Basically what it says on the can: why do you use weed? Are you a purely recreational user? Do you use for medical purposes, with or without a prescription? Do you use for a mental health condition? We’re all probably some blend of these. What’s your use case?
Personally, I do use cannabis medicinally to help me sleep. Neither weed nor melatonin cuts it alone, but weed and quick dissolve melatonin is just the right thing. I also use for recreational purposes. It’s just fun to do things stoned. I also use heavily for religious/spiritual reasons. I’m a Discordian, and keeping a flexible mind full of doubt is important to that. Weed is helpful in resisting the siren call of comforting certainty. As a casual psychedelic, it keeps me thinking in interesting ways.
To get high
Cuz I’m tired of raw dogging life.
I’ve had a complicated relationship with cannabis my whole life. When I was younger, every time I tried it, I didn’t care for it. Then I started hearing about medical use, and I thought it was just an excuse to get high (which I was 100% in favor of, I’ve never been a Prohibitionist). Then came my injury. I tried again and still didn’t like it, nor did it seem to help.
Years go by, and a friend brought me some edibles from CO after they legalized it, and I found at a low dose, I could get significant pain relief with little to no high, and I’ve been a daily user since then. After a while, I learned to appreciate the feeling, so I indulge in it occasionally as well.
I’m glad you found a mode of use that works well for you! If the THC is what makes you uncomfortable, you could try ratio edibles with more CBD/CBG/CBN than THC. They’ll all help with the pain relief while helping tone down the effects of the THC. The CBN might make you feel more stoned, but it’s a potent sleep aid and muscle relaxer, so it might also calm you enough to counteract THC induced anxiety.
Ive been taking cannabis for about 20 years. Moved to a state with a medical program. “Doctor” gave me a rx for “arthritis”. Finally get health insurance. See real doctor. Diagnosed with arthritis.
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Sometimes, you just want to feel the movie differently. Or combine THC high with a runners high and feel light as a feather. Or to give yourself the courage to mix up lunch and try a fried spam, cheese, Sriracha honey sauce Eggo sandwich.
Or you’ve been meaning to clean the whole house with that album you’ve been meaning to hear blasting from your pocket.
Or sometimes, I do nothing at all in a comfy chair outside by the bird feeder. Just watch the clouds spin overhead and dream of where you are in the universe. Or stare at yourself. Or empty your mind entirely and just breathe. Or listen.
No one knows when weed is getting in the way of life instead of augmenting it better than you. Enjoy responsibly, my friends!
brb I have a sandwich to make
lmao it’s unironically a go-to for me now.
Fry some spam
Sandwich it in 2 eggos. Cheese. Sriracha-honey sauce.
Throw that removed in an air fryer
chefs kiss
Dammit I was just thinking about this Filipino place that makes these bomb pork belly sammies and amazing garlic rice. I don’t know if Thursday is eat out for dinner night this week or Friday is but you just made our decision easy, dude. Thanks.
Poetry
Primarily to manage chronic pain, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t just love being high
It regulates my GI system/nervous system. It gives me appetite. It provides pain relief. It provides anxiety relief. It helps me sleep.
It’s also fun and I love rec use. But I use it a lot for its medicinal value. I’m disabled FWIW and usually on a lower therapy dose throughout the day. edit:grammar
I’m super jealous of people who have a “medicated not intoxicated” point with thc. Even with my monster tolerance, any thc sends my executive function right out the window. I can see so many paths, but I can’t pick one. I can get some low stakes stuff done with thc in my system, but I gotta stay sober to be seriously productive.
I was psychologically and emotionally abused by someone with the same personality disorder as Donald Trump, but much more intelligent.
I use cannabis to numb the constant pit in my stomach that makes everything gloomy and nothing positive. Otherwise, I’d be constantly spacing out in derealisation. Cannabis helps me focus on life, positive things, my work, my wife, my responsibilities.
It’s no miracle cure, but it helps me be a productive and positive person easier.
I have absolutely been there. Hell, I still occasionally spend a day or two there. Long story short, my parents are bad people. Cannabis helps lubricate my brain so I can work it into less painful formations. For me, it also lets my brain slip and slide into bad formations. I usually stick to CBG during the day. I’m so fucking productive with some CBG in me. You’re doing the right thing. Just keep moving forward and stay in control.
Is it CBG flower? I am intrigued.
I get isolate and put it in capsules. I usually take ~200mg with breakfast and lunch on work days. It makes me a weed selling machine!
Do you just buy CBG isolate online?
Yeah. There are several websites that sell it. I’ve been using HC8.
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When I’m toking solo it’s nearly always medical use. I’m an extremely heavy user now that the years of hard wear on my body have left me with a multitude of problems that are only treatable with “pain management.” Opioids are awful and weed has become a welcome replacement for them in my life. I was never addicted to them but the on again off again use causes me horrible withdrawal symptoms that are worse than the conditions they are meant to treat. Weed doesn’t have that effect on me.
