four pairs of snips in the process :lol That's a good indicator :hat
Trim in the three jars on the left, and bud in the four on the right.
(https://i.imgur.com/ZCWSmrH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/P14AIGC.jpg)
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Nice! How much are you yielding from each plant?
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That pair of plants gave me 2.6 ounces of bud combined, and just shy of an ounce of trim.
Nothing stellar, but I cycle quick. I keep my veg periods short to keep pace with the frequency in which I take clones, and I don't utilize techniques like scrog and lollipopping. If I kept them in veg another month, I could easily see 2 ounces per plant I'd think. In contrast, there are guys on Reddit that veg their plants for longer than my entire grow takes, and they regularly pull 6+ ounces per. I'm not a fan of growing like that though. I think it's too much of a liability, at least for me. If the power goes out for a day or two five months in, or if I want to go away and have someone tend to them for a week or more... there's just too much that could go wrong. I'd hate to waste months' worth of electricity and nutrients only to have the plant go belly up. Cycling lots of smaller plants in a similar timeframe is my preferred method.
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Looks great :yarr
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You know chino...remember when you had the thread about your hydroponic lettuce experiment and you swore up and down it wasn't for weed?
I feel a bit lied to... :lol
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:rollin
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:lol
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That wasn't a lie! Those nft channels don't have enough volume to handle weed's root system. I only grew lettuce and basil in those. Scout's honor!
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Yeah, sure buddy.
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/marijuana-is-now-legal-in-rhode-island-with-governor-signing-bill-to-end-prohibition/
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Chopped me down a chonker today :hat
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I didn't know it was possible to get bud so purple.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/s9XCR8dmkiFsTHZG94Nb_fBDS26QrSE1KDXtK1n7MTc.jpg?width=576&auto=webp&s=9e0c1d1eac33f0fe60775d7e820a66f49e7f4d51)
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Looks great
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Holy shit....
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I've had some purple stuff before, but nothing that looked like that! :metal next time I'm in CT I'm stopping by the Chino Dispensary :lol
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I've had some purple stuff before, but nothing that looked like that! :metal next time I'm in CT I'm stopping by the Chino Dispensary :lol
Happy to have you! A bunch of us are going to Nick's wedding. Think about going!
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I've had some purple stuff before, but nothing that looked like that! :metal next time I'm in CT I'm stopping by the Chino Dispensary :lol
Happy to have you! A bunch of us are going to Nick's wedding. Think about going!
I can't go, work trip currently scheduled at that time.
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Pile o' Purple
(https://i.imgur.com/AX5iU4e.jpg)
:coolio
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:hat
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Chino - just, wow. You're doing the lords work over there.
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:lol :lol
The TV in the background
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All my years of smoking this video perfectly describes the levels of being high to me: https://youtu.be/aNvcUWTm9bk
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All my years of smoking this video perfectly describes the levels of being high to me: https://youtu.be/aNvcUWTm9bk
That is hilarious and very spot on. Level 7 for me is usually total couch lock and it feels like there's a jackhammer on my head and my entire body is pulsating, lol. And when I have to start talking myself out of going to the ER, then I know I went WAY too far :lol
I usually shoot for around level 5. That when the wild, magical thoughts start for me.
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That vid was hilarious.
I weighed up my dried Wedding Cake haul. I got 1.6oz of trim, and 3.9oz of flower.
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3 more recreational stores open up for sale in NJ today, including 2 that are now the closest to my home (still about 20 minutes away each). I may go check one of these out in the coming weeks just to experience the way NJ is doing things.
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Sick. CT's first recreational shops were due to open this month. I'm doubtful we'll see them this year.
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4 years post-legalization in Canada and we have (at least in Edmonton, Alberta) as many pot shops as liquor stores. There's 5 in my neighborhood alone, and more pop up every year. I can't imagine the market can handle this level of saturation.
Just checked the ol' google maps, and there's a direct 1 to 1 ratio of liquor stores to cannabis stores in my neighborhood. Often in the same retail strip :rollin
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That sucks, and my understanding from reading an article is that NJ's prices are going up (well, everything is, but not directly related to inflation, but demand). I want to check it out, but I feel like I am unlikely to buy much at all. I've been smoking a bit more than usual lately, since NJ/NY is legal although not in public, concert venues don't seem to care if you light up in the smoking section so I've been rolling J's like crazy for these concerts. It's turning into an expensive habit, but man, I smoked a J before Symphony X's set last weekend and it just elevated the show for me.
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Cram, when going through concert security, did they say anything about the weed? Did you bring in it in concealed?
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Cram, when going through concert security, did they say anything about the weed? Did you bring in it in concealed?
I just put it in my pocket and dont tell them. Its not metal. They see my lighter and vape pen, that's usually allowed. Some venues in NYC however do not allow either a vape or lighter in. (barclays center, hammerstein ballroom).
Sometimes if I go with my gf, she puts the Js in her pocket book thingy. Funny, in Vegas they thoroughly searched her bag and found the Js, they said it was OK :lol and even though that was an indoor concert, we lit up indoors as it was a 311 show and everyone else was too. Place was a cloud of smoke. Don't believe me, here's a clip of Who's Got the Herb :metal https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1502794059286339584 (https://twitter.com/Cramx3/status/1502794059286339584)
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That's good to know. Any concert I go to in future, I'm definitely bringing stuff.
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My Grandfather has a lot of health issues. Insomnia, anxiety, pain and so forth.
Today was the first day in 80 years that he said he wanted to give weed a shot. I hooked him up with a Bottle of 5mg Hybrid edibles as well as a bottle of CBD if he wanted to use that as well.
I gave him the whole run down of Low and slow and how to safely enjoy. So I am eagerly awaiting his opinion. I just want him to feel better.
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I'm sorry to hear that about your grandfather but I'm hoping he can get a little bit of relief. Let us know what he thinks!
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My Grandfather has a lot of health issues. Insomnia, anxiety, pain and so forth.
Today was the first day in 80 years that he said he wanted to give weed a shot. I hooked him up with a Bottle of 5mg Hybrid edibles as well as a bottle of CBD if he wanted to use that as well.
I gave him the whole run down of Low and slow and how to safely enjoy. So I am eagerly awaiting his opinion. I just want him to feel better.
Lots of older people in my circle have started using as well. Mostly at night and for bed. Vape pens are very popular among my friends' parents. The hybrid edibles are a good place to start. I hope he only starts with one!
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Funny enough, my gf's parents are pretty anti-marijuana but her mom has recently expressed interest in a sleep aid type of edible that I've seen before (low grade thc/cbd mixture with melatonin). Which speaking of, I had a strong edible last night and I had the best sleep I've had in weeks after the effects wore off. I feel so much more alive today.
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Made my first trip to a recreational dispensary in NJ this morning.
So I had been doing some research lately on the few recreational dispensaries that are open now in NJ. There's around 12 if I recall (weedmaps is not up to date on this btw). The ones closest to where I live (about 20-30 minutes away) all had bad reviews of very long waits (90 minutes was normal for one location!) and also limited options with high prices. I found that the Rise shops in northern NJ had significantly better reviews and their menus, while limited, felt more like dispensaries I had been to out west. So I went to the Bloomfield Rise before work today. It was completely empty which was perfect. In and out quickly. The prices are definitely high, but seemed comparable to my last dispensary experience in Las Vegas and a past experience in a Boston dispensary. I bought two different 8ths of strains. One was 45, the other 55. So after 90 total, it came out to $108 with taxes. That's what gets you. $90 for a high quality quarter isn't terrible pricing alone. Well, I guess quality will be determined tonight, but I have to assume this is grade A bud based on what I saw when ordering.
But overall, considering how new this all is here, the experience wasn't as bad as I expected. If the weed is good, I expect I'll be back.
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There is a "weedmaps" app. I love that (no sarcasm).
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There is a "weedmaps" app. I love that (no sarcasm).
Yeah, and it seems to be updated by stoners. I've found it to be inaccurate and unreliable. :lol
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There is a "weedmaps" app. I love that (no sarcasm).
Yeah, and it seems to be updated by stoners. I've found it to be inaccurate and unreliable. :lol
Would you expect anything different? Does it include local dealers? "This guy Sam with some killer bud. 0.7 miles."
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There is a "weedmaps" app. I love that (no sarcasm).
Yeah, and it seems to be updated by stoners. I've found it to be inaccurate and unreliable. :lol
I used it many times in LA to great results (finding underground shops with significantly cheaper product) but in NJ it's not too helpful at the moment.
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There is a "weedmaps" app. I love that (no sarcasm).
Yeah, and it seems to be updated by stoners. I've found it to be inaccurate and unreliable. :lol
Would you expect anything different? Does it include local dealers? "This guy Sam with some killer bud. 0.7 miles."
Nah, they're all advertising on Craigslist nowadays. :lol
I used it many times in LA to great results (finding underground shops with significantly cheaper product) but in NJ it's not too helpful at the moment.
I looked into it when I was up there for TA and found it to be mostly worthless. However, NE is certainly a dynamic scene right now when comapred to established states like CA and WA.
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I was always partial to Leafly for cannabis info and dispensary locations. Sometimes I just like to look through photos and laugh at the strain names. :lol
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I was always partial to Leafly for cannabis info and dispensary locations. Sometimes I just like to look through photos and laugh at the strain names. :lol
:lol here's the two strains I picked up today:
Frosted Melon Gelato
Runtz Muffin
and I have to admit, the gelato got me a bit by the name (granted, I sorted by hybrids (because they only had one pure sativa that had no reviews and very low THC), THC %, and reviews so it was within my parameters)
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I was always partial to Leafly for cannabis info and dispensary locations. Sometimes I just like to look through photos and laugh at the strain names. :lol
:lol here's the two strains I picked up today:
Frosted Melon Gelato
Runtz Muffin
and I have to admit, the gelato got me a bit by the name (granted, I sorted by hybrids (because they only had one pure sativa that had no reviews and very low THC), THC %, and reviews so it was within my parameters)
LoL - I read these names and think, "Who the fuck came up with THAT?!?" and then I remember we are talking about stoners so... :lol
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I was always partial to Leafly for cannabis info and dispensary locations. Sometimes I just like to look through photos and laugh at the strain names. :lol
:lol here's the two strains I picked up today:
Frosted Melon Gelato
Runtz Muffin
and I have to admit, the gelato got me a bit by the name (granted, I sorted by hybrids (because they only had one pure sativa that had no reviews and very low THC), THC %, and reviews so it was within my parameters)
I had some Runtz Muffin not too long ago. Good, but nothing to write home about.
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/senate-marijuana-legalization-bill-could-come-next-week-but-congressional-sources-push-back-on-report-about-timeline/
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Tried some good stuff today.
So my dispensary had these new water soluble "Nano" formulation edible capsules so I wanted to check them out. One thing that is really nice, is rather than an hour onset, I was at peak feeling around 30mins, and the whole thing was done in a hour. Not bad.
Then for the first time in like 2 years I got a sativa vape pen (moby dick strain). Did a 5 second deep drag and boom, I was on the moon. I forgot how wildly fast inhalation was. Oh man, what a rush. Unfortunately, as I remembered, the inhalation doesn't agree with my throat or lungs, so I'll stick to edibles. But it was an awesome day none the less.
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My mom has started taking tinctures before bed to help her sleep. They're doing her wonders. However, one bottle ran her like $80. I told her I'd hook her up.
(https://i.imgur.com/eLXvA77.jpg)
I just tried a couple drops of it, and I think I'm ripped. It's only been like 10 minutes and I've never done tincture before, so idk.
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Interesting. I've seen them for sale on the site where i source my bud and edibles, but wasn't sure about them. What's the verdict hours later?
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I took a good amount before bed and slept through my alarm this morning.. which is something I haven't done since college. So that's something :lol
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Damn, that must be potent. I tried a tincture once before, but I think I'd need to try it again to really form an opinion since that was so long ago. I do recall it hits you a lot quicker than an edible.
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My mom has started taking tinctures before bed to help her sleep. They're doing her wonders. However, one bottle ran her like $80. I told her I'd hook her up.
(https://i.imgur.com/eLXvA77.jpg)
I just tried a couple drops of it, and I think I'm ripped. It's only been like 10 minutes and I've never done tincture before, so idk.
Tinctures are so expensive, I've never bothered to try them because of the cost. 5mg edibles are just so perfect (to me) for a bit of a change in mindset, but not so overboard that I forget where I am. I may pick up a bottle next time I'm in Springfield just to try it out.
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
Lots of people want the benefits of cannabis without having to inhale something. Edibles are pretty common on the black market, but tinctures are harder to come by. Between the low supply of tincture and the laborious process of making it at scale, it commands a premium.
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Must say, I bought and smoked the worst joint ever tonight in Amsterdam. What a waste of 8 euros :lol It was so poorly rolled and only felt half full. The weed only got me a mild high without much flavor. I've been to this coffeeshop many times and never had such a poor joint. But compared to the legal shops in the US, these coffee shops don't feel like such an interesting thing anymore. The one near my hotel doesn't offer inside smoking anymore either. Maybe covid related, but I think the public smoking area inside the coffeeshops was always the best part because that's something you still can't do (for the most part) in the US.
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
Lots of people want the benefits of cannabis without having to inhale something. Edibles are pretty common on the black market, but tinctures are harder to come by. Between the low supply of tincture and the laborious process of making it at scale, it commands a premium.
Ok, but what's the difference between edibles and tinctures?
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
Lots of people want the benefits of cannabis without having to inhale something. Edibles are pretty common on the black market, but tinctures are harder to come by. Between the low supply of tincture and the laborious process of making it at scale, it commands a premium.
Ok, but what's the difference between edibles and tinctures?
Edibles go through your gut and take some time to kick in (hour+ in a lot of cases). Your body has to metabolize it. They can also be hard to eat for medical patients that can't keep food down, and sometimes people watching their health don't want a cookie or brownie a few times a day. Tinctures get dropped under your tongue and kick in in minutes.
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
Lots of people want the benefits of cannabis without having to inhale something. Edibles are pretty common on the black market, but tinctures are harder to come by. Between the low supply of tincture and the laborious process of making it at scale, it commands a premium.
Ok, but what's the difference between edibles and tinctures?
Edibles go through your gut and take some time to kick in (hour+ in a lot of cases). Your body has to metabolize it. They can also be hard to eat for medical patients that can't keep food down, and sometimes people watching their health don't want a cookie or brownie a few times a day. Tinctures get dropped under your tongue and kick in in minutes.
Same sort of full-body high you get from edibles? I'd imagine that it is, which is what I never liked about them.
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So why are they so expensive? Because it takes less time to kick in than regular edibles? Sorry, I'm a flower guy (instant gratification). Don't know much about oils or other edibles.
Lots of people want the benefits of cannabis without having to inhale something. Edibles are pretty common on the black market, but tinctures are harder to come by. Between the low supply of tincture and the laborious process of making it at scale, it commands a premium.
Ok, but what's the difference between edibles and tinctures?
Edibles go through your gut and take some time to kick in (hour+ in a lot of cases). Your body has to metabolize it. They can also be hard to eat for medical patients that can't keep food down, and sometimes people watching their health don't want a cookie or brownie a few times a day. Tinctures get dropped under your tongue and kick in in minutes.
Same sort of full-body high you get from edibles? I'd imagine that it is, which is what I never liked about them.
I can't really say. The batch I made was over-decarbed. You normally do that part of the process for 40-60 minutes, but I went for about 90-95. I was hoping to create a lot of CBN as I was trying to make a sleep aid. They put me into a legit coma. I get high for a little bit, and then I'm out cold for a while.
For what it's worth, the stoned feeling I did experience didn't feel full-body like edible, but I was still glued to my chair. I had no really desire to be up and about. Again though, that could be due to how I made the final product.
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Going under the tongue goes strait into the blood stream so it doesn't have as much of a chance for the liver to convert it into the stronger more psychoactive form where as an edible has no choice but to go through the liver before entering the bloodstream.
I've never been able to the get the sublingual technique down, so I just swallow the tincture liquid and in that case if works just like any other edible and if you take enough you will get the full body high.
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That's interesting. Not sure if I'd like the full body high. Can't even remember if I've tried edibles before. I'm so used to smoking it, edibles probably wouldn't do the trick. It does sound like you have to be careful with the tinctures though. I never smoke to get totally baked. Just enough to get a really good high. :biggrin:
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One thing I will I will throw out there about the full body high. Its not an on or off kind of thing, its like a dimmer switch depending on the dose.
So if you have a low dose, it feels like you are sitting in a gentle message chair, or a cozy hot tub. And if you want to increase the effect you take a little more.
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That's interesting. Not sure if I'd like the full body high. Can't even remember if I've tried edibles before. I'm so used to smoking it, edibles probably wouldn't do the trick. It does sound like you have to be careful with the tinctures though. I never smoke to get totally baked. Just enough to get a really good high. :biggrin:
You should try edibles. I love them. They are just too expensive for me due to my tolerance levels. But I still have about 8 of my home made cookies. One of those puts me in a really good place for about 3 hours. Perfect for watching TV/movies, but unlike smoking, it's not good for me to be productive or play competitive games because I just can't react quick on edibles or have the desire to do anything serious.
I bought a "space cake" at the coffeeshop in Amsterdam. It's very similar to an edible brownie. I plan on trying that out this weekend and if it's good, I'll grab another one for my flight home.
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Yeah, sometimes I feel that way if I take too big of a hit. I just veg out in front of the TV until it wears off a little. Can't do much of anything else. :chill :hat
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Yeah, sometimes I feel that way if I take too big of a hit. I just veg out in front of the TV until it wears off a little. Can't do much of anything else. :chill :hat
The only time I get couch-locked is with edibles, but I also get pretty manic. It actually is like a light switch for me, but with some ADD 5 year old asshole flipping it on and off all the time. At best I'm glued to the couch but really want to be doing stuff. At worst I alternate between sitting around and frantically cleaning the house in 15 minute increments. Either way I don't find it enjoyable at all. I stick with smoking, and occasionally vaping.
