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How long have you had a break from cannabis, experiences, comments.
no probs with taking a break, every now and then.
not a bad thing to do.
sometimes simply changing what you're doing, whatever it is, can help break habits/take off the blinders/reduce OCD.
occasional trouble getting sleep seems to be the only temporary side-effect i get from a break.
not a bad thing to do.
sometimes simply changing what you're doing, whatever it is, can help break habits/take off the blinders/reduce OCD.
occasional trouble getting sleep seems to be the only temporary side-effect i get from a break.
i have gone months at a time without smoking, no problems. ALWAYS because of the never-ending search for a good job. whenever i get hired and feel safe(r), i'll hit a bowl now and then on a pretty day while hunting or fishing, or while sitting out back on the patio watching my pet tree rats in the yard. even if i got a job with zero drug-testing, i probably would not go back to the OZ a week smoker i was when younger, because the quality of weed now renders it unnecessary. but, i will NEVER completely quit. my smoking/growing is my personal "thumb in the eye" to the fucking machine that wishes to control us...
when i was a kid, i smoked because i was curious. then, i learned that i enjoyed it. then, i did it because "they" said i could not. now, i smoke because of arthritis AND because "they" do not want me to. "they" can go fuck themselves...
when i was a kid, i smoked because i was curious. then, i learned that i enjoyed it. then, i did it because "they" said i could not. now, i smoke because of arthritis AND because "they" do not want me to. "they" can go fuck themselves...
Smoking daily and taking an extensive break aren't the only two choices. You can get the same clear lucid dreams if you stay sober during the week and get high one or two nights on the weekends. Tolerance stays at almost zero doing it that way.
I've mostly gotten back to staying sober during the week. I perform better at my job when I don't get high the day before. I have more fun on the weekends when I can get high. It feels more special when it's not an everyday thing.
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CannaBuilding
Thank you for the replies, much appreciated.
as to all the people who are going through some hardship, i wish you all the best in life and in your upcoming situation, keep a positive mind and hopefully you will pull through ok.
Peace to all, happy growing.
as to all the people who are going through some hardship, i wish you all the best in life and in your upcoming situation, keep a positive mind and hopefully you will pull through ok.
Peace to all, happy growing.
I have stopped for a week or so when I went to China a few times in the early 90's.
I did get higher for the first day or two when I returned to smoking.
I had zero problems, I did have technicolor dreams when I did not smoke.
But you do not need to remember your dreams, you just need to dream. When you smoke you still dream, most heavy smokers just don't remember their dreams.
I might have lost a bit of appetite for a few days when I stopped.
When I started again I got the screaming munchies for a few days.
Cannabis even massive amounts normally does not give me the munchies.
Anyway I can stop easy, but do not want to.
Just over 50 years daily.
-SamS
I did get higher for the first day or two when I returned to smoking.
I had zero problems, I did have technicolor dreams when I did not smoke.
But you do not need to remember your dreams, you just need to dream. When you smoke you still dream, most heavy smokers just don't remember their dreams.
I might have lost a bit of appetite for a few days when I stopped.
When I started again I got the screaming munchies for a few days.
Cannabis even massive amounts normally does not give me the munchies.
Anyway I can stop easy, but do not want to.
Just over 50 years daily.
-SamS
I quit for 25 years. Quitting cannabis was incidental to quitting booze & cocaine back in 1987. Back then, it all ran together in associations & a lifestyle that was killing me. When I abandoned the life I was no longer connected. My employer was forced into random drug testing in 1991 but by then I really didn't care because it no longer mattered.
The passage of A64, pending retirement & changes in the world led me back to growing in 2013. I don't have to score from black market sources or hang with the same sort of crowd to enjoy cannabis, nor do I have to risk my freedom in the process.
Everybody should have it so good.
The passage of A64, pending retirement & changes in the world led me back to growing in 2013. I don't have to score from black market sources or hang with the same sort of crowd to enjoy cannabis, nor do I have to risk my freedom in the process.
Everybody should have it so good.
Sam,
I prefer to remember my dreams. The key word there was lucid. Without cannabis I have a level of control and conciousness.
Giant bengals and panthers are A: not real and B: not pets, in wakeful reality.
Some of the truest reflections on my life and reality in general have come from the semi unconcious mind. If I can't remember anything, it might well as not happened.
True enough, especially in regards to performance the next day.
But I lack entirely any self control. For me, it's just easier to make a clean break. Nothing against the odd puff but I'm looking for the clearest perception and thinking possible for the next few years. When life relaxes I'll do the same.
I prefer to remember my dreams. The key word there was lucid. Without cannabis I have a level of control and conciousness.
Giant bengals and panthers are A: not real and B: not pets, in wakeful reality.
