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HiKate
11-21-2006, 09:24 AM
So here's my story.

Pretty much beginning in June I had a slight, sliiight interest in trying out marijuana. I was 16 at the time and I guess it was about time I gave up the whole 'straight edge' thing and saw what all the hype was about. Why are there songs written about it? Shirts that say 'Legalize it!' and just, what is this great substance I've been missing out on? I had, and have, no interest in drinking. From what I've seen, every person I've met who drinks frequently has no personality and has made that their sole purpose in life. Whereas with marijuana there are so many different types of people who do it. So for most of the summer I just joked about it, but the more I was like, "Let's 'score some pot'!" to my boyfriend, the more I really did want to. So one day in late August after about a week of me getting increasingly more serious about it, but still hesitant, he told me he'd finally get some and we could try it that night. He'd done it about three times, all while drunk, back when he used to drink. And he also had a point in saying I shouldn't decide to do something if I'd never even tried it. But I also said, it just didn't appeal to me. I thought I had an addictive personality so if I liked it I'd want to do it all the time and go overboard and become obsessed. That's the way I am with most things. And, no offense, but I didn't want to become a 'stoner'.

So the first time I did it, nothing. And apparently that happens. So I was ok with it, I had really only wanted to try it once. But if I hadn't gotten high then I hadn't REALLY done it. So I decided to do it just a few more times, just get high once and be done with it. I had trouble smoking and actually inhaling, I'm only really used to breathing in air. We did it a couple more times with joints, but I really hated it. So we decided to buy a bong. We walked down to the store but before I could even say anything my boyfriend bought a pipe. I was mad for a bit after that, he didn't even tell me that was a consideration. So I was disappointed after reading up so much on the pros of bong use. Eventually, after about a month of doing it 2+ times a week and NOTHING happening, while my boyfriend was like, "I am so high." and I was like, "I am so bored." Finally one day he said we'd do it ONE more time, and if it didn't work and I didn't like it we'd never have to do it again and he'd give away his pipe. So we went to his friend's house, who I don't really know(but is apparently a pot-smoking guru) and his friend's girlfriend was there. My boyfriend said I would just do it and he wouldn't so he could properly assess the situation and see if I was actually high or not. He thought(and I believe still thinks) I get high but don't realize or admit that I am. So we put both the pipes together and his friend told me to blow it out my nose. After smoking for a while, I blew it out my nose, just once. Then when I looked up it felt like the room had to 'load' and I was moving really slow. I started feeling really fucked up, like I was in a movie or asleep and it was all a dream, or like I had no idea who anyone was. It was really weird for me and I was actually kind of scared. Then of course once my boyfriend noticed I was pretty much stoned he started doing it and I was like, "Hey, you tricked me!" so we were all high. And it was an ok time, we shared some, apparently, really spicy noodles but I couldn't taste A THING. Which was really disappointing, because my boyfriend told me everything tastes amazing when you're high. Then after a few hours we walked back to his house. He asked me how I felt and even then I was like, eh, I still don't see the appeal. I really didn't have a great time at all. I just don't think I'm an 'altered state' type of person. But since I did technically get high that time, we continued doing it.

It is now mid-November and despite many attempts, I've only gotten high a small handful of times, like maybe five. That's out of smoking like three times a week or more(even though we said we'd only do it once every two weeks) and of those times, it really wasn't that great. There are the positive effects, the neutral effects and the negative effects. All I get are the negative effects. I can't taste food, sex is awful and the slight pains I may feel during it are only magnified. I feel nauseous and just start feeling down. The only time I actually did have fun was when my best friend came here to visit me and he and my boyfriend did it in his car. I enjoyed that probably because I was really comfortable and really happy. We had a lot of fun, we listened to some great music and swung on the swings. I couldn't even feel the snow, even though it was freezing out. Then we drove to 7-11(which was SCARY for me. "There's a stop sign coming up. Don't forget to stop. You have to stop at the stop sign"). But as soon as we got home I just laid in bed and felt tired. I don't really like the actual act of smoking either. Sometimes it tastes gross, other times it tastes weird like chocolate or orange juice and after blowing it out my nose for a while it begins to tingle. So when I do get high, I don't enjoy it. And the other times when we smoke, my boyfriend gets high but nothing happens for me. So even then I don't enjoy it. I didn't even want to do it more than once in the first place!

