invictius Posted July 16, 2022 I actually avoided it until later in life, and my plug even said "Most people start this when you're younger, you know" but I tried it and it was beneficial. If I need to stay up longer than I normally could, I could do it. It might even help me working for the first time ever. But it's still mostly illegal here, and doctors are only able to prescribe cbd, which is still cannabis but not the kind that makes you high. Out of a million people, only ten have a prescription though. Keeps me regular, too. Blackmetalchainsaw told me about what acid was like, but virtually unobtainium where I'm from. We don't even have cocaine. 1 Share this post Link to post
ducon Posted July 16, 2022 I prefer talking about illegal drugs than buying them and giving money to mafias. 1 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted July 16, 2022 I have developed a dependency on cannabis, which has proven helpful in keeping my mood balanced. I've had mental health issues my entire life and over the last 20 years, it's been helpful in getting rid of a lot of bad energy. Psychedelics of course are also helpful in that regard. 2 Share this post Link to post
Bauul Posted July 16, 2022 It's been legal where I live for a few years now. Comparatively where I grew up it's still illegal, and I noticed a few interesting effects: I never smell it out and about any more, because you're only allowed to smoke in privately Smoking it at all has really fallen in popularity. People are far more likely to eat it, either as standalone gummies or as a baking ingredient. A lot of people I know do it very casually, like one gummy once every other week or so. Alcohol is still more popular The shipping experience is rather high-brow. Lots of hands on sales assistants asking you lots of questions about what kind of high you want and matching specific strains to your needs. It's quite in-depth. All in all I'd say it's been a success here. 3 Share this post Link to post
MFG38 Posted July 16, 2022 If there are any Canadians here in the know (or anyone else), I'd be curious to know what the legal status of cannabis is in Canada at the moment. I know it kinda goes back and forth between legal and illegal - last I heard, I think it was criminalized again sometime in the mid-2010s. Can anyone confirm or am I talking out of my ass? 0 Share this post Link to post
Chopkinsca Posted July 16, 2022 I just do edibles most days that I have nothing else going one. I do them in the afternoon/evening, so it's not like I'm getting high all day every day. I do what I've heard is quite a low dose of THC in the edibles, but they do a good job on me. I like them because they are cheap and there is no smoke to seep out into my apartment building's hallways. 47 minutes ago, MFG38 said: If there are any Canadians here in the know (or anyone else), I'd be curious to know what the legal status of cannabis is in Canada at the moment. I know it kinda goes back and forth between legal and illegal - last I heard, I think it was criminalized again sometime in the mid-2010s. Can anyone confirm or am I talking out of my ass? It has been legal here for quite a few years now. I think you are limited to buying/carrying 30 grams, but that is probably more than enough for anyone. 1 Share this post Link to post
Solmyr Posted July 16, 2022 (edited) I used to smoke pot when i was 16 until i quit it 10 years later or so, it made me felt a kind of relaxation that no benzodiazepine could which just partially sedated me and made me felt sleepy but worries and dread were still lurking in the back of my mind. Unlike weed which just made me felt like i took a back seat to my life and nothing truly mattered. I decided to quit it because i didn't know edibles and low THC weed was a thing and also because smoking anything eventually causes cancer and also burns alveolar sacks which doesn't regenerate ever so permanent diminished lung capacity. Also because i met with a former childhood friend that went from a charismatic kid and great storyteller, to a homeless con artist street magician plagued by paranoid delusions. He told me he consumed weed religiously (he didn't need to because his particular stench masked his body odor) and the kind of weed you get illegally from the streets of my country is of very low quality and mixed with god knows what (basically the crack version of weed) it's not even local, i believe it's imported from Paraguay but i don't quite remember, different from the weed i used to get (or so i delude myself to believe it) and also different from the domestic legal kind, but still made me quit. 2 Share this post Link to post
