Marijuana: Classic or Dud?

where do you hail from milo? so weird that weed is just straight up illegal almost everywhere. i'm in WA state, and I'm right on the border of OR too, so there are just...stores. weed stores everywhere. they sell all manner of everything and I haven't even been in one yet because you need a photo ID to get inside, I just send the missus in like she's stopping by the grocery for milk. so !

of course we aren't living in any kind of mad max scenario everything is fine.

speaking of the missus she quite likes the "CBD"s because they help with her migraines, may have to look into this pure CBD oil business

I guess we've come a long way from "here's a baggie of whatever is is, good luck"

From what I've read, that kind of a percentage of CBD seems really high...I thought about 5% was about where that tops out in traditional strains.

It's very high, but once the stories came out about CBD and epilepsy/etc. it seems like breeders managed to encourage high CBD quite quickly. There are other strains that are more like 1:1 by bringing down THC levels to 9-10% and bringing up CBD to that level.

I guess we've come a long way from "here's a baggie of whatever is is, good luck"

― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Friday, September 2, 2016 4:48 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i live in a shitty state (OH) so this is still what we've got, though the quality of whatever is in the baggie has increased considerably since i first started buying weed in high school

OH almost legalized rec last year but it was a weird monopoly w/ a restricted # of growers (though still allowed home growing iirc) and was voted down, we also just passed a shitty medical bill

i'd love to try various strains and oils to see what works best though, just hope it's sooner rather than later that i get to do that in my home state

Reading about all the things that exist in OR/CO/WA is crazy. Here's an e-cig juice that will get you high if you want the easiest route, or here's some pot with the actual THC/CBD/etc. characteristics tested or here's edibles/wax/etc..

yea it is truly wild, i do wonder whether more widespread legalization will eventually come with some heavier restrictions on what can be sold

Edibles probably need to be regulated more than anything else - Maureen Dowd had a column about eating an entire chocolate bar and getting way too high, it's not uncommon in the legal states apparently. The guide Dowd used says he told her that the bar was meant to be split among multiple people but the package didn't say that.

Reading about all the things that exist in OR/CO/WA is crazy

it's p much like this in CA now too, the range of shit at dispensaries is bewildering. I expect full legalization is gonna happen in November.

The amount of stuff you can get off Craigslist in a non legal state is even amazing

how has that worked out for you? buying drugs on craigslist freaks me out tbh

I won't even sell old housewares on Craigslist because I don't want to deal with the people involved, fuck buying illicit substances.

I've only had relatively nice experiences. Went through two guys that were ok but not ideal,now I have one regular dude I deal with.

Not many other great options for a middle aged person if you're not in a legal state. But if youre in a decent size city Craigslist is your best bet without knowing someone already.

I buy Kratom from a c-lister and it's been peachy (though Kratom is not illegal, yet)

still kinda shocked that weed isn't completely legal in vt

Idk man there's only millions of people that have been using it for years and years without any reall incidents of overdose or ill effects.i think we need some more time to study this before we start letter people use it.

Letting not letter

I'd rather learn to navigate the darknet myself (if my relatively tech illiterate friend can do it...) than buy from a Craigslist stranger.

Felt kind of like a ridiculous stoner for thinking to myself that I'd pack up and move to WA/OR/CO tomorrow if it were feasible... then remembered that those were the three I'd choose first before legalization anyway.

I'd sketch way more with having something mails to me.

paranoia understandable here

anyone here messed around with "dabs"? I tried it twice at the behest of a connoisseur friend and it was way, way too much. felt like I was on magic mushrooms, which is kind of neat, we are certainly a ways away from a psychedelics shop but god, I don't know how people do that everyday

lesh is more

I studied all the shit you have to do to use darknet, and #nope

But if you use freenet or tor and 47 proxies and set up a bc account and get a scrambler and a wallet etc etc etc etc, apparently theres no need to wig out about the package

right?

know plenty of ppl who are only moderately computer savvy who have been doing darknet stuff for years without incident.

Dabbing sounds horrendous to me. Some teens on the bus were discussing it and saying that basically you have to get too fucked up several times before you can enjoy it.that's not for me.excessive stone to that degree is just nightmare fuel to me

Ha. Yeah, every story I've heard about dabs wasn't a good one. Basically an unexpected trip. Not for the casual.

Thank god psychedelics don't give you cottonmouth like too much weed.

cottonmouth > shroom yawns imo

https://homegrowncannabisco.com/cannabis-seeds-rooms/og-kush-seeds/og-kush-x-amnesia-feminized-marijuana-seeds he hybrid has a bright future ahead of it, especially in the medical cannabis field. Its dominant Sativa genes make it an excellent pot for appeasing symptoms of mental health issues. The happy high it induces provides relief from stress, anxiety, and depression.

great revive

also a good name for a strain, "Great Revive"

lol

weed spam is a new one! makes me remember the old old pre-registration days of 2006

is it spam? or is it homegrowncannabisco.com?

otm? you be the judge

Hi yeah any chance I can get an OiNK invite for the weed

Smuggled some smokes and folks from Mexico

Klassic.

