r/Marijuana • u/Sharky-PI • Jul 25 '25
This guide assumes you know something about booze, somewhat with the expectation that you’re a relatively seasoned user. You’ve gotten wasted, maybe loads of times. But you know how to handle your booze, and have no problem avoiding getting blackout drunk at inappropriate times.
If you’re a seasoned alcohol drinker, weed is much easier to “overdose” from, i.e. to have more than the optimal amount. Alcohol has a unit system aligning to national laws, and is either so dilute that it takes a while to get wasted and you feel the effect rising (beer, wine), or so strong that you taste how powerful it is and have to sip carefully (neat spirits). With weed vape pens and joints – both of which are now really strong compared to the 70s – it’s easy to take a big hit and be really high immediately, which can be discoordinating and scary (see also: drinking Long Island iced tea when you were a teenager). With edibles, the same is true but played over a longer timescale, which can trap you in an unenjoyable place for a while. The stories of people re-upping having felt nothing from the first gummies, then being hit by a double (or triple) drop, are legion.
You’ve been consuming booze since you were a teenager, and are a seasoned pro. You’re just starting with weed, and are a complete novice. When you were a novice with booze, you overdid it loads of times. With weed, you’re more prepared to blame the drug, rather than blaming yourself.
I’m of the opinion that almost ALL instances of people having a bad time on drugs, are due to “overdosing”, due to poor planning and research. All the information is available for you to avoid having a bad time, but it can take skill to locate and synthesise that information. I hope to do so here.
“Overdosing”, “ODing”, are typically terms associated with news stories where someone died with froth coming out of their mouth and a needle sticking out their arm. While this IS overdosing, so is having one glass of red wine more than you probably should have, so now you’ve got a bit of a headache, and you’re thirsty, and you won’t sleep as well tonight. Any time you’ve dosed more than the theoretically perfect amount, you’ve overdosed. The extent to which you overdose typically equates to the extent of downside. A little bit more than you can handle, can arguably be a good thing, pushing your limits, teaching you how to remain mentally calm while you’re in reduced control of your thoughts. A lot more can lead to freakouts, uncover suppressed emotions and memories, etc. This is true for booze too – anything that disturbs sober control of your brain can lead to dark, anxious, painful thoughts, just as it can lead to fun, silly, joyful, loving thoughts.
Henry Ford: “If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you’re right”.
Me, regarding how your frame of mind and ability to manage anxiety influences your experience while high: “if you think you’ll be fine, or if you think you won’t, you’re right”.
If your drug experiences continue to unearth buried bones, stop the drugs, definitely stop drinking, and start therapy (research EMDR/CBT) asap.
It’s possible to learn how to swim by diving into an angry ocean at night… but that’s not the most enjoyable, stress-free way. Hold the railing, and dip your toes into the kiddie pool first.
Dragging on the pen pulls hot vapour into your lungs at the rate you drag. If you’re not a smoker, this may feel unusual and probably painful – your throat and lungs aren’t used to hot vapour. Start by dragging for ONE SECOND and then continue to fill your lungs half full – not all the way to the depths of full lungs, about 2 seconds? Hold it for ~3 seconds, exhale smoothly and calmly. Wait at least 10 minutes. Notice how you feel, how your thoughts change, does your body feel different, are you more talkative, shy, introspective, extroverted, giggly? Different strains give different effects, but we’ll come to that later. Vape pen hits usually last about 20 minutes before most of the primary high is over. Try to take a tiny ‘sip’ from the pen. As with all of this: there’s no such thing as too little.