invictius Posted July 17, 2022 21 hours ago, Solmyr said: I used to smoke pot when i was 16 until i quit it 10 years later or so, it made me felt a kind of relaxation that no benzodiazepine could which just partially sedated me and made me felt sleepy but worries and dread were still lurking in the back of my mind. Unlike weed which just made me felt like i took a back seat to my life and nothing truly mattered. I decided to quit it because i didn't know edibles and low THC weed was a thing and also because smoking anything eventually causes cancer and also burns alveolar sacks which doesn't regenerate ever so permanent diminished lung capacity. Also because i met with a former childhood friend that went from a charismatic kid and great storyteller, to a homeless con artist street magician plagued by paranoid delusions. He told me he consumed weed religiously (he didn't need to because his particular stench masked his body odor) and the kind of weed you get illegally from the streets of my country is of very low quality and mixed with god knows what (basically the crack version of weed) it's not even local, i believe it's imported from Paraguay but i don't quite remember, different from the weed i used to get (or so i delude myself to believe it) and also different from the domestic legal kind, but still made me quit. Would you mind me asking which country you're from? I've never heard of it being mixed with other things in other countries until now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Solmyr Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, invictius said: Would you mind me asking which country you're from? I've never heard of it being mixed with other things in other countries until now. No, i don't. I'm from Uruguay, but that's a common belief here about Paraguayan weed, probably an urban legend, but what's certain is that it's of lesser quality than home grown weed and the one that's legally sold. It has a darker color, feels more grainy to the touch and a much stronger smell with a faint musty aroma mixed in when smoked. Edited July 17, 2022 by Solmyr 1 Share this post Link to post
7Mahonin Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) It’s legal where I live for both medicinal and recreational, as it should be. Only weed noobs get really high to the point that they’re brain dead. Once you’ve become a habitual user it is more like a powerful buzz because of your tolerance levels and you can function as normal while under the influence. Sadly, people who don’t smoke don’t know or understand this and think it’s a much harder drug than it actually is or they believe the movies like Nightmare 5 where weed makes you trip out, or they still believe what their health ed teacher told them in high school that one puff will kill you and turn you into a terrorist or whatever. In other words, I don’t know of any stoners who have drove while high and caused a major accident. I know plenty of drunks who have ruined their lives and the lives of others for driving while drunk, though, but that’s totally fine because it isn’t a scary narcotic. Now, psychedelics like mushrooms or acid, those are much different from weed. You can’t overdo weed by smoking it, maybe you can get overly stoned with edibles but you’ll be fine overall, but you can definitely go overboard with psychedelics and that’s 5-7 hours you’re going to be messed up. If you’re a loner and have no friends or family that can *physically* trip sit you, then don’t fucking do them. For your first time at least, you need someone there to help keep you in reality. It isn’t like it is in the movies though, either, but it can get intense and no trip is the same from one to the next regardless of dosage. These are the kinds of drugs you should not do if you have to drive or go out in public. These are more for doing in a group with friends in a safe space where you know you can sit for long periods of time without needing to worry about getting up. You’ll also want to make sure the next day you have nothing to do because these drugs give you a hungover feeling the next day when you wake up. Edited July 17, 2022 by 7Mahonin 3 Share this post Link to post
Murdoch Posted July 17, 2022 Never touched it. I find the smell utterly vile, even worse than tobacco which i already find quite terrible. 5 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Murdoch said: Never touched it. I find the smell utterly vile, even worse than tobacco which i already find quite terrible. Having not touched it...what exactly do you register as "vile" about it? 0 Share this post Link to post
Murdoch Posted July 17, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Koko Ricky said: Having not touched it...what exactly do you register as "vile" about it? Uh... i literally said in quite plain English what i find vile. The smell. Not sure what is unclear about that? Edited July 17, 2022 by Murdoch 4 Share this post Link to post