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I only use edibles since I have asthma, and I basically use it like a quasi psychedelic to reflect and meditate. Sadly, I can be a pretty nasty person at baseline and I HATE that about myself. Weed lets me feel like normal person and the person I want to be. It completely chills me out 100%, slowing down and shifting my thought process so that I can work through issues. Its great for short term stuff that's bothering me, but weed does have its limitations for that purpose.
Of course, actual psychedelics work a million times better, but weed is currently what I have legal and consistent access to, so that's what I work with. Times are shifting though and I am looking forward to the day where I can legally do psychedelic therapy close to where I live.
In the meantime, Weed is fun as shit and gets me by, so that is nice.
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I only use edibles since I have asthma, and I basically use it like a quasi psychedelic to reflect and meditate. Sadly, I can be a pretty nasty person at baseline and I HATE that about myself. Weed lets me feel like normal person and the person I want to be. It completely chills me out 100%, slowing down and shifting my thought process so that I can work through issues. Its great for short term stuff that's bothering me, but weed does have its limitations for that purpose.
Of course, actual psychedelics work a million times better, but weed is currently what I have legal and consistent access to, so that's what I work with. Times are shifting though and I am looking forward to the day where I can legally do psychedelic therapy close to where I live.
In the meantime, Weed is fun as shit and gets me by, so that is nice.
If you live close enough to OR, we will be opening up a place for therapy by end of year. The state is still working on the rules and regulations for it, but we intend to be ready.
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If you live close enough to OR, we will be opening up a place for therapy by end of year. The state is still working on the rules and regulations for it, but we intend to be ready.
Thanks. I am really looking forward to that program to begin, and hope that it sets a precident for the rest of the country. I will definitely be visiting to check it out.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
2mg... Is that a typo? I take 50-100mg in a single go, and anything less than 50 doesn't even move the needle lol
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Yeah, sometimes I feel that way if I take too big of a hit. I just veg out in front of the TV until it wears off a little. Can't do much of anything else. :chill :hat
The only time I get couch-locked is with edibles, but I also get pretty manic. It actually is like a light switch for me, but with some ADD 5 year old asshole flipping it on and off all the time. At best I'm glued to the couch but really want to be doing stuff. At worst I alternate between sitting around and frantically cleaning the house in 15 minute increments. Either way I don't find it enjoyable at all. I stick with smoking, and occasionally vaping.
That sounds like a personality thing (A type?). When I'm high, house chores are the last thing I wanna do. :lol It's either video games, TV, music or anything else remotely entertaining.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
2mg... Is that a typo? I take 50-100mg in a single go, and anything less than 50 doesn't even move the needle lol
I know nothing about cannabis, but each edible contains 2mg of THC. The clerk recommended I go with that rather than the 5mg as it might be too much for my first sampling.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
2mg... Is that a typo? I take 50-100mg in a single go, and anything less than 50 doesn't even move the needle lol
I know nothing about cannabis, but each edible contains 2mg of THC. The clerk recommended I go with that rather than the 5mg as it might be too much for my first sampling.
I think it's safe to start low like that, but 2mg might be too low if you didnt feel much.
Yeah, sometimes I feel that way if I take too big of a hit. I just veg out in front of the TV until it wears off a little. Can't do much of anything else. :chill :hat
The only time I get couch-locked is with edibles, but I also get pretty manic. It actually is like a light switch for me, but with some ADD 5 year old asshole flipping it on and off all the time. At best I'm glued to the couch but really want to be doing stuff. At worst I alternate between sitting around and frantically cleaning the house in 15 minute increments. Either way I don't find it enjoyable at all. I stick with smoking, and occasionally vaping.
That sounds like a personality thing (A type?). When I'm high, house chores are the last thing I wanna do. :lol It's either video games, TV, music or anything else remotely entertaining.
I do chores or even work high, but not with the edible high, that's veg time.
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/advocates-demand-biden-take-marijuana-action-after-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-russian-prison-for-vapes/
9 years for weed. Damn
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/advocates-demand-biden-take-marijuana-action-after-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-russian-prison-for-vapes/
9 years for weed. Damn
If the US is going to rescue her for a marijuana offense, it would make a lot of sense to look at our local prisoners and laws as well.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
2mg... Is that a typo? I take 50-100mg in a single go, and anything less than 50 doesn't even move the needle lol
I know nothing about cannabis, but each edible contains 2mg of THC. The clerk recommended I go with that rather than the 5mg as it might be too much for my first sampling.
I think it's safe to start low like that, but 2mg might be too low if you didnt feel much.
I'm not sure the goal was to feel anything, but perhaps get a good night's sleep. They may have shot low specifically to get the sleepiness without the stonedness.
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I visited a cannabis store for the first time last week to buy some edibles to help with sleep issues. I took a 2mg edible, and while it made me drowsy I barely slept all night. That was likely due to the heat, so I will see how they affect me under normal sleeping conditions.
2mg... Is that a typo? I take 50-100mg in a single go, and anything less than 50 doesn't even move the needle lol
I know nothing about cannabis, but each edible contains 2mg of THC. The clerk recommended I go with that rather than the 5mg as it might be too much for my first sampling.
I think it's safe to start low like that, but 2mg might be too low if you didnt feel much.
I'm not sure the goal was to feel anything, but perhaps get a good night's sleep. They may have shot low specifically to get the sleepiness without the stonedness.
Maybe, but it sounds like it didn't help with the sleep either so it still seems too low. On a similar note, I ate my space cake before boarding my flight home from Amsterdam. It did not get me high, but it made me very sleepy and I got some of the best in flight sleep I've had in awhile. I feel like that dosing (which isn't advertised and the bud tenders there can't even tell you the mg dosage) was probably the perfect amount for me to do what Zoom is trying to do.
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/advocates-demand-biden-take-marijuana-action-after-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-russian-prison-for-vapes/
9 years for weed. Damn
Let us not forget that this is not a criminal matter, but rather a diplomatic one. The charge and the penalty are really inconsequential. It's like Bart and the Aussies.
(https://meblogwritegood.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/screen-shot-2011-11-20-at-6-28-26-pm.png)
Also, it wasn't weed. It was hash oil and down here that's a felony even if you won't get busted for weed. More than a gram of concentrates bumps you into felony 3 territory, and if you don't plead down you're looking at 2-20.
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I read that she only had .7 in her cartridge and they still hit her with an intent to distribute charge.
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I read that she only had .7 in her cartridge and they still hit her with an intent to distribute charge.
That's fucked up. That also happens here, though. And like I said, this isn't a criminal thing, even though she is caught up in it. It's a diplomatic thing.
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I read that she only had .7 in her cartridge and they still hit her with an intent to distribute charge.
That's fucked up. That also happens here, though. And like I said, this isn't a criminal thing, even though she is caught up in it. It's a diplomatic thing.
I have questions if she even was carrying the vape cart to begin with. I just don't really trust the Russians, but totally agree that it's not really about the crime but about negotiating and politics in this case. This may be political territory, but I'm just very iffy about this situation. I don't think anyone should be jailed for marijuana and even in another country and if this was 100% true that she committed the crime, 9 years is certainly over board. BUT I'm really not sure we should be giving up the arms dealer for her. It just doesn't make much sense to me. But I see this as an instance of the Russians out smarting America because it seems likely they will get what they want.
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I have questions if she even was carrying the vape cart to begin with. I just don't really trust the Russians, but totally agree that it's not really about the crime but about negotiating and politics in this case. This may be political territory, but I'm just very iffy about this situation. I don't think anyone should be jailed for marijuana and even in another country and if this was 100% true that she committed the crime, 9 years is certainly over board. BUT I'm really not sure we should be giving up the arms dealer for her. It just doesn't make much sense to me. But I see this as an instance of the Russians out smarting America because it seems likely they will get what they want.
Sad but true.
And they don't even realize it, but the identity politics lovers in this country who are yelling that she'd be home already if she weren't black, gay, or a woman are making it worse. Russia sees that and just makes them up the price in the exchange. Even though she messed up by bringing that stuff to Russia, what is happening to Griner sucks and is very unfortunate, but you can already tell the way this is going to play out will be extraordinarily embarrassing for the U.S.
Moral of the story right now: if you are an American, don't go to Russia.
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Getting caught oversees with most drugs is unadvisable. In just about any country. They can do whatever they want to you.
Anyway, on a more local note. Just got my 1st 8th of dirt weed from the dispensary. WTF? Blueberry Cookies is usually pretty good. This batch is like smoking parsley. ???
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Here is a strain that's a hybrid of Gorilla Glue and Gelato. It's 85 days from seed and is by far going to be the largest yield from a single plant I've managed yet. I've been militant this time around - Keeping a weekly journal and sticking to water change and feeding schedules. My basement absolutely WREAKS!
I have another plant next to this one that's just Gelato. It's also huge, but not a monster like this.
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As someone who hasn't partake since Dec 7,2010, that is one gorgeous fucking plant dude.
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As someone who hasn't partake since Dec 7,2010, that is one gorgeous fucking plant dude.
2001 for me, but I agree. WOW!!!!
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Chino, when your weed company eventually goes public I definitely want to buy the first shares :lol
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Damn, that's a beauty
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Chino's inbox is full.
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No longer!
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Chino's inbox is full.
Everyone placing orders? :lol
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:lol
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I chopped down two plants this week. This was hands down my most successful run to date.
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That's just one of the two plants (the smaller of the two). The other plant came down 5 days later and has a bit more drying to do before I give it a final trim and jar it. That's 7.1oz of Gelato. Once the second plant (Gorilla Glue-Gelato) is jarred, I expect to clear a full pound. I wouldn't be surprised to see upwards of 18oz as a final total. We'll see though :hat
I have an ungodly amount of trim to process as well. I'm thinking I might finally try my hand at making hard candies.
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That's awesome. I'd be set for a very long time with that one tree.
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1lb 1.8oz total!
(https://i.imgur.com/zBgdHxs.jpg)
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:smiley:
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1lb 1.8oz total!
(https://i.imgur.com/zBgdHxs.jpg)
Good lord, man!
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Typically I just listen to music or meditate when high, but the other day I watched an episode of Rick and Morty. Holy shit, woah that was a ride :lol
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https://www.marijuanamoment.net/germanys-government-approves-marijuana-legalization-plan-but-reform-depends-on-european-union-sign-off/
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So if I am getting my numbers right it looks like
Maryland and Missouri voted to legalize
and North and south dekota as well as arkansas voted to not to legalize
**Also, on a separate note, still waiting for them to make a final call on the vote count in Colorado on legalizing psilocybin as well as the setting up of psychedelic therapy clinics as Oregon is doing.
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So if I am getting my numbers right it looks like
Maryland and Missouri voted to legalize
and North and south dekota as well as arkansas voted to not to legalize
**Also, on a separate note, still waiting for them to make a final call on the vote count in Colorado on legalizing psilocybin as well as the setting up of psychedelic therapy clinics as Oregon is doing.
We've just had this happen up here in Alberta, Canada. Doesn't sound like they're going to allow psilocybin to be sold in dispensaries like cannabis, but allowing it for therapy purposes is a step in the right direction
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We've just had this happen up here in Alberta, Canada. Doesn't sound like they're going to allow psilocybin to be sold in dispensaries like cannabis, but allowing it for therapy purposes is a step in the right direction
Oh I totally agree. The healing potential is incredible
And it passed in Colorado
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/colorado-voters-approve-psychedelics-legalization-ballot-initiative/
"Possession, use, cultivation and sharing of psilocybin, ibogaine, mescaline (not derived from peyote), DMT and psilocyn will be legalized for adults 21 and older, without an explicit possession limit"
I would say that's pretty huge. First state in the country to legalize for personal use (outside of a formal clinic).
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Missouri passed recreational Marijuana use as well.....decriminalization etc etc.
My company just sent out an email saying they're re-writing the policy now but it'll still be treated as any other substance that alters impairment and affects safety. (I work for a large construction contractor)
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Missouri passed recreational Marijuana use as well.....decriminalization etc etc.
My company just sent out an email saying they're re-writing the policy now but it'll still be treated as any other substance that alters impairment and affects safety. (I work for a large construction contractor)
Same with my employer back in 2017, but they already had the revamped drug and alcohol policy ready to go on day 1. Day after it was legalized there were posters and communications everywhere in our buildings reminding folks that it's no different than before (i.e. you can't be on drugs or alcohol at work). Almost sad that you need to remind people not to be intoxicated at work.
Interesting that our safety numbers continued a downward trend post-legalization signaling that legalization likely didn't have an impact on safety at our org. Oddly, the pandemic caused a noticeable increase in recordable safety incidents.
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My company never put a formal policy in place outside of a general "don't be intoxicated at work" (which I totally agree with)
I've never seen a random drug test happen but if they did do one, I am guessing if you have a card then it will fly that you can use off hours. But no medical card is termination as my state is only medical.
Its just annoying that it stays in your system days afterward, despite being totally sober and on point. And someone can lose an entire career for something they did at home days prior.
I would never be "high" at work, but I would argue that the calmness of an afterglow makes me a better employee and overall human being, but oh well.
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My company never put a formal policy in place outside of a general "don't be intoxicated at work" (which I totally agree with)
I've never seen a random drug test happen but if they did do one, I am guessing if you have a card then it will fly that you can use off hours. But no medical card is termination as my state is only medical.
Its just annoying that it stays in your system days afterward, despite being totally sober and on point. And someone can lose an entire career for something they did at home days prior.
I would never be "high" at work, but I would argue that the calmness of an afterglow makes me a better employee and overall human being, but oh well.
Last time I was job hunting, I had to take a break in order to pass a piss test. I bought a dozen home test kits. It took just shy of TWO MONTHS for the tests to show negative.
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My company never put a formal policy in place outside of a general "don't be intoxicated at work" (which I totally agree with)
I've never seen a random drug test happen but if they did do one, I am guessing if you have a card then it will fly that you can use off hours. But no medical card is termination as my state is only medical.
Its just annoying that it stays in your system days afterward, despite being totally sober and on point. And someone can lose an entire career for something they did at home days prior.
I would never be "high" at work, but I would argue that the calmness of an afterglow makes me a better employee and overall human being, but oh well.
Last time I was job hunting, I had to take a break in order to pass a piss test. I bought a dozen home test kits. It took just shy of TWO MONTHS for the tests to show negative.
I did this before, I recall it taking a few weeks. But I'm fatter and smoke more now so I wouldn't be surprised if it's much longer for me now. One thing I did to speed up the process was drink a shit ton of water and work out.
Luckily, no one cares or had cared at my current job and even when we've gone through a couple acquisitions now it hasn't been even talked about making people take a drug test.
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My company never put a formal policy in place outside of a general "don't be intoxicated at work" (which I totally agree with)
I've never seen a random drug test happen but if they did do one, I am guessing if you have a card then it will fly that you can use off hours. But no medical card is termination as my state is only medical.
Its just annoying that it stays in your system days afterward, despite being totally sober and on point. And someone can lose an entire career for something they did at home days prior.
I would never be "high" at work, but I would argue that the calmness of an afterglow makes me a better employee and overall human being, but oh well.
Last time I was job hunting, I had to take a break in order to pass a piss test. I bought a dozen home test kits. It took just shy of TWO MONTHS for the tests to show negative.
I did this before, I recall it taking a few weeks. But I'm fatter and smoke more now so I wouldn't be surprised if it's much longer for me now. One thing I did to speed up the process was drink a shit ton of water and work out.
Luckily, no one cares or had cared at my current job and even when we've gone through a couple acquisitions now it hasn't been even talked about making people take a drug test.
You calling me fat?
:heart
I remember getting up early and just drinking an ungodly amount of water in an attempt to dilute my piss as much as possible.
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:lol nope, and I'm definitely fatter than you unless you put on 30 since the DT concert
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That's probably more weed than I've smoked in my entire life :lol
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Last time I was job hunting, I had to take a break in order to pass a piss test. I bought a dozen home test kits. It took just shy of TWO MONTHS for the tests to show negative.
Holy shit, really?
Wow, that is crazy.
I use once a week. One couch lock edible dose and just that takes 5 days at least to clear.
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I was able to clear my daily usage for a drug test in 10 days earlier this year. I was panicking so much.
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So last weekend we made some more peanut butter cannabis cookies. Using our knowledge from last time, but this time using fresh bud (not kief). So A recipe I saw said to do equal amounts of butter and cannabis. However, once I started measuring the cannibis, I thought, let's be safe and do a part butter, half part cannabis. So I had purchased a full ounce to use for this project, but ended up using about half of it to fill up half of cup of the cannabis grinded. The smell was amazing in my house for this :lol baked the marijuana to decarb is for about 40 minutes at 250F, get it nice and brown. Two sticks of butter and one cup of water in a small pot. Once that was melted, dump the grinded baked plant into the pot and stir and simmer (never to boil) for about 3 hours. Drained the butter through a paper towel to get all the plant matter out and into the fridge. The nice green butter was then easy to seperate from the remaining watter. Came out to a full cup as expected of butter. And used that in a peanut butter cookie recipe. Less than an hour later I consumed a full cookie and an hour or so after that, I was on another planet :lol So it came out to 27 cookies and 1 cookie is too strong. I ate half last night and was able to get a high, but not a strong one. I think 3/4 cookie is my ideal serving. I'm very happy with the results as I have a nice supply of edibles for now and it came out SOOOO much cheaper than edibles at a store. I'd say one of my cookies is the equivalent of spending $30 at the dispensary on edibles. I also used low grade marijuana, basically the cheapest my dealer had so I didn't pay that much and still have half the bag of bud to make another batch. :metal
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Nice work! I've never been successful making my own edibles, but thankfully the site i use has nuclear powered chocolates i really enjoy. Now that we get our bud for dirt cheap (i.e $400 per lb), i may try my hand at cookies again without fear of wasting good bud on a bad batch of butter.
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Nice work! I've never been successful making my own edibles, but thankfully the site i use has nuclear powered chocolates i really enjoy. Now that we get our bud for dirt cheap (i.e $400 per lb), i may try my hand at cookies again without fear of wasting good bud on a bad batch of butter.
