Marijuana: Classic or Dud?

Not entirely harmless, but not bad in comparison to most other drugs.

Indeed. My uncle was (and probably still is) a tremendous smoker, and this definitely had a hand in his daughter's learning disability -- the kid didn't speak until she was almost 4. All that pot done fucked with his DNA for reals.

You need to decide whether you can live with him this way for the rest of your life. If you can't, then you have to decide where your cut-off point is. Then you have to make it absolutely clear to your husband where that cut-off point is and how much or how little you'll support him in making better choices and following through on them - but if he fails to make better choices, you'll cut him off. Then you have to act like you meant every word. That takes enormous strength - after all, you love him.

I smoke marijuana almost daily; often multiple times per day. I like to play music while high, listen to music while cook, cook while high, eat while high, watch football (and baseball) while high. It is NOT conducive to me being a good student, however.

Classic for getting to sleep, nice and easy. If that's what you want to do.

dud to the point of abject fucking tragedy if you're one of several of my friends who are getting close to 40, and who've spent the last 20yrs of their lives with their main/only motivation being scoring & smoking it. Man, fuck that.

Marijuana Evangelists = Ultimate Dud.

so on the money. why am i always the most stoned person in the room :((
also the staelth hangover can be a bitch.

And saying that music sounds better high is like saying ugly chicks look fuckable whist drunk.

Pot tasted like a dirty sponge, and I've also figured out that I don't need any more help being lethargic and sleepy. Dud for me.

The only dud thing about it is that I'm about to run out and don't know where to easily get more

search: larry david talking to himself in the mirror on curb your enthusiasm.

Horrible idea.

I can't believe ANYONE could listen to that much Smashing Pumpkins and not be on drugs. I think he's lying.

Alas, ye of little faith. ;-)

Now that naivete has gone, I look how I feel, anxieties have been unearthed by time and powders: Dud, I try not to touch it, and even when I've had a good week and say what the hey, it still FUCKS with me.

scott is right: it makes you hear things differently, or at least it makes you think you are hearing things differently. I still think it helped me notice details I hadn't noticed before in recordings and videos, and that it made it more probable that I would discover those details; but I'm not convinced I could not have picked them up without pot (more that it made me more likely to notice them). There was a brief period after I stopped smoking pot that various music would make me think, "Oh man, I wish I were listening to this stoned," but I almost never think that now, and definitely haven't stopped enjoying music. (I think that dancing for long stretches of time also makes you hear music differently, but maybe it's more subtle.)

yep that's exactly what we went through

oof. that sounds horrible.

i feel so bad for these little kids going to the hospital after eating chocolate or gummies. they must be so scared.

i actually prefer buying edibles that are just pills. and something that a kid would never eat. i don't need the sugar or some great snack. they sell so much ice cream and seltzer at the one local place here. i just need the goods.

i have a feeling once big pharma gets in on things you definitely will see a difference in strains and types. you will get a pot pill that mimics adderall or valium or prozac. oh its gonna happen mark my words.

I think it's really interesting that so many people say they can't tell the diff between strains. I wonder if it's because there are a lot of hybrids?

Not just a lot of hybrids, it’s all hybrid, it’s a distinction that doesn’t really exist.

https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic-distinction-between-sativa-and-indica-cannabis/

yeah its kind of amusing to me that so much focus seems to be put on the flavors of edibles or all the different types of snacks you can get THC in, I mean I get the novelty of it but like the chocolate bars and rice crispy treats all seem so silly to me. gummies are good because they don't break apart or melt, the other stuff its like...just get high and get yourself a real snack, something that actually tastes good

that said I do dig the THC drinks a lot, especially as someone who likes to go out but tries to cut back on alcohol. they sell this THC syrup now which is super potent (I have to use the children's Tylenol syrenge, which makes me feel a bit like a degenerate) and you can mix it into all sorts of stuff. you can make Moscow Mules with it, or old fashioneds, or combine it with lemonade and iced tea and an energy drink and maybe a shot of rum if you're really looking for a good time

I mean tbf if peace, man is who I think he is then I can't believe his daughter is 13 either!

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, October 5, 2023 10:35 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

That is correct. She turns 13 next week. Nice spreadsheet, ENBB ;) And my son is 19 and pursuing a freaking pilot's license.

I'm increasingly nervous about drugs about as my daughter gets older. When our son sprang his teenage drug problems on us, it came as a surprise. We thought that we had given him a reasonable discussion about drugs before he started using them, but it wasn't nearly enough. He and his buddies were into dabbing and getting blackout drunk and taking large quantities of acid and he was just a real mess for a few years. He's evened out now, just smoking flower and mostly just drinking beer. So I've gotta have a more serious, open conversation with my daughter about drugs before they make their way into her orbit, but I'm concerned about getting the right messages across.

they sell this THC syrup now which is super potent

this is what I get, it's great, I usually just put it in orange juice & sparkling water, but it's also good if I come home from a night out and I'm drunk and want another beer but don't want to stay up all night so I put some in the beer (sometimes I stay up anyway but I drink less beer if I do so it's still better for me)

I think edibles are fine but I much prefer smoking/vaping or what Scott described. I don't want candy. I just want the weed.

Peace - I swear I don't have a spreadsheet just a stupidly good memory. 19! Glad to hear he's doing better.

Oh and lozenges/gummies also easy to travel with which is a bonus.

eating candy a lot easier than sparking up a bowl though

ew

oh you mean gummies. Yeah, those are cool. I hate regular candy, though.