I think i’m done with weed for good

been a regular toker 16 years (and I’m not even 30 yet... 🤦🏻‍♂️) and daily for at least the last 5. ive taken breaks before but recently i started one a few weeks ago and it just snapped so sharply into relief how much it’s been holding me back and causing all kinds of mental health issues.

might smoke again casually at some point but it’s gotta be very irregular

still totally addicted and miss it badly tho

same dawg :)

i stopped recently after ~2 years of smoking daily... i had a minor panic attack while traveling (not unusual for me lol.....) and decided to use that as an intervention and see how removing the substance from my daily existence felt to me. been about a month now and i feel great about it. i miss it at certain moments no doubt and have indulged lightly in a few social situations since trying seriously to break the habit, but having consecutive days of mental clarity has been wonderful. it's interesting, i'm re-learning which parts of my lifestyle (procrastination, staying up late) are in a sense intrinsic and not fully traceable back to being stoned all the time. but i'm not engaged in a constant battle in my own head about anxiety and at what points the weed is helping and at what points it's not. it felt stressful at the time and i can locate the absence of that stress from the outside now. my perspective as it pertains to my own mental health is much better. my desire is to eventually get back to a place where i can have weed around and use it responsibly -- i.e stopping when i know i should, not smoking until the minute i get into bed etc -- but that's down the road.

My rule is weekends only and only when I don’t have other commitments. Enjoy responsibly

I've been on and off since I was in high school-- there were entire years where I went without smoking once, particularly (and paradoxically) when I first moved to California back in the late aughts.

Now, after years of light smoking, I'd still say I'm a light smoker. Some days I don't light up at all, some days a puff or two, some days a bit more than that.

It's important, I think, that everyone reacts slightly differently to weed, and at least for me at present, it's helping me recognize and understand the sources of my anxiety while also doing a decent job of relaxing me...

In any case, I definitely think taking breaks and reevaluating one's relationship to it is absolutely necessary.

Weekend warrior only and rarely 2 days in a row. I absolutely love it, but even then still wonder about the mental effects. It exacerbates the selfish aspects of my personality.

I had a very long period of extremely sparse w33d availability. Like, college till... last year.

During that period I could get pot every now and then, but it was never steady and it was never uncomplicated by sketchy relationships and legal fears.

When the veil lifted somewhat circa 2018, everything changed. The first time I got w33d in a totally legal context, without furtive glances around an alleyway or constant anxiety about a knock on the door, it was a revelation.

Here in the DC area we have options now. We get regular edible delivery. Highness becoming as commonplace as a glass of wine at dinnertime is so different from late-80s dorm bong hits that it might as well be a different thing.

I am currently taking a break because I may be jobhunting soon, and some employers do pre-employment drug tests (as I found out the hard way this summer).

I am surprised at how easy taking a break has been. It's partly the reduced pressure.

didn’t know u smoked weed, j0rd. funny coincidence that we’re quitting at the same time :)

i still procrastinate and probably always will; that’s just in my family, none of whom smoke weed or even drink. we all go into occupations with a high degree of autonomy and control over time to accommodate it. my grandfather was a mechanic who owned his own shop, and would stay up til 3am, wake up at 10, get to work in the afternoon and just chainsmoke and slam coffee in his office until the sunset when he and his one employee (some other equally lazy hungarian guy) would start working on cars. my schedule is pretty similar; covid shutting down all the 24-hour coffee shops i did all my phd work in between the hours of 5pm-2am was rough. i wanna become an efficiency nazi but i never excepted quitting weed to get me all the way there. now i see that, for me, it was at least a necessary first step

ive always been an alarm snoozer but smoking weed at night made waking up way harder than it should be, and it got worse as i got older. i take public transport (don’t have a drivers license) and when i had a nine to five i’d constantly take cabs or Ubers to work because i slept in and my boss put me on final warning for being late so many times smh. whenever i was going through periods of stress/turmoil i’d wake up w bad anxiety (just waking up afraid, minutes before i even clue into what im scared of) and feel locked in bed, usually burning an hour or two scrolling through twitter before i can get out. just an awful way to start the day! then throughout the day, not really thinking linearly or confronting the things that were stressing me out, taking lots of breaks. i talked to my gf about it recently and she put it very well (and brutally) and told me “you’re very easy on yourself”

also intellectually, i actually like care about being smart (on a small number of topics) and weed would made me so fn dumb for sometime months at a time. there were times where I’d be reading like a fn vox dot com article on my phone on a bus and could barely understand its main points lol

Ngl, cutting out booze helps me much more with brain fog and laziness than cutting out w33d. But to each their own.

also jordan, your posts about morbs and how he lived his life last week came just at the right time, right as i was turning the corner. ive been making a conscious effort to schedule walks, tennis matches, bike rides and movie dates (i live somewhere where covid numbers are low don’t get mad at me) with friends since then. its even turned into an inside joke amongst my roommates, they’re like ‘oh Sam’s trying to hit his TE (“tangible experiences”) quota this weekend’. it’s been super nice to just remember that i can actually find reasons to leave my apartment on the regular