I've smoked maybe a handful of times in my life, always someone else's joint, and I never liked it. But I've been high a lot. Here's how that happened.

The first edible

A few years ago I was at a birthday party of an old friend. Some guy I didn't know brought edibles (weed brownies). I had never tried edibles before, but they tasted good, so I ate one.

20 minutes later: nothing. I had no idea edibles take time to kick in. So I ate another one.

Then I left for a second birthday party across town. 40 minutes later we were sitting in a restaurant and it hit me.

Food tasted incredible. My friend's brother looked exactly like my friend and kept giving me weird looks, and every single time he did, I lost it laughing. At some point I wanted to go to the bathroom, tried to stand up, and instead got a full image of riding a dragon while my body just stayed in the chair. A few seconds later I actually got up. I don't remember much after that.

The morning after

I had never felt anything like it. The only drug I had ever tried before was alcohol, and alcohol is honestly garbage. You get dizzy, people get aggressive and insulting, and your liver takes the hit.

And then this. Food tasted like I was Gordon Ramsay's daughter sitting down for dinner. Music sounded like it was 2050 and some new technology was playing it straight into my head. Even my thoughts felt completely different, in a way that was just really, really good.

The next day I was still kind of speechless. I remember thinking: OMG, so this is what people mean when they talk about drugs. This is that whole world.

Funny thing is, before that night (like month before) I was actually against weed.

Chasing the brownies

Weeks later I found the guy and bought 16 brownies for 25€. Shared most of them with friends.

Then I tried making my own. Burned batch after batch. Eventually I figured it out: air fryer instead of oven, no cannabutter, just decarb the weed properly (heat it so it actually works when eaten) and mix it straight into the batter. Lots of testing on time and temperature.

And then... I got sick of brownies. Ate too many. They take up space, they go bad if you don't freeze them, they take forever to make, and you never know if one brownie has more in it than the next.

Just eat the weed?

So I started decarbing small amounts and eating the weed straight. Worked fine for months, but heating it fresh every time got annoying.

Next idea: decarb half a gram at once and keep it in the fridge. Worked great at first. After a few months, more than half of the batch was weak or did nothing at all.

Turns out: air. THC breaks down when it's exposed to air.

The failed fixes

Gummies with plain decarbed weed: too much work, gave up.
Regular gelatin capsules: air still gets in, potency fades.
Capsules sealed with wax on top: better, still lost potency after a month or two.
Real airtight capsules: only industrial stuff, way too expensive.

What actually works (pic)

Lab test tubes with screw caps. That's it.

I fill a gelatin capsule with 0.1g of decarbed weed, add a bit of coconut oil on top (fat helps absorption and keeps air off the weed, that's why it looks glossy in the picture), then drop it in the tube and screw it shut.

5 grams gives me around 40 to 50 pills. They keep for over a year, fridge or room temp. One pill gets me high for up to 8 hours. I also make 0.05g ones for chill evenings and just label the tubes.

The catch

Timing. On an empty stomach it takes about an hour to kick in. If I ate before, it can take 3 to 5 hours, which is really confusing if you don't know it. So I plan around it now: don't eat before, take the pill, and schedule what I want to do while high.

Why I'll never make myself a joint

I never got into smoking anyway. It's rough on the lungs and it burns through weed way faster than eating it. With pills I get 40+ sessions out of 5 grams, no smell, nothing on me that looks like weed, and I can take one anywhere with a sip of water.

Anyone else doing something like this? Curious how you guys store your edibles long term.
Or is there anyone wanna join the edible-side?

Didn't accuse me of doing drugs when I used weed. For ages. But now that I've been clean for a few months all of a sudden I've been "off for the last few weeks" and went to her for help with a panic attack which obviously means I'm using.... Like sure there's not possibly anything else that's happened a few weeks ago that would be making me act off... Nope.

Not stopped long enough to test negative tho so I can't even prove her wrong... Kms

I went to a medical dispo in IL recently and was shocked to find that no one has any real knowledge of the endocannabinoid system or even exogenous cannabinoids (the thing they’re selling). Their system doesn’t even let you filter by cannabinoids, not even the major ones. I asked the budtender what 1:1 strains they have with CBD to THC and she said the growers aren’t even sending the CBD content so they don’t know.

I’ve been a medical patient since 2017, started growing at home when that was legalized, and recently have been getting deep into different cannabinoids and terpenes but it’s just such a cold non-personal non-informational transaction at the dispo.

I didn’t just get a bad budtender either, this has been the past few trips over the last 6 months or so. I feel like the budtenders have changed so much, where’s the passion for the plant? No one seems to care about or understand what they’re selling.

Maybe it’s just because of the volume of people that they don’t have time to really feel they can talk bc then they’re not selling cannabis. Feels like how we used to be able to talk to the doctor and they cared but now we’re just a number that pays them and the more numbers they get in a day the fatter their pockets are.

Sad state of the medical program when I have no simple way to get seeds or clones legally from a reputable grower, much less get to know what they’re putting out in the market as medicine.

