My high tolerance - why do I have it?

[Pie_man]

So I read a lot of posts on this site and see about how much people smoke on a daily/weekly basis on the numerous "how much you smoke" threads along with the usual "tolerance" thread and I freak out at the results I find.

In my readings, I see people smoke 2x, 3x, 4x, hell, even 5x the amount I smoke in a week, and yet, my tolerance is through the roof and probably higher than most of you all. This is not something I want as you can all imagine.

So I did a little test last Saturday (7 days ago). I smoked a few bowls.

Method of usage: Glass bong
Bowl size: 0.2 grams
Interval between bowls: 10 minutes

Bowl #1: 2 medium hits
First 5 min: no effect
Next 5 min: I feel the weed affecting me SLIGHTLY. I can't pinpoint what I'm feeling but there is a slight difference than before smoking.

Bowl #2: 3 small hits
First 5 min: Feeling that slight difference, still can't pinpoint what it is.
Next 5 min: Feeling the same

Bowl #3: 2 medium hits
First 5 min: the same as before
Next 5 min: slight tingling feeling in my legs. (25 min after first bowl to feel something conclusive)

Bowl #4: 1 big hit, 1 very small hit
First 5 min: throat is burning from the big first hit of this bowl. Overall, still feeling the legs tingle a bit.
Next 5 min: Thoughts are coming and going a little, the tingling expanded to my feet.

Bowl #5: 3 small hits
First 5 min: Tingling expanded throughout my legs, arms, fingers, toes. Thoughts are coming and going. Chest is beginning to hurt a little.
Next 5 min: Tingling on the back of my neck and on top of my head. Feeling a screen over my eyes when I look around. Thoughts are coming and going rapidly now. Head is feeling cloudy. Stomach is growling a little.

Time spent: 1 hour
Weed smoked: 0.9g - 1.1g (~1g)

5 bowls for decent effects. Nothing spectacular.

Stopped smoking since the experiment. Today is 1 week after I did it, and tonight I will repeat the experiment to see what effect a 1 week break from cannabis will have on me.

Non-smoking methods tried in the past:

eating: 15-20 times. used a lot of bud to try and get fucked up, felt a mild high 4-5 times. about an ounce wasted in all those attempts.

lightbulb vaporizer: Don't own a real vape, tried this little piece of shit. smoked 2 "bowls" felt nothing. Made me look like a crack head too. 2 big thumbs down for this method.

Watch me get under 10 replies for this thread. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this thread and replying.

[FakeBoobsRule]

You're like Freud cataloging his drug experiences!

I really don't have that much to tell you except that tolerance can be lost with just a few days of abstinence.

[Pie_man]

You're like Freud cataloging his drug experiences!

I really don't have that much to tell you except that tolerance can be lost with just a few days of abstinence.

Hopefully.

[hanayama]

smoke better weed...

[Pie_man]

smoke better weed...

You think I haven't tried? That stupid question gets asked all the time. It's not the weed, it's me.

[nickz0r]

get ur hands on mk-ultra

[hanayama]

how about hash?

[smok3y]

Smoke more and better weed..

Or just stop smokin everyday..:jointsmile:

[hempstar]

Instead of taking 2-3 hits for 1 bowl..man up and start cashing in 1 hit..Its much easier if you use a grinder..i use a coffee grinder so the bowl burns easy

[Pie_man]

Instead of taking 2-3 hits for 1 bowl..man up and start cashing in 1 hit..Its much easier if you use a grinder..i use a coffee grinder so the bowl burns easy

I can't take huge hits, they fuck up my lungs for hours. I would though.

[HerbalConfusion]

Try tagamet

[Pie_man]

Try tagamet

what the hell is that?

[human8]

are you clearing that .2 gram bong hit? i could get a head rush from a .2 bong hit at least of twigs, I'm wondering if you deeply drag and if so and you still don't 'feel" anything, go get tested by
the fire department they can use your physiology to study how to reduce smoke damage because that is crazy and lame for you if you like getting high. I smoke about 5 grams a day and although some times i feel like its not getting me there, I always feel some head change. and I can take some monster bong hits, not that that matters, and I have smoked bud for over 20 years. Still
works for me. I'm glad I don't have your metabolism, i may have been a heroin addict!

[EmoRebellion]

Im with the people that say get better quality weed, or at least different weed. Different strains have different effects on people. If you are used to smoking the same stuff every day, it wouldnt hurt to mix it up.

[chrons]

You need better green that's all...

[mowie wowie]

Hey pie man, i hate to break it to you but from looking at the picture you posted, i can tell that the reason you aren't getting that high is because you have low quality weed. Keep lookin.