That was always my problem, I didn't want to experiment and waste precious bud. But now I feel pretty confident I can make a consistent butter after measuring things out and using a process that I know works. I will definitely be cooking with that half bag I have left over at some point. I think, if I can cut down my smoking part, I will be much better off and the biggest obstacle for that has historically been the price of edibles. Also, the edible high is soooo much fun for me. A night on the couch watching tv with my girl on edibles is basically the funnest thing I can do without leaving my house. I laughed for so long and so hard on Saturday night.
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Victoria just got me this for my birthday. I've made two batches in it so far. It's the shit!
https://magicalbutter.com/products/magicalbutter
Also, when you guys are making edibles, do you clarify your butter first? I've started doing that and it definitely makes a difference.
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Victoria just got me this for my birthday. I've made two batches in it so far. It's the shit!
https://magicalbutter.com/products/magicalbutter
Also, when you guys are making edibles, do you clarify your butter first? I've started doing that and it definitely makes a difference.
My dealer has one of these and actually was trying to find it to lend it to me when I was last there, but couldn't find it. It sounds cool and must make the process simpler, but I'm not sure I can justify it at that price just yet. Maybe if I start doing this more and more, but the process is simple enough to do myself at this point.... I dont know what clarifying butter means.
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Victoria just got me this for my birthday. I've made two batches in it so far. It's the shit!
https://magicalbutter.com/products/magicalbutter
Also, when you guys are making edibles, do you clarify your butter first? I've started doing that and it definitely makes a difference.
My dealer has one of these and actually was trying to find it to lend it to me when I was last there, but couldn't find it. It sounds cool and must make the process simpler, but I'm not sure I can justify it at that price just yet. Maybe if I start doing this more and more, but the process is simple enough to do myself at this point.... I dont know what clarifying butter means.
You remove the milk solids from the butter as THC can't bind to it. When all is said and done, you have way more concentrated/potent butter.
(https://www.culinaryhill.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/How-to-Make-Clarified-Butter-Culinary-Hill-2.jpg)
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Don't recall seeing that in my butter, but if it was liquid like, it got dumped after the butter solidified separating itself from the water. I just checked a picture I had too, it don't really see anything that looks like that. Or maybe it got filtered out with the leaf particles before it solidified?
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It's a separate process you do. You leave the butter on the stove on a low heat for a while and it all separates out. You scrape the solids away after letting it cool. Once the milk fat is removed, then you add your cannabis.
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ahh yeah, definitely didnt do that nor notice it at that point in time. Looking at another picture I took, I can see it now in the melted butter before I put the plant in. My cookies slap though, they don't need to be any more potent. I think the fact that if I eat one and I'm on another planet is more than enough potency considering my tolerance. Wondering if it's even worth the effort.
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Late to the thread but it’s legal in Illinois and usually I just do gummies. But I’ve been thinking at some point to be making some sort of baked good.
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If you're too lazy for that process you can just buy ghee, it's butter with the solids already removed and is available in any store
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I've seen that before in the store and didn't know what it was, I could buy that next time.
Also, I just got an ad for the magic butter machine :lol
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After taking a break from Mary Jane, all I'm gonna say is wow, oh wow have my dream become wildly vivid.
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After taking a break from Mary Jane, all I'm gonna say is wow, oh wow have my dream become wildly vivid.
I heard about this before. It would also explain why I hardly have dreams as marijuana I believe suppresses dreams.
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Dreams prevent me from sleeping, so I love that aspect of cannabis. It does wonders for my sleep paralysis as well!
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Had decent edible today and watched My neighbor totoro and part of Ghost in the shell. It was magical
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Nice, debating about having an edible tonight.
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Nice, debating about having an edible tonight.
Yeah....I think I'm going to do a virgin edible...aka a cookie. :biggrin:
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Nice, debating about having an edible tonight.
Yeah....I think I'm going to do a virgin edible...aka a cookie. :biggrin:
You're going to eat a virgin's cookie?
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Nice, debating about having an edible tonight.
Yeah....I think I'm going to do a virgin edible...aka a cookie. :biggrin:
You're going to eat a virgin's cookie?
:rollin No edible for me last night, although I probably would have slept much better if I did
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you know, just when I thought I had my head around all the ways I can use weed I go an find a new one.
My job burns me up. Its high stress and management plays favorites. Last night I took a considerable edible and by morning the "high" had worn off, but there was a tremendous "after glow" all day long.
I felt so chill and a little giggly all day, but was still able to work fine. And I am usually a high anxiety grump, so yay for weed :tup
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I don't think I ever experienced anything like that.
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Oh wow really? Interesting.
It only works with edibles though. Any type of inhalation, I get nothing. It comes and goes in like a half an hour or so.
But, If I take an edible strong enough that I can't walk then I feel lovely for 24 hours roughly. I personally might notice it more since at baseline I'm hyper anxious and easily frustrated.
For lack of a better word, the weed afterglow lets me feel "normal" and I love it oh so much. I would say it feels like being on CBD, but a little more cheerful.
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I haven't eaten an edible that disabled me in a long time. Likely because my tolerance is so high. I'm actually going to try 1.5 of my cookies tonight. Shouldn't be too much but I've noticed 1 of my new batch of cookies just gets me to a good feeling but not the giggly feeling which I enjoy.
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After taking a break from Mary Jane, all I'm gonna say is wow, oh wow have my dream become wildly vivid.
I heard about this before. It would also explain why I hardly have dreams as marijuana I believe suppresses dreams.
It most certainly does not. I smoke before I go to bed and I have dreams, sometimes vivid as well.
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You guys may have seen this before, but it still makes me laugh to this day
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hrZLc9lqQM0
Cop and his wife eat too many brownies, call 911 and think they are dead. i have been there and boy is it not fun :lol
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Anybody try dabbing weed?
I am totally happy with the feeling I get from edibles, but I'm just curious what other people's thoughts were on dabbing?
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I have but not in a long time. It was a rollercoaster, I got crazy high and then mellowed out fairly quick.
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I've heard that from a couple different people. Sounds intense.
I honestly like my high as prolonged and stretched out as I can get, but that's a cool option for sure.
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Yea I'm the same way, it's why I prefer edibles. I know what I'm getting and roughly how long it'll last. It took a while though finding edibles that were fairly consistent.
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What's dabbing? I'm too lazy to Google it.
I've completely abandoned smoking now. I've been interested in switching to edibles exclusively for a few years, and for a variety of reasons. Came down with a respiratory illness back in November, and couldn't smoke if i wanted. It was the prefect time to make the switch, and i haven't looked back. I much prefer the high, and, as a cardio exercise enthusiast (to put it mildly), i can already notice a difference in how my lungs feel during hard efforts.
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What's dabbing? I'm too lazy to Google it.
For dabbing, there is a super concentrated weed resin (that is like tree sap or wax)
You blow torch the glass container part and once its super hot, you put the resin in and it melts and then its kinda, sorta of like a regular bong although its really its own thing honestly.
(https://media.tenor.com/6GFzk_aambwAAAAM/dabs-wax.gif)
(https://images.herb.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/nD0zZ9d-Imgur.gif?auto=format&fit=clip&q=60&ixlib=react-8.6.4)
I've never done it so I can't speak from personal experience, but the overall point is that you get MEGA high. Some people love it, but I'm happy with the high I get as it is.
I've completely abandoned smoking now. I've been interested in switching to edibles exclusively for a few years, and for a variety of reasons. Came down with a respiratory illness back in November, and couldn't smoke if i wanted. It was the prefect time to make the switch, and i haven't looked back. I much prefer the high, and, as a cardio exercise enthusiast (to put it mildly), i can already notice a difference in how my lungs feel during hard efforts.
I'm right there with. I have asthma, so inhalation of any type is uncomfortable for me. But I absolutely LOVE edibles. Exactly the type of high that I like and its nice and long lasting.
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So it's basically weed meth,right?
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So it's basically weed meth,right?
Story time, the first time I dabbed was when I went to EDC In Las Vegas. We booked a huge room and one of the bedrooms was shared with my buddies cousin and her boyfriend who I've never met before. I came into the room after getting something to eat and I saw the pipe there and I swore it was some sort of meth pipe (never being around meth before). He told me it was for dabbing weed and I tried it. I will say it was really clean, no coughing or anything irritating.
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So it's basically weed meth,right?
Story time, the first time I dabbed was when I went to EDC In Las Vegas. We booked a huge room and one of the bedrooms was shared with my buddies cousin and her boyfriend who I've never met before. I came into the room after getting something to eat and I saw the pipe there and I swore it was some sort of meth pipe (never being around meth before). He told me it was for dabbing weed and I tried it. I will say it was really clean, no coughing or anything irritating.
Same with meth, Very clean and smooth... Or so I've heard ::)
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but has anyone here ever experienced a green out?
I had my first (and hopefully my last) one last weekend. And I may not be using the right definition. I did dry January and this last weekend was my first dip back in the alcohol pool and then a friend brought out some weed and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Raising my head up at all made me want to puke. I broke out in a sweat and wondered if I was having a painless heart attack.
After it wore off (I literally slept on the floor for 3 hours) and I woke up the next day, I felt better but it has really put me off doing any more cannabis with alcohol. A combo I've loved well for many years. *sigh*
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I've greened 3 times on super concentrated edibles. Once it didn't even happen until 3hrs into the high. I'm far more conservative with my doses now, to say the least.
The booze is likely a big part of the problem. I've never gotten sick from just smoking. I don't think i could ingest enough that way vs. accidentally eating 250mg of black market gummies.
The last time it happened was wild. Ate my dose around 8pm. Went to bed around 1030. Woke up at midnight, and ran to the bathroom to throw up the entire contents of my stomach.
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I've never mixed weed with alcohol, so that may be the culprit. But honestly I don't mesh well with alcohol on a good day anyway.
With weed, I've never felt sick or nauseous luckily, but I have definitely taken too high of an edible dose though.
and it feels like a jack hammer is on my head or like I just fell out of a plane without a parachute just being jostled around by the wind. Its extremely uncomfortable, but at this point I've got a dose that I like and as long as I stay in the ballpark, it usually goes ok.
But that sounds like an awful experience though.
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I didn't even know the term green out, but now that I know what it is, I've had that happen when I was young and tried to smoke with the experienced kids in high school and smoked too much.
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but has anyone here ever experienced a green out?
I had my first (and hopefully my last) one last weekend. And I may not be using the right definition. I did dry January and this last weekend was my first dip back in the alcohol pool and then a friend brought out some weed and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Raising my head up at all made me want to puke. I broke out in a sweat and wondered if I was having a painless heart attack.
After it wore off (I literally slept on the floor for 3 hours) and I woke up the next day, I felt better but it has really put me off doing any more cannabis with alcohol. A combo I've loved well for many years. *sigh*
You've got to smoke before you drink. If you're already drunk and then you smoke you'll get the spins and it's all downhill from there. I had it happen a couple of times before I turned pro. Once I made the connection it never happened again. If you're really giving it the what for, a little blow will sometimes bring it all together, but at that point you're juggling three competing interests and the potential for misadventure is crazy-extreme.
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but has anyone here ever experienced a green out?
I had my first (and hopefully my last) one last weekend. And I may not be using the right definition. I did dry January and this last weekend was my first dip back in the alcohol pool and then a friend brought out some weed and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Raising my head up at all made me want to puke. I broke out in a sweat and wondered if I was having a painless heart attack.
After it wore off (I literally slept on the floor for 3 hours) and I woke up the next day, I felt better but it has really put me off doing any more cannabis with alcohol. A combo I've loved well for many years. *sigh*
You've got to smoke before you drink. If you're already drunk and then you smoke you'll get the spins and it's all downhill from there. I had it happen a couple of times before I turned pro. Once I made the connection it never happened again. If you're really giving it the what for, a little blow will sometimes bring it all together, but at that point you're juggling three competing interests and the potential for misadventure is crazy-extreme.
I would say, from my experience, you don't need to smoke before you drink, but smoke before you are drunk. Personally, I find the best time to smoke while drinking is after I've had 2 drinks.
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but has anyone here ever experienced a green out?
I had my first (and hopefully my last) one last weekend. And I may not be using the right definition. I did dry January and this last weekend was my first dip back in the alcohol pool and then a friend brought out some weed and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Raising my head up at all made me want to puke. I broke out in a sweat and wondered if I was having a painless heart attack.
After it wore off (I literally slept on the floor for 3 hours) and I woke up the next day, I felt better but it has really put me off doing any more cannabis with alcohol. A combo I've loved well for many years. *sigh*
You've got to smoke before you drink. If you're already drunk and then you smoke you'll get the spins and it's all downhill from there. I had it happen a couple of times before I turned pro. Once I made the connection it never happened again. If you're really giving it the what for, a little blow will sometimes bring it all together, but at that point you're juggling three competing interests and the potential for misadventure is crazy-extreme.
I would say, from my experience, you don't need to smoke before you drink, but smoke before you are drunk. Personally, I find the best time to smoke while drinking is after I've had 2 drinks.
Yeah, the bolded is certainly the crux of it. I just try not to prescribe anything drug or alcohol related too rigidly. There's a random element to drinking that makes defining a set limit tricky.
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Yeah true and two drinks for me might make someone drunk where as I'm just getting a buzz.
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Sorry if this has been discussed before but has anyone here ever experienced a green out?
I had my first (and hopefully my last) one last weekend. And I may not be using the right definition. I did dry January and this last weekend was my first dip back in the alcohol pool and then a friend brought out some weed and next thing I knew, I was on the ground. Raising my head up at all made me want to puke. I broke out in a sweat and wondered if I was having a painless heart attack.
After it wore off (I literally slept on the floor for 3 hours) and I woke up the next day, I felt better but it has really put me off doing any more cannabis with alcohol. A combo I've loved well for many years. *sigh*
You've got to smoke before you drink. If you're already drunk and then you smoke you'll get the spins and it's all downhill from there. I had it happen a couple of times before I turned pro. Once I made the connection it never happened again. If you're really giving it the what for, a little blow will sometimes bring it all together, but at that point you're juggling three competing interests and the potential for misadventure is crazy-extreme.
I agree with this. I think for me when I smoke or eat edibles I'll usually drink way, way less when high. I'm usually too lost in my own thoughts to keep boozing :lol
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Never smoke while drunk... It never worked out well for me.
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Yeah, I'm sure over indulgence of alcohol and probably a way higher THC strain then I'm used to was the deadly combo.
But I've combined the 2 successfully for almost 40 years and never had a problem. Back in the way back days when I dabbled with smoking cigarettes, it was only while I was using alcohol that I really felt like smoking. That sort of carried over to smoking weed when I gave up tobacco for good. So I honestly never thought twice about it. And I'm not even smoking, I'm using a PAX to vape. But there is something about taking a drag or a hit when you are drinking that feels good to me. Or at least it did until last weekend. :-\
I guess getting older and trying to be healthier is impacting me in ways I hadn't considered before. It might be time to scale back on indulgences of the grape and green kind.
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For me it was always instant spins. Granted I usually had a tremendous amount of alcohol in me.
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Yeah, I'm sure over indulgence of alcohol and probably a way higher THC strain then I'm used to was the deadly combo.
But I've combined the 2 successfully for almost 40 years and never had a problem. Back in the way back days when I dabbled with smoking cigarettes, it was only while I was using alcohol that I really felt like smoking. That sort of carried over to smoking weed when I gave up tobacco for good. So I honestly never thought twice about it. And I'm not even smoking, I'm using a PAX to vape. But there is something about taking a drag or a hit when you are drinking that feels good to me. Or at least it did until last weekend. :-\
I guess getting older and trying to be healthier is impacting me in ways I hadn't considered before. It might be time to scale back on indulgences of the grape and green kind.
I totally understand the feeling of the desire to have a smoke while drinking (I don't smoke tobacco, but I love to have some marijuana while having some drinks). You do mention 40 years of experience, and they've always said the weed in the past was not strong compared to what's out there today. I do wonder if you ended up smoking one of these really potent strains they have these days. I would say even vape doesn't compare at all to a high quality strain where one hit gets you really really high for significant time. For me, vape gives you a head high and fades away very quickly and I've found the PAX to be pretty light.
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I totally understand the feeling of the desire to have a smoke while drinking (I don't smoke tobacco, but I love to have some marijuana while having some drinks).
I occasionally still crave a Marlboro when drinking. Not enough to do anything about it, that's why I no longer smoke cigs, but it really was a nice combination.
they've always said the weed in the past was not strong compared to what's out there today.
I kind of agree and kind of disagree with this. On average, pot today is a helluva lost stronger. Back in the day we mostly had cheap Mexican ditch weed. That's actually getting harder to come by now, while most people are smoking high-grade dispensary stuff. At the same time you'd occasionally, seemingly at random, get some killer bud back in the day that was as good as what we all smoke regularly now. Including good skunk, which no longer really seems to be a thing, except in name only. One of the best buds we still have now in the modern era is the exact same Maui Waui we had back in the 70s. As far as I know the potency hasn't changed over the years. It was just always great.
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I totally understand the feeling of the desire to have a smoke while drinking (I don't smoke tobacco, but I love to have some marijuana while having some drinks).
I occasionally still crave a Marlboro when drinking. Not enough to do anything about it, that's why I no longer smoke cigs, but it really was a nice combination.
Sometimes I pop into these General-Side threads and am reminded of things either I still do that are bad or things I used to do that I still struggle to not go back to.
There is nothing like coffee+cigs or alcohol+cigs. Part of the reason I try to avoid drinking too much these days is because the temptation to smoke cigs gets too strong. Vaping + alcohol isn't the same man.
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Fuck I miss cigs. I think I'm well past the two month mark. I still want one one all the time. Most notably when I'm boozing. Traffic makes me want one, as do the minutes leading up to and following my 1:1 meetings with my PM.
As for weed and alcohol, if I'm really drunk and smoke, I'll puke 9/10 times. If I'm under eight beers and smoke, I'll be fine. If I smoke first and then try to drink, it's just not enjoyable and I don't get anywhere.
Five beers and a good bong hit or two is where it's at.
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Fuck I miss cigs. I think I'm well past the two month mark. I still want one one all the time. Most notably when I'm boozing. Traffic makes me want one, as do the minutes leading up to and following my 1:1 meetings with my PM.
