Given that marijuana [ol]
[li]is highly variable in quality and potency;[/li][li]affects everyone slightly differently; and[/li][li]can be very unpleasant and make one feel ill in high doses;[/li][/ol] how do experienced recreational users of marijuana know when they’ve had enough? When smoking (which gives more immediate feedback than ingestion), how does a user know when she’s approaching the point after which she’s had “too much” for a pleasant recreational experience?
This might sound a little flippant but the answer is basically that you stop when you’re high. It isn’t really like drinking where there begins to be an arc where it gets more negative than positive. I don’t think most habitual users experience unpleasantness or illness at high doses (I never did), you just sort of get to a point where you’re not going to get any higher and further usage is just a waste of product.
In all seriousness, one of the ways you know when you’re high is that you forget to keep smoking. When you realize you’ve been holding a roach in your fingers for 15 minutes without taking a hit, you’re all good. In other words, once you’re good and ripped, the desire to keep smoking gives away.
You have to have an awful lot before you’ve had “too much” to be pleasant. Like, “I’ve never reached that point” too much.
No, wait, once I threw up after taking a hit of White Nights off of a three foot bong. That was too much.
But most of the time, you just smoke a little, wait a bit (like a minute or two) and see where you’re at. At some point, especially if smoking with a group of people, someone will pass you the bowl and you’ll think, “Woah. I’m cool.” at which point you say, “Woah. I’m cool.” and you pass the bowl to the next partaker.
You also learn the outliers. Most weed is within a certain potency. Once in a while (like the aforementioned White Nights and other brand name pot) you get some sweet bud that is more potent than the norm, but if you’re buying it, you’re paying for it, so you know. If you didn’t buy it, the person handing it to you will warn you that it won’t take much, and you only take a hit or two ('cause he doesn’t want you smoking up all his kind weed unnecessarily). But still, taking “too much” just means you’re a little more giggly and woozey for a few minutes 'till you find your equilibrium.
It’s a bit like drinking, really. You learn how to feel the effects, so whether you’re doing shots of tequila, or watered down rum ‘n’ cokes, you know when you’re good. The difference is that instead of waiting 15 or 20 minutes to feel the effects of alcohol, it’s only a minute or two for pot.
…um…I hear. My friend told me. I was just holding it for him, honest!
I’ve smoked so much in one sitting before that I’ve had to take a shower and eat something so I would “come down” a bit. But at times, I’ve also smoked so much that it seemed like I smoked myself sober. lol But you basically know when you’ve had enough because you are just…well…high.
That’s the perfect description, IMHO.
One of the reasons I quit the stuff while still in High School is because I didn’t know when I’d had enough. I should have stopped several hits before I did almost every time. Several minutes after the last hit I’d realize that I’d done way too much and that, unlike booze, I couldn’t just make myself hurl to get rid of it - I was stuck like that until it wore off. I might have a really low tolerance or something, and it seemed to get worse as time went on (first few times were pretty cool but eventually got crappier and crappier).
God, I can still remember that feeling… Yuck.
OTOH I’m all for legalizing the stuff, I just wouldn’t use any.
Some stuff is so strong that I would take one drag and go “whooah” and then feel unpleasant for a few hours.
Milder stuff that gets you high slowly is less obvious, and one can go on all night - but it’s never hard to stop, unlike alcohol.
So, does anyone have any pizza?
As others of said, with most pot you get the high feeling pretty soon after indulging, so you know when your high and don’t need anymore. You could keep on inhaling after youre “good”, but then you run the risk of nausea, blackouts, etc.
The problem is with some pot that has a delayed reaction, where you keep on inhaling because you think it’s not getting you high, but then it all kicks in and you realize you may have used more than you needed, but there are far worse things than too many bong hits- the main problem with that is that you “wasted” hits you didn’t need 
Blackouts? You mean like actually “passing out” or fainting? Or blackouts as in: “I don’t remember what I did”?
I’ve never seen anyone have either kind of “blackout” from smoking pot. Occasionally some non-habitual user might get nauseous (usually female). Those people are known as “lightweights.”
For anyone who smokes on a regular basis, though, there’s almost no such thing as “too high.” There’s just “high” and “not high.”
Speaking from past experience when I was young and single:
You smoke until you are pleasantly buzzed. You do not over indulge like alcohol or from what I understand most harder drugs. Someone who is high on pot, is usually going to hang out and have a good time. If they do drive while high, they usually end up driving too slow, not crashing their vehicles.
I know a lot of people who smoke casually and I know some potheads. Pot has never been a problem by itself.
I do not know if that helps, but that is my own experience with pot.
Jim
I actually fainted from smoking pot once (and believe me, I was no lightweight), but there were extenuating circumstances.
I had taken several tokes in rapid succession when I heard my landlord climbing up the stairs to my apartment. Still out of breath, I furiously tried to wave the smoke out the window with my hands, then fell to the ground. I was only out for a second, and I doubt that neither the frantic waving, nor the smoking on their own could have caused that reaction; it was the combination that did it.
I later found out that my landlord was a pothead, himself. :smack:
Poor choice of words, I meant blackout as in “immediately pass out/fall asleep”, which isn’t the normal definition of blackout- sorry. :smack:
The bad part of that being, why get high if you’re gonna waste it by falling asleep?
What Exit?'s summation is dead on for those wondering “why do people smoke pot”, etc. No hangovers, no getting into fights, no road fatalities- just good clean fun!
Very true.
With the added exception of really really good grass and hash that you can get in places like Amsterdam(Just back from three months there 
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Most stuff that you normally get just gets the regular smoker stoned and then it kinda levels off. The stuff you get in Ireland for example will get you stoned quickly but if you’re a regular smoker there’s no way you are going to get ‘out of your mind’. I’ve never had a black out or anything like it on any kind of grass/hash. Just got so stoned I well it was actually said best already by Dio once again
Perfect.
A lot of people who don’t have a lot of experience drink as well as smoke. This is a very dodgy mix if you’re not used to it. Making you feel very ill and giving you very bad rushes. You’re world spins, you puke and then blame it on one or the other when in reality you probably would have been grand with either but not both.
You know when your mouth a-gettin’ dry…you’re plenty high.
You know you’ve had enough when you decide to take two cell phones, put them next to each other on a table, flip them open, and then have one person call one of the cell phones and another person call the other, and then have a conversation filtered through the two cell phones.
In other words: “the two phones are talking to each other, man!”
Yeah.
In the past, my trigger for putting down the spliff has been when I’ve started to ‘float’, and my sentences have all trailed off into nothingness.
I get slightly giddy and feel like my hands/arms could float. Sometimes I feel like I’m sinking into the couch or the stair where I sit to smoke. That’s about when I hand the spliff back to hubby or put it out and put it away for later. Then it’s time for popcorn!
You know when you wrap the rubber band handle of a punch balloon around your head, and you have your buddy stretch the balloon itself WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY across the room, so that you’re looking down 30 feet of stretched rubber band at the punch balloon, and then he lets it go so that you see this fricking HUGE ball accelerating towards your face and you have a moment of HOLY CRAP THAT’S GONNA HIT ME INNA FACE!!!, and then it hits you, but it’s a damn balloon! so no big deal, and it’s actually kinda funny as it bounces off your face four or five times before coming to rest on your nose, and you collapse on the floor in gales of laughter?
You know that feeling?
When it’s too much of a hassle to get off the couch to do that, you’ve had too much pot. Q.E.D.
What’s a punch balloon and what is it normally used for?