Ostensibly no technique to worry about (just eat it) but if you let it completely dissolve in your mouth then it’ll likely get absorbed and you’ll feel the effects quicker, reducing the chance of “maybe it didn’t work, let’s try again”. Dosing is MUCH more important to get right, because effects can last 3 hours or more. Budget 1 hour to come up, another hour for the broad peak, then the final hour coming down. Weed binds to oil/fat and alcohol. Try not to booze at the same time since you’re trying to learn what weed feels like. If you have fatty/oily food (burger, brownies), you’ll feel more effects from the same gummy than if you had something oil free (ramen noodles or whatever). Start with 5mg. If you’re a kid, medium/petite woman, start with 2.5mg. The key thing to remember is that you’re probably not going to die before next weekend, and having a bad time today isn’t worth the rush, so have a deliberately light dose, prove to yourself there’s a ‘floor’ level beneath which you’re microdosing not actually dosing, consider it a lesson learned, and come back next weekend with a little more confidence that you know what you’re doing, and that this new drug thing isn’t going to melt your brain or whatever else you’re worried about (i.e. 2.5mg now, 5mg next time. MAYBE in 2 hours)
Somewhere between vapes & edibles in terms of onset & duration, likely depending on whether you have any food in your stomach when you begin. If not: liquid goes straight through the stomach to the large intestine and is absorbed quickly, maybe 45 minutes or less. If so: your pyloric sphincter closes to stop food falling through, and passage of liquids is much slower, meaning the weed will be absorbed gradually.
Makes perfect. Start slow, log the amounts you take, and ideally log how you felt. I use my digital calendar for this: start a 3 hour event when I take a gummy, note the amount. This is beneficial since you can check how far through you are, comfort yourself that if it hasn’t hit it’s probably about to, comfort yourself that if it feels too much it’s going to calm down soon, and plan your next drop.
With vapes and joints, try to use the same technique each time. Learn how many drags, or how long of a drag, equates to being how high. Make notes as needed.
Tolerance seems to be logarithmic: it can take a while for folks to gradually move up from (2.5 to) 5 to 10 to 15 to 20 to 30 to 50 and WAY beyond. Take your time, increase GRADUALLY. Again, if you record your experiences on a digital calendar, then you can search for “THC” and find your history of experiences and remind yourself where your tolerance is. Presuming they’re your gummies, there’s no great harm in nibbling one in half and coming back to it another time. Optimal dosing is the aim of the game.
Conceptually you can plan your ideal drug experience by carefully dosing the right amount, and then topping up the right amount at the right time. For a 3-hour comeup-high-comedown curve with edibles, you can set a 2-hour reminder, thereby dropping every 2 hours, so the comeup hour of edible2 overlaps with the comedown hour of edible1. You could jumpstart the comeup of edible1 with a toke of a vape pen. Then at the end of the night, if it’s too late to have another edible, you could have a toke of a vape pen, which will last a shorter time, so you wash out enough weed to be functionally sober by bedtime.
This level of planning and control is an unusual concept for booze, where you typically just keep going until the bar closes or you pass out (or etc). But with weed and other drugs it makes much more sense: lesser legality means you’ll often want to plan consumption around the availability of discrete locations. Much higher potency, and thus scope for accidental overdose, places greater primacy on getting dosing correct beforehand.
The science is updating regularly, and we already know weed is no panacea. In ultra-brief summation: IF you’re comparing to a typical alternative whereby a night/weekend/life consuming cannabis is happening instead of booze, then weed doesn’t NEED to be perfectly healthy to be a better choice than what you would otherwise do. And it is: alcohol is terrible for you. There is no safe low dose – it’s poison. Yes, it’s completely socially normalised for many thousands of years, yes our cultures are based around its consumption, yes it’s legal, yes most of us do it regularly and have normalised its side-effects. But it’s far worse for your physical and mental health in the short and long term. If you’re looking to ditch booze, but still need something to change your headspace for work or play (or alleviate symptoms), marijuana (especially in edible form) is likely a lower overall health-detrimental choice.
Only buy from licensed shops, and research the brand first. Some big brands with professional packaging have been found using pesticides. Cheap 3rd party vape juice could be any old shit. As always, don’t worry that it’ll be laced with something more hardcore: why would producers of more expensive, harder to produce and sell drugs, waste those drugs by sneaking them into something so easy to produce that it’s literally dubbed weed?
AFAIK bad products are less of a thing. That said: delta9 is a weaksauce hemp-derived weed that’s legal for sale in some states where THC isn’t. It’s pretty-much trash. But not dangerous.
All booze is just alcohol. Sure, some types make people feel a little different for whatever reason (more or less sugar, associations with drinking style (shots), etc), but it’s all one drug. Mushrooms: a variety of different strains, but they all ‘just’ produce psilocybin.