I'm over 8 years and I still crave them. :lol
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I am so glad i didn’t like smoking cigs when i tried them. Grew up in a house full of smokers as well so that definitely deterred things.
And outside of messing around getting drunk as a teenager, i’ve never really cared for alcohol.
Weed on the other hand for me is like a fish in water. Its one of the only things in this world that lets me feel like a normal person.
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Anybody deal with rebound irritability and if so do you have any tips to deal with it?
I have cbd which chills it out, but i’m just curious if anybody else deal with it too.
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What is rebound irritability?
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When you stop using marijuana and are more irritable then usual
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When you stop using marijuana and are more irritable then usual
I thought this was a common withdrawal symptom. Something I fully expect to experience this and next week. Along with a struggle to sleep which will probably add to the irritability.
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I've definitely experienced bouts of insomnia when trying to stop weed cold turkey. And that would DEFINITELY make me quite irritable. The good news is that it only lasted about a week. YMMV
Ok, so I've been very careful to dip my toe back into using weed since my green out episode. And if I have a drink, no weed at all. I'm using my pax and it has been ok.
Last night I was out with friends and had one 12 oz beer (empty stomach but we ordered food). A friend had an edible gummy, very low dose of 4 mg. I think typically gummies are 10 mg. So she offered to split one with me because I just wanted a low buzz and I wasn't going to have any more alcohol and eat my dinner. Dinner arrived just prior to the gummy kicking in. I ate about 1/4 of my taco salad and all of a sudden started to feel like the worse motion sickness. It totally ruined my night. I slept ok but even this morning I still feel a little nauseated and light headed.
My friend says it is probably because I'm not used to edibles and it is a very different high. I know in the past when I've tried edible form, I have not enjoyed the hypersensitivity of my skin - lots of goose bumps and feeling like the hairs on my arms and scalp are standing up. But last night wasn't really like that. It was definitely like motion sickness.
I'm wondering since I've lost 25 pounds in the last 7 months if my weight loss has to do with my tolerance level? I've done some looking around online and haven't found anything that address that. Anyone have any thoughts?
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I've definitely experienced bouts of insomnia when trying to stop weed cold turkey. And that would DEFINITELY make me quite irritable. The good news is that it only lasted about a week. YMMV
Ok, so I've been very careful to dip my toe back into using weed since my green out episode. And if I have a drink, no weed at all. I'm using my pax and it has been ok.
Last night I was out with friends and had one 12 oz beer (empty stomach but we ordered food). A friend had an edible gummy, very low dose of 4 mg. I think typically gummies are 10 mg. So she offered to split one with me because I just wanted a low buzz and I wasn't going to have any more alcohol and eat my dinner. Dinner arrived just prior to the gummy kicking in. I ate about 1/4 of my taco salad and all of a sudden started to feel like the worse motion sickness. It totally ruined my night. I slept ok but even this morning I still feel a little nauseated and light headed.
My friend says it is probably because I'm not used to edibles and it is a very different high. I know in the past when I've tried edible form, I have not enjoyed the hypersensitivity of my skin - lots of goose bumps and feeling like the hairs on my arms and scalp are standing up. But last night wasn't really like that. It was definitely like motion sickness.
I'm wondering since I've lost 25 pounds in the last 7 months if my weight loss has to do with my tolerance level? I've done some looking around online and haven't found anything that address that. Anyone have any thoughts?
Edibles really are a whole different breed of animal. From what you've said it sounds like you've been smoking without drinking and haven't had a problem.
Out of curiosity, did you even get high from half a 4mg edible? That's such a minute amount I wouldn't assume it was really much of a factor.
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I've definitely experienced bouts of insomnia when trying to stop weed cold turkey. And that would DEFINITELY make me quite irritable. The good news is that it only lasted about a week. YMMV
Ok, so I've been very careful to dip my toe back into using weed since my green out episode. And if I have a drink, no weed at all. I'm using my pax and it has been ok.
Last night I was out with friends and had one 12 oz beer (empty stomach but we ordered food). A friend had an edible gummy, very low dose of 4 mg. I think typically gummies are 10 mg. So she offered to split one with me because I just wanted a low buzz and I wasn't going to have any more alcohol and eat my dinner. Dinner arrived just prior to the gummy kicking in. I ate about 1/4 of my taco salad and all of a sudden started to feel like the worse motion sickness. It totally ruined my night. I slept ok but even this morning I still feel a little nauseated and light headed.
My friend says it is probably because I'm not used to edibles and it is a very different high. I know in the past when I've tried edible form, I have not enjoyed the hypersensitivity of my skin - lots of goose bumps and feeling like the hairs on my arms and scalp are standing up. But last night wasn't really like that. It was definitely like motion sickness.
I'm wondering since I've lost 25 pounds in the last 7 months if my weight loss has to do with my tolerance level? I've done some looking around online and haven't found anything that address that. Anyone have any thoughts?
Edibles really are a whole different breed of animal. From what you've said it sounds like you've been smoking without drinking and haven't had a problem.
Out of curiosity, did you even get high from half a 4mg edible? That's such a minute amount I wouldn't assume it was really much of a factor.
That's what everyone kept scratching their head over. I did feel "high" but not in the normal fun way. As the spinning/nausea part wore off, it was more like what I'm used to but I don't think I will be doing any edibles anytime soon. Funny thing is the woman who split the gummy with me can't smoke weed because it is too powerful for her and yet she takes a gummy almost every night (4 mg) for sleep. I was sure that 2 mg was barely going to effect me. Might be the combo of the beer and the gummy on an empty stomach. IDK
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I've definitely experienced bouts of insomnia when trying to stop weed cold turkey. And that would DEFINITELY make me quite irritable. The good news is that it only lasted about a week. YMMV
Ok, so I've been very careful to dip my toe back into using weed since my green out episode. And if I have a drink, no weed at all. I'm using my pax and it has been ok.
Last night I was out with friends and had one 12 oz beer (empty stomach but we ordered food). A friend had an edible gummy, very low dose of 4 mg. I think typically gummies are 10 mg. So she offered to split one with me because I just wanted a low buzz and I wasn't going to have any more alcohol and eat my dinner. Dinner arrived just prior to the gummy kicking in. I ate about 1/4 of my taco salad and all of a sudden started to feel like the worse motion sickness. It totally ruined my night. I slept ok but even this morning I still feel a little nauseated and light headed.
My friend says it is probably because I'm not used to edibles and it is a very different high. I know in the past when I've tried edible form, I have not enjoyed the hypersensitivity of my skin - lots of goose bumps and feeling like the hairs on my arms and scalp are standing up. But last night wasn't really like that. It was definitely like motion sickness.
I'm wondering since I've lost 25 pounds in the last 7 months if my weight loss has to do with my tolerance level? I've done some looking around online and haven't found anything that address that. Anyone have any thoughts?
Edibles really are a whole different breed of animal. From what you've said it sounds like you've been smoking without drinking and haven't had a problem.
Out of curiosity, did you even get high from half a 4mg edible? That's such a minute amount I wouldn't assume it was really much of a factor.
That's what everyone kept scratching their head over. I did feel "high" but not in the normal fun way. As the spinning/nausea part wore off, it was more like what I'm used to but I don't think I will be doing any edibles anytime soon. Funny thing is the woman who split the gummy with me can't smoke weed because it is too powerful for her and yet she takes a gummy almost every night (4 mg) for sleep. I was sure that 2 mg was barely going to effect me. Might be the combo of the beer and the gummy on an empty stomach. IDK
Or it could be something completely unrelated.
Motion sickness certainly sounds like the spins, but I just can't see it happening with one beer and a 2mg gummy. In any case, I avoid edibles like the plague, so I'd certainly agree with not doing them anymore. :lol
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You know the other thing that could be a contributing factor is that we were listening to live music and it felt like the vibration from the speakers was bothering me. I thought maybe it was being hypersensitive because of the gummy but maybe I've got something going on with my inner ear. I've always been someone extremely prone to motion sickness and it gets worse as the years go on.
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You know the other thing that could be a contributing factor is that we were listening to live music and it felt like the vibration from the speakers was bothering me. I thought maybe it was being hypersensitive because of the gummy but maybe I've got something going on with my inner ear. I've always been someone extremely prone to motion sickness and it gets worse as the years go on.
Yeah, now we might be on to something. :lol
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I think it largely depends on the edible. If its an edible from a dispensary then the limit in some states is 10mg per edible, it's d8 edible that will be about a 30mg. It's entirely possible you got the spins from it. Source: my pantry looks like Willy Wonka's edible shop
For nights where I've wanted to forget how to stand up I've recently been trying these 100mg death by gummy bears, highly recommend :lol
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I'm shocked about 2mg had any effect honestly.
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I can feel 2mg if I'm coming off of like a month long break, but most of the time it's too small of a dose for regular use. I build up a tolerance to that pretty quickly. I try to dose around 5mg until my tolerance has me taking 10mg. Then I'll take a short break. I don't want to have to take more than 10mg every time otherwise it'll start to get too expensive.
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Tell me about it ... as someone who consumes 100mg for an edible.
I got my gfs mom some sleeping marijuana pills, they are 4mg, 2thc and 2cbd. She doesn't feel a thing but has stated it helps her sleep. She used them all and I can't get the same product in NJ so she tried a 5mg gummy standard indica. She said she can slightly feel something so she doesn't like it.
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2mg is basically nothing haha. My standard dose is half an 80mg chocolate, so 40 +/- 10 or so depending how uneven my bite is. For me, anything less than 25mg is a waste of money.
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Well, since I'm still feeling less than 100%, I took a Covid test just to be sure (negative) and as the day is moving forward, I'm feeling better. But the mere fact that I still felt like shit (even after a good night's sleep) is definitely moving me away from the notion my symptoms were from the gummy, especially at that low of a dose.
Might be time to visit the ENT and see if there is something going on with my inner ear. It's weird because about a year ago, my NP sent me to an ENT because she said something look unusual about my ear drum. The ENT said everything looked fine with an exam but I never had any further testing. I have noticed what I thought was normal functional hearing loss of age (thank you Walkman and decades of concerts that left my ears ringing!) but maybe there is a connection. I'm feeling relieved it wasn't the THC.
Though TBH, I don't think I will be taking edibles ever again.
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If i don’t have to go anywhere, then 20mg edibles knock me on my ass very nicely. They go right up to the point of couch lock, but if the place caught fire i could probably still stumble my way out.
If i do have to be somewhere later then 10mg is perfect.
Hat’s off to everyone that can do the bigger doses. The most i ever did was 40mg and it felt like a jackhammer was pounding on my head. Live and learn.
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"what are you running from?" :lol
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:lol
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Hat’s off to everyone that can do the bigger doses. The most i ever did was 40mg and it felt like a jackhammer was pounding on my head. Live and learn.
I take no pride in it :lol I wish I had a much lower tolerance.
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I feel like I've developed a tolerance but it sort of plateaued. The gummies don't hit as hard without a bigger dose but I don't feel like I need to keep increasing my doses.
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"what are you running from?" :lol
That's hilarious and the answer is life. At least that's what I'm running from :lol
I've literally walked past the window before after taking a therapeutic edible dose and said "bye bye world" while waving.
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I feel like I've developed a tolerance but it sort of plateaued. The gummies don't hit as hard without a bigger dose but I don't feel like I need to keep increasing my doses.
I'm hoping I've plateaued. Ive been at the 100mg threshold for years now. But I've been eating my home made cookies with a lot more regularity over the last 6 months which I expected to increase my tolerance but so far doesn't seem to have.
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How often do you smoke/eat?
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"what are you running from?" :lol
That's hilarious and the answer is life. At least that's what I'm running from :lol
I've literally walked past the window before after taking a therapeutic edible dose and said "bye bye world" while waving.
We have a saying in AA... I drink for the blackout. Similar philosophy applies here it seems. :lol
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How often do you smoke/eat?
I'm a daily user, and do the edibles maybe once or twice a week now. (Veg nights on the couch watching our shows with my gf are my go to edible nights)
Having said that, I'm almost 2 full days in of nothing. (which I'm sure sounds like nothing, but it's probably been about 7 years since I had gone even a single day without a smoke/vape/edible) Singapore is very strict with drugs so I didn't bring any with me (like I normally would for travel). I think the natural tiredness of travel and jet lag has been effecting me moreso than marijuana withdrawal for now. Having said that, I definitely could have snuck my vape pen in. No one asked me a single question coming into the country, but yeah, it's probably not worth it. There's a big part of me that's all for the 12 days of marijuana soberness just to see how my body reacts.
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I'm sure it'll be good to reset too.
Personally I do edibles about 4 days a week now but I'll take a month off here and there, and yea, probably not best to fuck around bringing drugs to another country :lol
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I must say that 4 days in of no weed and I'm starting to feel the pain of not being able to sleep well. Sucks because I'm so damn tired too. I'd imagine it'll wear off soon enough, but I haven't been too irritable which is good for my coworkers sake.
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I must say that 4 days in of no weed and I'm starting to feel the pain of not being able to sleep well. Sucks because I'm so damn tired too. I'd imagine it'll wear off soon enough, but I haven't been too irritable which is good for my coworkers sake.
Eh, it's better than ending up like Griner. Keep us posted, curious to see the withdrawal process... For science!!
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I must say that 4 days in of no weed and I'm starting to feel the pain of not being able to sleep well. Sucks because I'm so damn tired too. I'd imagine it'll wear off soon enough, but I haven't been too irritable which is good for my coworkers sake.
Eh, it's better than ending up like Griner. Keep us posted, curious to see the withdrawal process... For science!!
Well I'm not in Russia! But yeah, they do take it seriously here. But honestly, it's not so bad. More mental than anything else because I often feel like "this would be so much better if I smoked" :lol (like before I ate dinner tonight) but compared to my understanding of alcohol withdrawal, this is nothing. Or even nicotine. It almost kind of re-affirms my beliefs that marijuana really isn't a bad drug at all if this is the effect of stopping cold turkey after years of continuous use. One more week! Not that it really relates either, but I also haven't had any alcohol, so I haven't replaced one drug for another drug. I really just don't get how Alcohol is the acceptable drug and not marijuana.
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I must say that 4 days in of no weed and I'm starting to feel the pain of not being able to sleep well. Sucks because I'm so damn tired too. I'd imagine it'll wear off soon enough, but I haven't been too irritable which is good for my coworkers sake.
Eh, it's better than ending up like Griner. Keep us posted, curious to see the withdrawal process... For science!!
Well I'm not in Russia! But yeah, they do take it seriously here. But honestly, it's not so bad. More mental than anything else because I often feel like "this would be so much better if I smoked" :lol (like before I ate dinner tonight) but compared to my understanding of alcohol withdrawal, this is nothing. Or even nicotine. It almost kind of re-affirms my beliefs that marijuana really isn't a bad drug at all if this is the effect of stopping cold turkey after years of continuous use. One more week! Not that it really relates either, but I also haven't had any alcohol, so I haven't replaced one drug for another drug. I really just don't get how Alcohol is the acceptable drug and not marijuana.
Have you ever tried visiting Singapore..... On weed....
:rollin
I hear you though, weed has so little physical addictive properties, but the mental side is certainly no joke.
Definitely not like my alcohol withdrawal that had me in the ICU for ten days and almost killed me.
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I also don't get why alcohol is acceptable and never will. Its amazing what happens when politicians, teachers and police push "reefer madness" for decades all while never giving an honest assessment of alcohol and letting it be constantly advertised on TV commercials, movies and sporting events.
With cold turkey from alcohol, you can seize and die and with prolonged use your liver will slowly be destroyed until you also die.
Not one day goes by where there isn't someone with an alcohol related issue in my emergency room. I've seen someone coming in who overdid it on weed ONE single time in 10 years and they literally just gave him a Xanax and let him ride it out. He had no physical harm.
Weed on the other hand might as well be water, but people still look at me as some drug user because of very uninformed stigma that still follows it around.
In other news though, I am trying to cut back a little. That one day the irritability was just beyond acceptable. I'm very irritable at baseline, so adding on withdrawal effects was making it unbearable. I'll never give up my beloved Mary Jane, but I'm going to lean on CBD a little more going forward.
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Reefer madness wasn't against weed... It was against the counterculture and the Civil rights movement. It was used to paint those sects of society as degenerative while showing the threat to "good Jesus loving white people" that just one hit of weed could turn you into a sex crazed hippie. Another slice of genius marketing from the conservative side.
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Reefer madness wasn't against weed... It was against the counterculture and the Civil rights movement. It was used to paint those sects of society as degenerative while showing the threat to "good Jesus loving white people" that just one hit of weed could turn you into a sex crazed hippie. Another slice of genius marketing from the conservative side.
Pretty much sums it up.
Alcohol is essentially nothing more than poison. While I don't completely abstain, I can count on one hand how many drinks I have in a typical year. Up here in Canada we just revised the alcohol recommendations to no more than 2 drinks per week. Holy shit were people upset by this lol. Ans still, like the US, booze commercials run constantly (along with sports betting now that online gambling is legal in Canada), yet you can't advertise cannabis. Wild times we live in.
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Reefer madness wasn't against weed... It was against the counterculture and the Civil rights movement. It was used to paint those sects of society as degenerative while showing the threat to "good Jesus loving white people" that just one hit of weed could turn you into a sex crazed hippie. Another slice of genius marketing from the conservative side.
Pretty much sums it up.
Alcohol is essentially nothing more than poison. While I don't completely abstain, I can count on one hand how many drinks I have in a typical year. Up here in Canada we just revised the alcohol recommendations to no more than 2 drinks per week. Holy shit were people upset by this lol. Ans still, like the US, booze commercials run constantly (along with sports betting now that online gambling is legal in Canada), yet you can't advertise cannabis. Wild times we live in.
Yup....the top two carcinogens for people are cigs and booze. I can't begin to count the amount of older people in AA that end up dying from either pancreatic/liver/throat cancer, it's pretty much every one of them. Yet dipshits like food babe will demean whatever poison of the day she's chosen while every other pic she has a glass of wine in her hand. Thank fucking god she's fallen off the radar.
