As a long time smoker, I can not understand how people think taking edibles is the answer to getting too high smoking. Edibles will fuck you up. I smoke A LOT and a 10mg gummy will destroy me. My experience is the exact opposite of your recommendations. I’d tell a new person to hit a vape a couple of times and relax.
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TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The dose makes the poison. Weed is not a panacea but it sure as hell isn’t the devil. If you are getting F’d up you need to cut back the dose or switch to edibles; you don’t get as functionally high, but it’s more intense and lasts longer. Also know your weed Indicas are more of a “body high” (Sleepy, pain reduction, relaxation, “vibes”) where as Sativas are more of a “mental high” (mental “buzz,” creativity, giggles, anxiety reduction) get a good hybrid that focuses more on the thing you want to fix. If you are in a funk, a Sativa dominant strain is what you need, if you are burnt out, you need an indica dominant one.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
TBF, I have a rather high tolerance because I was dropping 4 Zenias every 3 hours just to feel a nice buzz. I had a medical grade brownie once and that was a sweet spot.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Terpenes are where the health effects are, but they don’t line up neatly with the indica / sativa dichotomy. I love a good hybrid with limonene and pinene but it’s kind of hard to find both in the same flower out here
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 1 week ago
we really need to properly decriminalize so we can study these compounds. There was a study using some naturally derived psychotropics done in Brazil some years ago that showed promising benefits in reducing the mechanisms that activate PTSD triggers, for instance, but nothing ever really came of it, because of stigma surrounding the “recreational” uses.
Basically the study found that if you take a psychotropic shortly after the traumatizing event, it disrupts the amygdala’s ability to parse and store the memory in a way that becomes malignant. This makes it FAR easier to process the event through therapy, and outcomes were greatly improved.