Some of the truest reflections on my life and reality in general have come from the semi unconcious mind. If I can't remember anything, it might well as not happened.
True enough, especially in regards to performance the next day.
But I lack entirely any self control. For me, it's just easier to make a clean break. Nothing against the odd puff but I'm looking for the clearest perception and thinking possible for the next few years. When life relaxes I'll do the same.
Quit while serving in military for about 15 years, from about '86-'01. Me failing that "golden flow" test would have kinda sucked for my wife and kids back then. 
I'm also taking an extended break now, after almost 9 years of almost daily tokage since the wife passed in '06. She didn't like that "happy smoke". Happy wife, happy life, right? With me it was more like crazy wife, crazy life. Whatever. Everyone has there issues.
Was taking a tolerance break anyway but have to make that break a little more extended now because of a painful fall in June with resulting back issues, and heart issues now too. That break is except for a eating couple non-psychoactive brownies once in while. I've read cannabis can mess with the heart rhythm after first toking, so I don't want to risk it. A heart attack could suck a little.
If after after the cardiologist appointment, with the EKG and echo test, all say fine after my Aug 17 visit, I'm back to burning down the house....or vaping down the house anyway.
I'm also taking an extended break now, after almost 9 years of almost daily tokage since the wife passed in '06. She didn't like that "happy smoke". Happy wife, happy life, right? With me it was more like crazy wife, crazy life.
Whatever. Everyone has there issues. Was taking a tolerance break anyway but have to make that break a little more extended now because of a painful fall in June with resulting back issues, and heart issues now too. That break is except for a eating couple non-psychoactive brownies once in while. I've read cannabis can mess with the heart rhythm after first toking, so I don't want to risk it. A heart attack could suck a little.
If after after the cardiologist appointment, with the EKG and echo test, all say fine after my Aug 17 visit, I'm back to burning down the house....or vaping down the house anyway.
Some people need and/or want what you call clear perception, I say God created reality for those to weak to handle drugs.
Cannabis is normal. Life is relaxed right now, it always is, maybe you are sometimes not relaxed, try a puff?
But I totally agree with anyone that wants to smoke Cannabis or not, it is their choice, for what ever reason.
I have a few friends that do not smoke yet most of them drink, it is not clear perception and thinking they want, but they do not want Cannabis, that is for sure.
-SamS
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Regular user since 1977, had a couple years cannabis free
in the nineties, I'll never get that time back, lol.
Gotta' say this icmag site has been so helpful for me with the
information about the plant we all use and love.
When I made my first batch of ice water hash until my
novice approach to making crosses, this site and youse guys
have been there all the way.
in the nineties, I'll never get that time back, lol.
Gotta' say this icmag site has been so helpful for me with the
information about the plant we all use and love.
When I made my first batch of ice water hash until my
novice approach to making crosses, this site and youse guys
have been there all the way.
If this is the case something else you may want to do is to exercise your brain. I myself haven't messed with it but there is a website called luminosity where you can find exercises that feels like playing puzzle games. It's geared towards helping people to strengthen how their brain works with many claiming it does work.
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CannaBuilding
Thank you for the comments, some very good info 
I remember the only problem when i quit, i slowly tapered off my cannabis use, went from 1 gram to 0.1 of gram on my last day over a period of 2 weeks, was only vaping in a Sublimator, which helped alot, towards the last couple of days, I'd Sublimate 0.1g of some Strawberry blue and take some valarian root capsules which would help me sleep, continued the valarian root capsules for about 2 weeks after quiting, but then the depression came with some anger, this continued for probably 3 - 6 months with on and off episodes. I continued taking various herbal capsules which i made my self from raw grinded up material, these included Valarian root, Cissus, Nettle Leaf, Reishi mushroom extract and saw palmetto, this really helped me get through the whole time sober. But now the pain is way to much, and i have put on 20kgs (45lb) on FFS, Went from 92kgs to 112kgs (current weight) and im eating LESS, i dont farking get it. I cant believe until now, how fit i was on when on cannabis, still makes me think why the fark i quit (family related).
But i have found out quitting for a such a long time when being high nearly all my adult life has made me realize alot about life its self, and i really cant wait to get medicated/high again, my first hit would be from the sublimator which would be in about 2 months time (im putting the girls into flower in the next day, 45-50 days of flowering, first chop and cure for 1-2 weeks). When i do get high, Im going for a bush walk and then coming back and getting high some more, Im sure i will feel like a child again.
But to all that have not quit for a while, Its a good thing to do so, especially if you have been high all your adult life, quitting for a couple of months to a year would make you realize alot about life, but i wouldnt quit for a year anymore, if i were to quit again it would be a 1 - 2 months for a tolerance break, as i really cant afford to put weight on.