That is true. Esp if there are kiddos around. I totally get it. Just saying preference wise I still like the experience of smoking/vaping best.

i can't smoke pot because i quit cigarettes and there is just too much mental baggage attached to smoking.

i like these. they are just pills. they are made really well. and they ARE different as far as effect goes.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60197f1f0c24d1105905871a/61fa774135f30c4cebefed71/63617903e371907a0670d2e9/1673474572153/image43.png?format=1500w

I wonder if anyone makes gummies with a sophisticated flavor profile instead of just watermelon or peach or whatever

would you say the effect lines up with the description?

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Xpost - someone must, right? It's just not the norm. The design on that packaging is v good.

yeah that brand should win some sort of design award.

"would you say the effect lines up with the description?"

more or less. mostly feel which ones make you feel up and the ones that don't. don't know about any love vibes on the love one.

i will say that the camino gummy i had the other night is marketed as *bliss* for its effect and man it was really truth in advertising. i totally felt blissful. this doesn't always happen with gummies.

i just think that this is the beginning of people using science to make the perfect thc pills that will have all kinds of effects. its a brave new world. people have never really made edibles on such a massive scale before.

In the end, imo it doesn't matter if any of these (really well packaged!) products actually provide the precise promised/desired effects as long as the person taking them thinks they do. This stuff is pretty hard to quantify, especially (after so many years of suppression) with little research to back up any specific claims. Iirc one of the factors hampering federal legalization is the sheer number of compounds in cannabis, close to 500, some 70 or so of them psychoactive, and few of them studied in isolation.

SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY IIRC

For years we've had a pretty reliable baked-goods supplier that delivered. But her dosing is, um, not particularly measured.

I switched to delta 8/9 gummies and am happy with how predictable they are.

Smoking is not pleasant for me.

i really do think these legal stores are a boon for people who never liked smoking pot but who want a little something something at the end of a long day at the fulfillment center.

I think I may have asked about this before but are there any supplements or other remedies anyone can recommend to fight next day weed hangovers and grogginess? I want to smoke more but have to limit it because I generally feel like shit the day after even if I only smoke a small amount.

Kick-ass Tea

Coffee

not even really joking

xp Serious question, why do you want to smoke more if it makes you feel like shit?

Xxxpost, Wyld & PC Pure gummies come in more sophisticated flavors, I have some Blackberry Vanilla Fig ones right now, but they still have that funky cannabis aftertaste. Straight grape or cherry flavors mask it more I've found.

still quietly horrified at being high during the 2016 debates -- def do NOT recommend this manner of usage under any circumstances!!

xxp

I enjoy it at the time, I feel like shit the day after, I would smoke more if the recovery wasn't so rough. I drink a lot of coffee every morning but it doesn't seem to cut through.

I was going to say Red Bull

My ADHD meds cure the morning fog but I would not recommend strictly for that purpose lol.

I think the only solution is to time is so you're not high at all when you go to sleep, it's the sleep cycle disruption that gives you a weed hangover as I understand it.

Yeah, I was going to say that for me the fog is worse the later in the night the consumption happens. Similar to alcohol, really. The closer you are to sober by bedtime, the better you'll feel in the morning. Of course, if you partly like weed to help fall asleep — hi there! — then the timing gets a little tricky. But for me it's rarely that big a deal, I'm sure it varies a lot by person — like everything with weed.

this makes sense, I'll probably keep it to earlier sessions

maybe drink an extra cup of coffee if I'm really struggling

these one-man ambient grindcore albums aren’t just going to materialize themselves

Whenever I take anything to help sleep, it's usually right before bed, so I generally don't get any effects (that I know of) besides a good night's rest. Only challenge comes when the cat wakes me up in the middle of the night and demands a very groggy escort to the food dish. He's lucky I haven't stepped on him, I'm lucky I haven't fallen down the stairs.

This is sadly close to my reality

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fun times at prog nite at the local bar yesterday, we had a circle going featuring FIVE different forms of weed - one guy was passing a J, one guy had a bowl, I had my Pax2, the bartender had her vape pen, and then the DJ had some popcorn his wife made, which I ate against my better judgement, though luckily it was not too strong! suffice to say I was reaaaally feeling Gong that night

I just discovered a prog night at a local brewery a couple weeks ago, how did I not know these are actually a thing? Walking in to "I Talk To The Wind" with laser lights beaming across the ceiling was such a trip.

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Pot Head Pixies unite!

first time I went it was mostly older folks which was cool because some of them have actually seen these bands back in the day and will talk about what it was like getting The Lamb the day it was released. but lately there's actually been a lot of younger folks (well, people my age or a bit younger). outside one of them was asking the DJ "oh was that Van Der Generator before?". was really cool to see. later in the night he'll start playing stuff like Hawkwind and people will actually come onto the dance floor, it's wild

I want a prog night in the bay area. wait maybe I don't.

after all this talk on here i decided to take a thc cleanse! meaning, no gummies for awhile. its sad but i am already seeing the benefits. getting up earlier. more focus. reading at night instead of just passing out after hours of streaming tv/movies.
i was totally using them as medicine. the gummies. since the pandemic. for nighttime jitters. but i feel okay now. for me. mostly okay. thc definitely dulls my interest in things. which i kinda wanted for awhile. i didn't want to think. but thinking can be underrated.