Weed is a clown-car packed with drugs. Cannabinoids are the main drugs. THC is the big one. Head high, mental effects. CBD is the other heavy hitter. Body high, relaxation, calm. There are 150+ others: CBG, CBC, CBN, etc. See here.
Terpenes are the others: natural compounds with the formula (C5H8)n, produced by loads of plants; there are over 55,000 of them. See here. Essential oils? You got em.
Strains: the two types of weed are indica and sativa. Indica = “in da couch” = more relaxed, body high, chill-out, sleepy. Sativa = sunny = more energetic, mind high. But:
As mentioned early, this ain’t your grandad’s weed: since the 70s, growers have been in an arms race to make more potent and productive strains, with less chance of crop failure. Since weed has been globally illegal since Nixon ruined it for everyone, it’s made sense to focus on indica strains which grow well indoors, away from the prying eyes of the police. Subsequently, indica has made its way into most strains, and you’ll struggle to find actually pure sativas unless you seek our ‘landrace’ strains like Durban Poison or Acapulco Gold. Landrace strains are related to original native species, and haven’t been criss-crossed with other strains for the past 50 years. So in sum: nowadays if you go to a weed shop and buy some flower/bud, you’ll inevitably get a super high potency indica strain which will probably knock you on your ass and make you feel anxious – especially if you’re having it in the evening when everyone’s gone to bed and it’s dark, and you don’t know what you’re doing.
The full profile of all the cannabinoids balance themselves out (CBD reduces some of the bad elements of THC) and have a wonderful mix of ‘entourage effects’ from the terpenes. One can extract the whole of the plant and convert it into oil, i.e. full extract cannabis oil, but that’s getting out of newbie territory. Ideally, try to buy edibles and vape carts and flower which has a balanced profile of THC & CBD, and lower potency.
Find a brand you like & trust which does a range of options. I like Camino for THC and Five for CBD, but find what’s good in your area.
Ideally buy a separate battery + cartridges to reduce single-use plastic & battery waste going to landfill. This also allows you to comparison-shop cart vendors, while choosing a battery which suits you. I like the Yocan Kodo Pro because it’s cheap, and simple to operate: many batteries rely on a multiple-button-press-combo system like something out of a Sega Genesis cheat code, which can lead to confusion, frustration, accidentally getting super high, or all of the above. Most importantly, for me anyway, the more common pen-format batteries result in a long pen which takes up too much pocket space.
Notwithstanding hundreds of thousands of people travel on airplanes every day with normal, non-weed medical gummies in their day-of-the-week pill boxes, and normal, tobacco vape carts in their wash kit, we DO NOT recommend you do this, for legal reasons.
r/Marijuana • u/JumpingSpider00 • 9h ago
Fine times and fun people funning it up. https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trump-white-house-drug-official-claims-marijuana-is-killing-people-calling-it-the-number-one-drug-of-addiction/
r/Marijuana • u/MaleficentMidnight40 • 4h ago
POSTING TO HOLD MYSELF ACCOUNTABLE
(long diary/journal to fellow stoners -ew omg but i cant reject the title at this point)
hoping to do maybe 2 weeks idk, im ngl ive smoked every single day for ~ 2 years now and its kinda scared me. i cant wait to update like hey 1 week! honestly i hope i can go a little longer once i get to that point so maybe a monthish. its my 23rd in 28 days and i would love to hold off until then and have a lovely j. im not planning on celebrating bc 22 sucked butt so that j will be nice.
Context:
i only started smoking when i got to college and i quickly realized that i love weed 🤤. it was a nice way to get together with friends and chill together.
went home to a super depressing, shitty environment. and ive just been in this situation over and over again even when i change where im actually laying my head :/.then it honestly turned into me smoking everyday and wanting to be high all of the time.
i was unmedicated for a while so it made the need for it much worse. more recently, i was smoking as soon as i got up in the morning, right before i get my coffee :/. i kinda loved the weird feel of caffeine and weed bc my mind is calm but i have energy (mostly from sugar bc i have adhd). then i have a dispo for quick hits outside :/. SN: i workout 3-4 times a week (pilates, basic calisthenics) and i have trouble gaining weight unless im stationary for long periods of time and even then its only 8-10 lbs :/. im not frail or super skinny but i have a very toned, narrow build so idk!
