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I quit smoking weed habitually but now can't seem to enjoy it occasionally

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for years i used to talk about how greeat it would be if i could just smoke weed occaionally without it always turning into a habitual addiction for me, which is always what happened.

however now i am finally at that point where i dont want to smoke weed every night and can just smoke 1-2 times a month. the problem is, i actually think its more enjoyable to smoke every night.

when i smoke now, i get too high. Its like an LSD trip but with less mental clarity and then when I come down I get terrible munchies and feel the effects into the next day. It almost seems not worth it to smoke anymore.
 
Laughed my ass off reading this. Same thing happens to me.

I usually smoke a gram a day for a week then maybe stop for another and then go back to smoking.
Previously I smoked about a gram a day for two weeks. Then I had to search for a new dealer for about three and when I finally smoked again I thought I was on a ton of acid. I was hallucinating like crazy and felt like I was warping through space. But, I sort of like this type of high once in a while.

So, I agree with you, sometimes I get way to high because of this, but it goes back to normal in a few days after I keep smoking. But obviously the only solution to this is to just smoke less, which isn't that hard. So if you plan on keeping your smoking schedule like this then just smoke less. You're going to be a lot less tolerant than you were when you were smoking every night. So maybe if you used to smoke two bowls, just smoke one, if you smoked one, smoke half, find your sweet spot for only smoking two times a month.

Cheers.
 
I reckon that habitual (or reformed habitual) smokers totally forget how intense being really high on weed can be. I enjoy that feeling but only occaisionally. I smoke most days and still get very stoned but I don't ingest all that much so my tolerance is staying relatively low. But, when I do end up getting really high, I find it pretty hard to control my thinking and can spiral into focusing on how shit my life is, etc. which is tedious and not exactly relaxing.

Once or twice a month is probably almost indistinguishable from not smoking at all in terms of tolerance. Weed is way more powerful than we might concede. :)
 
i ran into the same problem, i guess some people can handle it but for me it's all or nothing (daily or never). i got sick of 'getting fucked up' years ago and so vaping was the perfect solution, now i just do maintenance doses and treat it like the medicine that it is at lower doses. dosing before a workout helps me push myself further physically, and when i'm really burnt from working on a problem and keep hitting a wall a dose gives me the second wind i need to get right back to the problem even when i felt totally exhausted minutes earlier. i think if more people came around to the benefits of using herb medicinally instead of chasing highs, it would be less stigmatized because it would become difficult to distinguish those who use from those who don't. i think there's a real opportunity to set the stage for a paradigm shift in the way the world sees cannabis use, but the lazy stoner stereotype needs to be swept away first.
 
God please don't think that's a bad thing. Smoking anything is fucking terrible, I ran cross country and track in high school and then I found weed,tripped dick, and was hooked for literally a couple years, I recently quit 3 months ago and since then I've taken like 2 dabs and I'm so happy now. I love getting high as dick and my dreams have come back. Just to preface it was really hard for me to quit just because of social presence of cannabis and because I deal. I've taken MDMA, 2cb, LSD, dextroamphetamine, Xanax, Valium, modafinil, DMT, morphine, and I only did the majority of those things literally a handful of times over the course of 3 years(besides adderall I had like 20 caps of that). Cannabis is the only thing that ever lead to a pattern of substance abuse and it makes me happy when I see people who have the balls to stop. Don't change a thing bro.
 
i just come off of a 6 months break, ( a few days shy, but i got my medical lisence so said fuck it, 5 and a half months is fine,
When i started smoking again i would have maybe .05 of a gram , and be blitzed off my mind,
i think the biggest part of this equation is how potent cannabis really is without a tolerance and what you experienced was technically an overdose,
some people there is a fine line, where 0.01 more of a gram can send you "One toke over the line", this can lead to an almost hallucinogenic, and quite psychedelic trip,
if you smoke a whole .5 joint or something, unless you have a tolerance you are basically wasting weed, its all about dose titration
 
burn out said:
for years i used to talk about how greeat it would be if i could just smoke weed occaionally without it always turning into a habitual addiction for me, which is always what happened.

however now i am finally at that point where i dont want to smoke weed every night and can just smoke 1-2 times a month. the problem is, i actually think its more enjoyable to smoke every night.

when i smoke now, i get too high. Its like an LSD trip but with less mental clarity and then when I come down I get terrible munchies and feel the effects into the next day. It almost seems not worth it to smoke anymore.
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My father who is 61 believes in weekly smoking. Taking one good bong rip of some good chronic and holding it in and sitting a chillin until he decides to take another hit or not, me on the other hand, I used to twist multiple cigarillos daily and finally stopped and now I'm at a point where a couple hits gets me legit.
 