[silkyblue]

lilwylte your avatar is disgusting

[stonedD420]

i agree that is very disturbing :wtf:

[maxsuperdanks]

Not to be rude, but are you fat?

THC is fat soluble, also brain tissue is very fatty. So your high tollerace could stem from high body fat percentage. I find if I quit 2 days and take like 2 rips I'll be fucked, and I smoke like 2 grams of kind bud a day or more.

Thing is, I have very low bodyfat.

[MadSativa]

You're like Freud cataloging his drug experiences!



Blahaha. its like a list from Hunter S Thompson

[FeedmeWeed]

sounds like the first stages of depression to me.

A couple of years ago I went through the same thing, I had to smoke a lot more than my friends to get high, and even after long tolerance breaks I would not get very high. I even made posts just like yours and got very similar answers.

sadly they were all wrong :( and my depression got worse and worse until I nearly killed myself. go to a counselor or a doc and talk about it, dont be worried about being labeled or judged, your life is more important than your ego

[Pie_man]

Sorry for the long delay. Iâ??ve been busy with St.Patrickâ??s Day, family, girlfriend and that stuff. As I wrote down in a previous post, the results were better.

Glass Bong
0.2g bowl
5 bowls

Bowl #1: 1 big hit
First 5 min: No effect
Next 5 min: I feel slight effects but itâ??s really not a substantial difference.

Bowl #2: 2 hits
First 5 min: same effect as before
Next 5 min: feeling it creep up on me a little

Bowl #3: 3 tiny hits
First 5 min: still creeping up on me, took 3 small hits because of chest pains
Next 5 min: tingling is hitting me through out my body

Bowl #4: 2 hits
First 5 min: same effects as before
Next 5 min: hunger, rapid thoughts, tingling, slowness in movement (or at least feeling it)

Bowl #5: 1 big hit
First 5 min: same effects as before
Next 5 min: Confused feeling in the high, itâ??s like Iâ??m coming down from the first bowls but coming up from the last bowls, and the high is just swinging up and down making me feel dizzy and uncomfortable. The high is bearable, nothing intense; not as high as I would have liked to have been. I donâ??t have the giggles, I feel mellow but sober at the same timeâ?¦I canâ??t really explain it.

Amount smoked: 0.9g â?? 1.1g (~1gram)



Not to be rude, but are you fat?

Not at all.

[Acouwaila]

cannabis hits you as you take it....dont worry about it too much because the more you worry yourself the worse its gonna get...

its because when you smoke, you dont really wanna question how high you are...it just takes away from it....all tolerance is, is getting used to being high. If you smoke everyday and smoke everyday for a long time...what is high any more? its normal...

[shortman1124]

dude if you cant get high off a gram then maybe you need to step it up to more hardcore drugs. jk what i like to do is slam a heineken then take a few rips from the cheap plastic five foot bong. that always does the trick for me

[StickyfingahZ]

Looks like you got a real bad problem,When I found I had to use more weed to get me where I want to be,I tried going about a week without smoking....which was hard,cause my back pains are a killer.But it worked.
Hve you tried vaporizing? t you would use less weed........If your like some of us and burn on a daily basis,thats alot of money to be burning away.If it takes you all this weed to get high,Using a vape,you sorta can use less to get the job done.

[maxsuperdanks]

So I read a lot of posts on this site and see about how much people smoke on a daily/weekly basis on the numerous "how much you smoke" threads along with the usual "tolerance" thread and I freak out at the results I find.

In my readings, I see people smoke 2x, 3x, 4x, hell, even 5x the amount I smoke in a week, and yet, my tolerance is through the roof and probably higher than most of you all. This is not something I want as you can all imagine.

So I did a little test last Saturday (7 days ago). I smoked a few bowls.

Method of usage: Glass bong
Bowl size: 0.2 grams
Interval between bowls: 10 minutes

Bowl #1: 2 medium hits
First 5 min: no effect
Next 5 min: I feel the weed affecting me SLIGHTLY. I can't pinpoint what I'm feeling but there is a slight difference than before smoking.

Bowl #2: 3 small hits
First 5 min: Feeling that slight difference, still can't pinpoint what it is.
Next 5 min: Feeling the same

Bowl #3: 2 medium hits
First 5 min: the same as before
Next 5 min: slight tingling feeling in my legs. (25 min after first bowl to feel something conclusive)

Bowl #4: 1 big hit, 1 very small hit
First 5 min: throat is burning from the big first hit of this bowl. Overall, still feeling the legs tingle a bit.
Next 5 min: Thoughts are coming and going a little, the tingling expanded to my feet.