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Hey lonestar, sorry if this is too personal of a question (and also i'm sure you've probably touched on this in this long thread), but I'm guessing you partake here because you're in the thread (if not, you can ignore). If you don't mind me asking, how does the use of weed vs alcohol differ for you? I've been thinking a lot about addiction in relation to weed since I've become a very regular user. Trying to find if and where there would be a line I could cross and if there's a chance I've already crossed it. I'd love to hear your perspective on it.
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My personal line is:
1. If i end up using daily or close to daily.
Or
2. I end up choosing a day with weed over doing something with friends or family. Like if its getting the way of actual life.
Besides that, its game on
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Hey lonestar, sorry if this is too personal of a question (and also i'm sure you've probably touched on this in this long thread), but I'm guessing you partake here because you're in the thread (if not, you can ignore). If you don't mind me asking, how does the use of weed vs alcohol differ for you? I've been thinking a lot about addiction in relation to weed since I've become a very regular user. Trying to find if and where there would be a line I could cross and if there's a chance I've already crossed it. I'd love to hear your perspective on it.
Firstly, as to my participation here, I feel I'm kind of grandfathered in, even though I haven't smoked since 12/6/10 (during Comfortably Numb at the Roger Waters Wall show to be exact, didn't intend it to be my last, but it was). I think my history allows me to participate and give insight, and mostly to be baffled by how far weed smoking has come since the 80s. You guys are straight up pHDs in weed man.
Comparing my alcohol usage and my weed usage is like comparing holding a kitten and being trampled by a herd of buffalo. I maybe smoked once a month, I'd get a small nugget from a friend and would be able to stretch it out for ages, cause one hit usually did the trick for me. For alcohol, I would drink a 12 pack and a full 500ml bottle of Jagermeister a night. (that's not an exaggeration), and it was like that for my last five or so years of my drinking career.
My advice to anyone who questions their usage...if you're questioning it, maybe you should look into it. Give it a break for a bit, if you get worse, then maybe you should try and curb your usage. Granted that's advice for a drinker, I've never dealt with helping people with weed issues, but most addictions have similar traits.
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Thanks! Yeah, it's an interesting thing to think about. I've never had nicotine, and never felt compelled to drink in an unhealthy way, but weed hits something that the other things don't. It makes it easier to take care of tasks I'd otherwise put off, it allows me to eat more more comfortably, and it helps relax my body when trying to sleep. But now I fear I rely on it. It's not causing any issues, so I feel like maybe it's close to someone who uses caffeine a lot. I do take longish breaks now and then, so who knows. I guess I'll just keep in my mind as I continue. Don't want to lose sight of possible problems. And I basically agree with the points Phoenix brought up too.
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For myself, as a daily marijuana user, I feel like it becomes a problem when it affects my life negatively. As in, am I failing at work? Do my friends/family not like me anymore? Am I going poor? Is my health taking a beating? And after all these years, the answer is still an astounding no to all. (I guess I would have a significant amount of more money in my bank, but I'm fairly comfortable with my financial situation thanks to otherwise good decisions and having a good job, and lets be real, if marijuana was negatively affecting me, I wouldn't be able to perform my job at a high level - you think my company would spend all this money to send me across the world?)
I actually slept well last night, no weed, no alcohol, no sleeping pills. As I mentioned last night, this is all just making me feel like marijuana is more likely a positive in my life than anything else.
It makes it easier to take care of tasks I'd otherwise put off, it allows me to eat more more comfortably, and it helps relax my body when trying to sleep.
Yup, all the above for me too. It's actually amazing how much more motivated I can be and productive if I have a morning cup of coffee and smoke a bowl. Not only will I feel amazing, I'll be compelled to get my shit done and not be a pissy pants while doing these tasks I dislike doing.
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Cram, with daily use are you able to take the same amount each day?
I slowed down how often I use since I run into tolerances issues very quickly. If I could take a 5mg edible each morning and be good for the day, then I sure as hell would, but I start losing effect pretty much the 2nd day in a row sadly.
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Cram, with daily use are you able to take the same amount each day?
I slowed down how often I use since I run into tolerances issues very quickly. If I could take a 5mg edible each morning and be good for the day, then I sure as hell would, but I start losing effect pretty much the 2nd day in a row sadly.
I only really experience the tolerance issue with edibles. If I have good quality bud, I can still get high off of one hit. However, I really enjoy smoking so I'll usually smoke an entire bowl after work but not all at once, I'm a pretty slow smoker so I'll smoke that bowl all night long.
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Ah, interesting.
I can only do edibles because of asthma, so that makes a lot more sense.
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So I actually had a very vivid dream last night, something that is pretty unusual for me. Which all makes sense given my break from the bud.
In case anyone cares, my dream was...
I went to see The Winery Dogs at Starland Ballroom. Which funny enough, I did see TWD recently but not at Starland (which is a local venue for me and they did actually play there just a couple weeks ago). During the show, I got a call from my parents who surprised me by saying they just flew up from Florida and wanted to see me. So I told them to come to the concert, which they did. And I was quite happy because I (in real life) have been telling my father to check TWD out because I legit think he would like them. So I was very excited he was going to be able to catch the end of their show. When my parents got there, it was right before the encore and MP kept throwing out drum sticks to the crowd (of about 15 people :lol and it wasn't really the Starland) so I actually caught 2 sticks and my dad caught one, but the little kid behind us didn't catch any and I was about to give him one of mine but my Dad told me not to so I didn't :lol Anyway, they had technical issues and could not continue the show and then decided to move outdoors to try out there which they also could not get to work. My Dad never got to see TWD and I was super frustrated. :lol I think my mind might be better off on the weed
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Wow, that's wild.
Yeah, same with me as I am easing back. The dreams become metal in how vivid they are.
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I've had many of these conversations on the discord my buddies and I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMRW1oG_t4
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^^^ God that is good. Weed thoughts are the best :lol
I've started writing mine down as they seemed so profound in the moment, but then I immediately forget them afterward. They either are self reflection or about how time doesn't exist and is an illusion, lol.
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There's an awesome song called "High Hopes" by Sammy Hagar that's about those awesome high ideas you later on forget.
As for myself, the vivid dreams have been wild lately including a nightmare of being haunted by two dead kids :lol
And I've been slightly irritable lately but I can't tell if that's withdrawal or just the heat out here and starting to get annoyed from spending so much time with my coworker. I'm leaning towards that more so than withdrawal, I kind of think that's all in the past now after 8 days.
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Its kind of funny that with weed, the thoughts pretty much disappear immediately but with psychedelics there are distinct thoughts that I remember to this day years later.
But if I write them down, then weed thoughts can be as profound and helpful as psychedelics, at least on paper. How to incorporate these good lessons into life itself I'm still trying to figure out.
They've always been brutally honest which I appreciate and helped me see things from a different perspective.
As for myself, the vivid dreams have been wild lately including a nightmare of being haunted by two dead kids :lol
oh damn :lol
Do you find that the detox dreams are more scary? Or are there happy ones in there too?
Mine are mostly scary unfortunately.
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Its kind of funny that with weed, the thoughts pretty much disappear immediately but with psychedelics there are distinct thoughts that I remember to this day years later.
This is true for me as well, I remember so much from the times I've taken psychedelics.
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Do you find that the detox dreams are more scary? Or are there happy ones in there too?
Mine are mostly scary unfortunately.
Hard to say right now since my experiences are low and I've had a lot more dreams that I just can't really remember well but the ones that have been sticking with me are on the negative side of things like the feeling of frustration which is actually the type of dream I would have if I did have a dream while using marijuana. I've had a reoccurring dream foe years now and while my winery dogs dream was quite different, it brought back the same feeling of frustration from the reoccurring dream (which is always me missing a flight)
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I've had many of these conversations on the discord my buddies and I have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueMRW1oG_t4
Oh my god, I am watching it right now high as shit and it legit makes sense :rollin
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So ever since my recent 2 episodes, I've made the decision to cut back my use. My decision is also based on the fact we are traveling to Hawaii next month and even though they have legalized weed there, I really don't want to travel with any nor do I want to purchase while I'm there, so that means 10 days without. I tried to go cold turkey and felt like crap so I scrapped that and have gone the gradual route, now using only every 3 days - next week every 4. This seems to be working out fine as far as my sleep goes (though with the clock change, WTF knows for sure) and there are times when I have mild cravings but these are easy to distract away.
It's strange to me because I have gone long periods without using and have always been able to go cold turkey before, no problem. But I don't know if it is my age or the fact that I've dropped a fair chuck of weight but this time it felt a lot more difficult for me. I won't say that once I'm off that I will never go back to using again. But I doubt I will ever be a daily user again. It will be interesting to see if my 'couch potato' desires continue to drop over the summer. I hope so. I got shit to do. :lol
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Legal or not, I would not fly with any weed. That's a quick ticket to a federal prison, I reckon.
As a daily user, I consider myself fortunate that the last 2 times I've had to travel by air were to destinations where it was legal (Vegas - 2018 and Seattle - 2016). Basically landed both times, and went straight to a dispensary. Both trips were odd in that Vegas was a work conference, and I was staying at the same hotel as my colleagues (albeit in different wings or floors). I had to be very careful with where I was smoking and the smell on my clothes. I didn't partake during the conference part of the day, but I was definitely high AF the evenings.
With Seattle, it was my first glimpse of legalization (Canada came a year later in October). I was in Seattle for the Astonishing tour, and the law was you could buy weed but not smoke it in public. It was odd to say the least.
I'm not sure I would want to travel someplace it wasn't legalized. I'm sure I could, and will again when we take the kids out of country, but it wouldn't be my first choice.
A friend of ours recently flew domestically within Canada with a half dozen MDMA pills in his carry-on. I couldn't imagine trying something like that. Easy enough to hide as any capsule medication (they weren't designer pressed pills like you get with ecstasy), but holy shit the risk of long-term jail is just too much.
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Flying with weed is hardly a concern. TSA won't look for it. But there's hardly a point if you are going somewhere that has dispensaries.
My 12 days of no weed had passed, I have enjoyed it since getting back home. I don't really think I had much issues at all surprisingly other than what I already documented. Was much easier than I imagined, but honestly, I have no desire to continue abstinence.
I've got a J ready for the Muse concert tonight.
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I think I've got a good system for managing tolerance and consumption. During the week it's only 2 hits a day. An after dinner bowl of course (which isn't a fully loaded bowl BTW) and another hit an hour to 90 mins later. It's the same for weekends but an extra hit or two in the evening as I am also moderately drinking. It seems to be working pretty good.
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Grandfather is 79 and his body is starting to break down. He's had pain, loss of appetite, anxiety, and trouble sleeping. He's on a million prescription drugs and none of them work for him anymore.
I've been begging him for months now to just give weed a shot, but he grew up in that generation where its hyper stigmatized and has turned he down every single time, until today...
I gave him a small 5mg Sativa edible and to see his face as it kicked in was incredible. Just that look of relieve and being at ease.
Getting to see him experience marijuana for the first time ever was a very beautiful moment and to see him get relief was even more beautiful.
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That's awesome!
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That's great, I hope it relieves him more of his suffering.
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Man....the amount of suffering that will happen at the hand of the 60s and 70s stigmatization of weed is crazy. Glad your gramps found some relief in it, we can only hope the medical community at large will incorporate it further into their regimen for pain treatment.
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Grandfather is 79 and his body is starting to break down. He's had pain, loss of appetite, anxiety, and trouble sleeping. He's on a million prescription drugs and none of them work for him anymore.
I've been begging him for months now to just give weed a shot, but he grew up in that generation where its hyper stigmatized and has turned he down every single time, until today...
I gave him a small 5mg Sativa edible and to see his face as it kicked in was incredible. Just that look of relieve and being at ease.
Getting to see him experience marijuana for the first time ever was a very beautiful moment and to see him get relief was even more beautiful.
We attended a palliative care appointment with my father shortly before he died, and the doctor mentioned edible marijauna, and the look on his face was priceless. He was like..WUT?
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That's not surprising from that generation, but it's their loss IMO. It would be greatly beneficial to some to over come their incorrect notions about the plant. And I can't think of a more appropriate time when there's no other options to deal with pain. But I can't imagine it's easy to change someone's mind in old age.
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That's not surprising from that generation, but it's their loss IMO. It would be greatly beneficial to some to over come their incorrect notions about the plant. And I can't think of a more appropriate time when there's no other options to deal with pain. But I can't imagine it's easy to change someone's mind in old age.
My father was never into any of that. Hell, he didn't really drink. I think his reaction was more of something that he had not considered than a reservation about it. I think if needed, he would've been fine with it.
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My mother smoked when she was young and even smoked a bit when I was in my 20s as we got older and were openly smoking ourselves. But at some point she deemed it evil :lol and refuses to partake anymore even though a lot of her friends actively use now that it's legal and well, they are old and can use the pain relief. My mom has arthritis and various other ailments that cause her pain. She refuses to take anything wtih marijuana. It's so odd to me. She'd rather take pills every night instead that just knock her out. I've tried many times to offer an edible to help to no avail.
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My dad kept the lie going that he never tried pot until I was 26 years old. I always thought it was bullshit because he was the only white dude in a 14 person funk band back in the 70s :lol
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I have been told by friends and family that my mom was and is a mega pot head, but she has never once been honest about it. She always acted like it was the worst thing ever and I should never do it.
but yet when I was 15, she brought home a bottle of jack Daniels and Bicardi and we got drunk on shots and rum & cokes, so yeah :P
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Man, if/when the time comes when I need chemical pain relief, nothing is off the table. Severe pain? Okay, what are the choices? Morphine? No? How about some derivative, anything narcotic? What about cannabis, like shitloads of it, can we do that? Okay, I'll take half a dozen indica brownies and a big-ass glass of milk.
I guess in that respect, we're lucky (-ish?) that we'll have choices. I don't see any kind of "beliefs" (hangups) ruling anything out.
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Yeah, just wheel over a vat of edibles and i’ll be good. :lol
I mean, they already do wonders for emotional and mental pain, so lets keep it rolling when i am wasting away.
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I made a fresh batch of edibles this week. They're good, but they're annoying. I think the rate at which my body breaks down food varies greatly depending what I've had to eat prior.
If I eat an edible on an empty stomach, I'll start feeling it in twenty minutes or so. If I eat anything in the afternoon, it could take 1-3+ hours to feel anything. I ate two cookies on Tuesday after work and was ripping by 5pm. Last night I ate two cookies at 6:30 after eating a light dinner (ham sandwich on white) and I went to bed without feeling anything. I woke up at midnight or so to piss and was blitzed out of my skull.
I wish there was a way to get better consistency later in the day.
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Same thing with me.
The full vs empty stomach thing makes a huge difference. Empty stomach, the effect comes on about 35 mins or so and I am done in about 2 hours.
With a Full stomach, then its like I'm taking an extended release product, where it could last for hours and hit in different waves. I usually do empty stomach if I plan on going out later and full stomach if I'm in for the night and can just chill.
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Yeah, for consistency, I usually eat edibles on an empty stomach before I eat dinner.
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I really wish I could crack the tincture code. That seems like the best of all worlds. It doesn't hurt the lungs, it's fast acting, easy to transport and sneak in places, and it's low in calories. I've tried a couple times now and have yet to make a "good" batch. I've made some effective batches, but the shit is so hard to stomach/ingest, it's not worth it. I use grain alcohol to make it, and no matter what I do, every batch feels like I'm dousing under my tongue and around my mouth with gasoline and lighting it on fire.
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That sounds unpleasant.
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Ive only tried the tincture once and recall it not being pleasant as well. I'd imagine being so high in alcohol, there may not be a great way for high dosage. I also don't like that I basically need to eat a full snack for an edible. I'd rather something small and low calorie myself. It's actually the main reason why I loved the THC tablets I got in LA one time. They were 20mg pills basically. So no calories or eating, just a couple gulps of water to wash them down. But that doesn't fix the time issue, it'll still take an hour or so to kick in. I've yet to see them in NJ.
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I only have some tincture because you get more mg per dollar, but i’ve never liked the taste. I mix it with a small cup of milk or yogurt.
I definitely prefer the capsules i get from the dispensery. They hit hard and are consistant with effect.
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I've thought about buying empty capsules and just injecting my tincture into them.
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Tried a new Sativa strain last night for the first time. Stracciatella I think it's called, but man it's real smooth.
Sat there nice and baked, watching John Wick 1 and had a blast. It was so rad.
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All I want to say is thank god for weed.
This may have been the hardest weeks of my adult life with 4 major life changes happening all with-in the last 7 days. I was literally on the floor crying and shaking until a full dose edible helped me process all that pain and find some peace.
I am so grateful to have this medicine.
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Ive only tried the tincture once and recall it not being pleasant as well. I'd imagine being so high in alcohol, there may not be a great way for high dosage. I also don't like that I basically need to eat a full snack for an edible. I'd rather something small and low calorie myself. It's actually the main reason why I loved the THC tablets I got in LA one time. They were 20mg pills basically. So no calories or eating, just a couple gulps of water to wash them down. But that doesn't fix the time issue, it'll still take an hour or so to kick in. I've yet to see them in NJ.
These have also become my go-to for edible form. Mass has dispensaries that sell a 5mg thc/25 mg cbd pill that has been a sweet spot for me. They also have various other forms including thc only, the state law requires each dose to be no more than 5mg though. Seems like a sane starting point, I know out west there isn't much of a cap and people have made some 'mistakes' w 100mg versions. That would be quite a ride for someone not knowing what they were getting into.
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Ive only tried the tincture once and recall it not being pleasant as well. I'd imagine being so high in alcohol, there may not be a great way for high dosage. I also don't like that I basically need to eat a full snack for an edible. I'd rather something small and low calorie myself. It's actually the main reason why I loved the THC tablets I got in LA one time. They were 20mg pills basically. So no calories or eating, just a couple gulps of water to wash them down. But that doesn't fix the time issue, it'll still take an hour or so to kick in. I've yet to see them in NJ.