Recreational use really only happens at social gatherings for me. If a friend and I get together or we have a get together with friends or family I always make sure I bring more than enough for everyone so that no one is left out and everyone can get what it takes for some relief.
Some don’t partake at all, some use it medicinally, some people just like to be high. It’s not my place to judge, just be respectful and live and let live.
I have two primary use cases for pot. I use it with my wife to have a great time, enjoy takeout after the kids go to bed, laugh like maniacs, and have a little adult fun. It keeps us connected when life gives us little alone time. That usually happens weekly. We also like to take mini vacations without the kids to cities where it is legal and explore while baked.
Many other nights of the week, I use cannabis without her to keep my sanity. My family consists of multiple autistic people with competing needs, and my job is to balance those needs so we can operate as a unit. It is exhausting. By night I generally feel a lot of emotional exhaustion, and physical pain also creeps in from multiple chronic health issues from over the years. Pot kills the pain, and it pins my emotions to happy. I can relax and have an hour or two to feel like all is right with the world.
I constantly monitor myself for addiction. I avoid using some nights just to ensure I can. I do not want to have to stop this thing that brings me joy during hard times. I am getting a little worried about my increasing tolerance, but I am trying to watch that as well.
So I use it as a reward for when I’m productive, or as a way to ease anxiety. But not every time, as my family has a long history of addiction on both sides of my family. I know I’m prone to it from my hobbies that can involve loot crates/card packs.
But I try to have a self made and followed rule of “If I’m going to be a stoner, I’m going to be a productive stoner.” So did I do my medical appointments? Organize my weeks chores? Then it’s a probably.
I just try to not make it a coping mechanism for myself, as if I did it every time I felt shitty or great, I’d be rewarding my bipolar with weed. It’s a tool for me as much as it is to make myself feel better.
To just relax (indica) and it can knock me out if i hit the vape just before bed.
I guess I could mention that I almost never use THC during the day. Getting high for too long or on and off through the day messes with my head. I like some CBG on work days or when I have things to do, but thc is almost exclusively a nighttime affair, especially as the nights grow long for winter.
I’ve been curious about CBG. I got my friend a CBG pre roll and he said it made him anxious, guessing he smoked too much of it. But the dude used to fuck with meth so I was surprised.
Idk about CBG flowers. There are, in theory, flowers that are naturally high in CBG. But it could also have been hemp flower sprayed with CBG in a carrier. It’s a powder when isolated, so idk how they get it onto flowers in any sort of regular distribution. Either way, I prefer mine in isolate edible form. I get it by the jar (from HC8 the last few times) and fill capsules. It’s honestly a huge deal for my ADHD. I’m ridiculously sharp with some CBG in me.
Oh nice I’ll check out the edibles. And no it was Circles strain from a trusted vendor, no spray.
Was it an online vendor? I’d be interested in proper CBG flowers, but I’d have to basically start my research from zero, so I just put a little isolate in my bowls when I want the blend xd
Good ol flow gardens. Yeah they grow a strain called Circles that is CBG dominant. Pretty cool stuff.
I use it for sleep. But even indica kind of wakes me up before making me tired. Like thc clicks with my brain differently, haven’t figured out if it’s a good thing or not. I want to say it is.
Oohh. Sounds like you need to get deeper, look at the specific terps and minor cannabinoids that you’re getting. What strains have you been trying?
My favorites are blue cheese #23, Bordeaux and gg #4, but I’ve been hitting this strawberry wine x sour space glue vape. And sometimes the gorilla cake vape but that’s just for flavor, it is delicious.
I’ll have to look into some of those. The only one of those we regularly get in my market is GG4. It stars the big three terps: Caryophyllene, Myrcene, and Limonene. Look for more Myrcene, Linalool, Nerolidol, and Humulene heavy strains for sleep. Terpinoline can go either way, but does work well for sleep when paired with other sleepy terps. I avoid Limonene when I can help it. It tends to make me anxious and fuck with my sleep in large amounts, but it’s in fucking everything -_-
All good info. That gorilla cake is super high in linalool and I love it, just unfortunate it’s so low in thc. Or maybe not, it tastes too good and I’d get blasted lol
I stick to the type 2 stuff, just order it online.
Oh I’m jealous. I would love some type 2 flowers, but nobody in the Missouri rec market is growing any. I try to keep abreast of local and regional companies and can’t afford to get both new local flowers AND order type 2 flowers online. I will continue to harass every grower and higher up I come across for type 2, though.
How much is it locally? It’s $10 a gram online but gets cheaper the more you buy.
About the same, depending on brand. But I get a good discount on anything we sell at work. It lets me afford better flowers than we otherwise could. As much weed as we go through, that discount is an important part of our budget and my compensation. I also just discovered that I can put a pinch of CBD isolate into the Volcano with some fresh flowers! That’s a game changer!
