I had two and thought it wasn’t working. Took a third.
Spent an unknown amount of time frozen in my chair because I could feel the air too much on my skin.
Give it a second, kids.
Biggest letdown is when you follow this rule and absolutely nothing happens.
Happened to me the first several times I took edibles. I guess that’s a thing? I didn’t know, so I just figured I hadn’t had enough. I doubled it and still nothing. Figured if I literally felt nothing, it’s probably safe to double again. Still nothing. So I doubled it for a third time. I did think 40mg was probably too much, but this was try number four and I was wondering if it would ever work at all.
Oh it did.
I’ve never again been that absurdly high. But I was at home safe, amused by my own stupidity, and now it’s a fun memory. I guess technically I did handle it, so my i thinking wasn’t too far off. But I can get plenty high off 20 now. It just took a few tries to kick in.
Yeah, this advice is worthless if you don’t metabolize edibles as expected.
I get almost nothing out of edibles, to the point I have to take close to 1g to get anything, and that’s just not worth it.
Back around 2015 I went to Amsterdam.
Now I don’t really use the marijuana, but have.
But I did want to eat a brownie while there as part of the experience.
I met up with some other gals at a hostel. We all went to a famous coffee shop. Has a bulldog logo (?) It was super packed. But there was a big table of a few other young ladies and we asked if we could join. So we hung out with them the rest of the evening.
I got my brownie. And of course I had read about dosage and such online before hand. Cause I was traveling alone and you gotta be smart about drug use as a tourist.
The guide online said that the effects take a pretty long time to kick in. Some reporting an hour or even longer. But that the potency of THC in this particular brownie from this shop was very high. And was suggested to not eat more than one and not smoke and eat the brownie too.
As I’m chatting up with these new friends, I notice one has a half eaten brownie in front of her , while she is also smoking.
So I say. “Hey I read online …dosage…yada yada”
And she’s like. “Oh shit. Really ?” But in a German accent cause she was German.
She then told me she already ate a full brownie. That one of the other girls didn’t finish hers, so she was finishing it off.
And I was like…
“Guuuurrll. Be careful getting back to your hostel.”
When we left we split up into two groups. There was like 10 of us. And we walked each other back to our hostels. I was with 2 other people going to a different hostel and 2 going back to mine (same room, which is how I met them).
Idk what happened to the German girl. But here is what happened to me and my group.
After we dropped off the 2 other ladies at their hostel we headed to ours.
The brownies started to kick in. And ramped up fast. We had all had one. And then one of the girls had also smoked. So one of us was practically non functional while two of us near that point.
We started getting really confused about how to get back to the hostel. It was pretty late by then. No busses or trams running. We were walking. Gps sucked balls back then. But that’s what we used.
All the canals looked the same. We had to keep stopping to sit down . Because we were so fucked up. Were we walking in circles. Had we came this way already. ?
I have never been so high in my life. And I definitely had overdone it a few times as a teen but it was nothing like this.
We kept questioning if that was the same boat or different. Idk. Somehow we did finally make it back.
The next morning one of them woke me up to ask if I wanted to go to the anne frank house. I was like. Fuck no.
It was so surreal. Like anne fucking frank. !?!
I can’t handle anne fucking Frank like this. You know?
I Slept until like 3pm. I was also dealing with time change cause I’m from the Midwest U.S. but yeah. So I missed them and they were going back to Spain after anne frank house. so I never saw them again or got their info. :/. Cool people tho.
But omg. I still wonder about that German chick. Damn.
She was with a group going to her hostel but I bet she had a rough time. Brownie had to have kicked in before ours did.
Sometimes I have a moment of slight regret after taking an edible. Once you’ve chewed and swallowed it, there’s that moment where you don’t feel high yet but it is now inevitable that you’re going to get high, it’s too late to change your mind
Kinda the same as getting to the top of a really big waterside.