These have also become my go-to for edible form. Mass has dispensaries that sell a 5mg thc/25 mg cbd pill that has been a sweet spot for me. They also have various other forms including thc only, the state law requires each dose to be no more than 5mg though. Seems like a sane starting point, I know out west there isn't much of a cap and people have made some 'mistakes' w 100mg versions. That would be quite a ride for someone not knowing what they were getting into.
Yeah, I can't imagine someone without tolerance taking a 100mg edible :lol but at the same time, a 5mg cap seems ridiculously low even if it's a great starting point.
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You guys amaze me with your tolerance levels. I cut 5mg gummies in half and do 2.5mg for an after-work buzz. I think of it like having one beer or one drink after work. I'll do 5mg on the weekend, once in the morning and then 5mg more in the afternoon, then I'm good through the evening. I don't know what affects tolerance, but I started in junior high so it's not like I'm new at this.
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You guys amaze me with your tolerance levels. I cut 5mg gummies in half and do 2.5mg for an after-work buzz. I think of it like having one beer or one drink after work. I'll do 5mg on the weekend, once in the morning and then 5mg more in the afternoon, then I'm good through the evening. I don't know what affects tolerance, but I started in junior high so it's not like I'm new at this.
I'd imagine my big belly affects tolerance.
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I'm like in the middle.
5mg isn't enough and 100mg I wouldn't take if you paid me. 20mg is just right and that's someone that uses around 2-3 times a week.
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Ive only tried the tincture once and recall it not being pleasant as well. I'd imagine being so high in alcohol, there may not be a great way for high dosage. I also don't like that I basically need to eat a full snack for an edible. I'd rather something small and low calorie myself. It's actually the main reason why I loved the THC tablets I got in LA one time. They were 20mg pills basically. So no calories or eating, just a couple gulps of water to wash them down. But that doesn't fix the time issue, it'll still take an hour or so to kick in. I've yet to see them in NJ.
These have also become my go-to for edible form. Mass has dispensaries that sell a 5mg thc/25 mg cbd pill that has been a sweet spot for me. They also have various other forms including thc only, the state law requires each dose to be no more than 5mg though. Seems like a sane starting point, I know out west there isn't much of a cap and people have made some 'mistakes' w 100mg versions. That would be quite a ride for someone not knowing what they were getting into.
Yeah, I can't imagine someone without tolerance taking a 100mg edible :lol but at the same time, a 5mg cap seems ridiculously low even if it's a great starting point.
Oh it's definitely low, I like to partake but also need to keep most senses in-tact when I do get to endulge. 5mg is more a nice change of mindset/scenery, while 20mg (for me) is more lower earth orbit. Anything beyond that, I'd need to be very confident that no one needs me for anything for a few hours :rollin
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I just pick the dose based on what I'm doing
CBD for work
THC is as follows:
5mg I can almost safely work/drive but I don't chance it
10-15mg I can just muster the strength to be sociable and converse, but it can be an effort.
20mg to 25mg is Phoenix time. Leave me alone to dance with my mind, and kiss the sky
30mg it starts to get painful/unproductive so I keep it at no more than 25mg in one shot, but with an option to keep taking a little more every hour or so to keep the party rolling :metal
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I can still pretty much function normally at 100mg, but I'll have absolutely no desire to. I usually won't do an edible unless I know I'm in the house for the night and can go to bed once the high has passed.
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I can still pretty much function normally at 100mg
:hefdaddy
That's incredible. The most I ever did was around 50mg ish (I lost track that night) and I was having strong thoughts of needing to go to the ER. But then I remembered it was Weed and just dealt with it and took a snooze :lol
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I'm not proud of my tolerance, it makes it an expensive habit. But definitely struggled doing anything the first bunch of time doing high dosage. I had one of my cookies the other night, it was great. (only two more left but I have a new baggie saved to use for cooking soon) Sometimes I'll game, but my response time is so low when I'm that high that it's a struggle, but I'm still completely aware and capable. I actually made my best ever tiktok (1.3M views) while gaming on a edible :lol
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When I first got into edibles, cannabis was still illegal in IL so I got them from a guy in the band who was connected. 10mg gummies. He asked me if I'd ever done edibles before, and I hadn't so he got this very serious, big-brother voice and said "Okay, you take one. ONE! You wait an hour. You might start feeling it in five or ten minutes, maybe more like 15 to 30, but in any event you wait at least an hour the first time because you don't know how it will affect you. If, after an hour, you feel like you could do another, that's up to you."
I went home and since it was a Saturday afternoon, I took one. Half an hour later, I was trying to find something to watch on TV, and I realized I had been trying to find something to watch on TV for a while. The remote has all these buttons, you see, and it can be confusing. Same remote I've had for years, but still... And hey, what's this button? I've never noticed that one before... And fuck, there's all these fucking channels. How can anyone decide? I don't remember much about the next three or four hours other than that it was amazing but also disconcerting, and I have never felt the need to to do more than 10mg. Five and I'm pretty stoned, 2.5 is a nice buzz. 10 is only for when no one else is home and I have the TV and stereo to myself.
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I actually made my best ever tiktok (1.3M views) while gaming on a edible :lol
That's awesome
I've had some of my most profound, life changing thoughts on edibles :tup
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I actually made my best ever tiktok (1.3M views) while gaming on a edible :lol
That's awesome
I've had some of my most profound, life changing thoughts on edibles :tup
I don't know what it is, but my friend and I called it "magical moments" and it only seemed to happen when we were high, that certain things would happen that you'd never notice or never realize or maybe just never actually happen when you aren't in that state of mind :lol
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When I first got into edibles, cannabis was still illegal in IL so I got them from a guy in the band who was connected. 10mg gummies. He asked me if I'd ever done edibles before, and I hadn't so he got this very serious, big-brother voice and said "Okay, you take one. ONE! You wait an hour. You might start feeling it in five or ten minutes, maybe more like 15 to 30, but in any event you wait at least an hour the first time because you don't know how it will affect you. If, after an hour, you feel like you could do another, that's up to you."
I went home and since it was a Saturday afternoon, I took one. Half an hour later, I was trying to find something to watch on TV, and I realized I had been trying to find something to watch on TV for a while. The remote has all these buttons, you see, and it can be confusing. Same remote I've had for years, but still... And hey, what's this button? I've never noticed that one before... And fuck, there's all these fucking channels. How can anyone decide? I don't remember much about the next three or four hours other than that it was amazing but also disconcerting, and I have never felt the need to to do more than 10mg. Five and I'm pretty stoned, 2.5 is a nice buzz. 10 is only for when no one else is home and I have the TV and stereo to myself.
:lol
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I'm like in the middle.
5mg isn't enough and 100mg I wouldn't take if you paid me. 20mg is just right and that's someone that uses around 2-3 times a week.
30 for me is the sweet spot. It's usually what I take on the weekends.
I can still pretty much function normally at 100mg, but I'll have absolutely no desire to. I usually won't do an edible unless I know I'm in the house for the night and can go to bed once the high has passed.
Man I have some 100s laying around I take every once in a while and with those i frequently forget how to walk and the stairs in my house intimidate me :lol
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Forgive me for sounding dumb as shit, but I seriously just figured out that old movies that I used to love, but have seen too many times become brand new again when High as shit. :lol
LOVE IT
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Made another batch of my peanut butter cookies last night.
I used a half ounce of high quality bud and 3/4 cup butter. I think last time I did half ounce with 1 cup butter so this butter was a bit more potent.
The results is 35 cookies. I ate one and was in a very good place. While the cookies don't look as good as the first two batches we tried, this one may be the most potent. And yet, the cookies taste nothing like marijuana (although the house smelled during the process) and actually are delicious. Very happy with the result this time. Going to take a couple with me to Aruba next week for vacation.
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That’s awesome cram
For the amount that i love edibles, i really should start baking :lol
Is it all that hard?
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I remember trying baking a few times and my place REEKED of weed. I very much fucked it up.
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I remember trying baking a few times and my place REEKED of weed. I very much fucked it up.
Yeah, that's what's gonna happen at my place :lol
But with the price of flower being so much more affordable than pre filled capsules, I wouldn't mind getting into baking my own edibles.
I finally found out how to get Sativa edibles to really work as mental health medicine for myself, so I would like to have as much around as possible going forward.
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I remember trying baking a few times and my place REEKED of weed. I very much fucked it up.
Yeah, it'll stink up the kitchen and more for sure.
That’s awesome cram
For the amount that i love edibles, i really should start baking :lol
Is it all that hard?
It's not hard but it is a fairly long process. I was very cautious for my first many tries because if I fucked up, I knew I would have wasted a good amount of quality bud. But I follow his process and have only had success making the butter this way. https://www.leafly.com/learn/consume/edibles/how-to-make-cannabutter (https://www.leafly.com/learn/consume/edibles/how-to-make-cannabutter) The only issue really is dosing. I used half a cup of grinded marijuana to 3/4 cup of butter for this latest batch. Previously I used a half cup weed to 1 cup of butter.
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Sweet
Thanks cram
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My brother in law's son took the cover photo of the May 2023 issue.
(https://www.discountmags.com/shopimages/products/extras/937263-high-times-cover-2023-may-1-issue.jpg)
We were over there this afternoon and my BiL had it in a frame.
(https://i.imgur.com/hLKmTYo.jpg)
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Very cool.. Does high times still do the centerfold? I had those all over my walls in college
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This Minnesota lawmaker is rolling some fucking fatties...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1652045992030511108 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1652045992030511108)
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"Just two ounces is equivalent to three joints" - WTF?
On the other hand, back in old days, I might have said "Challenge accepted!"
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"Just two ounces is equivalent to three joints" - WTF?
On the other hand, back in old days, I might have said "Challenge accepted!"
18 grams per, that's a straight up godfather blunt.
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:lol
Usually they are 1G at a dispensary, but sometimes you can get them smaller. Anything larger is something out of a movie.
Personally, I use cones and don't measure but since I never fill them up, my js are likely closer to 1/3 to 1/2 a gram. I have one ready for the Spiritbox concert tonight :hat I do love how in NY/NJ when you go to a concert you can step outside and light up, security stopped caring some time ago and even at the previous most strict venues, you can light up without fear.
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:lol
Usually they are 1G at a dispensary, but sometimes you can get them smaller. Anything larger is something out of a movie.
Personally, I use cones and don't measure but since I never fill them up, my js are likely closer to 1/3 to 1/2 a gram. I have one ready for the Spiritbox concert tonight :hat I do love how in NY/NJ when you go to a concert you can step outside and light up, security stopped caring some time ago and even at the previous most strict venues, you can light up without fear.
On the streets of Berkeley you only get fined if you're smoking tobacco :lol
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:lol
Usually they are 1G at a dispensary, but sometimes you can get them smaller. Anything larger is something out of a movie.
Personally, I use cones and don't measure but since I never fill them up, my js are likely closer to 1/3 to 1/2 a gram. I have one ready for the Spiritbox concert tonight :hat I do love how in NY/NJ when you go to a concert you can step outside and light up, security stopped caring some time ago and even at the previous most strict venues, you can light up without fear.
On the streets of Berkeley you only get fined if you're smoking tobacco :lol
Oh I'm sure. I will say, since legalization, if you just walk the streets of NYC you will smell it. I'm just more happy that concert venues usually are hands off regarding it as long as you are outside.
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Regarding concerts, the capsules are absurdly easy and discreet to bring into a concert and consume ;D
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That trichome photo is incredible.
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High as fuck right now jamming out to the dead :metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INzyBz1Ts1s&ab_channel=GratefulDead
Grateful Dead - Help On The Way / Slipknot! / Franklin's Tower (Washington, DC 6/14/91)
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This Minnesota lawmaker is rolling some fucking fatties...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1652045992030511108 (https://twitter.com/i/status/1652045992030511108)
This is probably pretty close to 2oz for 3 joints. And it took Tommy Chong to do it. :lol
https://youtu.be/Dzod7gvp9HQ?t=107
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When your so high, the eggos taste like filet mignon :metal
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When your so high, the eggos taste like filet mignon :metal
The best is when you're so stoned you laugh about how stoned you are. :lol
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Damn, definitely miss the inherent stupidity of being stoned, it's like taking a break from thinking (kind of the point, right?) :lol
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When your so high, the eggos taste like filet mignon :metal
The best is when you're so stoned you laugh about how stoned you are. :lol
It's not often I get the giggles these days, but when I do, it's fantastic.
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I haven't gotten the giggles from cannabis in ages, but shrooms get those going for me like there's no tomorrow.
V and I recently watched The Wizard of Oz on them and had to quit before they even started their way down the yellow brick road. We started hypothesizing how the munchkins appear to be so well funded and what their main exports were, and we just couldn't keep it together. We tried to bring it back to center for like a half hour before throwing in the towel.
Then the room turned purple and collapsed in on itself.
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Great day today.
My 73 year old aunt was having trouble with anxiety and today I helped her through the entire process of getting a medical marijuana card. She tried a 5mg sativa capsule and got a lot of relief from it, so that led her to ask me to help her get the card.
So I am very happy.
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Not cannabis, but close enough for the thread. You won't see a more wholesome video today than this delightful 1950s housewife tripping balls on LSD. I've never tried LSD and likely never will (too scared; I've been given to believe my generally negative character would take me to some dark places), but watching this charming woman have an awe-inspiring and life-altering experience put a big smile on my face. Tangerine trees and marmalade skies start about a minute 40 in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-jQeWSDKc
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I find the life altering stuff to be really interesting when it comes to some of these psychedlics.
I haven't had any personal experiences but recently was in place to consume acid or shrooms. I declined. I find the stuff interesting to hear about and learn about people's experiences, but I haven't found any personal reason to really engage besides maybe a microdose to "feel good" but even then, I still feel pretty damn good after smoking a J so
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LSD is completely different from just feeling good. It's reality altering. I've never "fully hallucinated" (seen things that were not there) but I've had several instances of "visual effects". Mostly low-to-medium level effects, like walls and surfaces seeming to move and breathe, clouds wavering and slow-dancing in the sky, that kind of thing. No purple dragons or anything. Possibly the more important effect is that everything seems "amplified". This I suppose to similar to the feel-good thing, but it goes beyond that. Everything is brighter, more vibrant. Sounds aren't louder, but seem more distinct. You walk around and everything just seems really cool, really amazing (some theorize that this is because you've become a lot stupider, so in a relative way, everything is much cooler and amazing). Tripping IMO should only ever be done either alone, or in the company of people you trust 100%. It's really easy to fuck with someone on LSD, and it's also pretty easy to get a bad reaction, or so I've heard. I suppose I've had the good fortune of doing it many times but always in good circumstances and with fun people who I knew well. Also, this was like 40 years ago, and I doubt I would do it again. But I suppose it would depend on the company and the situation.
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Yeah, I may have simplified things due to my ignorance on these drugs.
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I didn't mean to come down on you; I was just taking the opportunity to explain and educate a bit, having had a bit of personal experience. I'd say it's a given that if you don't know about certain things, then you wouldn't know about the differences between them.
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I didn't mean to come down on you; I was just taking the opportunity to explain and educate a bit, having had a bit of personal experience. I'd say it's a given that if you don't know about certain things, then you wouldn't know about the differences between them.
I didn't take it that way at all, I meant to just be honest in that it could be a learning moment for me since I may not know what I'm talking about. After my recent experience where I was with people doing all sorts of drugs, I kept asking them a lot of questions, but LSD was surprisingly not one of them involved.
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It's been a long time since I've even heard of LSD being around. Probably because it was always a rather niche drug (certainly far less common/popular than good old cannabis) and also because it seems to be something one might do when they're young and adventurous but not so much when they're old and boring. But it also seems possible that it's just not as popular as it once was. I do know that back in the 80's, the quality could vary quite a bit. At the time that wasn't a huge deal because it's not something you want to do all the time anyway. But with the advent of some of the more ridiculous drugs (crack, PCP, and anything that came after that I wouldn't even know the names of) maybe it just passed from favor.
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Boy do I love it when someone else brings up psychedelics. :lol
Tried my first psychedelic at a healing retreat at age 33. It was ayahuasca and it was the most profound, powerful experience of my entire life. Nothing even comes close.
My entire childhood was a nightmarish hell and I lived a life of despair, hopelessness, anger and hate. That night changed everything. I felt hope for the first time in my life. I felt love for the first time in my life and I felt God for the first time in my life. The only word to give it any justice is like a rebirth.
Never tried LSD as I feel like I did the work I needed to do, but I may try it in an effort to help guide others, but overall
I now would like to devote my life to helping people heal with them. So yeah, that's my 2 cents
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I have terrible anxiety. Maybe it's starting to be "had". I gave CBD oil a try about a year ago and that stuff worked on me very well. My mind is feeling like it's not so rampant with anxiety these days.
I also eventually tried edibles from an online store. Besides one scary feeling because I stupidly took it on an empty stomach, I've been enjoying some nice nights off 6mg and some CBD oil. I truly believe my lower anxiety is coming from taking this stuff. And the sleep is just so good.
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I brought some edibles with me to Germany, plan on having one tonight after work.
There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
I could really use a nice edible evening and sleep tonight.
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I have terrible anxiety. Maybe it's starting to be "had". I gave CBD oil a try about a year ago and that stuff worked on me very well. My mind is feeling like it's not so rampant with anxiety these days.
I also eventually tried edibles from an online store. Besides one scary feeling because I stupidly took it on an empty stomach, I've been enjoying some nice nights off 6mg and some CBD oil. I truly believe my lower anxiety is coming from taking this stuff. And the sleep is just so good.
I have had anxiety for years and currently take my main pill celexa and the lowest dose of Ativan as a backup as needed. I was thinking of trying CBD oil, but not sure how to choose the right one. Any resources you have is appreciated. You can message me if too much info for this thread.
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I have terrible anxiety. Maybe it's starting to be "had". I gave CBD oil a try about a year ago and that stuff worked on me very well. My mind is feeling like it's not so rampant with anxiety these days.
I also eventually tried edibles from an online store. Besides one scary feeling because I stupidly took it on an empty stomach, I've been enjoying some nice nights off 6mg and some CBD oil. I truly believe my lower anxiety is coming from taking this stuff. And the sleep is just so good.
