Tolerance: Marijuana vs. Alcohol

When I drink regularly my alcohol tolerance goes up...that is, it takes more to get me drunk than it did before.

Does weed tolerance work this way? Why do you need more to get high after a while? I figure that alcohol tolerance goes up because your body "learns" to digest and break down the alcohol faster, but why does your tolerance increase with weed? Maybe with marijuana your "tolerance" increases because you get USED to feeling high, so being as high as you used to get doesn't surprise you much any more, or make anything seem new. So you get *higher* than you used to, but because you're used to being high, it feels about the same.

In your personal experience, have you found that this is the way it works with pot? Is an increasing tolerance a matter of getting used to feeling high and therefore needing more, or is it a matter of breaking down THC (as your body breaks down alcohol), or both?

thats not even how it works at all
1 it takes more to get high becouse u smoke so much u get use to smoking that much regularly so ur body doesnt respond to it as much so u have to smoke more








thats what i think and im pretty sure im right :confused: :confused: :confused:
dunno

thats not even how it works at all
1 it takes more to get high becouse u smoke so much u get use to smoking that much regularly so ur body doesnt respond to it as much so u have to smoke more








thats what i think and im pretty sure im right :confused: :confused: :confused:
dunno

Not true at all. Your body doesn't create much of a tolerance to weed. And if you switch strains that small tolerance goes away. If you stop smoking for a couple months or up to a year and blaze again you'll get fucked up lol.

a couple months to a year is a VERY long time to reset tolerance, and if it really took that long, weed would be among the highest tolerance forming substances in common use. Luckily, it does not take nearly that long. Most people increase their dose to get to the same high after many days of repeated use. After a week or so of daily smoking at the most, this effect will be very noticeable to virtually everyone. This tolerance also reset quickly - a few days should do it. In addition, pretty much everyone ends up "getting used" to being high after having smoked many times, even after taking a break from smoking. I think that this is due to one's mind becoming accustomed to the psychoactive/psychedelic effects of THC; the overwhelming nature of the first few highs is replaced by a more controlled, yet (in my personal opinion) also more rewarding experience. This is based on what I have read and experienced and what people I know have told me, and psychoactive substances affect different people differently, so YMMV.

yeah well i can smoke like day after day and my tolernce just wont go up man

then consider yourself lucky and leave it at that headhunter

Ok i have recently been to out-patient rehab(court order) they told us that like resin builds up around your brain cells and it takes more thc to get through all the other resin. they also told us that the only brain cells it kills were ones with cancer . my couselor was a stoner.

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Originally Posted by TrueTNBuds508

Ok i have recently been to out-patient rehab(court order) they told us that like resin builds up around your brain cells and it takes more thc to get through all the other resin. they also told us that the only brain cells it kills were ones with cancer . my couselor was a stoner.

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resin does not buid up around your brain cells. It doesn't even go further than your lungs in a form you would understand as resin. This sounds similar to the myth that LSD builds up at the base of your spine, and this is how "flashbacks" occur. Unfortunately to many people approach rumours like this in an unscientific and emotional manner, and believe them.

Alcohol has normal tolerance i.e. you have to drink more to feel the same effects. Whereas MJ has reverse tolerance.

Taken from the research pages on this very site:

Long-term users who donâ??t smoke constantly tend to get higher from the same amount and quality anyway, due to the phenomenon of reverse tolerance. Toleranceâ??diminution of effect with continued useâ??develops to some of marijuanaâ??s effects, such as the pulse-rate increase, and even to the high if you smoke pipe after pipe day after day. However, unlike heroin and cocaine users, many marijuana users find that, as time goes on, they need less rather than more to reach their preferred level of euphoria. Experienced users become more efficient smokers,([23]) and reverse tolerance continues to develop long after theyâ??ve learned the technique. With aging, the brain becomes more sensitive to drugs anyway,([24]) so pot of any given strength may seem more powerful than it was in oneâ??s youth. Moreover, because a fatal OD is impossible, and because THC causes no known damage to human tissues or organs, a greater concentration of it does not mean greater danger, as it does with many other substances. In fact, the forced increase in homegrown primo may be the only case in which drug laws have actually (though unintentionally) decreased a hazard from a drug.