Marijuana: Classic or Dud?

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

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

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, October 30, 2020 1:05 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I’m not a big drinker tbh

Weed, even in tiny quantities gives me way worse brain fog, which last well into the day after. Not planning on stopping, so I'd really like to sort this out. Honestly wouldn't be surprised if the answer is smoke much more frequently and in much greater amounts.

Classic

try it and get back to us

i've been enjoying these 1:1 cbd/thc gummies recently, a single is 2.5 mg of each, so i can microdose as i'm a lightweight when it comes to weed. the blend is really good, mental clarity and a positive feeling, not over-high or paranoid at all, the cbd has a calming effect.

breaks are good though. gotta readjust the tolerance.

one thing i can't fuck with at all, even a little bit, is alcohol.

I quit drinking recently and I made the decision to cut everything else out too because I knew I would probably just end up smoking weed every day and having all the attendant issues that brings me (it's bad for my anxiety and depression). don't miss it tbh.

it makes mediocre tv and film bearable, I think that's the main attraction for me at this stage in my life.

i've wondered about my dependency on it and have been trying to take breaks at different points, though i think i need to prob go a full month to really figure out what my sober brain is like at this point

my anxiety is pretty much always there, with or without weed; if anything, as i've said on this board before, weed kinda mutes it. i just wonder sometimes if weed has really slowed my writing process down to a crawl, or keeps me locked in certain patterns of thinking when, ideally, it should be opening me up to different ones

regardless i'm very psyched for both flops and j0rd

Good luck to Jord and flopson.
I feel very lucky that I can go from smoking p much daily to, like now, a few times a month. Saving it for weekend hikes and music listening sessions. It's totally an "out of sight, out of mind" deal for me. What's weird tho is i don't think my tolerance "resets" when I go from daily to occasional use like it used to when I was younger.

out of sight out of mind actually works for me when i'm taking breaks. if i don't see my vape for a while i never think to use it

gonna give serious thought to spreading it out more after nov. 3 :)

thread is bumming me out

g/l flopson and j0rdan!!

Hoping legalization one day makes it here and I have easy access to the boutique stuff that's like 1:5 or 1:10 THC:CBD, which is the only time I could absolutely enjoy weed without worrying about rolling snake eyes this time and having a panic attack.

gonna give serious thought to spreading it out more after nov. 3 :)

yeah I don't think I can touch it until this is over

thx y’all

don’t mean to be anti weed or bum anyone out. i love the stuff and it shaped my life

nah it’s all good, man, just recognizing the same stuff in me

and told me “you’re very easy on yourself”

It me.

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

― flopson, Friday, October 30, 2020 10:01 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh btw flops i regret to inform you that this is more likely vox's problem than weed's

lol ya i was setting that one up for a zinger

meh SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY

420 smoke cats

good for you both flopson and j0rd, sounds like you are making healthy decisions

my edible consumption has skyrocketed during Covid and drinking too, might be a reckoning ahead of me

one thing it is quite bad for is my online poker game, I'll get pocket aces at one table and raise big, then 5 seconds later get lost in the sounds of "Franz Schubert" by Kraftwerk and forget I have pocket aces

I remember watching Belly as a teen and thinking “how in the hell can Lennox conduct these really important and dangerous business meetings smoking weed all the time???” Now I’m just like “lol”

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)

^^^^^^^^

this was a huge thing for me. waking up in a panic for no reason... just like scared about nothing bcuz i had only been up for 3 seconds. i would just refer to it as morning anxiety lol. that has melted away since i stopped which has been wonderful. the lack of brain fog has been a nice residual aspect of it too. i still spend 2 hours in bed every morning doing nothing but hey

i can't compare to booze, i've just never been a drinker in that way. i haven't been drunk all year, i've never kept liquor in the house, i just don't like it. after a long day, a beer or two is really nice. wanna get to that point w/ weed more or less. i had a dependency on it absolutely... my feeling was that there is basically no substance that would sound healthy when consumed in the qualities w/ which i was doing weed. probably not even water! it wasn't effecting my professional life at all, in fact this year was one of the better years for me in a while professionally. but i could recognize from an almost objective standpoint that it was a problem. i just had to hit a legit breaking point to actually take the step of stopping.

okay, get this. first of all, they opened a weed store RIGHT where i park my car in the morning. that is called TARGETED MARKETING. i went in there yesterday and got some excellent Camino gummies - seriously, they are the best. they make you feel like you are on drugs! - and the woman there says - this is about a week and a half since they opened - that they are REBRANDING - did i mention they have been open for a week and a half? - and that they are going to be called CHEECH AND CHONG'S DISPENSARIA!!!!

i live in a weird world. but now i am definitely holding on to their records cuz i don't care about records but i would definitely make an exception for CHEECH AND CHONG!!!!