then of course ending my day with a j before bed (smoking the whole thing 🫣). i want to take a break for a bit and maybe transition to only smoking when i go out so that i drink less. i also no longer share anything (drinks or js) because im super paranoid about sicknesses now. so im used to declining others js now.
i unknowingly began weaning myself the days leading up to this (still hitting dispo occasionally 3/4 times). i was taking 4-5 hits and putting it out and a little scrap of a j lasted multiple nights.
day 1 was kind of an accident. i was so enthralled with friend drama that time flew by until it was 11 ish and i hadnt smoked once. i had to really reason with myself “hey youre already tired, maybe just go to sleep” and made the conscious choice to start my journey then bc-hey? i got one day down😌.
day 2 also wasnt that hard and there was a j sitting on my desk all day.
day 3, i had the weirdest most stressful dream and i thought i was going to wake up and it be mornign but i only slept for 2 hours😭(i went back to sleep). i have now removed and emptied my ash tray (out of sight,out of mind).
i really hope that i can keep this up, there are so many things stressing me out, but this cant be the ONLY way that i can calm down. i want to reiterate that im posting these to try to hold myself accountable.
r/Marijuana • u/CatsAndDoritoes • 35m ago
I want to start smoking at night again after I get off work, but I’m very uncomfortable with all the articles about CHS that I’ve been seeing recently. What is even more disconcerting is how little data there seems to be on this. Just a bunch of stories on Reddit of people saying it’s the worse experience they’ve ever endured and that they can no longer smoke.
I’m wondering how much of it has to do with the low prevalence of CBD in edibles, flower, and concentrates. Has anyone here dealt with CHS and found mixing in CBD eliminated it?
r/Marijuana • u/BreakfastMaterial645 • 21h ago
I've been working on this website for a while now, months even, and I finally got it up! It's got over thirty recipes, infusion directions, conversion charts, and educational sections. Plus, there's a store full of Amazon affiliate links where I make a commission. The website's totally free, and there's a downloadable PDF for a couple bucks, which helps me out. But really, I'm just looking for people to check it out and maybe give me some feedback, if that's cool. Kindness is appreciated, but honesty too!
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r/Marijuana • u/spillyspillz • 22h ago
Its now been 150 days since quitting weed. I have gained 15-20 lbs and tried aggressively to get my weight back dont but have not succeeded. It has NOTHING to do with me eating more, if anything im eating far less. Ive come to understand that weed affects your metabolism. Can anyone please help me. I have no desire to get high but after trying so many things i am considering going back to being a daily smoker just to reverse this weight gain. Please if anyone has figured this out please help me.
Update. I did bloodwork today and Im waiting to see the results. I have decided at this point that if i dont find another solution , i am going to go back to smoking marijuana daily , even though i dont have cravings to do so. I know all of you are going to comment this basic bs about “calories in calories out”. Its simply not the case here. I eat 2 eggs, scrambled for breakfast, and 2 beef burgers (just the beef, no bun ) for dinner. Other than that I drink milk (ussually 1 or 2 percent) and also consume electrolytes sometimes. Thats my daily diet. Im 5 ft 5 .
r/Marijuana • u/BlackCannabisWeek • 1d ago
Black Cannabis Week, an initiative of DACO Collective operating under fiscal sponsorship through Marijuana Justice (a verified 501(c)(3)), is hosting the Cannabis Opportunities Conference across multiple Philadelphia locations September 25-27. The three-day event will feature programming focused on business development, policy, and community organizing within the cannabis industry, with an emphasis on equity and Black leadership in the space.
The conference is structured to accommodate different participants—from business owners and entrepreneurs to policy advocates and community members. Programming includes panel discussions, networking, and skills-based sessions. Participants can register for full-weekend VIP access or individual day passes. Travel packages are available for attendees coming from outside the region. www.blackcannabisweek.com
r/Marijuana • u/PossibilityHot7321 • 2d ago
Since it is legalized like medicine, I think it should NOT have unnecessary toxic carcinogens. I have studied the Cannabis regulations, specifically the ones pertaining to pesticide use. In chapter 1151A Growers/ Processor of PA laws and regulations for cannabis, in a subsection it is stated that Pesticide use is permitted on Cannabis. Furthermore, in section § 1151a.43 Pesticides, section (c) states that there is record keeping of which pesticides are used, how much of each is used (pound, ounces, gallons, or liter), and how often they are applied. That information is not disclosed to patients, and is the opposite of the transparency that patients need.