Peace to all, happy growing
I remember the only problem when i quit, i slowly tapered off my cannabis use, went from 1 gram to 0.1 of gram on my last day over a period of 2 weeks, was only vaping in a Sublimator, which helped alot, towards the last couple of days, I'd Sublimate 0.1g of some Strawberry blue and take some valarian root capsules which would help me sleep, continued the valarian root capsules for about 2 weeks after quiting, but then the depression came with some anger, this continued for probably 3 - 6 months with on and off episodes. I continued taking various herbal capsules which i made my self from raw grinded up material, these included Valarian root, Cissus, Nettle Leaf, Reishi mushroom extract and saw palmetto, this really helped me get through the whole time sober. But now the pain is way to much, and i have put on 20kgs (45lb) on FFS, Went from 92kgs to 112kgs (current weight) and im eating LESS, i dont farking get it. I cant believe until now, how fit i was on when on cannabis, still makes me think why the fark i quit (family related).
But i have found out quitting for a such a long time when being high nearly all my adult life has made me realize alot about life its self, and i really cant wait to get medicated/high again, my first hit would be from the sublimator which would be in about 2 months time
(im putting the girls into flower in the next day, 45-50 days of flowering, first chop and cure for 1-2 weeks). When i do get high, Im going for a bush walk and then coming back and getting high some more, Im sure i will feel like a child again.But to all that have not quit for a while, Its a good thing to do so, especially if you have been high all your adult life, quitting for a couple of months to a year would make you realize alot about life, but i wouldnt quit for a year anymore, if i were to quit again it would be a 1 - 2 months for a tolerance break, as i really cant afford to put weight on.
Peace to all, happy growing
Stopping is for quitters. That said everyone should do what they like or is good for them. If they are lucky they can do both.
-SamS
-SamS
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CannaBuilding
If i were in the US and had a MED cannabis card, i wouldnt of quit, i would just of quit growing, but here in AU, its hard to find a good source of reliable cannabis, hence why i quit, i couldnt grow anymore and it was not a option really, that being said, i should of restarted growing sooner.
Quitting is not a nice thing, especially when your in a pain, but sometimes we dont have a choice, at the end the day, when we have our first smoke/vape after quitting, it becomes all worth it I guess.
But if you can grow some good Dank meds, why quit, just keep at it and spread the love.
Peace to all, happy growing
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many times for many decades
I agree that dreams can be expressions of unconcious thoughts disturbing the mind. People with unresolved issues tend to sleep less restfully, as I've noticed with myself and others in the past. But much like acid I believe I benefit from the altered perception. My unconcious mind does not think the same way the concious does. I've yet to find a drug that mimics these effects so thoroughly without having some inhibitory action.
As for your experiences with lucid dreaming, why did you stop?
My goal as mentioned is to obtain another level of perception, much as we both have in the past with hallucinogenic drugs. I understand/enjoy the more powerful effect from larger doses of acid/mushrooms/etc and have benefited the different outlook they provide but generally prefer long and slow trips. I want a level of functionality and have had much more profound experiences when none are wise to the little pieces of paper I slip into every other drink. It breaks the gap between thinking and saying, a gap I see in almost everyone I've met, whether a teetotaler or someone who professes (frequently incorrectly) acid/mush/etc changed their lives.
I'm also just tired of being stoned all the time (unrifle your feathers, ladies). If you think this makes me weak minded, that's fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I find that rather insulting myself. One could just as easily argue that those looking to live a life high from beginning to end are hiding from something, in the same way alcoholics and hard drug addicts obliterate their minds on a daily basis just to function.
Despite many revering cannabis as a holy icon, it at its base is a drug. Those that revere it are inexplicably personally offended at the mention of any negative quality. If it didn't make you high, this website wouldn't exist and the majority of members here would not recognize the name C. sativa from any other plant that grows in the wild. There are downsides to becoming a habitual stoner, many prefer to ignore them but like anything, not acknowledging something doesn't make it not exist. I take a more objective view of the matter. Everything green is not gold, as I've said before.
One last thing. I read. A lot. Non-contempory literature mostly (like a good douche), pulp is for the shitter at best. A good book (to me) can be read on many levels, hence why I tend to read mostly Russian authors. Anyone with a similar habit and a reasonable level of self perception will have realized the negative impact high cannabis use has on this activity. While I enjoy having a puff later in the night and contemplating what I've read, I generally don't enjoy smoking while I read (though the odd time I've caught something I may not have noticed other wise).
Any way. I've run out of words and try to avoid book length posts. Have at it.
OranguTrump
Crotchety Old Crotch
I routinely go months between buying any - cannot grow for personal reasons & have limited hookups (read: none). I have gone almost a year once or twice. I'd smoke multiple times daily if I had steady supply, but it's not a big deal to be without. Long breaks between make for a very high guy.
