Been hitting ~5% THC-P pens for a few weeks then smoked actual bud....... Bro it lowkey did take like 2 grams to get me on my ass no lie.... If it was normal carts, i would have been faded off a few hits of the blunt.
This is fascinating to me, when you say ~5% THC-P pen are you talking about something you purchased? And was the flower analyzed at all? I've used flower from farms I trust, measured in analytical labs staffed by folks I know personally, and after consuming THC-P I would always play with this thing people on the internet said about how it rendered flower useless, and I got profoundly inconsistent results just comparing THC-P <-> THCa. I'm saying THCa too because flower does not contain a meaningful amount of THC, it's still the carboxylic acid, hence why you need to heat it or decarb it to induce the typically desired psychoactivity. The THC-P I was using was initially delta 8, and later I worked with delta 9 THC-P, the difference was not very noticeable at the potency/mg that you find in THC-P.
The flower that I found to be somewhat "immune" to tolerance formation from either pure THCa diamonds or THC-P always had a pretty high ratio of "ensemble" compounds relative to THCa. If you find yourself working with reasonably well analyzed material in the future (both the THC-P distillate as well as the flower), keep some notes and let us know if you notice anything similar.
Off topic but when I was trying all the various "smoke shop noids", I absolutely loved THC-O-acetate. I had the distillate and one drop on a cookie was good. It had a nice stony high which took hours to hit but lasted *quite a long time. However, after even 2-3 days of use it took me tons of regular flower to get high. Had to take a t-break.
That was when I pretty much decided that the smoke shop noids were not for me. They all jacked up tolerance quickly to various degrees with various mechanisms to do so. Tolerance to flower goes up waaay more slowly. (I knew peeps doing grams of D8 a day)
But, I do still look back on that THC-O-acetate fondly.
I never sourced cannabinoids from smoke shops, just labs, were you getting this disty from a smoke shop? I've never seen them move just like a straight syringe or vial but I would expect it's inevitably occurred at some point. It's crazy funny how many times people would make the classic "oh this ain't shit, that's a
smoke shop cannabinoid" mistake as far as redosing THC-O acetate infinitely until they eventually feel the first dose and realize the magnitude of mistake they've made. I've never noticed THC-O acetate whether vaporized or oral escalate tolerances in myself or anyone I've given it to (easily 50+ so far) and it's the primary thing I was paying attention to, since everybody online acts like any cannabinoid-containing drug other than straight flower annihilates tolerance. Did you have any analytical data on the batches of disty and flower you consumed, and did you keep a doselog? I can go from dabbing 2+ grams of THCa diamonds a day to smoking flower and be completely incapacitated off of 2-3g of flower, which even at 30% THCa content would be at best ~half as much. This is super consistent for people I've tested this on too, THC-P-O consistently induced a wild tolerance in folks though. It also took no less than 4 days to wrap up, even in miniscule doses, it's kind of a weird outlier. Even oral administrations of MDMB-4en-PINACA didn't affect my flower tolerance, but I never had anybody else testing that one.
Were your friends who were consuming grams of D8 a day vaporizing it? As a division 1 dabber, I can vouch for that being genuinely a Herculean feat.
Also everybody I know who's used THC-O looks at it fondly, it's such a slept on compound that gets unfairly demonized imo.