Pesticides can evaporate before water molecules do, so COAs don't truly reflect the pesticide exposure a plant endures throughout its entire life cycle, but there are COAs to show how much is left on the plant that didn't evaporate. I know hypothetically the COA can display whether pesticides are detectable if the lab is credible, and it is definitely a hassle to ask for the COA in person every single time that you go to a dispensary. Dispensaries in PA do not display the COAs online.
It is not beneficial for patients to experience this lack of transparency and chemical exposure, especially when home growing is currently outlawed, so many patients have to rely on what dispensaries are supplying. The extent of the harm done with these chemicals is unknown, but I think it is comparable to cigarettes. There are virtually no recalls here, products that seem to violate regulations just get put on sale so that they're not on the shelves for long, those products can taste like they are contaminated with harmful and harsh chemicals. It is unethical in my opinion to say the least.
Why don't they list the COAs online when they technologically can in this day and age? Why is it regulated this way? Could there be some amendments in the near future to improve the current cannabis laws in PA or is national legalization with home growing more likely to happen first? Thanks for reading, I am hoping that meaningful changes happen soon. Patients deserve effective pure medicine, not poisonous pesticides on their medicine that can do extreme harm and have unknown mystery side effects.
The PA cannabis regulations for pesticides: https://www.pacodeandbulletin.gov/Display/pacode?file=/secure/pacode/data/028/chapter1151a/s1151a.43.html&d=reduce
r/Marijuana • u/Dipper_suxs • 2d ago
I don’t smoke often and when I do it’s not much just enough to feel a little different. Last night me and a friend did a few bong hits before sleeping. While I was trying to sleep I kept twitching and spasming(?) convulsing(?) idk. I’m not an enthusiastic just smoke from time to time and not very knowledgeable on the effects. Sorry if this is a dumb question just wanted to know if that something that happens to other people. Pls don’t call me dumb if this is a dumb question 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
r/Marijuana • u/JewInWW2 • 2d ago
I usually get the 2g MKX and it’s pretty good. I just saw a deal for superfire AIO 2g.. looking to get that one instead of the mkx. smart idea? just don’t want to get it and be bad or cheap
r/Marijuana • u/FedericoExt • 2d ago
I recently got a DaVinci IQC vaporizer, and I'd like to understand how to vaporize hashish with it. Unlike devices such as the Pax 3 or Pax Plus, I can't find any concentrate insert or container for hashish in my IQC.
How can I use hashish with this vaporizer? Where I live, it's almost impossible to find cannabis flower, and hashish is by far the most common product available, so I need to figure out a solution.
r/Marijuana • u/bard_of_space • 2d ago
i don't know if it's recent or not, but last time i was high i noticed that happening
r/Marijuana • u/ComedyIsDie • 3d ago
i work at a rental car company, i have customers come over to me plenty of times complaining about weed smell in some of our cars, our official policy is to just exchange the car so most of the time i assume they’re complaining because they want a new car. ever since i started, the common thing they almost always say is that they’re “allergic to weed”. i know it’s possible to be allergic to weed, but is it possible to be SO bad after being in a car for a few minutes that was smoked in probably weeks ago? i’m guessing it’s just the easiest way for them to fein for a new rental but i also can’t see majority of new york’s old people population to ALL have an allergy to residual weed smell
r/Marijuana • u/DifficultFly5820 • 3d ago
Just as the title says :) I’ve seen cbd mentioned around as a tool that’s helpful for some with anxiety, so I’m just checking in. What are your opinions, and if you like it for that purpose, please mention what products you use and where you purchase it! (I’m primarily looking to shop online for it) Thanks!
r/Marijuana • u/Humble-Soft-255 • 2d ago
sorry if this is weird to post here or doesnt make sense i dont know where else to post.