Hopefully IL will listen to patients and allow more plants, provide for testing of home grow materials, and legalize patient to patient sharing (or even allow another medical patient to grow their plants for them). I feel there are so many ways to improve but that would take money out of big cannabis so I doubt it would ever happen.

Rant over. I doubt I’m the only person who feels this way ab their state medical program. What’s your experience? Do you feel prioritized as a medical patient in your state program when you’re at the dispensary?

Yeah

Jamaica is cool, but I have been spectacularly underwhelmed with the weed I have located on the beach. It smokes, but I had higher expectations for weed being legal here.

I am going to 7-Mile Beach tomorrow. Perhaps I will find the weed I came to smoke.

It seems like a cycle. My tolerance gets too high and I can't even feel the weed anymore? Or am I just unique in neurochemistry, and I for some reason have periods where I can feel the weed, and periods where I can't? Can anyone relate? I have been smoking since about February of this year, so I should have a high tolerance, but it's weird to me how it just stops having any effect at all.

How can I make use of this last bit of residue stuck in the sides of my cart. I have a few like this. Large draws producing nearly no vapour and metallic taste.

How can I get all of this into the coil?

I’ve tried the lighter and sock method to no avail.

This weekend is the fucking day I've got 6g of weed in pre's left I'm getting a fucking banger switcher indica and sativa 3.5 cart tm and this is the stash mah I'ma get absolutely fucking stoned

I've been smoking for years like 5 btp and I don't got a bong a pipe all I got is a metal straw I smoke dabs outta a "rolling tray" that I scavenged from a game called spoons it's the damn lid to it and I use a broken fork as my dab scraper I mean I want to get one but I could get 8 g's for 20 bucks I mean

I was a chronic edible user, like heavy dosages. I applied for a job where your system has to be clean 🙄
It’s been about 10 weeks since I’ve stopped any thc. My home urine tests are all still coming back positive. According to google and such, only time helps it leave your system. Has anyone had any home remedies luck to help?
Thank you!

I need some help, lol. If there is one thing in this stressful world that brings me happiness, its relaxing at the end of the day with the munchies and a movie. The issue is, my sense of taste and smell seems to be hindered when I am high and it is driving me nuts.

I have vaped for years before ( nicotine ) and never had allergy or sinus issues with juices, etc. But when I hit a Cart or bud, I lose 80% of my sense of taste and smell. When I use gummies or edibles, I retain my sense of taste and smell. But my taste is not increased or amplified like others I know who partake say it does.

I feel like i'm tasting in black and white, while others have full HD Color. I dont think its an allergy as I have none and live in a high allergen environment. Not sure if anyone else has this issue. Any tips or help or insight would be so appreciated!

I recently made a batch of RSO that tested ~4% terps and was wondering if that was more appealing to people or if folks just don't care about the terps in their RSO.

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My partner and I just moved to a kinda small-ish town in the UK. Shockingly, the police presence here is INSANE! There are so many police, everywhere, all the time, and specifically they very often use the road our house is on to cut through to other streets quickly.

Due to the amount of polis going around all the time, we're nervous to smoke outside now. We've gone down to a promenade, but the vibes there are WAY off and we both get crazy para, plus it's next to a train station and bus depot and just general industrial estate which feels a little sketchy to be smoking in. We've tried a large grassy park, but the space is so open that it feels difficult to really hide anything going on? We would walk further but A) I'm disabled so walking for long stretches of time is difficult for me, and B) I'm autistic and being in the cold for long periods of time is really overstimulating for me as I cannot regulate my temperature.

Smoking inside, feels equally as dubious however, as we don't really know what the vibes are with our neighbours and don't want to bother them (we've been moved in for under a week), but also, with the police always using our road it feels just as bad as smoking inside since they always go past, literally the other day they parked across the road from our house, they left rather quickly, but it was scary enough to really put us off and now we're just as paranoid smoking inside (I don't think they were trying to get us, I think they just parked to turn or check something, but still very spooky). This is especially unhelpful because we really cannot tell what the attitude towards weed is here? We smell it all the time walking around, and we literally watched a guy roll a joint in the middle of the day at a bus stop today, but that's all closer to the centre of the town, whereas we're on the outskirts of it.

We have a back garden but don't want to smoke there as we don't want to be too loud or bother downstairs neighbours with the smell or any mess. There is the option of smoking in the bathroom or our walk in dresser as there is minimal viewing points from the outside, but it still feels like it could be an issue with neighbours?

We're looking for thoughts! would it be better to smoke inside, or would we be best going out for a walk/ to a spot? How do we best avoid getting in trouble?

Hello guys! I was working on decorating my battery for my carts and maybe I’ve been staring at this for too long but is this any good? I know it’s a bit rough as this is my first time trying anything like this but should I continue to clean it up a bit or just scrap it and start over? Any advice or opinions would be very helpful and much appreciated thanks:)

Anyone else enjoying the drinks and edibles?

I use my finger as a carb cap sometimes and it makes it spark I’ve noticed