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.
I did this with mushrooms. It literally changed my life.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll then eat a full handful more and freak everyone out because edibles don’t work on me (very sadly) but vapes work well enough.
You will rue the day you ate two brownies
Yes and its also important that you don’t punch yourself in the junk when someone messes with you by telling you your junk is out when it isn’t but you are so high you can’t tell and you attempt to check. Just sayin
And this is totally not a story from your past, you are just a creative individual.
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
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.
Anyone consider the first one drives the thought processes to have the second?
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
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.
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.
I can’t fall asleep on cue
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! :‘’'(
made this mistake with a buddy. bunch of other friends came over to hang out just for us 2 to be dead asleep on the couch
Sound advice. Also, if you dose acid and it isn’t working, check the time if you’re already high on marijuna. You don’t wanna think it’s been super long and take more when it’s actually been like 30 minutes. Happened to me. Lucky that it wasn’t a bad experience.
How have drugs become so normalised and downplayed that people “just do” them and have anecdotes to share about them
And that on lemmy
Belive it or not, alchool is even more normalised (which is arguably worse than many drugs)
I remember an episode aired in Denmark many years ago having a health expert in a news studio talking about drugs and alcohol and ranked them on two parameters, how harmful they were on a personal level and on society level, and alcohol was ranked as the worst of these.
I think it was based on this study from UK.
Wait what, people use butane as a drug?
Cannabis being “more dangerous” for both users and others above ketamine makes me question their reasoning…
Huh, that’s a curious stat - low harm to others for meth
The amount of theft meth users do to support their habit has me questioning too. This must be an old graph as it doesn’t have fentanyl.
I struggle to take seriously any chart which uses “crack cocaine” unironically
Why? I don’t think may people say it with the ‘cocaine’ part but it’s correct, is it not?
I don’t think people are downplaying them, what you’re replying to is good healthy advice. Also Lemmy skews left and modern leftists tend to take a harm reduction stance on drugs and speak very openly and non-judgementally about them.
There’s been a lot of fear mongering and misinformation about drugs since Nixon popularized the puritanical “all drugs are bad” idea in the 70s.
The reality is much more complex. There are all kinds of recreational drugs out there that can be taken safely without lasting damage or long term effects.
Many are actually safer than alcohol, some even offer significant benefits to mental and physical health if taken responsibly (see psychedelic use to combat depression, anxiety, and PTSD). And on the flip side, there are all kids of drugs that will fuck your body and life right up by either damaging your body and/or causing chemical dependancy.
Education is the key to determining which drugs are safe to take responsibility, and which drugs are not, and ensuring your environment is safe before dosing anything is also critical to safety.
Source: I do drugs.
Because drugs can be a hell of a lot fun if done safely. Obviously depends on the drug. Also, nothing has “become” so normalised because humans have been doing various drugs for thousands of years.
I’m not saying it’s for everyone, but I am saying that there must be something to it or people wouldn’t do it.
If they never cracked down on psychedelics in the 60s and 70s, then I bet the crack and heroin epidemics of the 80s and 90s would never have happened. Nor the ongoing fentanyl epidemic.
It’s not being normalized, it’s being destigmatized, because it was already exceedingly normal. And it’s obviously not being downplayed, otherwise you wouldn’t have the opportunity to complain about people talking about it so openly.
Always has been.
I dunno, but most things are safer than alcohol.
Ehh, this feels like some kinda survivorship bias / frequency fallacy. I’d argue the people that post and leave comments on social media are already way outside of the norm. It is a power law distribution when it comes to social media participation. Your outliers in this case are very likely outliers in other ways such as in opinions/thinking, risk taking, etc. Drugs really aren’t all that normalized. Sure all my friend circle is full of degenerates, but I am still going to be guarded about my “hobbies” when meeting new people.
if you dose acid and aren’t sure its enough, add more acid. there’s not a lethal dose.
Only if you’re a seasoned psychonaut. Man people can be overwhelmed by things and aren’t in the right headspace for it. Set and setting and all.
you’re encouraging people to be cautious. I’m encouraging adventures.
Only for your ego
It comes back. Mostly.
In my day, I would wear a watch that had a stopwatch function, so I was able to start the stopwatch when I dosed so I could always just take a quick glance at my wrist to see how far along I was
