Backstory - I’ve been a chronic insomniac for most of my adult life (difficulty falling asleep mostly, but sometimes wake up and can’t get back to sleep). Back in the early 2000s, they put me on Zolpidem (when it was pretty new and prescribed VERY readily) and that started my love of being lulled into sleep with meds.
Since.then I’ve been on all sorts of things over the years, such as Benzos (tempazepam, diazepam, clonazepam), zopiclone, doxylamine succinate and more recently (after sleep studies and with benzos much harder to obtain) gabapentin. With the difficulties in getting sleep meds prescribed, I starting vaping indica flower about 5 years ago. I discovered that the combo of weed + a low dose of a benzo, I’d drift off easily, but also enjoyed watching TV etc baked before falling asleep. I also found that if I didn’t combine weed with anything, it was nowhere near as pleasant, a bit more “buzzy” and that I sometimes get nasty intrusive thoughts. Codeine at a low dose seems to combine nicely with bud & makes the high more pleasant….but of course, Australian authorities f*cked us over once OTC codeine was banned. I have at times resorted to getting it on black market, as Drs are reluctant to prescribe anything useful these days. *rolls eyes*
My question is, what other (easily obtainable) things can I combine with a nice strong indica that will knock me on my ass, but with a quiet mind? Combining gabapentin with weed no longer seems to work like it used to. I have heard that CBD can work, but I was concerned this would reduce the high? I still want to get lit, but in a more floaty, sleepy, pleasant way…not with my mind racing and thinking of horrible shit happening. I love that really heavy feeling where sleep comes oh so easily.
Since.then I’ve been on all sorts of things over the years, such as Benzos (tempazepam, diazepam, clonazepam), zopiclone, doxylamine succinate and more recently (after sleep studies and with benzos much harder to obtain) gabapentin. With the difficulties in getting sleep meds prescribed, I starting vaping indica flower about 5 years ago. I discovered that the combo of weed + a low dose of a benzo, I’d drift off easily, but also enjoyed watching TV etc baked before falling asleep. I also found that if I didn’t combine weed with anything, it was nowhere near as pleasant, a bit more “buzzy” and that I sometimes get nasty intrusive thoughts. Codeine at a low dose seems to combine nicely with bud & makes the high more pleasant….but of course, Australian authorities f*cked us over once OTC codeine was banned. I have at times resorted to getting it on black market, as Drs are reluctant to prescribe anything useful these days. *rolls eyes*
My question is, what other (easily obtainable) things can I combine with a nice strong indica that will knock me on my ass, but with a quiet mind? Combining gabapentin with weed no longer seems to work like it used to. I have heard that CBD can work, but I was concerned this would reduce the high? I still want to get lit, but in a more floaty, sleepy, pleasant way…not with my mind racing and thinking of horrible shit happening. I love that really heavy feeling where sleep comes oh so easily.