Lol yes I realize this is just a suggestion to replace on substance with another. But, I find that that always helps me reset when I get really in the hole with edibles. It’s a quiet, subtle way to reset your thinking and make you question why you act the way you do and whether there’s a new way forward.
Aug 27, 2024
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been on a smoking break to be kind to my sensitive tonsils and shroom gummies and chocolates have been That Girl. Nibblin on them all night then I’m like woah. everything is A Bit Transformed
Mar 2, 2024
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My weed intake really picked up for a while after the start of the pandemic, especially as it became legalized where I live soon after. I was definitely using it as a way of coping with stress, anxiety, and depression — and I was using alcohol in this way too. It was a way to feel silly or loose when I wasn’t otherwise feeling that way.
Last year, I cut my alcohol consumption to near zero (I’ve had a handful of drinks in the past year) and weed use has slowly followed. I didn’t like that my weed consumption got me into vaping 😤, the expense it added to my budget and, even moving fully to edibles, it triggers some stuff with my eating disorder. I still take a gummy from time to time, but I try to be really conscious of my usage.
Instead, I’ve meditated more and tried to go on walks/runs as a way of de-stressing rather than just masking the stress with intoxicants.
Apr 16, 2025
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unlike other people here I've had bad trips and bad highs and not been totally turned off of weed. but like all good things for me, it's incredibly specific and conditionial. mostly because I am actually, medically hypersensitive. everything I take and do is in comparatively small doses and my experience will peak at a certain dose and then nosedive from there.
I started with like 25mg edibles and had a great time for a long time. eventually worked myself into reverse tolerance over the course of a bad year. not a huge deal, I just started doing it once a month again, or longer. and it really wasn't a hard transition for me. but one time when I was in my longest tolerance break I was offered half an edible and went yeah sure. um it was 50mg of a strain I already didn't like. I had fun for five minutes and then for three hours I couldn't talk and vertigo was so bad I couldn't move. wanted to throw up but I couldn't move a muscle in my body. and all I could see was stars in my vision. for the first time on weed I was actually tripping too. it's the only time I've been high that I remember extremely vividly y'know. thought I was gonna die the whole time.
that traumatized me for a while and even then it took me a bit to finally stop all together. weed isn't addictive but my body was begging for something and that's all I knew. but nowadays I've found alternatives for everything but pain and the high itself, mainly adrenal suppliments and even then there's aleve and shit.
I didn't think there's any risk to using edibles but apparently if you're chronically ill or getting reverse tolerance a green out can get really intense and actually be dangerous. but I think the "high" and "experienced user" amounts are 1. subjective and 2. kind of wild. even a 2mg edible can get me a good time so it's best to accept and learn that trying to achieve some kind of heroic dose of weed of all things is dumb. it doesn't do anything after a certain amount I promise.
I mostly take edibles for pain because I don't want to be too dissociated. or I bump with other things for the fun of it. but I prefer to do it alone and make a little ritual out of it. it doesn't feel like a "party drug" to me it feels like the only way to get my body to relax a little yk
Apr 17, 2025
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