You’ve officially made your choice. It was something you wanted to do and it’s honestly going to be fun and there’s really nothing to regret. But you have made your choice.
Precisely, you know you’re in for a good time and you don’t regret it, but at the same time it’s a little scary and you can’t back out now even if you wanted to
I mean if you just go to sleep before it kicks in that’s pretty much backing out. You might have some weird dreams or a trippy walk to the bathroom in the middle of the night. But if you really regret it and want to just skip the fun, just go lay down in the dark and close your eyes. Maybe put some quiet chill music on if that helps you sleep.
If I have too much I’m too nauseous to sleep
I can’t fall asleep on cue
Every single time I have an edible, there’s this moment where I think to myself, “I’m on the ride now. No getting off until it’s over.” It kinda helps because I’m acknowledging that feeling, but also reassuring myself that this will be fun, and even if it isn’t, it will end.
I get that with acid. “What if my set or setting is wrong‽” Then I remind myself I did my check ins before taking it and that the only way out is through. Then when I start getting horny I feel fine
I will not, I will avoid weed in all it’s forms because it makes me panic and be seriously uncomfortable for the entire time.
Now cocaine makes me shut the fuck up and sit relaxed and happy, cocaine turns off all those demons in my brain and I can just live the way you all live without hate for myself, without having a voice telling me I’m not good and I should kill myself.
Alcohol helps!
I don’t need or want any help, I’ve done coke 3 times in my life and it’s been 2 years since I last did it.
Real depression and anxiety at the level that baby boomers decided weren’t real are F#&king awful.
I encourage everyone to not have parents like mine!
I did this with mushrooms. It literally changed my life.
Asking for myself cause I want to retry the shrooms. Microdosing or macrodosing helped you?
Both have been helpful, but the big one was macrodosing once years ago. We visited Amsterdam. Three of us were supposed to split the mushrooms. Once I’d taken mine, my then-wife and her sister decided to chicken out and get ready for bed. Dick move. Since mine weren’t yet kicking in, they encouraged me to take the rest. Dick move. Then they did, in fact, kick in. I cried for like 4 hours straight that night. They kicked my ass in exactly the way I needed and I felt like a new person the next day. It was the closest thing to a religious experience I’ve had.
How so? Has it changed for the better?
I lost a ton of weight (80 pounds or so). I lost religion after growing up hyper-religious. I just…became more myself. Hell, it even made me stop biting my nails for like 6 months, but that one didn’t stick. It got harder in some ways as a result, but yes, huge improvements overall. And it was like 10 years ago, at this point, so not like a “two weeks ago” deal.
were you christian?
Yes, very. Fundamentalist pastor’s son, brother is a pastor, two uncles are pastors, almost went that route myself. Was going door-to-door when I was still in single-digits.
I took one of those super strong edibles one time, it was one of those unregulated THC varieties. I was high for 3 days straight. I was not a happy camper.
Nope, eat the second one. Its just weed. Itll make reading toad and frog awesome.
Those books were awesome, but did you ever read them on Weeeeeeed?
but if you eat the second one you’ll be fully baked
Baked
One of my favorite types of baked. I also enjoy fried.
That’s just propaganda from ppl who don’t want you to have a good time.
Go on, you can has a little second dose, as s treat.
If you don’t feel the second dose kick in right away you should probably take a third dose. Surely you won’t regret taking a third dose.
The fist two didn’t work tho so don’t just keep repeating the same thing - it’s obv a dosage issue & the third one should be at least double.
Actually, if you’re two or three deep and nothing is happening after a long enough time, you might be genetically deficient and unable to metabolize the good stuff.
