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Does anyone else have to smoke weed to trip?

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I've noticed that I will not trip unless I smoke a little bud.

Feb. 12 -- When I dropped acid I took 3 hits and didn't feel shit even after 2 hours so I smoked a little bud and then the acid hit me pretty quick.

Feb. 21 -- First time i tripped on shrooms I ate about half an 8th of some prime shrooms and still didn't feel anything even after an hour. I had a very tiny little bit of bud in my bowl still (not enough to even get a little head buzz on a normal day), It was maybe one hit. As soon as I exhaled I felt really really stoned like I had smoked a bowl or 2. After a few minutes I could feel the shrooms really kick in.

Mar. 10 -- Last night I ate a quarter of an ounce of the same potent shrooms mentions above. After like an hour and a half maybe I decided to see if any weed would help because I wasn't feeling anything. Again, I had mostly ash and maybe one or 2 hits left (not sure if it was weed or a weaker spice but the principle is still the same). I smoked it and within 15minutes I was tripping balls. (If it was spice, I smoked a bowl of the same stuff a few nights earlier and didn't trip even remotely close to how much i did last night.)

Is there any reason why this might happen? Quite frankly it gets annoying.

EDIT:
I forgot to mention, I tried molly once (orally) without smoking weed and I didn't feel anything.

Feb. 20 -- When I bought my very first bag of shrooms I ate quite a few full mushrooms (didn't smoke) and never felt anything. The next night I tripped off them (and weed)

Feb. 24 -- I ate the rest of my shrooms (about half an 8th) and did some more molly (snorted). Didn't feel anything . Drank a little everclear. still didn't feel anything So I took one hit off my bowl and within minutes I felt really really high.

Can someone explain this to me???
 
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You might just be overly tense about it. I have to smoke weed when I trip not because I don't trip without it but because it lets me integrate/relax easier.
 
I've noticed people with certain anxiety/OCD/strong inhibitions ("must keep composure no matter what"/"can't relax" type personality) related issues won't trip as hard if at all.

I'm allergic to weed, so I have no idea what it's like to smoke while tripping, but I've seen it kick off trips for people many times who couldn't trip otherwise.
 
Some of your trips were just a few days apart.
Tolerance may be playing a role?
 
when tripping, i usually need weed to keep the experience tranquil... it's as if the cannabis replenishes some sort of body pleasure energy... i can't see psychedelics and weed not going together, but that's probably just because i'm a pothead ;)

weed itself is a powerful psychedelic in the right contexts.
 
The first time I ever tripped I didn't feel it until I smoked. It hit me like a freight train. After that time though I've never had problems tripping without weed. I still love to smoke while tripping, though
 
I have a different situation. I can still trip but when I smoke it just boosts the trip and adds more of a buzz to it. When i ordered some pure DXM I had some of the most intense and profound dissociative experiences of my life only when I smoked on it.

Same goes for any other chemical. I tried MXE for the first time recently and I liked it but it lacked the mental aspect for me, just kind of inebriated me dissociative-style, but when I sparked up a bowl it really made the MXE sparkle. :) I almost always smoke on anything I'm going to trip on, just because it makes the experience better. And i am not normally a person who has anxiety about the situation or whatever, it just makes the trip really take flight.
 
I have two theories... First, I do know people who say smoking weed helps them trip harder. I definitely have experienced this, but I don't know how much of it is power of suggestion and how much of it was the weed actually making my trip more prominent. So it is entirely possible that smoking jump started your trip.

But my second theory, which I think explains why it seems that you CAN'T trip unless you smoke is that you didn't wait long enough. Acid on blotter can take a while to kick in. 2 hours isn't out of the realm of possibility. Maybe you smoked right at the time it started to kick in. Mushrooms can take about an hour to kick in. Its possible that you happen to take a little bit more time for the substances to hit you since drugs affect everyone differently.

It could be a combination. Maybe the psychs were just about to hit you when you smoked, and the weed intensified the trip.
 
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I didnt believe it till I tried it, but weed definitely takes my acid or shroom trips to the next level every time. All my friends agree and suggested I try it, and immediately much more intense visuals and effects, dont get irritated, just smoke weed to enhance your trip if its not as strong as you would like
 
wayab said:
Some of your trips were just a few days apart.
Tolerance may be playing a role?
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^ This.

Also those timings seem about in line with when the effects would really start to kick in anyway, especially with tolerance, so maybe the body apprehension from it about to kick in properly subconsciously triggers your idea to "kick it off" by smoking some weed, just in time for the actual effects to start?

More likely though, you were just coming up slower than normal, either due to tolerance, slow metabolism, or some other factor - since weed tends to boost the effects of most psychedelics, smoking would cause the come up to accelerate, causing you to feel the effects earlier. I'm positive if you didn't smoke the effects would have hit you just fine, albeit maybe a little later :)
 
I don't think tolerance is the issue here. Very first time I ate some shrooms I didn't trip but a few nights later I ate some and smoked and I tripped pretty hard.
 
You probably have shitty acid and shrooms. A q of mushies should blast you to space without any weed. And 3 hits of quality L should also have you utterly fucked.
 
^ agreed. i had 2 tabs of strong cid and had an intense trip without weed, a good one though. (:
 
It makes me hallucinate visually more, but i dont need it to trip. It only takes a small piece of mushrooms for me to trip hard. Waay less then a quarter, like gram and a half of the ones i've been eating recently is more than enough usually to get me completely out of it..
 
I dont like mixing weed and acid, it fucks up my headspace. Clean acid is far too clean for the likes of many strains out there. But then again, perhaps its just me.
 
I always make sure to have enough weed around before tripping. The experience just isn't the same without it.
When coming down the good ol' herd helps me get the last bits of psychedelia out before the trip's completely over, and more than once it's also started things up when I've had a "This shit ain't working" -moment.
Funny enough it's also helped me tone things down when the going has been too rough. Once or twice it's also seemed like smoking almost put a stop to a milder trip (which wasn't the goal at the time). Makes one wonder about the different substances it contains, and how different strains differ from each other.

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Maybe you should try a slightly larger dose than before, and wait longer than you have before toking. That would rule out the possibilities that you have a slow metabolism or a high natural tolerance against certain drugs. Trying something that doesn't have a cross-tolerance with acid/shrooms might also be a way to go.
 
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