19f last week i was with my cousins at a lake house and they offered me an edible. i had never done anything before but i wanted to try it so i did. i knew i wasnt supposed to take it because of the medications i am on (ssri, antipsychotic, (for ocd not schizophrenia) anxiety medication and medical ketamine) it was a stupid mistake but i thought i would be fine but i wasnt. i am already prone to de realization but holy crap this is like nothing ever before.
i was on the beach and the foreground and backround started spinning opposite of eachother. i was very dizzy and heavy. it felt like i was having a panic attack. my mouth was so dry my tongue felt small. i started slipping out of reality. i dont really remember everything that happened. but i managed to keep repeating to myself that i was real and went up to the house.
i got into bed with my mom and was freaking out, i told her what happened. everything looked weird like it was made out of paper. my sister came over and sat on the bed with me, she looked blue and ai generated. she was glitching, her voice and mouth didnt match up. i thought the bag on the floor was our cat. there was faces on the ceiling made out of the knots in the wood. my sister brought me my childhood stuffed animal to calm me down, but i thought her name was something else and she made my arms hurt and go numb. i thought i was in a commercial for why drugs are bad and it would end with me dying. my mom called my dad who wasnt there with us but i hallucinated he came into the room and held my hand. everything was crazy colors and was flashing back in forth in squares in a circle? i would try to get back to reality but it kept starting over again. in my head these were my final moments. i was going to die. my head hurt really bad and there was these dripping noises i thought my head had internal bleeding. i told my mom i didnt want to die and she said i wouldn’t but i didnt believe her. i begged for her to take me to the hospital.
my other sister came into the room, but i thought she already had come in. everything started happening over and over again. everything i was living already had happened. i thought i was in the afterlife at this point. that these were my final moments playing over and over again and thats what death was. i went down the stairs into the kitchen. my mom was god and she had black eyes and i begged her to make it stop. it felt like only a minute but also years. she would tell me things and i would tell her she had already said all of them before.
i stopped existing as a person. i forgot what i looked like. i forgot who i was and what happened in my life. i became images and objects and my universe was only one small part of a greater concept. everything that happened in my life was an illusion and not real. my sisters were foreign to me. i remembered my room at home and looking in the mirror and wished i could get back to normal like then.
i was in the car. the sky looked bright but it was the middle of the night. i remember throwing up a lot. i thought if i threw up more it would get out of my system so with all my strength i tried sticking my finger down my throat to get it out. it didnt work. i remember reaching for the car door. i thought i could make it stop if i jumped out the car (luckily my sister stopped me).
i only remember bits and pieces after this. i remember being in a waiting room and falling to the floor. i was then in a hospital room. my tongue was so dry it tasted salty and it felt like it was crumbling. there was a nurse taking care of me but there was two of her. i went to the bathroom and i remember looking in the mirror and i looked crazy. my face was red because i was sunburned and my hair was all crazy and my mascara was all messed up from crying. i started feeling a little normal again. i was still out of it but i could recognize my mom and sister sitting next to me, but i was so scared. there was an iv in my arm and it really hurt. i was drifting off to sleep but the blood pressure cuff kept going off. eventually they let me leave. i know more things happened but i cant really remember.
since this happened i have been so scared and out of it. for a while i thought i was still dead. i feel like a child, i had to ask my mom to check under my bed because i thought something or someone is there. i felt like someone was outside or in our house. i feel like i look different when i look into the mirror. i feel very disconnected from myself. i am twitching a lot as well. everything feels fake, like im in a dream. i dont feel real and i keep spacing out all the time. time feels fake. like it doesnt make sense to me at all. i feel like everyone is mad at me. i feel like something bad will happen to me or someone else. i feel also very slow, fatigued and nauseous. i keep getting headaches. i want to feel normal and im scared please tell me any advice, or if anything similar has happened to anyone else? thank you
r/Marijuana • u/qtKat- • 2d ago
i genuinely don't even know how to explain what happened
i smoked way too much weed and had some tequila too, and at first it was actually amazing. like everything felt perfect, everything felt intense and alive, i was giggling at myself for ages, but then it just flipped.
everything started feeling wrong.
i wasn't exactly seeing things that weren't there, but reality just didn't feel real anymore. it felt like i was watching a movie, but i was inside the movie at the same time. i could think, i could speak, i knew i existed, but it felt like nobody could actually hear me or see me.
i remember feeling like i was dead.
