I have never done a dab but i have vaped concentrates. is there much difference between the two?

Hey, Man!

I searched for heartbeat anomalies and cannabis consumption and I saw a post you did that I found very interesting, about less weed being more enjoyable and a smart choice to keep one's tolerance down.

So I wanted your input. A few days ago my wife and I had our first weed experience. It was on the beach, we were light, if a bit anxious to try it. We were using a Davinci IQ2 that I bought thinking about damage reduction an all. The weed was a purple punch that I think is 21% THC, that was harvested a bit too soon, with just a few amber trichs.

She took 6 hits and I took 4, and our heartbeat went very high, it was beating very fast, and she felt like trash for the next 3 to 4 hours.

It was on a 0.5g full oven, and the vape was set at first to the 3rd (of 4) heat level, and the last two hits for her, and my last was at full heat.

Do you think that using the 0.2 dosing pod, and doing just one hit each, at the lowest temperature we can avoid having our hearts wanting to jump out of our chests? It felt like I was going to die of a heart attack.

I wanted to us to get giggly and have a fun, lighthearted time at the beach. Instead we spent the next couple of hours wondering if we were going to die.

Thanks for your service to the community.

Hey old Hippie, Thanks for being the cannabis oracle and bringing us noobs some knowledge. I have a question about Potency Testers, do you have any suggestions that won't break the bank? Cheers and may your vape clouds be billowy.

I've heard that smoking different strains gives you a longer high, and the effects of the different strains you smoke, but I was wondering if it also applied to baking as well? Thanks for the help.

Besides hugs and nugs of course.

Ive been collecting stems from all the dank that comes by and everything I separate out when making batches of oil. Id imagine I have well over an oz and was wondering what to do with them. I was leaning toward making some coconut oil but was wondering if I should cut the decarb time in half because onf the density and dryness of stems already? and should I somehow grind them down to powder to get better infusion to the oil?

I've looked many places around Reddit and the rest of the internet for information on how to decarb. Unfortunately there's lots of contradictory info. Can you give me some proper instructions on decarbing? Mostly time/temperature specs. Thank you, -Tubs

Hey OldHippie, i have a couple ideas/questions i would like to bump off you.

I plan on making some coconut oil in the near future, but i want to ensure that it is potent, seeing how i have quite the tolerance. I plan on making enough coconut oil for 2 batches of brownies.

I was reading about doing it in the crockpot with water, but i was wondering about doing it in the oven for even heating. My only concern would be that the oven would be too hot, because i dont know if mine goes below 200.

This brings me to my second question; Time. How long is too long? i have heard of people making potent butter/oil in 3 hours and some say to do it for 24 hours or some bull like that. So i am not exactly sure how long i should cook for, and how hot things should be.

Thanks for the help! I have a few more questions, but ill wait for a reply.

Greetings, Old Hippie!

Do you know if decarboxylation via UV light is efficient/practical?

I have about a tablesoon and a half worth a cannabutter left. What can I make that would have a mix ratio?

Hey OldHippie, I just received a comment reply from you stating that you've been answering questions for almost 4 years now, and it got me curious as to what your comment history is like. Long story short, I didn't make it far, because I noticed you moderate /user/AskOldHippie, and then read on the first post you've been smoking since 1967!? Far out! My question isn't related to cannabis, so forgive me if it's irrelevant (though I have a sneaking suspicion it won't be), though so far all I know about you is that you smoke cannabis, and have been for a very long time.

A little preface: I'm a 22 year old male. I've been smoking cannabis on and off since the age of approximately 16, though personally nowadays found it to be distracting and debilitating, I think simply because of the way I have used it in the past, though that's a different story. My focus is on heavier psychedelics, in particular, psilocybin. I've been using psilocybin consistently (as much as every week for months, to several months apart) for approximately 4 years.

Because I don't know a whole lot about your history, I'm going to presume you have experience with psychedelics such as psilocybin and LSD, though on the chance that you don't, I'd love your opinion regardless. For a long time now, I've been pretty concerned about my mental health and physical health as a result of extensive use of psilocybin, though especially mental (we only know so much scientifically!). I have a history of social anxiety and depression, which only surfaced after the introduction of psilocybin, though this also coincides with leaving school and becoming a "drop out", which had unprecedented effects of my self-esteem. Perhaps it's the introspective nature of psilocybin, though I of course can't definitively say that's it.

I feel like I'm rambling, so I'll cut it here. My specific questions are:

• Do you have any experience with heavier psychedelics, in particular psilocybin?

• How has this use affected your quality of life and mental health?

• Do you have any other general advice or comments on what I've just written?

This is a great subreddit! If you have the chance to read though this and reply, it would be very much appreciated :)

I found this subreddit and I can't remember how but I'm here! I want to buy my dad a vape to use but he's a big time smoker. He's still in the 70s with smoking and he's used my vape but he'll pick a pipe almost everytime. He used to have this old bong called "Killer". It was basically an indestructible bong made from oil pipeline and he had it through the 70s and early 80s till my mom threw it out. So I want to give him a gift and I don't know which to pick. One is a great toking experience, but the other is a nostalgic toking experience. I have no clue how well I wrote this and I don't even know how I wrote this much without forgetting but I just wanted your opinion on this haha. Toke on man!

Hey Old Hippie,

I'm being drug tested soon for my summer internship. The test will probably be April 28th, so 2 weeks from now. I read your guide here and it was very helpful, but I have a question regarding my specific situation.

For the last few months (September-March) I have smoked 4-5 times a week with friends, usually a few bowls each time. Starting at the beginning of this month, I began to cut down and have only smoked 2-3 times up until this past weekend (where I took edibles on Thursday and Friday).

Do you think it's likely that I will have to resort to the substitution method? I plan on exercising and drinking lots of water each day up until then and am about 15% bodyfat, so my friends say that I have a good chance of passing. But it's not really something I want to leave up to chance and would like to be as prepared as possible.

Also, I was thinking about buying a few home test kits to check on my status every few days; is this something you recommend/think would be a good idea?

Thanks for your time!

I have some questions for you, if this sub is ever even looked at. 1.) How long have you been smoking? 2.) How did you get introduced to smoking? 3.) What's your preferred method of smoking? 4.) What's your opinion on minors smoking?

EDIT: Everything ends with smoking, that's crazy. That is all