This has actually been causing me a lot of frustration lately because I'm jealous of everyone else, and I really feel like I'm missing out. I've been told I just need to relax, but I think I am. And I'm a pretty positive person, so I don't see why I'm getting these negative effects. And that's just when it actually does work, and I don't know, I think my boyfriend must be EXTREMELY susceptible, whereas I am the polar opposite. It's frustrating how it doesn't work for me and yet my boyfriend gets to enjoy it everytime he lights up.

So the natural solution is just for me to quit doing it. But since my boyfriend and I are attatched at the hip, he's going to keep doing it. And he doesn't want to do it with anyone else but me(even though he has, but won't let me) I'm jealous, and am beginning to resent my boyfriend for his ease of highness. I wish I had said no, let's quit. At the few instances where he offered that up. But anyway, enough of that. I'm hoping you folks at cannabis.com could offer some advice. The few people I know who smoke pot, are pretty much professionals. But no one seems to be able to help. So here's my question:

WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?
What am I doing wrong? I'm pretty sure that by now I've got the whole inhaling thing down. What else could I do to make it any better for me? Does this happen to other people or am I just some anomaly that repels the positive effects(or even effects) of pot?

Thanks for reading this huge long post.

smokin dope
11-21-2006, 09:26 AM
oh christ, i aint readin all that shit but good luck with whatever your blabbin on about

azure
11-21-2006, 09:34 AM
seems like you breath out of your nose to make sure youre actually inhaling.

just try putting the joint to your lips sucking hard [which fills your mouth only with smoke] for about 2 seconds, then take it away and the millisecond its left your lips take a deep breath of air in and fill your chest which will push the smoke from your mouth down into your lungs. breath out of your mouth so you can properly gauge how much youve inhaled.

sounds like you have been stoned but my first time was equally wierd. Im pretty much like you in the sense that i prefer bieng sober and clear minded to anything else, but sometimes i get really bored and smoke or wanna get a confidence boost so drink alcohol.

dont let your boyfriend pressure you into it by saying youre the only one he'll do it with. If you dont like it thats the end of it, it shouldnt be made a chore.

LIP
11-21-2006, 09:38 AM
Your too pent up about it. It's a damn plant. dont be scared of it. It's never killed a single person in it's history, it wont kill no one now, and you cant OD on it, AND it's not addictive like drink, or tobacco. You dont crave it, and you dont get withdrwal simptoms.

Your thinking too much, and thats stopping you getting high. You need to go with it, and you should get as high as anyone else, either that or your getting some shitty weed, but if you live in canada you shouldnt be gettin shit weed.

Dont be scared of it. If thats all you can think about your brain will make you feel like it's bad to stop you doing it, it's not the weed, its you.

JUst keeep doing it untill you get VERY stoned, and enjoy it. Dont be waiting to get high, let it come up on you.

And yeah, thats a fuck lot to read. It' hurt my head.

chisme
11-21-2006, 10:24 AM
oh christ, i aint readin all that shit but good luck with whatever your blabbin on about

my thoughts exactly i got half way throught the firt paragraph and thought "fuck this" lol

acrca
11-21-2006, 10:26 AM
Your too pent up about it. It's a damn plant. dont be scared of it. It's never killed a single person in it's history, it wont kill no one now, and you cant OD on it, AND it's not addictive like drink, or tobacco. You dont crave it, and you dont get withdrwal simptoms.

Your thinking too much, and thats stopping you getting high. You need to go with it, and you should get as high as anyone else, either that or your getting some shitty weed, but if you live in canada you shouldnt be gettin shit weed.

Dont be scared of it. If thats all you can think about your brain will make you feel like it's bad to stop you doing it, it's not the weed, its you.

JUst keeep doing it untill you get VERY stoned, and enjoy it. Dont be waiting to get high, let it come up on you.