I wouldn't describe my anxiety as terrible, but it was certainly enough to keep me up at night. The majority of the time I have experienced it would be evenings/night time. I started taking 5mg THC/25mg CBD tablets around 7pm once every few nights and I've never slept better. The residual effects were the most surprising, taking one on a Monday would be enough to keep me sleeping well each night until maybe Thursday/Friday evening. The biggest drawback, for me, is the uncontrollable urge to eat. If someone could come up with a strain where there was no hunger response - that would be gold for me.
My daughter also struggles with a few diagnosed mental health issues and tried (with the blessing of her therapist and med manager) to utilize cannabis too. It helped with her anxiety, but crushed her depression to the point where she cannot use it at all anymore. There is a growing pool of evidence that this (medicine/plant/whatever you want to call it) is absolutely NOT for everyone. So whatever you decide, go easy and be honest with yourself about the results you're getting.
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I am like walking anxiety and edibles and CBD really save the day.
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There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
Holy shit! I pay around $30 for 10 x 10. Maybe $25 if there's a sale. 10 x 100 would last me for months.
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There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
Holy shit! I pay around $30 for 10 x 10. Maybe $25 if there's a sale. 10 x 100 would last me for months.
Yeah, that place has some incredible edible prices. Their flower is solid too. I go there every time I go to a concert in NYC now. Like I said though, pretty sure it's an illegal operation. They don't have the seal of a NYC dispensary out front. They also accept credit cards.
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It's only illegal if they catch you.
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It's only illegal if they catch you.
I'm not worried, but I just don't get how they can open up an entire store front. It's apparently an issue in NYC with a lot of these shops popping up unlicensed. It's part of the problem with the government getting too in the way of legalization IMO.
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If it's legal in the state of NY (I don't know), then they're licensed, certified, whatever you call it. And if they can't provide proof that they're legit, they can be shut down.
If it's not legal in NY, then I can't see how they're even operating right now, out in the open like that.
Either way, I guess it comes down to having enough manpower to enforce it. Illegal shops, whether or not it's legal in your state, will continue to do business until someone catches them and shuts them down. That's why I fell back on the old "It's only illegal if they catch you."
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It's legal in NY, but many shops are not.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/illegal-cannabis-shops-that-continue-sales-will-be-shut-down-hochul-says/ (https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/illegal-cannabis-shops-that-continue-sales-will-be-shut-down-hochul-says/)
It's kind of a big issue in NYC right now, and I say kind of, because honestly, who cares besides the government? The store I'm talking about has been great and wayyy better than any legal dispensary not just from a price and product standpoint, but even from customer service. I HATE the NJ dispensaries because they don't have proper budtenders. You have a question? Good luck. The shop Im talking about legit talks to you and has advice one on one which is how it should be IMO (my experiences in CO, CA, WS, OR were all like that, not in NJ though), I like that instead of being forced to use a kiosk for over priced low quality bud.
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I think it's awesome. Yeah, it's illegal, I don't care. I've been doing illegal shit as long as I can remember, and even though it's legal where I live, if some shop opened up near me with prices and service like that, I'd go there instead. Doing illegal business out in the open like that is bold as hell and should be rewarded. This is of course limited to IMO "no harm, no foul" businesses. If some dudes open a shop in my neighborhood selling crack, they wouldn't last a day, and it wouldn't necessarily be the cops shutting them down. But cannabis? Fair game IMO.
To me, it's not unlike bars and restaurants serving alcohol without a license, or an expired one. No one cares except for The Man whose job it is to go around and check liquor licenses. And there's not nearly enough of them, which doesn't really bother anyone.
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I brought some edibles with me to Germany, plan on having one tonight after work.
There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
I could really use a nice edible evening and sleep tonight.
I've been watching To Catch a Smuggler lately, and people get popped in customs with bringing weed in. They're all "it's legal in California" and the customs agents are all "yeah, you're on federal land here" and arrest them for narcotics trafficking.
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I brought some edibles with me to Germany, plan on having one tonight after work.
There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
I could really use a nice edible evening and sleep tonight.
I've been watching To Catch a Smuggler lately, and people get popped in customs with bringing weed in. They're all "it's legal in California" and the customs agents are all "yeah, you're on federal land here" and arrest them for narcotics trafficking.
I've flown into these airports before. There's like no security going through customs. Not a question asked entering the country and no dogs or searching or anything to be worried about really. It's also decriminalized here (not that it makes it OK, but less of a real issue). I'd be worried if I wanted to bring a lot because then you can get nabbed for distribution. While I understand the risk, it's so minimal. I brought 5 joints with me as well. I also brought my vape pen but I somehow lost it (I believe it must be on the plane somewhere :rollin) So mad about that. I've got 11 nights here so basically half a joint a night when I get back to the hotel. It's been a godsend to have that because my stress levels were insane this week, my stomach was a wreck as usual for far travels, and my sleep schedule is destroyed. Having that toke at night really helps immensely getting over all this.
If I'm being honest. I've travelled with weed for the last 8 years or so. I'm not worred at all about it for personal use as long as I'm not going somewhere that's hardcore against it like Singapore earlier this year. But I think I could totally do it in Singapore based on my experience. No ones really looking for personal use marijuana. Just don't be stupid.Not sure I want to risk it if I go back to singapore though, the penalties are extreme.
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I brought some edibles with me to Germany, plan on having one tonight after work.
There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
I could really use a nice edible evening and sleep tonight.
I've been watching To Catch a Smuggler lately, and people get popped in customs with bringing weed in. They're all "it's legal in California" and the customs agents are all "yeah, you're on federal land here" and arrest them for narcotics trafficking.
I've flown into these airports before. There's like no security going through customs. Not a question asked entering the country and no dogs or searching or anything to be worried about really. It's also decriminalized here (not that it makes it OK, but less of a real issue). I'd be worried if I wanted to bring a lot because then you can get nabbed for distribution. While I understand the risk, it's so minimal. I brought 5 joints with me as well. I also brought my vape pen but I somehow lost it (I believe it must be on the plane somewhere :rollin) So mad about that. I've got 11 nights here so basically half a joint a night when I get back to the hotel. It's been a godsend to have that because my stress levels were insane this week, my stomach was a wreck as usual for far travels, and my sleep schedule is destroyed. Having that toke at night really helps immensely getting over all this.
If I'm being honest. I've travelled with weed for the last 8 years or so. I'm not worred at all about it for personal use as long as I'm not going somewhere that's hardcore against it like Singapore earlier this year. But I think I could totally do it in Singapore based on my experience. No ones really looking for personal use marijuana. Just don't be stupid.Not sure I want to risk it if I go back to singapore though, the penalties are extreme.
I was getting paranoid cause I just sent a buddy in Finland a shirt and signed postcard from the last Band Maid show, and the day after I'm watching the guys in customs on this show tearing packages apart looking for contraband...and all I can think of is that precious postcard wedged between two pieces of cardboard to keep it safe,just getting shredded the fuck up cause it looked funny on the xray.
Tracking showed it's in Copenhagen today, so I'm a bit relieved now. :lol
For our sake, just don't go to Singapore with weed. Please.
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Domestic isn't really a problem. TSA couldn't care less about drugs, and they might not even care enough to call the local cops, who probably won't care either. DFW Airport has its own police department, but I don't think they even care unless it's a felony bust. I still take precautions, though. I make sure it's damned hard to find, and just plan to buy papers and a lighter once I'm there. For my part I just don't want the hassle of dealing with it even if it's no big deal. I've usually got plans for the day of arrival and missing a flight can really screw them up.
I saw a dog alert on some girl at MEX a ways back. She had a banana in her pocket. They're far more concerned about fruit flies than drugs down there.
And yeah, fuck Singapore. Dubai, too. The UAE guys will nail you for a bit of residue stuck to the bottom of your shoe, and the next thing you know you're an indentured servant building skyscrapers for the next 10 years.
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I still take precautions, though. I make sure it's damned hard to find
I put this down as common sense. I have a system of where to hide my goods. OF course it won't matter if there's a marijuana dog (those aren't common in airports though accoridng to my TSA friend, but who knows overseas). One other thing, I make sure I don't look like a bum. I'm sure it helps that I'm white (my latino gf constantly reminds me that I get away with all the things I do because I'm white) but I make sure I don't look like a mess and have a "normal" appearance. I also almost always wear a company shirt. Make it known I'm here for business basically.
I had one real scare though. I bought like 50x 10mg gummies in Denver like 6 years ago to bring home. I thought it was a good idea to also buy 5 punds of legit gummies (there was a candy shop near where I was that had amazing gummy bears so I was buying those regardless). I put the weed gummies in the bag with the legit ones and put it on my carry on. Of course that triggered an alarm because there were just SO many gummies in a bag. Clearly I didn't think that through. Security lady grabbed the bag and I told her to sniff it :lol and she was like "wow these gummy bears look and smell so good!" and asked where I got them and let me through. Never noticed the THC marked ones mixed in :rollin
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Back in the 90's, I used to take some with me on flights to enjoy at our destination. Strictly within the U.S., tucked into my sock. Post-9/11, forget it. I'm in the Chicago suburbs and O'Hare is one of the biggest airports in the country, so security everywhere, including dogs, and even if the odds are low, it's just not worth the hassle of getting caught. I just don't. We don't fly much anymore anyway, so not a huge deal.
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As I understand it, you can only train a dog to alert on two, maybe three things. Most of the dogs are there to sniff out various explosives. The drug dogs that are there are probably trained to sniff out H, cola, and maybe crank. If you can only sniff for two or three things, making one of them marijuana would be silly.
Interestingly, the scanners in use at airports are entirely there to detect explosives. However, the explosives they're looking for are chock full of organic components, so a quarter bag actually looks the same as a small chunk of C4 to the scanner and the guy operating it. They both light up bright orange. And the more you try to hide it the more it sticks out like a sore thumb. You put your stash alongside your electronics and you're probably getting guns pointed at you. :lol
Inside food is a safe bet. I mix mine with my meds. That's actually something that has surprised me. I routinely travel with a zip-lock full of 8-ball baggies full of pills and nobody ever bats an eye.
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I have a friend who worked for TSA and now Homeland security. He is a dog handler, for explosives and works the airports. There aren't weed sniffing dogs at these, from his experience. And you are right, the dogs can only be trained really for one thing. I would imagine the ones that sniff for drugs aren't the ones dealing with passengers but cargo. From his experience in TSA, they aren't trained to look for drugs, just firearms, explosives, harmful stuff... and water bottles. So for them to catch you with it, it's likely because of something else that triggered a search such as a water bottle in your bag. Even then, the agent knows what and where to look so they don't go through your shit much at all.
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Good to know, in case I ever need to fly somewhere and take something with me.
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Yeah, the whole thing's based on finding things that seem out of place. Body scanners don''t really single out much of anything, but they highlight areas with things that don't belong on the average human. They won't know what it is, but they display will point out something hidden in your crotch, for example. The thing almost always shows a spot where my kidney is and I get wanded. Normal people don't have an organ there. The bag scanners actually show a fair amount of detail. I got flagged for a bottle opener last time I flew (and they only cared about that because of the small knife part for cutting seals). Corkscrews are instantly recognizable. Otherwise they are looking for weird combinations of stuff. Like organics packaged alongside batteries and circuit boards, or a 1lb block of Velveta. My large bag of trail mix never raises any eyebrows.
It's all pretty interesting. I did a fair amount of research on it because it seemed like everywhere I travel is never to the legal states. :lol
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There's a dispensary (I'm fairly sure it's not a legal operation) right near Penn Station in NYC that has great prices. For $45 I got a pack of 1000MG (10x 100) gummies. I bought it on my way to the Kamelot show last week and snuck it under my belt to bring in, had one at the show too.
Holy shit! I pay around $30 for 10 x 10. Maybe $25 if there's a sale. 10 x 100 would last me for months.
Yeah, that place has some incredible edible prices. Their flower is solid too. I go there every time I go to a concert in NYC now. Like I said though, pretty sure it's an illegal operation. They don't have the seal of a NYC dispensary out front. They also accept credit cards.
So I've been eating these gummies the last few nights out here. The budtender who sold them to me said they were different type of edible, in that they have a quicker response time and when the effect is over, you won't feel tired. I was a bit skeptical on that second part. I must say, these are legit. I still think it takes a solid 60-90 minutes for the full effect to happen, but after 30 minutes I do start to feel something that just slowly grows. But also, after maybe 2 hours, the entire high is gone and I feel normal and not tired at all. These may be the first edibles I could eat during the day since I never do that becuase I get so tired. Pretty cool. I'll be back in NYC in a few weeks, I may pick up some more.
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For those that do tolerance breaks, how do you do yours?
Preferably, I would like to eat weed everyday as it really is magic with autism symptoms and challenges, but yeah tolerance. I'm thinking maybe one day on one day off, but was curious what you guys do.
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didn't know there was a weed thread here
howdy y'all :hat
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For those that do tolerance breaks, how do you do yours?
Preferably, I would like to eat weed everyday as it really is magic with autism symptoms and challenges, but yeah tolerance. I'm thinking maybe one day on one day off, but was curious what you guys do.
I only partake 2 or 3 days a week and I remain a total lightweight. That said, it's mostly the weekend when I do, so there's often 4 or 5 days off.
In my case, I'm not sure it's actually duration, but rather habit. If you're doing it at the same time on a schedule then you might not get the same reduction that you would if you were just doing it at random points. Just my hunch, though.
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Makes sense Barto. thanks
I also like the 2-3 times a week routine, since being a lightweight let's me get super high where I'm just about in psychedelic space and it is so profoundly helpful to me mentally.
But I pulled a muscle or something and started using daily and all of a sudden, work no longer bothers me and people actually don't mind me being around. I feel "normal" for lack of a better word. This is a massive realization, so now its just a matter of finding the balance.
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Everyday user. I took about a 2 week break earlier this year when I went to Singapore. I honestly thought that I'd get so high when I smoked, and I found my tolerance didn't go down one iota during that break. But 2 weeks probably wasn't enough for someone like me to notice.
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
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Everyday user. I took about a 2 week break earlier this year when I went to Singapore. I honestly thought that I'd get so high when I smoked, and I found my tolerance didn't go down one iota during that break. But 2 weeks probably wasn't enough for someone like me to notice.
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
By the Gods! You eat a whole one of those? No wonder your tolerance doesn't go down.
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Everyday user. I took about a 2 week break earlier this year when I went to Singapore. I honestly thought that I'd get so high when I smoked, and I found my tolerance didn't go down one iota during that break. But 2 weeks probably wasn't enough for someone like me to notice.
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
By the Gods! You eat a whole one of those? No wonder your tolerance doesn't go down.
hell no, it's 10x 240mg per gummy, but the gummys are slit so you can break it down to smaller equal amounts (Ive been told by the budtender, I havent opened the packaging yet). 100mg is my go to dosing, but yeah, I've eaten so many edibles the last year since it's become so much more affordable that the 100mg is starting to not have the same affect anymore. Tolerance definitely getting stronger.
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I eat half a gummy after work pretty much every day, and on weekends it's a full gummy in the morning and another in the afternoon. Each one lasts about six hours and I still get pretty baked on weekends. Once cannabis became legal where I live and I figured I'd be doing it more often, I wondered if my tolerance would build and I'd have to take breaks, but I really don't think it has. I don't get the "oh man, I'm so high!" teenage rush like in the old days, but that's more the fact that I'm old as fuck and the feeling itself is nothing new. I know it's in me doing its magic because I'll listen to tunes or watch a concert on TV and still completely sink into it, like in the old days.
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I eat half a gummy after work pretty much every day, and on weekends it's a full gummy in the morning and another in the afternoon. Each one lasts about six hours and I still get pretty baked on weekends. Once cannabis became legal where I live and I figured I'd be doing it more often, I wondered if my tolerance would build and I'd have to take breaks, but I really don't think it has. I don't get the "oh man, I'm so high!" teenage rush like in the old days, but that's more the fact that I'm old as fuck and the feeling itself is nothing new. I know it's in me doing its magic because I'll listen to tunes or watch a concert on TV and still completely sink into it, like in the old days.
When I can no longer get that is usually when I stop altogether for a year or so. It's happened a few times. Laughing at how high you are is one of life's great pleasures. :lol
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I used to find it amusing, but honestly to me it's nothing more than an observation, and reacting to that observation in the extreme because of the change of mental state itself. When I get together with the guys once a year in a cabin in northern Michigan, we all get plastered, every night and most days as well. But there's no "oh wow, I'm so drunk" or "high" or whatever. We all know it, because we all are. Saying it out loud doesn't change that, and IMO just makes you sound like a punk.
I cop my buzz, acknowledge it, and enjoy it. Dwelling on it serves no purpose. So yeah, apparently I can take the joy out of something as wonderful as getting legally baked, but that's how I roll. Though I've never been any good at rolling, TBH.
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i like to fill cones. i've never been good at rolling js either.
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When I can no longer get that is usually when I stop altogether for a year or so. It's happened a few times. Laughing at how high you are is one of life's great pleasures. :lol
It truly is. I can’t belief i didn’t get around to trying weed until it became available medically. It is true bliss, joy and peace for me.
I have had some horrendous lows (like you know the scary lows where it hurts just being alive) and it has never once not gotten me out of it. And for that i am eternally grateful.
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Edibles are yummy and convenient, and most importantly don't wreck your lungs, but one thing Mrs. Orbert and I have noticed is that we've lost the feeling of communal experience. Passing a bowl back and forth, even just once, is a shared experience, and later we can reflect on how stoned we are. These days it's all edibles; she has her chocolates and I have my gummies, but even when we ingest together, it's just not the same. Part of it might be the time-delay effect, too. We partake, then we go watch a movie on TV or something, and sometime in the next 15-30 minutes we're buzzed. But it happens so gradually, there's no real "wow, I'm really stoned" moment. It just happens at some point. So I guess it wasn't that long ago. It was the switch to edibles that took away the "moment" and with it, the need to comment on it.
