The Upper Limit of Being High on Marijuana

Factual Questions
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Uh huh. Except that eating a small piece of uncooked weed is going to do mostly to absolutely nothing.

As somebody who, for a couple years would be answering “90” on that survey, I can add an insignificant datum that says the above stories of three-day trips aren’t true in the slightest. In one evening, there’s a definitely a ‘plateau’ one can reach, where additional doses might peak you up for a little while, but it wears off quickly and you go back to being just ‘really stoned.’ In terms of taking a massive load all at once (claims of smoking a half of hash in one night seem…optimistic) I haven’t noticed any particularly undue effects after a day or two. Which is about as long as it take non-ridiculous levels to wear off.

Experiments in which our evening started with “okay guys, we’re going to smoke until we PHYSICALLY CANNOT ANYMORE” ended with us falling asleep or getting tired of taking hits that hurt our lungs but did little to our brains. We got bored more than anything else.

Eating is really the only way one can reliably ‘overdose’ on THC, and in my case it just lead(s) to nausea and headaches that last for hours. Eating gets you higher than smoking which gets you higher than vaporizing.

Just anecdotal, of course.

-ISOT, Oregon

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Thanks for some of the common sense replies in the thread.
Just wanted to note that it takes a modicum of effort to get an edible product that will have some effect. It’s not rocket surgery, but then again neither is baking. But you can’t just throw yeast, flour and water in a mixing bowl and end up with bread. Just like there is a minor art to extracting essentials into an edible form without losing everything and wasting your product (other than to make a not-so-nice flavoured dish that does nothing more than pass on a psychosomatic set of symptoms).

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I think he meant hash, not green bud…

(and eating raw hash is highly psychoactive)

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My 10 plus years of experience smoking pot (ending in 1985) supports
Interconnected Series of Tubes take on the subject. I have smoked weed that was so potent that a tiny amount would get you very, very high but smoking a whole lot of lesser weed would not achieve the same level. We used to refer to it as “smoking ourselves straight (sober)”, that is smoking until the effect had long since peaked and we were coming down no matter how much more we smoked.

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You guys have to be putting me on – yes, I can’t imagine consuming 1/4 oz. all at once, but a 3-day “trip”!!! That’s certainly something I never heard of, and sounds kind of unsettling (also kind of rad, in a way). It’s hard to impossible to imagine a three-day trip on any hallucinogen – eventually, you just get tired, unless it’s a speed trip, which I don’t consider a hallucinogen.

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A Kaywoody Briar Pipe, and a box of strike anywhere matches. (It kept going out.) I coughed a lot.

I had been a heavy tobacco smoker for years, at the time. Both pipe, and roll your own cigarettes.

This was the first time I ever smoked hash. I had never smoked pot. I drank rather a lot before that, and was more or less expecing to smoke until I passed out. Never did pass out. I tried to sleep a couple of times, but the sensations were entirely too intense to let me sleep. I had a brief period in the latter stages of the experience where I worried that I might never “sober up,” but that didn’t last all that long.

About how long before I tried it again, about two or three weeks. I must say, after that experience I never smoked all that much at one time again, and in fact became known among my friends as having a really easy time getting high. A hit or two of good pot or hash was enough for me for an evening, any more than that was an all night sort of thing.

I don’t recommend following my example, for a whole lot of different reasons, first among them being after that time, I was high more often than not for the next twenty five years. Giving up pot was harder than quitting cigarettes. I didn’t ever get really drunk again, though. I tried a lot of drugs during that time, but never really felt all that attracted to any of them. I might have done speed a lot, but to have good sources of speed you have to spend time with people who do speed, and I can’t stand being in the same room with speed freaks.

Haven’t done drugs since 1993, or smoked cigarettes since 95. If I had known I would live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Tris

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Actually, you can – I make my own bread every week using pretty much this technique. A little mixing involved, sure – and salt (tastes crummy without salt) – thanks for the clarification re weed. Only eaten it a few times, and never vaporized (le sigh), but there is in common knowledge some chemistry involved re the amounts of fat required.

ETA obligatory Steven Prince shout out to the speed freaks. That little documentary by Scorsese will scare anybody straight.

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At the risk of turning this thread into a “you won’t believe how stoned I got, Man” type of thing, my worst and longest experience with pot (and maybe some hash) was a never-ending “I’m thinking what I’m thinking a new thought I’m think about that I’m thinking about the thought I just had about I just had…” until a new thought wanders into my consciousness and the whole damn thing started again. It lasted for about six hours and I began to panic if I’d ever break free.

I’ve just learned, courtesy of Wiki, that this is an example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/metacognition"gone completely awry.