Long term stoner here. over the last few months I've slowed right down to maybe a half g a day from 10+ years of anywhere between 2 - 7 gs a day and tbh recently Ill hit a bowl and it'll feel the same as what you're describing, sometimes even detached or anxious.. too high. Weed has for sure become more potent over the years, I'm not sure if thats what it is, or a chemical or mental reaction after smoking for so long, maybe even changes in whats going on in your life. But definitely not how I used to feel.
 
Yea im slowing down too will be turning 30 this year been smoking habitually since I was 11 and I just can't handle as much of it as I used too. I do dab 3 times a day and find that much more rewarding than smoking flower. I mean even some insane kosher Kush strain ain't doing much. I know dabbing ruins your tolerance but it does in the end make me smoke less weed during the day. 1 dab and I feel MEDICATED like nothing else. The wax really feels like medicine to me.
 
Some advice : drink kava kava the nights before you plan to have a smoke sesh. And drink lots of kava on the night as well. It will make the high a lot more euphoric and it will eliminate anxiety/paranoia so you can enjoy the trippy feeling of being SUPER high without being freaked out by it. Further it adds a lot of mental clarity to the high.

There's a good thread about kava kava not sure if it's on DF or BL but I will come back and link it later when I am less stoned :)
 
Same thing happens to me. When I'm smoking everyday, I barely get stoned. Especially if I'm smoking a few times each day. After a few days of not smoking. I get crazy stoned after one bowl.

The solution is to just smoke less. Lately, I've been on a weed binge. However, normally, I smoke only a few times a year. All I need is one or two hits out of a small chillum. It's the perfect high.
 
In my opinion, building a tolerance to cannabis is partly the point of the drug. A bit like a reverse addiction; the "withdrawal" effects are desirable. I vaporize a bit of cannabis almost every day, yet I don't enjoy any of the acute effects of being stoned. I do it because I feel soothed and energized once it wears off.

If you only use it very occasionally, you don't give your body and mind a chance to acclimate to the cannabinoids, which is half the fun.

Of course, people that take it to an extreme get physically addicted to the point of having negative withdrawal symptoms like poor appetite, irritability, boredom, etc.


thujone said:
i think if more people came around to the benefits of using herb medicinally instead of chasing highs, it would be less stigmatized because it would become difficult to distinguish those who use from those who don't.
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Seems true enough. It would also be difficult to distinguish recreational from medicinal use. They're not mutually exclusive, just like eating for pleasure and eating for nutrition can be done simultaneously.

i think there's a real opportunity to set the stage for a paradigm shift in the way the world sees cannabis use, but the lazy stoner stereotype needs to be swept away first.
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It certainly seems like it's happening already, at least here in California.
 
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thujone said:
i ran into the same problem, i guess some people can handle it but for me it's all or nothing (daily or never). i got sick of 'getting fucked up' years ago and so vaping was the perfect solution, now i just do maintenance doses and treat it like the medicine that it is at lower doses. dosing before a workout helps me push myself further physically, and when i'm really burnt from working on a problem and keep hitting a wall a dose gives me the second wind i need to get right back to the problem even when i felt totally exhausted minutes earlier. i think if more people came around to the benefits of using herb medicinally instead of chasing highs, it would be less stigmatized because it would become difficult to distinguish those who use from those who don't. i think there's a real opportunity to set the stage for a paradigm shift in the way the world sees cannabis use, but the lazy stoner stereotype needs to be swept away first.
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Could not have said it better myself. I consider myself on a maintenance dose.
 
I more or less had the same issue with MJ and there really was not much room to adjust the dose down lower. Even a few hits would get me REALLY high and then it would just wear off quicker. It's a moderate psychadelic for me these days and I really enjoy using it, but I know better than to use it in the wrong setting. I've been able to direct my trip on it better more recently and this has led to more pleasurable social experiences and things of that nature. Previously I just absolutely had to do it alone if my tolerance was down. Eventually, you will grow accustomed (at least I did) to the more intense feelings and know what to expect. This will give you the space to navigate the mental aspect of it.

Cheeers
 
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