Weed Culture

Gravel said:

Did a lot of looking around, and think I'll end up just trying an assortment of different kinds to see how I react to them. Plus it'll make good use of some of these first time discounts.

Going to try some 1:1, rosin (if I can find them, these seem more rare around here), RSO, and regular. Mostly indicas, but will likely try to get a sativa and hybrid of at least one of them.

And if the gummies just don't do it, I guess then I'll look into smoking it.

Was also disappointed that last night I found out that the Florida veterans thing was killed (waive the annual fee, and make it a 2 year instead of 1 year). The House passed it unanimously, but then the state Senate decided to not even vote on it to kill it entirely. Seems pretty shitty.

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moonarchia said:

All three doses were on different weekends. They were also from the same bag.

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Gravel said:

Well that whole process was retarded. I had made the appointment online, but apparently their system puts everything in eastern time, so I was late. But it didn't matter one bit because there wasn't anyone else there when I arrived. The doctor didn't ask me a single question about anything. In fact, when I asked him questions, he was just like "you should probably ask the people at the dispensaries." Talk about doctor easy mode life.

Got my temporary card pretty much instantly, and there's a dispensary right there. So went and bought what I thought was a lot, but only ended up being about $80 (granted, with a 60% discount). Figured I'd get a little of everything, sativa, hybrid, indica (mostly indica), and then regular, RSO, and rosin, as well as a cbd/thc one, although I thought I said 1:1 and ended up with 5:1. Probably because dude thought I just wanted to get high.

All that to say, the entire system still feels scummy as fuck. Basically state sponsored drug dealers. It in no way felt legitimate. There's no reason to not make it recreational if this is what a medical card looks like.

Anyway, wish me luck!

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Harshaw said:

I unfortunately don't know shit about the Florida market. You will probably want to stick to Indica or at least hybrid-Indica strains. Mainly because Sativa is known to give people some anxiety and with some PTSD that wouldn't be good. The first test with edibles will be to see if you are one of those that aren't affected by them at all. Gummies are very wishy washy with me and I have to take like 100 mg to really get anything out of it. Part of that is also my tolerance as I consider myself a heavy smoker.

As for smoking, I would look into dry herb vapes. I have been using them for almost a year now and it's nowhere near as bad as combustion. Basically you are packing a bowl and then using heat either through conduction or convection that heats the flower and boils off the stuff that gets you high. This cuts out all the stuff that doesn't actually get you high from burning it normally. You get a nice vapor instead of a cloud of carbon. I have recently upgraded to an Arizer Solo 3 v2 and I haven't used anything else since.

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Gravel said:

I'm still experimenting, but it's looking like I might be one of those abnormally high enzyme people.

First 5mg dose from my drum teacher gave me some back pain relief.
Second 5mg didn't do anything whatsoever.

Got my card after that.

So far I've done 4 5mg doses (both were a 5mg, waiting around 5-6 hours, then taking the next). Then I bumped it up to a 10mg hybrid, took my preworkout, and then worked out. Maybe 3-4 hours after I did get a very mild high for maybe 30 minutes, and a good 2 hours of complete pain relief and the remaining 3-4 hours on each end was maybe 80-90% pain reduction. Took a 10mg indica gummy same night, and didn't get much out of it. Mostly through all of this I'll get a bit of brain fog, or what I'm calling brain fog, it's an unfamiliar feeling for me to not have my mind constantly racing. Which is probably why it's good for PTSD. The pain relief seems decent enough to keep doing this for sure, but not as consistent as I want.

Took a 10mg sativa this morning and got even less pain relief than before.

I keep reading these things about potheads getting absolutely thrashed on 10mg, and I'm assuming all of these gummies aren't underdosed. I think I'm mostly okay with that. I'd really like to try experimenting more with ratio'd gummies, especially CBN ones. I really do want the pain relief and still being able to function in society. So far it seems like I'm getting a little of the stuff that makes me not want to drive, and a little bit of the pain relief. Which makes me think I need to up the dose which will impact both.

Just rambling. I still need to try the RSO and Rosin ones I bought, which will hopefully do better.

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Gravel said:

Surely the tolerance takes months to build up though, and not 4 days?

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Gravel said:

Surely the tolerance takes months to build up though, and not 4 days?

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Gravel said:

I really wanted to avoid smoking, but I think I'll likely end up having to.

Yesterday was actually a good example of when I would've preferred it. Had back pain in the morning, but something in the early evening where I needed to drive. So I just took the day off (since I have no idea how long any of this will last at the moment).

How long should I take a break from any particular method to decrease my tolerance?

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Gravel said:

She didn't find the story about how I was watching Family Feud after I took the gummy, closed my eyes and could feel my brain, then felt like my brain was a super powered brain, and then the TV muted itself randomly after I did that which freaked me the fuck out, as particularly amusing. I told her she just didn't understand what it's like to be able to feel your brain.

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