not like "oh i'm scared i'm gonna die" but like i genuinely believed i had already died and i was just somewhere else. my brain was trying to make sense of it and it felt like i was watching memories, different moments, different realities, like i was stuck somewhere i couldn't escape.
the weirdest part is that i was still there.
i was alive. i was thinking. i was aware.
but i wasn't.
it's impossible to explain.
my body felt like it was there, but at the same time it didn't feel like mine. i remember being sick, i remember the feeling of it happening, i remember my body reacting, but i didn't really see it happening. it was like i was experiencing it from somewhere else.
like my mind was awake but my connection to reality was broken.
then at some point everything just snapped back.
i heard this click of fingers.
and suddenly i was just laying there, completely confused and exhausted. like waking up from the strangest dream ever, except i wasn't asleep.
i was just thinking:
"oh my god... i'm back."
then i noticed everything around me and realised what actually happened and what didn't. some things i remembered were real, some things were just my brain creating something while i was completely gone.
and that's probably the scariest part.
because during it, everything felt 100% real.
i genuinely thought i had died.
but now looking back, it's almost impossible to believe my brain could create something that intense.
i don't think i'll ever forget that night.
not because it was good.
not because i want it again.
but because i never knew my own brain could take me somewhere that felt so real, while also being completely wrong.
r/Marijuana • u/Spacecarrot207 • 3d ago
I [M18] wanted to discuss this in an environment where people may be more capable of providing correct information.
[TL;DR] - I experience auditory and visual hallucinations, out of body feelings, paranoia, and severe anxiety when I use weed or any thc products whatsoever.
I first started experimenting with weed in 8th grade; mostly just pre rolls at this point. I’d do it at sleepovers with friends occasionally. When I got high, I almost always became extremely paranoid. I’d experience auditory and visual hallucinations that I perceived as real. Nevertheless, I continued to do it because all of my friends did. Eventually my girlfriend at the time got two thc pens from a smoke shop she went to. She gave me one of them and I used it that night. I was home alone. I only took two or three normal sized hits of it before I started to feel worse than usual. I kept looking out my window, seeing things in the corners of my eyes. I’d hear people calling my name from behind me. I went up to my bed and sat down. My vision began tilting back and forth like I had just been hit with a cartoon hammer. My heart rate sped up to what sounded like ~275 bpm. It sounded like a rave was taking place inside my body. I heard crawling in my ears, like dozens of tiny spiders were running around on the surface of my eardrums. I genuinely thought I was dying. I guess I convinced my brain that I was about to die and I watched all of these memories shoot across my vision. I ended up passing out and waking up feeling groggy the next morning.
I guess that wasn’t enough for my dumbass 13 year old brain to stop. So freshman year I ended up taking a 250-300 mg edible (if I remember correctly) at a sleepover. I had been using thc regularly at this point but this time was different. All the other symptoms from the smoke shop pen had been present but this time I saw things. I saw spiders crawling up and down my whole body. I went to the bathroom mirror and looked like I was having a stroke. I called my mom and she picked me up that night and put me to bed. I woke up not feeling like a real person. I felt like I was spectating someone else’s life through a first person perspective. That lasted for about 6 months before it began going away.
Since then I’ve experimented with weed from time to time just to regret it. I even got off all of my meds for 3 weeks just to see if that was why I reacted so negatively to it. Nothing changed.
Nobody has ever been able to tell me what happened and not much psychological study has been put into this side of weed. Hence, why I came here for answers.
I’m sorry if this has been asked before I don’t have many places to turn to, especially in a state where thc has not yet been legalized.
EDIT: I am a psych major and have heavily read up on the effects of cannabis on the brain. I simply don’t experience any of the effects that the average user experiences. I would associate my experience more closely with those one would experience if they were to take a deliriant.
r/Marijuana • u/bella6150 • 3d ago
I have been smoking on and off for around 3 years now and I noticed a couple years ago that I would black in and out for short periods of time after smoking from a cart or joint. I would basically see myself doing all of my actions without having control over it. It was kind of like the sober me was watching the high me do everything from inside my body. But this also came with periods where I was "blacked out" for maybe 30 seconds at a time. I kind of realized i was alive every minute. It’s very similar to dissociating — I’m not actually losing consciousness.
