Alright so I think I know the reason to why this happens... I believe this is like some strange reverse tolerance taking place.
I started smoking cannabis at 15 and pretty much went full in immediately smoking every day. My family smoked and condoned cannabis more or less, so my use was heavy partially due to that. But I also gained medical benefits, like my horrible asthma getting better then disappearing completely, migraines got better, random nausea episodes for better..
I smoked daily up until I was 25 when I thought I needed to quit, at the time I had no direction in life and blamed it on my cannabis use. I literally had to sit in a detox center for a week, my withdrawals were so bad. To give perspective, when I detoxed off an IV heroin habit I was ready to go in like 48 hours. My body was really adapted to having cannabis and went haywire without it. I can tell more about that experience if anyone wants to hear it.
Once I quit I was clean for about a month before I decided to try taking one hit every Sunday, just something to look forward to.. Well little did I know just how powerful one little hit would be, each time Id literally freak out.
I remember I would literally take one calyx off a nugget, place that one a one hitter and lightly smoke on that and still get insanely ripped. It felt as if there was absolutely zero wiggle room between sober and so high that I think I’m going to die.
Symptoms typically were this odd sensation like a delayed response almost to the point where it feels like reality is a skipping record. Strange tingly sensations in the hands, neck often feels warm and tingly while simultaneously missing. Anxiety like nothing I’ve ever felt, unreasonable anxiety.
So I did this for a few months until one day, I can’t remember how, I started smoking again daily. I somehow pushed through this insane reverse tolerance to get back to my normal tolerance.
Within a few days I completely reverted back to how I felt on it in high school. Euphoria, motivation, better sleep, better sex, just good stuff.
It’s my belief that after a certain amount of use ones tolerance becomes less than it was even before ever using it at all. Think about how people who first try it sometimes need a lot to get high. My first few times I had to smoke a few bowls by myself just to get high. Our receptors become more sensitive to activation from THC and other cannabinoids.
Just a theory.
-GC
I don't really understand what you mean by "reverse tolerance."
Didn't you say that when you were smoking regularly you got less anxiety and when you stopped you got more?
That's what happened to me, and that's just obviously partially to do with less tolerance towards negative side effects.
Do you mean that you kept taking month long breaks until after one of them THEN when you started smoking again your anxiety was gone??
If so that is kind of weird.
But really, no matter what some people are going to sometimes get weed anxiety and I know I've read studies about why it happens but it's just part of the effects it can cause.
Based on my experience I'd think that the more weed once smokes and the more often the more tolerance one will have to negative side effects just as one gets fewer and less severe hangovers if one drinks larger quantities and/or more often.
I do remember though how I didn't get high until the 3rd time I smoked so it is weird like how you mentioned that.
I was 17 the first time I smoked weed and I still remember the first time I smoked a few bongs to the dome and felt nothing.
The 2nd time I smoked a fair amount and in retrospect I realize I was getting some effects but that they weren't noticeable as a "high" yet.
Kind of funny, but me and my cousin were down at the Jersey Shore on the beach at night smoking with some guy we met and I was sucking on a Tootsie Roll pop trying to count the number of licks it takes to get to the center and kept losing count and now I realize that the weed was effecting my memory but I still didn't feel high LOL.
So then the 3rd time I'm smoking with my cousin and two friends and I had probably smoked like 3 really fat bowls between just me and 2 other people and should have been really high and my friend told me to go running on the beach and that the blood would rush to my head and i'd get high.
Now, afterwards my friend said he didn't think it would work and just said that because they wanted to laugh at me running around, but in truth I think maybe HE didn't think it would work but the friend who said it would did believe it would work.
Well, guess what guys, turns out IF YOU AREN'T GETTING HIGH THEN DOING EXERCISE SO THE BLOOD RUSHES TO YOUR HEAD TOTALLY WORKS!!!
I started running really fast down the beach and all of the sudden the blood and endorphins rushed to my head and I got SUPER high for the 1st time in my life and suddenly forgot what I was doing and wondered where my friends were (they were just down the beach as I'd run away from the them) and then I looked back at them and got an AWESOME auditory hallucination of some kind of song in my head with rising tones going "Ah--Ah--AH AH AHH!!!" like as if some secret was being unfolded to my brain.
It was amazing and that was the 1st time I ever got high many many years ago lol.
Anyways...that works lol.
It's pretty weird that weed HELPED your ashtma though, as it has always made mine worse.
It's true that THC by itself without the tar is good for asthma and used to treat it, but the tar itself is bad for asthma, so in my case at least I think smoking weed is bad for my asthma but that vaping or eating it is probably good for my asthma.