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That’s a tricky thing. The absolute most guaranteed way to be fucked out your box in a cost-effective way is to heat a tea spoon up with a little hash and some brandy or some whisky, make some paste. Dissolve it in some tea or some coffee, needs to have a bit milk. I don’t really recommend this, as it leads to lying down for hours listening to Pink Floyd and rolling around the floor trying to change the records :frowning: And failing.

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And here I am wasting time with Broker’s whiskey. Shit! Well, I’m onna put on “Animals” when I get home, if it’s any consolation.

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Some of these stories have a very strong “I once caught a fish thiiiiis big,” vibe to them.

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I agree. But pot affects people in different ways, I suppose. Still, never heard of anyone being high for more than a few hours, let alone days.

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Since I’m being tacitly accused of lying here, I guess I should respond.

Individual responses:

Leo Bloom, there are certain breeds of cannabis sativa that at a point in their lifecycle when the buds or flowers of the cannabis sativa plant exude a sticky liquid. This is reputedly when they are at their most potent. This is also known, if your name is Snoop, as “Sticky icky? Sticky icky icky”.

In response to your second question, eating a lot of dope is way way way more potent than smoking it. If you’ve never eaten a lot of dope in one go, you will be comparing it to smoking. Whereas eating (or in my case drinking) a large amount of dope is to smoking what drinking a bottle of wine by the glass over the course of two hours is, versus chugging an entire bottle of bourbon in one go.

There is far less waste from incomplete vaporisation of the product, incomplete absorption of the smoke in the lungs, and smoke that doesn’t go into the lungs at all. When you eat it, nearly 100% of the THC is absorbed via the gut, slowly and constantly over several hours.

Which brings me on to SecretaryofEvil’s observation and Interconnected Series of Tubes’s outright accusation of lying: I have also experienced that “plateau high” many times. After several hours you smoke and smoke and smoke and you simply cannot get any more high.

What I am talking about is nothing whatsoever like that. It isn’t even like being stoned: it’s a trip, and the most powerful one I’ve ever experienced (prior experience includes acid and mushrooms - though never mescaline or peyote, which I gather are fucking intense by comparison).

(Also, Tubes, you can indeed eat raw hash and get high. Whereas weed needs processing - albeit the processing of the weed that I drank was merely yogurt and a blender.)

If you note my clarification about my initial “three days” statement, I tripped for about 8+24 hours with diminishment of the tripping symptoms over the next 24. After the first 8 hours I could only crawl and everything was a cartoon; a few hours later I could at least stand up, albeit hallucinating constantly (visual, audible and internal perception).

Of course you won’t be expected to believe what random people say on the internet, and I shouldn’t expect that. All I can say is that I’m a pretty damn honest person, in life and on the boards, and what I have told you about the longevity of effect of vast amounts of THC in myself (and the five friends I was with who drank it too) is true. Triskademus reports a similar (but greater) length of time influenced by a single dose.

Finally, re the “big fish” comment: it’s not a brag. I sincerely wish it hadn’t happened. It was fucking awful. It made me re-evaluate my relationship with reality and my mental health, and with a couple of exceptions since, I swore off hallucinogens for the rest of my life. I promise you it’s the truth.

I would say “try it yourself” but I wouldn’t wish what happened to me on my worst enemy.

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That is just insane. I never did acid or shrooms, because I didn’t want to weather a six-hour+ high. (My marijuana highs last, at most, two hours, and I’ve never gotten high off of hash, for whatever reason, even though I’ve had it multiple times in multiple countries.) I couldn’t even image what a 3-day high would be like.

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Hey, man, it’s cool.

All I’m saying is that I haven’t experienced anything even remotely similar, and my fish are this big! Marijuana is a total weakling when compared with real hallucinogenics. I’ve never had anything that would come close to being described as “tripping.”

Eating too much just made me feel totally awful, but no more stoned than eating a not-making-me-feel-awful amount would.

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Yep, i mean the ready to go, crumble it up, and put it the roll-up raw stuff. Also i hardly ever used it so i hadn’t built up any tolerance.

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+1 to that – chill, man. I would say it’s all good, but you might have just eaten three mushrooms in which case it would be pretty fucking far from OK.

Just interested, and sharing some of my own experiences (which weren’t, most definitely, yours–I’m eiither pitying or jealousing you!).

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“Animals” is a great album. Just make sure you can make the turntable, or else it’s a long night.

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“A few days” seems ridiculous to me. A half day or so doesn’t seem so unlikely.

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Jim didn’t say “a few days” so I apologise for that. You sure it wasn’t opium you were smoking? Mind you, eating hash can be a bit more intense than expected, but still.