But I was never a fan of rolling J's. Back in college, I needed a machine, but even with legality and pre-rolls available (before the switch to edibles), they're just horribly inefficient when it's just two people. You hit it, then it sits there and burns while you're holding in your hit. And since one or two hits was all we needed anyway, we'd also need a way to put it out and somehow save the rest. J's are just so wasteful. With a bowl, it was simple; just cover it and it goes out. Stash it for later.
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Joints are still my preferred avenue, but I do mostly smoke bowls at home. It's easier just to smoke the one bowl I want. However, as you mentioned, the communal aspect of smoking a joint is a very cool thing. Three people passing a joint around before (or during) a concert is awesome. I also prefer the high from smoking a joint over a bowl. To me it's a night and day difference, and for that reason I will occasionally twist one up for myself at home. Taking a few hits and putting it out doesn't bother me any.
It's also the case that I'll always wind up with a tiny bit at the bottom of 6 different baggies of 6 different strains, and rolling a suicide joint is the perfect way to deal with that.
As for learning to roll, that's pretty straightforward. Buy a book of zig-zags for $3 and just start rolling until you get decent at it. (Not directed at Orbert, who has no interest, but just general wisdom.) I have learned a few tricks along the way, though. A friend, a master joint roller, taught me to crumble the paper up into a tiny ball and then unravel it before rolling it. It both softens the paper and gives you a crumpled texture that's easier to grip when actually rolling it. A trick I figured out on my own is to snip the bottom corners of the paper before boating it. Just enough so that they're not pointed. That way they don't get caught up in the initial fold-over. My joints are woefully inconsistent, but they're never awful, they're usually good, and occasionally they're exceptional. It's nice rolling a joint that garners compliments for how good it smokes (and how high it makes people).
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El Barto. Guys weekend at my buddy's campground. Double J-Bar.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zf8rd806/20230923-132222.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/pmG4rbNJ)
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+1 on the loving the communal aspects of smoking together with people. One of the best parts of legalization is that when you go to the smoking section at the venues in NJ/NY for a concert, you can easily find friends just by lighting up.
One thing that I dislike on a personal level, is that very few of my friends use weed at all. I don't get that communal experience much outside my gf occasionally and the rare times I do with one of my few friends who partakes. So going to a show and sharing a J, is actually a lot of fun for me even if its with random people. They are usually super happy to get the J passed to them and stoners are very friendly anyway.
I also use cones (can't roll), and I don't smoke Js at home because it is inefficient and wasteful for just myself.
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I go to a game night once a week and the 3 other guys are passing around a J, I don't because I just don't want to be high and then drive home, especially when I am already tired. But yeah, the communal aspect is really great.
Just popped a small gummy and relaxing for the night.
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Makes sense Barto. thanks
I also like the 2-3 times a week routine, since being a lightweight let's me get super high where I'm just about in psychedelic space and it is so profoundly helpful to me mentally.
But I pulled a muscle or something and started using daily and all of a sudden, work no longer bothers me and people actually don't mind me being around. I feel "normal" for lack of a better word. This is a massive realization, so now its just a matter of finding the balance.
I've gone through phases where I do it every night to only on weekends. I found that my tolerance has pretty much stabilized. I don't get as high as when I first started taking edibles but I typically will reach a consistent high every time I do it if that makes sense.
I go to a game night once a week and the 3 other guys are passing around a J, I don't because I just don't want to be high and then drive home, especially when I am already tired. But yeah, the communal aspect is really great.
Just popped a small gummy and relaxing for the night.
Gonna walk the dog and do the same.
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I save getting high for night time and a couple nights a week, when I know for sure I will just be by myself relaxing. Mainly because I am a very anxiety-riddled person, and it helps me to chill out. Of course it feels fun and nice, but the relief from anxiety is also tremendous.
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I'm the same about chilling out. When I was in college I would smoke all the time but these days I prefer to have an edible be the nightcap.
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One other thing that I love about edibles is they are discreet.
I have ones that are just red and white capsules and I do get a kick out of taking them right in front my boss. She's like "oh, do you have a headache" since they look like Tylenol and I'm like "yes and its about to go away" :lol
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I wish I could take the pills. That to me would be perfect, just pop a pill, cop a buzz. But I've tried two different brands, and something in them makes me break out in hives. Very annoying. It's the exact same reaction I got when the pharmacy one time substituted generic for a med I usually get brand-name. I'm allergic to something in one of the fillers they put into generic meds (and cannabis pills, apparently).
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I am very careful to keep mine out of reach and sight of children, that's a scary thought if they get ahold of them.
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I wish I could take the pills. That to me would be perfect, just pop a pill, cop a buzz. But I've tried two different brands, and something in them makes me break out in hives. Very annoying. It's the exact same reaction I got when the pharmacy one time substituted generic for a med I usually get brand-name. I'm allergic to something in one of the fillers they put into generic meds (and cannabis pills, apparently).
Damn that sucks. Here's the ones I get. Not sure if this brand would do you any better, but this are by far my favorites. And the 5mg lets me really customize the dose I need
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That's not one of the brands I've tried, and there are several, so I might try one more...
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Sticking with brands is really difficult since states have such different laws. Like every NJ dispensary has their own brands so you don't really see overlap when going to different shops.
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
Tested a half gummy last night so ~120mg and WOW that hit me hard. I woke up at 4am to piss and still felt high :lol
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damn 1 edible was 120mg? in CO the most potent gummies are only 10mg (and come in 10 packs - so 120 isn't even something you can buy as a single item)
not a big edible guy myself as i prefer the herb but when i wanna get really stoned i usually eat ~50mg and that is enough to make me high for like 15 hours - couldn't imagine eating 120mg in one shot :lol
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My tolerance is so low that 10mg ravages me :lol
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I’m good with 20mg. That’s just about enough to couch lock me and that’s right where i want to be if i am going for it.
5mg for work
10mg for social events
Anything over 35mg is jackhammer to the head and me wanting to go to the ER, lol
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10/20 is apparently Dogfather day now :lol
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/jimmy-kimmel-proclaims-october-20-snoop-doggs-birthday-and-midpoint-to-4-20-as-new-marijuana-holiday-called-doggfathers-day/
Bro, I'm down
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I've always thought 4/20 was kind of stupid so I can't say I care about this either.
Anyway,
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
Went back there again. I haven't finished the first bag, but I've stocked up with two more bags to set myself up with so much edibles for awhile now. Really enjoy these. They hit hard and are cheap. I spoke to the budtender about them. He kept trying to sell me a different product though, one I tried previously and did not enjoy as much. The fact I told him this and he continued to downplay the brand I wanted and push this other one makes me not trust these guys though. I'm wondering it they have an incentive to push a certain product here. An inferior product. The guy seemed annoyed with me when I said, "can I please just get the edible I'm asking for" Honestly always loved talking to bud tenders, but that was the first time (and I've gone to this store enough to know who he is now, they know me too now at this spot :lol) I left with a negative feeling from the service.
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I'm trying to watch my blood sugar and I can't smoke it either. I need to research if there is other ways to get edibles or something else online.
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They sell a bunch of stuff online now, look into getting some d8 stuff shipped to you.
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I have capsules. no sugar that I'm aware of
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happy 420 y'all :metal :lol :weed
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Anybody hear of the term “green out” where basically you are taking more than the body can handle and are now experiencing bad effects.
I only ask as i think i finally reached a point where i feel strung out on weed and went to take a break.
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Anybody hear of the term “green out” where basically you are taking more than the body can handle and are now experiencing bad effects.
I only ask as i think i finally reached a point where i feel strung out on weed and went to take a break.
Did you get a bad stomach ache? That's what happened to me, twice, when I took too much edibles. It takes a few days to wear off and a shower/bath is really helpful in easing that pain. Feeling strung out though, I don't know about that.
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Oh definitely. Stomach ache, nausua and loss of appetite.
Honestly, i’ve been using it way more than ever and its always big edible doses, so i think a little break will do me good.
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I have an extremely low tolerance and wanted to settle into a nice relaxing night. Well, I took double the max of what I am used to and I felt like my head was being pulled strongly in different directions, a very freaky feeling. I read that I may have been "greening out". Sucks because every time I take some now, I worry I am going to experience it again, so I don't get a big high because I take a small, safe amount.
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snowy day off here in denver. the reason god invented weed
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:hat
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In. Feeling good.
Slowly increasing my intake to see what I can handle or up my tolerance.
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I went to order some more CBD/THC gummies from JustCBD and the payment screen said it couldn't ship to Florida. After some digging, I found out why: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/11/05/fort-lauderdale-seller-of-hemp-derived-cbd-products-says-states-recent-crackdown-violated-its-rights/
FFS I just want to order some, so I might have to try a different brand.
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There is a shop here in NC that shipped to FL (when my buddy lived there). He's since moved up to NC so it's been a minute since he's ordered down there. I'm heading to FL Tuesday and I'll my brother where he gets his stuff from.
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I tried a "generation" blunt the other night, just a few hits. Hit me hard and had me laughing a lot.
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I tried a "generation" blunt the other night, just a few hits. Hit me hard and had me laughing a lot.
Never heard of that before. Sounds like a good time :lol
I was gifted a few ounces of outdoor grown bud from my friend who lives in up state new york a few weeks ago. Apparently he just has so much so he gave me a few jars. It's not great quality bud. Some strains are better than others, but even the best one, is kind of low grade for what I'm used to. So instead of smoking the first jar, I turned it into my butter and made chocolate chip cookies with it. Came out great. One cookie will get you ripped. I take about 1.5 cookies to feel incredible. I brought them to Thanksgiving and only had one person try them, he took a bite only as he was not experienced. I took one at the same time, and it was timed perfectly to hit as we sat down for Thanksgiving dinner. This guy came up to me after dinner (we sat at opposite sides of the table) and said he felt incredible and was so happy. After they left, everyone was like "wow he was super happy today!" :rollin
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I got high before a Thanksgiving dinner once, wish I could do that every time, it's amazing.
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So I read a news article today about the NY Governor vetoing a thing that said weed growers couldn't sell their excess crops to local Indian tribes. Seems there's not enough pot shops approved in the state to sell all that has been grown.
I have a couple of questions...
Why can't the tribes buy it? Is she afraid they will try and resell it and the growers may have found a way to circumvent the system?
Why should anyone worry about bailing out the farmers when they were the ones gambling on the availability of approved shops?
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So I read a news article today about the NY Governor vetoing a thing that said weed growers couldn't sell their excess crops to local Indian tribes. Seems there's not enough pot shops approved in the state to sell all that has been grown.
I have a couple of questions...
Why can't the tribes buy it? Is she afraid they will try and resell it and the growers may have found a way to circumvent the system?
Why should anyone worry about bailing out the farmers when they were the ones gambling on the availability of approved shops?
I don't know anything about this, but it probably has to do with taxation. Which is to say that the Red Man typically needn't charge state taxes for products sold in their land. That's why people would by their cigarettes from reservations back in the day.
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Sounds about right. The number one reason (or at least how it seems to me) for states to legalize is because if it's legal and controlled, they can tax it and make buttloads of money. If there's some some side game going on that they can't make tax money off of, they would want to shut it down.
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
Delta 8 is not interesting to me.
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
Delta 8 is not interesting to me.
Just curious, why? I currently use Five brand gummies but I just looked and they are D9.
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
Delta 8 is not interesting to me.
Just curious, why? I currently use Five brand gummies but I just looked and they are D9.
Because its modified cannabis, its not the same and doesnt hit the same. I only tried smoking a J of it, D8 or D9? I dont recall. It got a light high, but nothing like smoking the real thing. TO me, it's a consumer product to skirt law. Now, if you enjoy it, all the power to you.
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
Delta 8 is not interesting to me.
Just curious, why? I currently use Five brand gummies but I just looked and they are D9.
Because its modified cannabis, its not the same and doesnt hit the same. I only tried smoking a J of it, D8 or D9? I dont recall. It got a light high, but nothing like smoking the real thing. TO me, it's a consumer product to skirt law. Now, if you enjoy it, all the power to you.
Like you I've kind of steered clear of the whole thing, so I'm not sure, but if I'm not mistaken Delta 9 is where all of the get-highs are. Pure Delta 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol should get you stoned as all fuck. No idea what that would be like, though, as the other varieties of cannibinoids are absent, while probably a crucial part of a good high.
Personally, I don't want any concentrates unless they originated from a whole flower.
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I buy d8 because it's all that's available in my state, I've always tried a bunch of my brothers edibles he got with his medical card and in my experience the d8 gummies I take hit way way harder than what he gets. It could just be what he is getting though.
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I buy d8 because it's all that's available in my state, I've always tried a bunch of my brothers edibles he got with his medical card and in my experience the d8 gummies I take hit way way harder than what he gets. It could just be what he is getting though.
I buy the Daily Buzz which has D9, first one on this page: https://fivecbd.com/collections/delta-9-thc
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Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
Delta 8 is not interesting to me.
Just curious, why? I currently use Five brand gummies but I just looked and they are D9.
Because its modified cannabis, its not the same and doesnt hit the same. I only tried smoking a J of it, D8 or D9? I dont recall. It got a light high, but nothing like smoking the real thing. TO me, it's a consumer product to skirt law. Now, if you enjoy it, all the power to you.
Like you I've kind of steered clear of the whole thing, so I'm not sure, but if I'm not mistaken Delta 9 is where all of the get-highs are. Pure Delta 9 Tetrahydrocannabinol should get you stoned as all fuck. No idea what that would be like, though, as the other varieties of cannibinoids are absent, while probably a crucial part of a good high.
Personally, I don't want any concentrates unless they originated from a whole flower.
I'm not against it completely, but I live in a legal state so I don't see the point... but I also was not aware that D9 was the hard hitter. I must have smoked some D8 then. (I honestly don't remember, I didn't realize there's a D8 and D). I'd actually try it I guess.
I buy d8 because it's all that's available in my state, I've always tried a bunch of my brothers edibles he got with his medical card and in my experience the d8 gummies I take hit way way harder than what he gets. It could just be what he is getting though.
I buy the Daily Buzz which has D9, first one on this page: https://fivecbd.com/collections/delta-9-thc
But this is more expensive than what I currently buy.
Also, I went back to my favorite dispensary in NYC last night. They sold me a pack of 2400mg gummies for $60. Place is amazing for the price per mg.
I would say that $60 for a pack of 2400mg gummies is quite a lot. But I understand that these are dispensary prices.
Why not order online?
It's somewhat cheaper, especially if you buy in larger quantities. For 1000mg of my favorite Delta 8 gummies from stateofmindlabs (https://www.stateofmindlabs.com/), I pay $13
That's D8 though, if I want D9, it looks like its $13 for 200MG. Still more expensive.
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I don't live in a recreational state. :(
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I don't live in a recreational state. :(
Even if you did, not sure it would be cheaper. The place I've been buying edibles from is an illegally operated storefront in NYC. And it's not like it's discrete about it, so that's why I don't mind openly talking about it. NYC has a big problem with unlicensed shops almost on every street corner. But the shop I go to has very good product with good prices. I still haven't found a better bang for buck.
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Legalization has been both good and bad for me, mostly good. Before, the only contact I had lived an hour away (friend of a friend) so I had to set aside an afternoon just to make my connection. Also, he was quite paranoid and honestly kinda weird so there were restrictions. But it was affordable and very high quality.
There is now a dispensary walking distance from my house, and of course it too has very high quality product, but more expensive, maybe 1.5 to 2 times what I paid my old connection. But it's so convenient and I don't miss having to drive way the hell out into the boondocks. But I do miss those tiny little gummies that were super potent (I had to cut them into four pieces each) and not covered in sugar.
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I don't live in a recreational state. :(
Even if you did, not sure it would be cheaper. The place I've been buying edibles from is an illegally operated storefront in NYC. And it's not like it's discrete about it, so that's why I don't mind openly talking about it. NYC has a big problem with unlicensed shops almost on every street corner. But the shop I go to has very good product with good prices. I still haven't found a better bang for buck.
I'm okay with the price I pay, half a gummy does more than enough so I kind of win on that front.
Nothing beats the real thing, though.
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I've found that I never feel anything off smoking or vaping. My body seems to require high doses so I use high dose gummies and RSO concentrate. That stuff is great.
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RSO is a new one for me, and I just Googled it. Whoa.
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Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) is a cannabis extract intended for oral ingestion or topical use. RSO is very potent in small doses. Recommended starting dose is the size of a half grain of short dry rice. One 0.5mL syringe contains about 30 to 40 doses of this size.
Wow.
Source: https://ingoodhealthma.com/blog/what-is-rso-can-you-smoke-or-dab-it/
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I've found that I never feel anything off smoking or vaping. My body seems to require high doses so I use high dose gummies and RSO concentrate. That stuff is great.
When I get to that point I just quit smoking for a while. Doesn't take long to lose your tolerance. In my case when I return it only takes a hit or two to get me pretty stoned, and I do my best to leave it at that point for as long as possible.
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I've found that I never feel anything off smoking or vaping. My body seems to require high doses so I use high dose gummies and RSO concentrate. That stuff is great.
When I get to that point I just quit smoking for a while. Doesn't take long to lose your tolerance. In my case when I return it only takes a hit or two to get me pretty stoned, and I do my best to leave it at that point for as long as possible.
+1 to this. t breaks are very helpful and don't usually take long
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I've found that I never feel anything off smoking or vaping. My body seems to require high doses so I use high dose gummies and RSO concentrate. That stuff is great.
When I get to that point I just quit smoking for a while. Doesn't take long to lose your tolerance. In my case when I return it only takes a hit or two to get me pretty stoned, and I do my best to leave it at that point for as long as possible.
Never heard of RSO myself, but even with my high tolerance. If I come home from work having abstained for the day, I get pretty baked off one or two hits. My issue is a day like yesterday, a lazy day at home when I smoke in the morning and then end up smoking throughout the day and never achieving that same high I had from my first hit in the morning.
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Whoever thought of this is a genius
(https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/mike-tysons-bites-edibles-heading-79048896.jpg?resize=1024,841&quality=75&strip=all)
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My buddy has some, they are pretty good!
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"Watermelon"
mmhmm :lol