Bowl #5: 3 small hits
First 5 min: Tingling expanded throughout my legs, arms, fingers, toes. Thoughts are coming and going. Chest is beginning to hurt a little.
Next 5 min: Tingling on the back of my neck and on top of my head. Feeling a screen over my eyes when I look around. Thoughts are coming and going rapidly now. Head is feeling cloudy. Stomach is growling a little.

Time spent: 1 hour
Weed smoked: 0.9g - 1.1g (~1g)

5 bowls for decent effects. Nothing spectacular.

Stopped smoking since the experiment. Today is 1 week after I did it, and tonight I will repeat the experiment to see what effect a 1 week break from cannabis will have on me.

Non-smoking methods tried in the past:

eating: 15-20 times. used a lot of bud to try and get fucked up, felt a mild high 4-5 times. about an ounce wasted in all those attempts.

lightbulb vaporizer: Don't own a real vape, tried this little piece of shit. smoked 2 "bowls" felt nothing. Made me look like a crack head too. 2 big thumbs down for this method.

Watch me get under 10 replies for this thread. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this thread and replying.

What makes you think your tollerance is higher than mine?




I wake up to a 1.75 gram joint of kind buds.

[SocialDem]

Sometimes my tolerance really gets to me too. I try to play mind games with myself to boost my high. One thing I do is after I'm done smoking and gone on to whatever else I like to visualize myself smoking the weed, as a memory, and just say to myself damn, that was a good bit of bud you just smoked. That seems to take my mind off the fact that I should be higher and it makes my high go up. Another issue is that when I first light up I already have it in my head that its gonna take me a whole bunch of weed to get high and that fucks with my head. So just build it up for yourself before you smoke tell yourself "man I'm bout to get fucked up!" I know it sounds stupid but if you get yourself in a n00b smokers mindset you'll have the n00b smokers high. :thumbsup:

[babyfaceisLEGAL]

First of all, I think you're over thinking this. You're making it way more serious than it actually is. Smoke better weed, and more of it. OR Stop smoking for a few weeks, than come back. Don't log your bowls and highs, it'll ruin it. Don't think about it so much and just do it..enjoy it..have fun with it..you're sucking the life outta something that should be enjoyable. If you aren't getting high and it's bothering you..stop smoking. Technically you're wasting your money.

[SativaCyborg]

mabey you just suck
*hehe*

[maxsuperdanks]

I laugh when kids who smoke schwag or commercial shit think their tollerance is high (Not saying the OP does or anything, I'm not making assumptions haha) then I smoke them out with some mk-ultra or some ridiculous shit (Stuff I have now smells remeniscent of sweet tea) and they pull a whitey and have to call in sick to work.

[Platinum Plus]

I think the best thing you can do is not think about if you're getting high.
In my opinion it just makes the buzz end faster, i know cause i have the same problem lol.
I got somethin with my stomach though so that's one reason but also i get to thinking about it and wonder if i'm satisfied really doesn't help :p.

[KattyG]

once new this geez that had super high tolerance, even after never smoking before we once shared a 2g joint of white widow and i was my usual selve and got proper baked whilst he was fine...
bet that f**ker didnt even inhale properly.:cursing: what a waste of good stuff.

[alexk1ng]

IMO, its all in your head. your trying to to evaluate it to much, just kick the fuck back and take some mean hits and let yourself feel it. the more you think about how high your not getting then the more its going to come reality. completely clear your mind when you smoke, and dont just think 'clear my mind,' you just have to do it. hard to explain lol. i know where your coming from man, i had the same problem for awhile.

in summary, dont think, just do.

hope i helped

edit: if you actually end up trying what i said and it doesnt work, put on some of your favorite music while your smoking and just think about the music, it helps bc you dont think about how high you are and out of nowhere itll just hit you and youll be blazed man.

[sweetganjababe]

I think it all depends on the person really. I can still get stoned easily, but it's just not the same high I used to get when I was a first timer and i've been trying to take breaks to get back to that awesome high. If you smoke often of course you're going to have a high tolerance. Maybe you should take a short break like 2-10 days and see how it goes after? It usually helps a bit. My boyfriend and I went to Florida last summer for 10 days without pot and we came back, smoked some 30s I had and were on the floor lol.

[Euphoric7]

Whoa, that's really strange indeed. Make sure you're smoking at least mids and take bigger hits and hold them in for around 4-5 seconds. Also, don't THINK about what's going on just LET it happen. It sometimes helps to think "I am gonna get SUPER baked" before you start smoking.

