THC Tolerance?

[Guest]

The term "tolerance" is sort of misleading. Out of everything that happens when you toke, 2 that affect how much you feel the buzz are directly related. The first is that THC builds up in your fat cells over time. A heavy toker experiences a ceiling where a higher THC content is needed to trump what is already stored and slowly releasing. The second has to do with the CBTs and types that a strain passes and how well your body reacts to them. So "tolerance" is basically a combination of the two, one of max out from buildup, and the other immunity to the strain's makeup.

Bottom line is if you toke a lot and don't get as high, you're pretty much maxed on that strain. Switching to another strain usually restarts the process and you feel that it hits you better. If another strain isn't an option then clearing the system to start over or find a way to increase the potency is the only thing you can do.

As med users we have to deal with this all the time, I handle it with a perpetual rotation of 20 strains so I can harvest a different strain every week. Some think it's a pain to deal with small yeilds, but in our case it works out good. It helps to stay on a good regiment of antioxidants like cranberry juices, green tea, coffee to keep flushing and raise that ceiling a little.

That's sort of an over-simplified explanation, but it's the easiest to understand for me and I've been tokin for 50 years or so, and it's the best explanation I've heard. But then, I'm always high.

 

[ogrefugee]

well, it's been 2 months since i last smoked... another year to go!

can't wait for getting back into that lightweight class again

 

[wordtree]

metabolism has a lot to do with it...the faster your body can metabolize lipids which store THC, the quicker you will decline to the margin of tolerance. As stated, variety also plays a key role. However, one thing I'd like to mention is that switching up smoking routine/setting also makes a difference in the high.

 

[Guest]

where i live there's a very fine line between bad beasters and middies. Me, i haven't smoked middies in like 2 years, and i don't know why people still do. I don't like to buy bad beasters, either. In fact, i don't like to buy anything less than good ones. the shitty shipments that get distributed around here are really bad... and to top it off those ozs can go for like 110 bucks US.... Good beasters here run 240-300 and great beasters aren't anything less than 325, if the seller is feeling good that day, if not can easily run 350-375.
there isn't much varience that i see and we rarely get a specific strain, like "hey dude i got real northern lights".
when you can get haze from the city, you always gotta go through gangster ass people that are trying to steal your money....so Haze goes from 425 all the way up to
(and i've got ask for this) 525. I told the kid to go f#$k himself....

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Your paying 350 an O for "good" beasters?

Damn.... I'm glad I'm where I am. I think that 350 an O is steep for great headies.....

 

[Guest]

well i don't buy it for that much unless it's really good. I haven't bought a zip for more than 275 in a year or so. I know, it really sucks here.... it's either shitty and expensive or great and really expensive....

(that's why i'm growing my own )

 

[sow the seeds]

I agree witht his, I build up a tolerance if I smoke the same buds(strain) for awhile(days or weeks). Then once my bro gets some new shit in it is like wow I can get high again.

Exactly. Different strain is key. I remember one time I had been smoking a LOT of one specific strain and had a great tolerance for it. Well I went out and smoked with some friends that had a different strain. I had somewhere important to be after but thought "hey i have a huge tolerance, i'll be fine."

Well I ended up going to that important event absolutely ripped because the new strain killed me!

 

[spicecowboy]

Oh well...

Oh well...

So let me refresh this thread a bit with a little story from personal experience.


Some time ago, I decided to stop using any Cannabis, because I wasn´t able to get high anymore.

I smoked pretty big amounts of different strains, and while my buddies got totally floored, I only got depressed, confused, paranoid and lazy.

There wasn´t any high at all, no matter what or how much I smoked.

Because of that, I tried to compensate this lack of motivation and inspiration with "respectable" amounts of Alcohol.

I ended up smoking MJ maybe 6 times a day, and in between I drank at least one bottle of wine and up to ten beers.

So I finally got aware of the fact that it wasn´t my bud and hash being of low quality, but my tolerance being as high as the Mt. Everest.

I stopped, and didn´t touch any MJ for about 6 weeks.

During that time I also stopped buying commercial cigarettes, and prepare my own ciggies with better tobacco.

Instead of drinking one bottle of wine per day I only drank a few beers after my daily work was finished.

During day time, I mainly drank water and green tea.

I started to walk for at least 60 minutes a day, swim at least once a week for at least 90 minutes, I started to bike, I decided to study Romanic Languages,
and I found a connection to God again.

In retrospective, I´m wondering wheter it was the abstinenze from daily MJ causing all this, or those good feelings and new connection to a higher sense in life originally letting me automatically change my lifestyle.


I sttarted to give MJ a first try again between Christmas and Newyearsday.

The joint was carefully prepared with some long term cured Kali Mist and a bit of "American Spirit" organic tobacco, filled into an Aleda paper.

After the second toke, I told myself:

Man this is no beer, this is no valium, this is no green tea, this is so....great.


I was that high, it allmost felt like too much, which provoked quite a bit of terror during the first minutes, because I found myself in a consciousness that I was not used to anymore (after only 6 weeks of abstinence..)

I was inspired, I felt so comfort and in connection with a higher sense.

Oh Jesus, I was soo high.


After that I smoked a joint per week, on the weekend.

A really great celebration.

You got your whole shit together, and after a hard working week, you lean back in your cleaned up living room, with some candles burining, nice music, and a positive mood.

Light up.

GREAT!


Then, about two weeks ago, a few nasty things happend, and people tried to piss on me again.

What was my answer:

"Fuck them all- smoke up honey!".

Sice then I became a daily toker again, and now feel that it is definitely time for a break, because even tough I still get a turn, it´s nothing compared to the initial experience I had after only a few weeks abstinance.

I have a few different types of Cannabis to choose from, but I know that after a short while, none of them will do the trick...

Oh well, and I find it harder to get along with other people, because they are not at the samel level as me.

Alcohol can ruin your brain by damaging brain cells, - Cannabis instead can lead you to an inhanced brain activity that is good for you while writing, composing, listening to your favourite music, and so on.

But going to the supermarket or talking to really wicked people(and please allways rememeber most people are wicked and brainwashed..) A BIG NO!


spice

 

[spicecowboy]

YES

YES

Smoke on the weekends only and you will be straight. It takes awhile to build a tolerance to THC that way. Once you do just take a week or two off. How bad could it be. It's not crack.

Closet Funk is SOO right!


spice

 

[OneWingedImp]

My girlfriend and i smoke about 4 grams aday. Needless to say we CANT AFFORD IT. It sucks SO bad. What we are tryin now is only on weekends, (will help with focus on classes) and lower our tollerance. In one session we sit down and smoke 2 grams out of the bong. Its pretty bad right now. Oh and what i would give for ANY kind of hash source in Souther California.

 

[killa-bud]

my tolrence is crazy,i still smoke only a bowl per ses,but i need ATLEAST 3 to get high like i used to,1 bowl gets me relaxed,and thats all i can afford at the moment,damn it

i think,oz of shwagg last me about 4 days if i smoked to get baked

 

[spicecowboy]

About an hour ago, I got the news that another label shows interest to produce the shit that comes out of my brain.

But they need some material in about a week, and of course the producer would like me to sing along a bit and make his decision wheter I´m really worth the effort(I dislike the whole music business...)


So what can I do?

Be creative, improve my singing, focus on my art.


Bang!- Where is the reefer?


I would like to stop now, - but that´s the way it is.

There are times for weed, and times you should stay away from it(as a pure hedonistic and /or recreational user..)


So, I´m feeling a little buzz in my head,---where is the recorder?


spice