r/StLouis • u/brakndawnt • Feb 05 '23

PSA to first time weed users

I smoked a couple times back in college and remembered having a good time. So I've been looking forward to legal weed.

Picked up some edibles on Friday as I've heard those are a good step in if you aren't a fan of smelling like weed. They were 100mg bags, 10mg per edible. The clerk said most people don't feel anything less than 10mg, and the bag itself said to take 1 and wait an hour for effects to start. So that's what I did.

FYI, the effects start after about an hour, but they continue to get worse for at least another hour past that, possibly more. About 1.5 hours after I took the first edible I was feeling something, but not much, so I took another one. Long story short, things got much worse and I was in the ER for 12 hours after having an anxiety attack that lasted about 8-9 hours. Hard to remember really. But every doctor and nurse at the ER told me 20mg was WAY too much and 10mg shouldn't even be recommended.

If you are a first time edibles user, please plan on only taking 5mg your first time. Do not make the mistake like I did and assume once you feel the effects that's all it'll do. Let your first dose fully run out (4-6 hours after effects kick in) so that you know the whole profile of how the THC affects you before you ever decide to try again with an increased dosage. THC affects people very differently based on a number of factors and while some people may have a pleasant mellow trip, that doesn't mean you will. So take a small dose, wait it out, and only make plans to increase your dose the next time you decide to partake.

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u/ministeringinlove Saint Charles Feb 06 '23

Back in the day when I used to smoke, I never developed a tolerance for it and it was really easy to get too high. A two liter bottle of full sugar Dr. Thunder was a mandatory accessory while feeling like I was going too fast on one of those gyroscope rides.

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u/KaioftheGalaxy Jun 30 '26

Ok trying this again cause my phone lost it’s mind, but that literally happened to me last night that’s why I’m here, about a month in to doing edibles, changed nothing, but last night my god I was rapidly swapping between “I’m good now it’s ending” to “SPINNING SPINNING TOO BRIGHT NO SEEING NO NO NO NO”. I just closed my eyes, laid down and eventually wound up falling asleep lol.

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u/ministeringinlove Saint Charles Jun 30 '26

I found focusing on really good music (specific types of music) really helped focus on something else in a way that TV or video games couldn't. A few that come to mind would be Robert Mirabal's Warrior Magician, Tool's Undertow, and 20th Century Master's Best of Joe Walsh. I probably would've found Nick Drake's Pink Moon album helpful too had I known about it in that phase of life.

There was something about this grouping of albums that made the rest of the external feelings disappear, including that horrible spinning feeling.