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i could have them sign the rolling paper in that album that came with a huge rolling paper!!!

that store opened up about 100 feet from the new CHILDREN'S SKATEPARK. which is some good synergy.

pretty soon it'll be Toby Keith's I Love This Cheech and Chong's Dispensaria

AND they are building a huge co-op market and a building with 60 apartments right there too. good spot for a weed spot.

i definitely have mostly negative feelings about the strip-mall-ization feeling that has accompanied legalization here. most of the shops in the city look and seem more like cheap cell phone depots or plasma donation centers than anything else. not to mention the litter from all the plastic packaging.

Like most drugs (I guess), weed affects different people differently. I can't function high. I mean, to the point where I can't even focus enough to read a page. And I often get feelings of paranoia. So, it's not for me, and I don't feel like I'm missing out.

I know plenty of other people, including my better half, who get lots of beneficial effects from it (e.g., alleviation of pain), and can function quite well, sometimes even better than they can not high.

I live in a state (GA) that has not legalized recreational use. I spend considerable time in two states (CA and CO) that do. I appreciate the good shops with knowledgeable staff, and I assume that eventually this will be a national market.

man, Cheech and Chong had a nice run of ambitious ass packaging for a bit.
Big Bambu = Mega Jumbo Rolling Paper (always missing from dollar bin copies)
Los Cochinos = elaborate die cut car door thing
Wedding Album = Wedding Album
and the big pill thing upthread

like jogging and its attendant runner's high, weed gets easier and better the more you do it

and I assume that eventually this will be a national market

Very probably, but at least here in CA, I think they've overbuilt the infrastructure - a lot of the legal cannabis business is really in the dregs now, it's a tough business

Forgot my monkeypipe at some bar so making do with this one hitter baseball bat fake cig thing it sucks

The only time I've really enjoyed weed it was in 3-5mg edible doses. Just enough to take the edge off reality without crippling cottonmouth.

kinda figured the free market was gonna kill the weed 'business' given how it's apparently pretty easy to grow large quantities in certain areas and the planet is so potent that a little goes a real long way. like I never thought $60 for a 1/8 oz. was a bad deal, that'll still get you nice and fucked up more times than $60 of equivilent alcohol, unless you're willing to drink those gasoline-flavored 40s they sell for a buck fifty. on the other hand even paying "just" $99 for an ounce of plant material is kind of insane isnt it?

Very probably, but at least here in CA, I think they've overbuilt the infrastructure - a lot of the legal cannabis business is really in the dregs now, it's a tough business

Yeah, that's the way generally with new markets. It will evolve eventually. I've been happy with my two experiences here in SoCal this week, one in Westwood and the other in Desert Hot Springs.

just wild that it still remains illegal where I live, even though thanks to the farm bill you can get all sorts of edibles which contain THC but at amounts that are just under the legal limit, which even at 0.3% still allows you to make some insanely potent stuff

Like most drugs (I guess), weed affects different people differently. I can't function high. I mean, to the point where I can't even focus enough to read a page. And I often get feelings of paranoia. So, it's not for me, and I don't feel like I'm missing out.

If you smoke or take gummies, you can get the right stuff. It's so easy these days. The wrong kind can bring on the paranoia; this no longer happens.

when smoking yeah the strain can make a huge difference but I'm not totally convinced with edibles

xp I get that, I'm just not motivated to try anything. I stopped drinking seven years ago, I really don't miss being impaired.

Forgot my monkeypipe at some bar

<3 monkeypipe

The strain stuff is all myth IIRC - relative levels of THC to other cannabinoids makes a difference but since 99% of weed sold is high THC/low everything else, the couch lock vs. energetic is all in your head maaaaaaaaaan.