And yeah, thats a fuck lot to read. It' hurt my head.

well i dont know about you but i sure "crave" it :p

Cyclonite
11-21-2006, 10:58 AM
Grind it up and put it in brownies....you will feel it for sure

SantaClawz
11-21-2006, 11:08 AM
Your thinkin too much into. Your constantly assessing yourself and your surroundings and its not letting you get the high you supposed to. And I think you should have a reason to get high, not just to try it, it never works when you just wanna try it. Like if your feeling stressed from work, tell take a chill spliff.

LIP
11-21-2006, 12:54 PM
well i dont know about you but i sure "crave" it :p

A craving is physical and there is no phycialy addicting qualities to cannabis, you just want it mentally, if you didnt get it you wouldnt start jitteing and having withdrawl symtoms, so you dont really crave it like i crave tobacco.

acrca
11-21-2006, 01:18 PM
A craving is physical and there is no phycialy addicting qualities to cannabis, you just want it mentally, if you didnt get it you wouldnt start jitteing and having withdrawl symtoms, so you dont really crave it like i crave tobacco.

oh well i diddnt know it was physical i thought you could crave weed just like you crave chocolate. i guess craving chocolate doesnt even make sense then because its not physical? :confused:

Breukelen advocaat
11-21-2006, 01:42 PM
As much as many of us like it, most people do not. I don't care for many of today's varieties and strains, either - and often don't smoke much, or any at all, for long periods because of this. Conversely, there have been times in my life when I used it extensively.

Remember, the people that use and enjoy it are in the minority - and always have been.

Skrappie
11-21-2006, 01:43 PM
Am I going to be the only one to say your boyfriend is controlling? Hasen't been the sign of a comfortable enviorment in all my years. I Think its funny that when you enjoyed being stoned, it was with your best friend. My advice is somke some pot with someone you enjoy being with, and someone whos not telling you what to do.

Storm Crow
11-21-2006, 06:52 PM
That folks who can't get high are suffering from an endocannabinoid deficiency. Endocannabinoids are body-produced chemicals that are needed for a lot of bodily functions. Without them, you are very sick! The theory goes that if you lack endocannabinoids, you can't get high because your body snatches them to make the endocannabinoids that you need. So none of it gets to your brain- no THC in the brain, no high! The solution is to smoke more and improve your diet! (Modern diet is just a slow way to die- chlolesterol, transfats, no fiber, vitamins processed out, no raw foods except a bit of watery iceberg lettuce, etc) You might find this to be an interesting article-- http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/clinical.pdf Russo is dealing with extreme cases, but the basic idea is interesting. The psychological side of things should be considered, too. If you feel uncomfortable for any reason, it cuts into the high. You got high with your friend, but not with your boyfriend. Think about it. That high was more like it's supposed to be. The flavor of pot varies as does the high. I like the heavy indicas (fat leaves, "heavy" painkilling high-I get migraines if I don't toke), but my hubby likes sativas (skinny leaves, an "up" party high- sometimes with paranoia). Your different effects may be due to a difference in varieties. Ask your friend if he knows what type he had. Your paranoia suggests that it was a sativa. Take care of yourself. Get a vaporizer. Keep toking :) Granny Storm Crow :stoned:

Dutch Masta
11-21-2006, 07:10 PM
There is no way I am reading this whole thread, but there are really only three main reasons for not getting high..

- Getting too high, too often (tolerance)
- Not inhaling properly
- Not smoking good enough weed

pu ekot
11-21-2006, 11:37 PM
I actually bothered to read the whole thing, and conclude that I have no idea what's up.
Only getting high some of the time is weird.
Yeah it must suck to never be high. I wish I could help.

JaggedEdge
11-21-2006, 11:43 PM
You shouldn't feel so much pressure to smoke. You have been doing it for a while and havn't been very pleased with the results. I would suggest you tell your boyfriend to smoke if he likes, but you don't want to anymore. You are spending money on grass, literally. If it isn't getting you high, there really isn't any point in buying it. Some people do have a hard time getting high, some never can. The only possible reason I could think of is that you aren't inhaling right, but you said you are.