Good luck. Imagine if weed had reverse tolerance like another plant I know... :D

[The Great Wave]

smoke a gram joint all at once instead of a gram over an hour in 5 bowls.

[donsolo]

The great wave...salvia reference?

I've got a tolerance that makes my dealer cringe. (we'll share a blunt and halfway through he can't figure out why I'm not high yet...)

Vaporizing will give you a completely different high. You may love it, you may not, stop using a lightbulb and you probably didn't heat it enough.

As for quality, take a big breath of fresh air after you hit to cram that smoke deep down in your lungs and count to 10 while watching an imaginary movie of "we <3 Katamari" in your head.

And for god's sake, don't EAT THE STUFF, you have to get the THC to bond with fat molecules to be effective ingested.

Get a different strain, take a break every 3rd day, get a vaporizer with a digital thermostat, and pack it in with deep breaths of fresh air.

I have a friend that whenever we smoke, I'm completely whacked out and he's sitting there like "whatever, I don't feel a thing." I feel sorry for him. Placebo effect is super-important with this stuff, it's all about serotonin levels and if you're not in the headspace to produce the stuff, when you make the receptors more sensitive, it doesn't matter.

And quit thinking about your high, watch Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, smoke 2g as fast as you can (or vape) and you'll be blitzed.

I think that my size actually has reverse tolerance for me in that I've already built up the THC level in my body and stored it up so it doesn't take much to get to me anymore.

As for usage, I'll vape 2 bowls (about 1g each) over the course of the night and be seeing trails and other minor visuals by the end.

A beer or two will help too.

But most importantly, calm down, get in a good headspace and ENJOY it, don't analyze it.

[Robob420]

Thats what really pisses me off about bieng high like with other people that have only smoked a lil bit and they arent real "heads" and i smoke like 2- 3 grams and im off my face in a calm way and the jus stand trhere like oo im hard ive had one whole joint tonight and im fine

the best thing is to do it privately like go shopping while really really blitzed and try to hide it, its really really fun :thumbsup: :jointsmile:

[L Rag]

Bro, if you think you can't get high, then you wont.
If you stop focusing on complaining how you can't get high, and actually focus on relaxing and getting high and just forgettin about shit, then you should be sweet. Seriously, its all in your mind. And I don't mean just bud, everything is all in your mind. You can do anything, you can change anything with your mind bro

[firstnamesonly]

Try smoking a joint. After only smoking bong hits for the longest time I started smoking joints again and it's really f'ing me up good.

[Forwhat420]

Just quit smoking for one month. You have to let your seretonin levels get back up. Cannabis can deplete seretonin (cellls that tell you to be happy) especially in people who dont produce enough from the get go.
Since it takes THC 30 days to clear out of your system, just wait until it all clears. Sit back on that 30th day, ROLL A JOINT and get BLITZED!

P.S. The mind can be impaired up to 72 hours after the initial ingestion of THC. Just not impaired enough to feel. I thought that was a cool fact not that anyone cares.

[BudGrower]

I've been smoking daily for about 15 years, and I don't have any tolerance to this killer one-hit-quit-shit. Still 2 moderate tokes is all it takes for me. I think you don't get very good weed.

[Forwhat420]

I've been smoking daily for about 15 years, and I don't have any tolerance to this killer one-hit-quit-shit. Still 2 moderate tokes is all it takes for me. I think you don't get very good weed.

Been smoking for 12 years and its still the same for me...Unless Im smoking some bullshit:( This could very well be his/her issue)

[BudGrower]

The best way to ensure your weed is great is to buy the best seeds from a reputable seed company and grow your own. For the past 15 years I have only smoked what I grow myself. My last harvest was extraordinarily POTENT and I think the one thing I did differently last harvest was I allowed my plants to flower an extra 2 weeks after they looked totally ripe. I have had a number of successful harvests but last November I harvest the most unbelievably powerful stuff of my life, outdoors.

The first time I sampled my NorthernLights#5 I took 3 moderate tokes and it smashed me, overdose. I swear I was sooooo fucked up that I could hardly stand up, within a half hour I started barfing my guts out for several hours. Each time I staggered out my back yard to barf. That taught me to only take ONE toke and wait a while before the next. And I've been smoking daily for 15 years, so I must have some tolerance built up.

