Hi all, my names mark I'm 35, in my youth teens in the 90s, I have experimented with alcohol, tobacco cigarettes and cannabis, I used to love my beers and white lightning cider we used to buy underage at a corner shop but when I was 17years old I tried a bit of cannabis with friends, not really like it much, I dunno how feeling in a different place, memory loss , time lapses and paranoia is a lot of fun? Why is it just a herb is so popular when most my friends say they didn't like the paranoia feeling! I know there are different strains with different effects, people claim there are ones that give you euphoria but I've never experienced that, is it because I've not found a type suitable to me or just got cheap resin or weed. How do you know which strains are suitable? What strains do you like?
If you've never gotten any sort of euphoria from smoking weed then you probably haven't smoked many times.
Even people who HATE weed usually will acknowledge that they experienced SOME form of euphoria, but will usually just say that for them it was over powered by paranoia so they couldn't enjoy it, and I've had that happen to me before in the past though it doesn't usually happen anymore.
I've never experienced "feeling in a different place" literally, and memory loss or time lapses has never been lasting and usually didn't happen at all, or if it did VERY temporarily, none of those are long lasting effects.
Paranoia is not fun, but not everyone experiences it and a lot of that depends on strains.
For me, even though I don't currently smoke but have in the past, I got over the paranoia but would still sometimes get "negative thoughts", but that was only if I didn't drink with weed, or if I took a strain that caused more paranoia and I have found that vaporizing or eating pre-vaped herb doesn't give me as many negative thoughts either.
I am not someone who knows a whole lot about strains like some one here, but my favorites that I've tried have been White Widow, Hydro White Butterfly, Northern Lights, Purple Haze, Shiva, Bubble Gum, Jack Herrer, NYC Diesel, Sour Diesel, Blue Dreams, White Rhino and Lebanese Blond, Lebanese Black and Nepalese Black Hash.
Really, I have found that for anyone who gets paranoid, just have a few beers or a few shots before or after you smoke (I personally prefer before) and you will probably not experience paranoia or negative thoughts depending on your tolerance to alcohol but this combo makes some people sick.
It sounds like it's been such a long time since you smoked and that you never smoked much to the point where you would have a hard time really knowing how this substance effects you but I could be wrong.
Not everyone likes every drug and it might just not be your thing but I'd think IF interested you'd want to try some different strains, different methods of smoking, vaporizing, edibles or combining with alcohol and having a good set and setting to see how it effects you.
Of course it's "only an herb"...but EVERY drug is "only" an herb, a pill, a chemical, etc.
Really, no one can "explain" very easily in words why they like a drug, I mean, some will disagree and certainly a lot can be explained in words about why someone likes or dislikes a drug, but when it really comes down to it you need to experience it for yourself to know for sure.
Until you have tried a number of different types of weed again under a number of different circumstances, smoking, vaping and eating and mixed with alcohol (although that's just my opinion that it goes well with alcohol, especially Red Wine IMO) you won't really know if you are going to like it or not.
Just my 2 cents.