I'm not sure, but I think the best option is to stop spending money on it. If your boyfriend isn't alright with you not smoking, dump him. Why should you be forced to go through the motions of smoking if you aren't even getting high. I imagine that would be rather annoying.

Any way, best of luck with which ever dicission you make, but I would give it another month tops, and if still you don't get high regularly I would suggest sobriety.

orangeman
11-22-2006, 12:09 AM
ROFL, this post made me laugh. Trust me, the first few times I smoked marijuana I hated it also. But I was convinced that if sooo many people loved it there was no reason why I should quit trying to reach the gold. And one day...I got high, the scary stuff tried to attack me and I said NO, I'm getting high and I'm gonna enjoy it. And that is just what I did and I've been enjoying it every since. If you aren't enjoying it then rather you realize it or not there is something you are not liking. Find out what it is and overcome it. Just keep trying it and don't give up. You'll get what marijuana has to offer once you become used to the effects enough to ignore them :D.

biohazard
11-22-2006, 02:09 AM
ok, i know what youre going through. the first few times i tried weed were really confusing, and a bit scary. sometimes i would get WAY too high and could not handle it well. the only cure to this issue is experience. i felt shitty and down 24/7 for about a week after i started smoking pot daily. sooner or later though, i became used to it all and it started to get very enjoyable. my advice is: smoke a few bowls every night for a week before you go to sleep. no, it will not make you a druggie looser, you just need to become used to it. right now im dry and do it every few days, but i never feel shitty like right when i started toking. weed now makes me feel good and happy.

marijuana completley changes you when you start (maybe some people dont get affected as much by these changes, but for me they were huge). like you, i said that weed is not for me... but thankfully i did not quit. before i kept feeling down and whatnot, but now its all good. so yeah, get high a few more times regularly and you will begin to enjoy it. also, make SURE you are in the most comfortable environment you can be in. the last thing you have to worry about is getting in trouble, etc, therefore ruining your high.

good luck!

Mean Green Charlene
11-22-2006, 02:23 AM
Straightedger turned stoner! The worlds becoming a better place.

burnable
11-22-2006, 02:40 AM
I enjoy weed more than anyone I know, and I've often wondered why on earth anyone wouldn't like weed. I realized through experience that not everyone enjoys it and Storm Cow gave a good scientific thought as to why that is. Also, the notion that men can hold liquor better than women isn't just a steroetype; men have an extra enzyme in their stomachs that allows them to metabolize alcohol faster than women. Their might also be a gender-specific reason why you or other women might not enjoy weed as
much. I hope I don't sound masogonistic (sp?). There's no reason why you can't just not try to get high anymore and just say it's not for you. Peace!

someuser
11-22-2006, 02:56 AM
HiKate,

2 words:

Gravity Bong

use the search function or google how to make a home-made one.

Craxed
11-22-2006, 04:08 AM
i have found a quick fix for this. When exhaling , quickly try to catch back all the smoke. Seems to work for my friends

. chelsey
11-23-2006, 04:17 AM
oh my god. katelynn

growitandsmokeit
11-23-2006, 02:07 PM
You could make some pot brownies or something so you don't have to smoke. But you don't really sound as if you want to smoke so maybee you shouldn't.

savagepossum
11-23-2006, 02:14 PM
jesus christ your so uptight i know i wouldn't want to get stoned with you just quit because personally i don't think
cannabis is for you,

GrandTheftAut0420
11-25-2006, 07:41 AM
I haven't toked in about a month...but I've had the same stuff happen to me a few times. The times that this did happen was when I was worried about getting caught before I even started blazin. Then the bud just boosted my paranoia. But, the nice thing is is that if your havin a good time already, weed boosts those pleasant feelings. Thats how i see it anyways.
so....My advice for u is to first be with people that you would have fun with sober. And goto a place where you feel comfortable. THEN take a few tokes. And don't even think about it.

Not Enough Herb
11-25-2006, 08:08 PM
WOW

a forum full of stoners and know one suggested to use A FUCKIN BONG!!!

problem solved