out_of_service Posted July 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Murdoch said: Never touched it. I find the smell utterly vile, even worse than tobacco which i already find quite terrible. You and me both my guy. 3 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted July 18, 2022 3 hours ago, Murdoch said: Uh... i literally said in quite plain English what i find vile. The smell. Not sure what is unclear about that? My mistake, I sometimes misread sentences, I somehow missed the word "smell." 1 Share this post Link to post
heliumlamb Posted July 18, 2022 i had an opiate problem that peaked around 13 years ago. i was with someone who would, at the time, get violently angry at the mention of any mind altering substance. except alcohol, go figure! with some sort of threat coming from them almost daily i figured i would do something that didn't leave a noticeable smell as to not set them off. big mistake, but thankfully i never started doing h like i, for some forsaken reason, wanted to. my friends that went down that path probably knew to keep me away from it because i would probably have stopped breathing and beating at some point, possibly even multiple times. almost anyone here knows a person who knows someone that has lost their life to opiates. delta 9 thc will never do that. i didn't start smoking and eating cannabis until 6 years ago, in my early 20s. i can't say i've never wanted to do opis again but i absolutely have not done them since i started introducing thc and cbd into my body. when it comes to psychological pain, it's best to heal it rather than kill it, or else you will just cause more in yourself and others. cannabis has helped my mind begin to heal, and that includes some of the damage that stuff like opiates, alcohol and tobacco has caused within me. 1 Share this post Link to post
kwc Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) On 7/16/2022 at 10:22 AM, MFG38 said: If there are any Canadians here in the know (or anyone else), I'd be curious to know what the legal status of cannabis is in Canada at the moment. I know it kinda goes back and forth between legal and illegal - last I heard, I think it was criminalized again sometime in the mid-2010s. Can anyone confirm or am I talking out of my ass? It's been fully legal for 3-4 years now iirc. Dispensaries are everywhere in the town that I live in Ontario. I'm not familiar with cannabis being legal during the 2000's or otherwise, at the very least it may have been decriminalized, but it may also be a provincial thing. For what it's worth: from my perspective, chatting about it on a forum like this one wouldn't be too different than people chatting about their favourite beers or liquors etc. 2 Share this post Link to post
eargosedown Posted July 18, 2022 It's legal where I love. I started occasionally smoking a bit two years ago (I'm 30). It helps my ADHD and lets me focus. But I don't really enjoy being high much. My girlfriend smokes all the time to help here debilitating chronic pain. She gets kinda annoying when she's high though :/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted July 18, 2022 Sometimes I like to smoke while I’m working on things - maps, music, or any other sort of creative hobby. It occasionally gets me saying dumb shit though, so I generally keep my high time to myself (though if I’m with friends and someone decides to bust out a J, I’ll partake). I did have a friend who smoked way too much constantly, not to mention drinking constantly as well. He was always a pretty relaxed guy, but he actually had to quit smoking because he got himself this weird, rare stomach sickness that only happens when you have a metric ton of THC in your system from smoking like a chimney. Last time I saw him, the lack of weed made him become progressively more of an asshole as he got more and more drunk, starting an argument with his brother and me before I just left, sick of his garbage. Just wanted to mention it as a rare example of a person who smokes so much so frequently that it became detrimental to them. This is the exception though. Smoking a couple joints on the weekend isn’t gonna do a damn thing to 99.9% of people. 6 Share this post Link to post
Koko Ricky Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) I particularly enjoy what a good buzz does to the PS1 Doom soundtrack. Really easy to get lost in strange spaces. 3 Share this post Link to post