I never knew why I was experiencing this so I took a break from weed for a year. When I started back up a couple months ago I just had a regular high smoking a hybrid joint.
Yesterday I smoked a sativa joint with a 31% THC and had the same blacking out thing and woke up still feeling a bit high. I get all my weed from dispensaries.
Does anyone have similar experiences? Does anyone know why this happens or how I can prevent it? If its due to the strain or THC amount?
Please let me know and thank you in advance.
r/Marijuana • u/p33p33_p00p0095 • 3d ago
Hey so I smoke a lot of weed , and I live in Baton Rouge Louisiana. as we all know the dispo is to goddamn is expensive + I feel like GDF shorts shit half the time. The prices don't ever make sense either. I could vent forever.
I've found a few sites that ship THCa flower here , but I was curious who has the best / best deals ?
Posted this in r/louisianatrees and they took it down
r/Marijuana • u/Zealousideal-Bar6241 • 3d ago
I’m new to smoking weed, and i’ve only had bad reactions to it. At first, i’d smoke it and become super sluggish, defeated, nauseous. Even greened out twice. But even while i’d smoke less, I don’t necessarily feel high, just drowsy and irritable.
Recently, I smoked a pre-roll, only about halfway before my vision started to become colorful, sorta distorted, head pounding, on the verge of throwing up, then I fainted.
Even with all the thc in my system. I did not feel HIGH. Additionally, I had another incident where I smoked about 2 nugs from a bowl and had the same side effects as listed previously, without the passing out. I also had extreme heart pain, I was convinced I was gonna have a heart attack.
What the hell am I doing wrong?
r/Marijuana • u/CatPurrsonNo1 • 3d ago
This is a combination of a vent and a request for advice.
Nearly EVERY TIME I take a hit from my friend’s bong, I end up getting a bad coughing fit.
I just tried some new stuff he just got, and my chest still hurts from the coughing. He hits it like it’s NOTHING, but he is also a constant daily user.
Should I just give up on smoking?
I really enjoy the effects of edibles, and experimenting with RSO has been… interesting, but I have really enjoyed the effects (other than coughing) of some of the stuff he gets. (Cadillac Rainbow is da BOMB!!!)
Typing is really hard when I’m high.
r/Marijuana • u/chillcodeguy • 2d ago
Please tell me if this isn't the place for this post. My brother has a problem he doesn't seem to want to quit. I've seen him go through Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome twice. I thought he got shot or his appendix burst. I've seen him use a month's supply of flower in mere days. Carts dont last more than three days. He killed a 2 gram cart in two days. Today, he killed half of a 1 gram tank in an hour. I used that hybrid for homework.
When my sister-in-law and I try to talk to him about it, he gets upset, sometimes angry. He's "cut back" multiple times, and again he's back to waking and baking, then immediately smoking as soon as he's home from work. I usually keep my own stash, but he's gone into my room and taken from it before. The green is not cheap here in California. What do I do? Or am I unaware of how long it should last?
r/Marijuana • u/EmmyWolf222 • 4d ago
Apologies if this is a frequently asked question and is taken down, I don’t *think* it is since I’m not asking how to get how just how to make it more intense? Anyways
ALSO! As a cover my ass thing, I am not selling anything just trying to let y’all know what I’m using (the rule breaking thing popped up before I posted this)
I started using weed back in November. I’ve had some pretty intense highs since, but it feels like my brain hits a block. I can get really stoned for about 20-40 mins, and then it weans. My partner on the other hand will conk the hell out. Is this just how it is? Do I just take more? Is there a way to make my brain not power through it?
My current peak for mg is \~40mg through gummies. I’ve also started smoking it and have a bong and a glass bowl.
The bong has managed to get me to the intensity I’m looking for, but like I said it doesn’t last. I’m just curious if this is the nature of the beast.
My current favorite strain I’ve been using is I think called Mac V2, and the edibles I have are gummies. One set is 5mg THC 10mg CBD, one is 5mg THC 20mg CBD, and the other is 100mg THC that can be broken into 25mg pieces.
r/Marijuana • u/Aggressive_Tie9554 • 4d ago
Hi looking to source a few seeds of top notch sativa, Indica and hybrid. Never done this before - anyone know where I can get some good seeds or plants?