Scumbag genetic lottery cursed me not only with depresso, but with anti-anti-depresso too! :‘’'(
Had a buddy back when I was a big pothead, he was always down to push it. He’d call me up, I’d be with a third friend, and he’d be like “Go get three blunt wraps and meet me wherever,” and so we’d just do it, and we’d meet him, and he’d be like “I got three different strains, we’re going to smoke all three of these blunts.” My friend and I would put up the fight, it was customary, but our buddy would say “What’s going to happen to you?” And that was always where the fight would leave us, and we’d acquiesce and a smoke three blunts, and we’d get super high and sit in the front bench seat of his Toyota Avalon listening to Ratatat.
I no longer smoke (or use marijuana at all), but I have many fond memories of my smoking days.
That actually sounds like a pretty awesome time. I had not heard of Ratatat until I came across their collabs with the rapper Despot, which you should definitely check out if you haven’t already. Their sound is excellent for when you’re super baked.
You know, I’m not super into rap, but I liked that, appreciate you sharing. I listened to Look Alive.
No prob, glad you liked it! House of Bricks is another good one with a Ratatat beat.
Why’d you stop ?
Hit my quota, I guess. Started bugging me out too often, even small amounts. It’s funny because I talked to my dad about it back in the day and he said the same thing happened to him, smoked a lot as a kid, and then it would just make him paranoid, so I guess it runs in the family.
Same. I can still eat mushrooms but weed makes me too paranoid and anxious.
Edibles either do nothing at all or knock me out so bad I wake up super high.
I’ve found they make me nauseous and give me a headache.
Same. I will be mildly but happily stoned, have a good sleep for a few hours and then wake up desperately reaching for a waste bin or bag. The worst flu symptoms until I go back to sleep. And then I’m fine. I may need to reconsider my habit.
I have never gotten high from an edible. It’s just dose dependent drowsiness, like taking Benadryl. Apparently some people don’t metabolize the cannabinoids correctly via the oral route.
This is how 95% of bad trip stories start btw
It’s either this or “last time nothing happened, so this time I’ll take 5 and make sure something happens”.
FYI I find the dose in store bought edibles are generally poorly mixed. It’s very common for one to have 2-3x the effect for me. I’ve tried many brands.
That’s why I take an edible at around 1/2 my desired effect, which for me is only 2mg, an hour before I want the effect and then take a vape to increase it to the preferred level. Reduces the amount of shit going in my lungs but makes the effect way more controllable.
Are you sure it’s not you? I know what you’re talking about, but the way that they hit can be highly variable, depending on stomach contents and all kinds of factors. The store-bought gummies at the dispo by me are highly-regulated. There’s no way they’re not homogeneous. Your stuff might be different though.
Well I won’t pretend it’s impossible. But I’ve been alcohol free for >2 years and had store bought edibles 2-3 times per week ever since. And over the years I haven’t noticed any pattern, sometimes a gummy will just be way stronger than the others in the pack, or have nearly no effect.
Maybe it’s some variable that I can’t correlate but I would think I would have noticed. Vapes feels fairly consistent is also a clue that it’s not just my system, but idk.
You will rue the day you ate two brownies
I personally hate edibles, you have like an entire hour not knowing if you’re functional or not. with smoking you just turn into a human blob instantly.
That being said, it’s just personal preference and there are a lot of benefits to edibles.
I don’t care for them most of the time, but they are ideal when you’re about to get on a plane, or go to a movie theater, or theme park, or anywhere where you want to be high for a long time but can’t smoke.
this is the way
I didn’t like it because I was well aware of the “wait before redosing just because it feels like it’s not working” advice, because that means that if I genuinely do take too small of a dose, I would waste two hours sitting around waiting for it to kick in before eating more.
omg yes that happened the last time I had one
With enough experience you know what to expect. I (try my best) to only get high friday evenings-sunday and I know what to expect after a four day break. It does require planning ahead an hour, and sometimes that sucks, but it beats stinking up the place.
As some who has barely ever drank, never smoked anything and never used any other recreational drug, I find I know a lot about drug use, simply through osmosis (roommates, GFs, co-workers), reading, movies, etc. Or, at least more than I would expect.
Anxiety or piety?
Por que no los dos?