Kes Gaming YT Posted July 18, 2022 On 7/16/2022 at 2:58 AM, invictius said: I actually avoided it until later in life, and my plug even said "Most people start this when you're younger, you know" but I tried it and it was beneficial. If I need to stay up longer than I normally could, I could do it. It might even help me working for the first time ever. But it's still mostly illegal here, and doctors are only able to prescribe cbd, which is still cannabis but not the kind that makes you high. Out of a million people, only ten have a prescription though. Keeps me regular, too. Blackmetalchainsaw told me about what acid was like, but virtually unobtainium where I'm from. We don't even have cocaine. If you live in the States, and regular cannabis is illegal in your state, I'd recommend you check out Delta-8, and some of its variants. It's legal in several states, you can often even buy it in gas stations. That being said, you should do your research on a brand before trying it, there's little regulation and so some are FAR better than others. Like Get Lost Hemp. ;) 1 Share this post Link to post
invictius Posted July 19, 2022 14 hours ago, Kes Gaming YT said: If you live in the States, and regular cannabis is illegal in your state, I'd recommend you check out Delta-8, and some of its variants. It's legal in several states, you can often even buy it in gas stations. That being said, you should do your research on a brand before trying it, there's little regulation and so some are FAR better than others. Like Get Lost Hemp. ;) Not in the u.s unfortunately. I can't even get wax here. I hear it's far more efficient (Get higher quicker). 1 Share this post Link to post
Redneckerz Posted July 19, 2022 Smoked once or twice, did an edible once. I prefer edibles. It takes some time to set in, but when they do, its a really mellow vibe, which is what i would prefer anyway. i don't need much, and id do this only on special occassions (Say, a new years party). My fortitude is more with alcohol either way. 1 Share this post Link to post
Budoka Posted July 29, 2022 On 7/17/2022 at 8:33 PM, 7Mahonin said: It’s legal where I live for both medicinal and recreational, as it should be. Only weed noobs get really high to the point that they’re brain dead. I agree that it should be completely legalized, but certainly not because of how comparatively less dangerous it's supposed to be than other stimulants, I'd actually say that's an irrelevant point even if true. But, as ducon said, black market transactions make the bread and butter of violent gangsters, so the way I see it legalizing helps put a stop to that, and also prevents people from getting prosecuted for so-called "crimes" that don't have actual victims, besides perhaps those people themselves(which, while not a good thing, is none of law enforcement's business). But even if it were legal here, which I'll reiterate that I do agree would be for the better, I still wouldn't start consuming it nor encourage anyone else do so. In fact I would keep doing the exact opposite like I already do. That being said, I'll be the first to agree that getting yourself dead drunk on ethanol isn't any better of a plan, despite what a lot of people seemingly want to tell themselves. 1 Share this post Link to post
RandoBust Posted July 31, 2022 No interest in weed anymore. Used to smoke a lot back when I was in school but the paranoia really got to me and it stopped being fun. That was a long time ago. Only really curious about CBD now. Apparently it's good at helping you relax without the crazy trip that THC can provide. Anyone have experience with it? 1 Share this post Link to post
Sonikkumania Posted July 31, 2022 On 7/18/2022 at 10:42 AM, Koko Ricky said: I particularly enjoy what a good buzz does to the PS1 Doom soundtrack. Really easy to get lost in strange spaces. Try the Quake 1 ost too. 1 Share this post Link to post
TheMagicMushroomMan Posted July 31, 2022 1 hour ago, RandoBust said: Only really curious about CBD now. Apparently it's good at helping you relax without the crazy trip that THC can provide. Tried several brands off the internet, never did anything for me. Then again, marijuana provides no benefit to me. 1 Share this post Link to post
Jello Posted July 31, 2022 I've never tried CBD, but multiple people have told me that it helps them sleep. They weren't interested in the high from THC, but just a few gummies helped them relax and fall asleep. I've been considering it myself, because I've been an insomniac all my life. I honestly don't know if it would benefit me, and everything I've heard is certainly not from a verifiable source, but it might be worth a shot. At this point I'm taking a diphenhydramine pill and a melatonin supplement to stay asleep for more than two hours. But I'd rather not have the side effects of THC either, I smoked enough when I was a teenager, and it never helped me sleep. It just made me paranoid and extremely aware of every single thing around me, so I couldn't sleep. 1 Share this post Link to post