I really believe the trick is to flower extra long time to really plump up those resin glans FAT and extra ripe, for maximum potency.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

if your brain is constantly saturated with THC this becomes your normal mindset. also, your brain really has no time to clear out the THC. your body is very good at fighting off chemicals that really don't belong in your brain, and so as your body gets more and more THC, your body also gets better at metabolizing the drug.

you would be surprised at what even 4 days of not smoking will do to your tolerance. i was at the point where i would smoke like 1-2 grams of chronic a day. i wasn't even getting high. i took a break for 5 days and smoked 3 hits off a pinner and was more fucked up than i have been in this past YEAR. (yeah ian curtis wishlist does not know how to take breaks regularly).

i've smoked 3 times in the past 2 weeks and i haven't smoked at all in the past 7 days. when i pass my drug test on monday and start working i'm going to get some chronic and reward myself with a little chemical imbalance!

i think the italians have it right when they say moderation is the key.

[melodious fellow]

If you do not mind the question, what is your ethnicity?

I am working on a bit of a suspicion that some Native Americans may have much higher tolerances than some other peoples.

I have a decent bit of Cherokee in me and I have an extrodinarily high tolerance to most things, including erb to a great extent, and alcohol, despite the fact that I rarely drink.

The only known case of a person being physically unable to get high off of even the best bud, throughout multiples trials, was in fact a Native American girl.

Natives have used many, many 'medicinal' substances found in nature, and cross tolerances are known to exist for many things.

peace

[NaughtyDreadz]

I laugh when kids who smoke schwag or commercial shit think their tollerance is high (Not saying the OP does or anything, I'm not making assumptions haha) then I smoke them out with some mk-ultra or some ridiculous shit (Stuff I have now smells remeniscent of sweet tea) and they pull a whitey and have to call in sick to work.

Word homes... word...

[NaughtyDreadz]

if your brain is constantly saturated with THC this becomes your normal mindset. also, your brain really has no time to clear out the THC. your body is very good at fighting off chemicals that really don't belong in your brain, and so as your body gets more and more THC, your body also gets better at metabolizing the drug.

We have a neuron receptor in our brains for THC processing...

[melodious fellow]

your body is very good at fighting off chemicals that really don't belong in your brain, and so as your body gets more and more THC, your body also gets better at metabolizing the drug.



i think the italians have it right when they say moderation is the key.

My brain and endocannabinoid system seem to be pretty peachy with the situation. :wtf: :D

I think you and the Italians must be correct. Is 2x daily moderation?

O and in my earlier post, I should have said "the only documented case I have read about where a person was physically unable to get high... instead of just the only case.

peace :rastasmoke:

[IanCurtisWishlist]

We have a neuron receptor in our brains for THC processing...

yes and our brain produces anadamine , a natural cannabinoid-like chemical. that doesn't mean that your brain actually produces THC.

logically, if your brain did produce it's own THC which then binded to cannabinoid receptor sites, you would naturally feel stoned all the time.

the chemical doesn't really belong there because it's not produced naturally by the brain/body. it's this lack of belonging that is actually responsible for feeling "high", "altered", "trippy".

if you think back to the first time you smoked, it was most likely more intense than any of the other times you smoked. this is because this was the first time THC actually binded to your cannabis receptors.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

My brain and endocannabinoid system seem to be pretty peachy with the situation. :wtf: :D

I think you and the Italians must be correct. Is 2x daily moderation?

O and in my earlier post, I should have said "the only documented case I have read about where a person was physically unable to get high... instead of just the only case.

peace :rastasmoke:

I think 2x daily is moderation compared to how much I was smoking at one point :) and I would be pretty happy with that situation also, considering how broke I am at the moment, smoking 2x per day will be a glorious thing. (it'll be better when I start getting a paycheck so I can get a few ounces here and there)

[Pie_man]

Wow, this thread is still going.

[epilepticme]

Try tagamet
What will Tagamet do? Isnt that a drug for heartburn and indigestion?

[oliwog]

the way thc affects the brain is quit complicated but if you smoke on regular occasions your brain puts a kind of ceiling on your high.
its to do with the number of thc receptors that are left active in the brain, the more you smoke the less thc receptors stay active so you cant get as high no matter how much you smoke
cannabis tolerance is completly different to that of crack of heroin where you can usually jus increase the dose to get the desired effect. once your thc receptors are all or mostly non active or dorment from too much smokin you will jus reach that certain point and not get any more stoned.

i smoke volcanoes every day all day and find it really hard to get high properly i get lean but half hour later im back to norm, my friends cant smoke my volcanoes but i seem to suck em up like a hover no matter how strong the weed i can even smoke pure honey oil from breakfast onwards an not get that high from it.
usually a week or even a few days is enough time to allow the thc receptors to become active again
the best way to smoke is to maintain moderate amounts of smoking to keep the thc receptors active but to ensure you dont get the negative effects of the cbd which no tolerance can be built up to. if ya get me