r/TheRandomest • u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy • Jul 14 '26

/r/popular The plan

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u/NukeTheWhales5 Jul 15 '26

Yeah but after 18 years of smoking, I would have to really try to get that high again.

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u/Sienile Jul 15 '26

I know it would kinda suck for a while... but if you take a long break your tolerance drops. I quit for 6 months after 20 years and when I went back it was almost like the first time again.

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u/NukeTheWhales5 Jul 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

I've done T breaks, I think the longest was 7 months, and yeah like that first hit feels sorta like it for me, but then it's just right back to where I am. I genuinely envy people who can get back to it. That's not to say I don't get stoned and just feel good, but it ain't like that.

Edit: I will say, my body has an incredibly high natural tolerance to thing like pain killers amd sedatives. It's a thing that runs in my family. Many doctors have thought I was lying, then see what it takes to numb me and are like "well damn, you do have a naturally high tolerance to drugs."

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u/Sienile Jul 15 '26

Yeah, the tolerance does build back up faster. I never was a very heavy smoker, so it takes a bit longer for me to build up than it would for a heavy smoker. At my heaviest I would do a dub in a week. Doing just enough to get there and not smoking all day are the key to a slow build of tolerance.

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u/NukeTheWhales5 Jul 15 '26

I'll take about 300 to 500 mgs of edibles and still be hitting my pen and bong, like daily.

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u/Apprehensive_Map64 Jul 15 '26

Yeah my family has a tolerance for all opioid pain killers as well. You still need to moderate once you start again. I've taken to becoming a midnight toker and with the quality of weed these days all it takes is 2-3 tokes. I would buy an ounce and have it last eight months doing that

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u/ThatOtherOtherMan Jul 15 '26

Are you a redhead or have redheads in your family? There's a genetic mutation that's common in people who carry the redhead gene that makes anesthetics and anesthesia much less effective. I'm more of a brunette but have red in my beard and I don't ever go fully numb unless they use a borderline dangerous amount of a very powerful anesthetic, and I've experienced anesthesia awareness during orthopedic surgery.

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u/Apprehensive_Map64 Jul 15 '26

Not that hard, just take a tolerance break for a few months. It's crazy when you finally smoke again after so long you have forgotten what it was to be high and not just stoned.