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Strongly agree. As the THC percentage has increased, so has my anxiety when I smoke it. If I go out of my way to find lower quality weed, I enjoy it much more.

Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
Hopefully the canabis producers will see the low (by todays standards) THC level weed as having its own niche and market it accordingly. Like 'light beer'.
- BrianOnHN 4y ago
  I wonder how alcohol would look of people were so incompetent that they would drink vodka by the pint, like beer! Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong.
  - wahnfrieden 4y ago
    High-grade joints are a popular product in Canada
    - BrianOnHN 4y ago
      Source?
      - wahnfrieden 4y ago
        you can look it up yourself
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        wahnfrieden 4y ago
        it's not hard to understand that many people enjoy a potent product
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        iinnPP 4y ago
        Not everyone is you. Not everyone thinks like you. A good pre-roll is actually a great experience. It's a 'treat" for many habitual users.
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        samatman 4y ago
        Stop behaving this way on Hacker News. It is aggressive and unwelcome, and we don't want that here.
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        wahnfrieden 4y ago
        No. You sound like a square edit: disengaging, have a nice day
        deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
  - alar44 4y ago
    Um, seriously, I like smoking joints, but I can't because the shit around these days is so sticky and potent. It's as if the only thing available is vodka, but I'd like a beer. Drinking less vodka doesn't make it a beer. They're completely different things.
    - BrianOnHN 4y ago
      Vodka + water. > but I can't because the shit around these days is so sticky and potent. And I call BS on this.
      - alar44 4y ago
        Weed is definitely stronger than it was in the 90s.
    - selfmodruntime 4y ago
      Yes, that is exactly my problem. I enjoy the smoking process.
  - rascul 4y ago
    > Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong. I've met people who prefer smoking joints over other smoking methods. Sometimes I like to have a joint, also. Why are we wrong?
    - BrianOnHN 4y ago
      Why are you right? It's probably best if you don't do anything that could be potentially harmful.
      - wonderwonder 4y ago
        Everything is potentially harmful. Not having a perfect diet, drinking a couple beers, not having 8 hours of sleep a night. Life is short, weed is generally not harmful, if you want to occasionally smoke a joint, let them smoke a joint.
      - rascul 4y ago
        You said it was wrong. I'm trying to understand why. Are you saying that smoking joints is potentially more harmful than using a bong? I don't understand.
  - wonderwonder 4y ago
    Snoop disagrees.
wahnfrieden 4y ago
You strongly agree that they should regulate weed to be weaker so that you don't have to check potency before purchase? ok
- CoastalCoder 4y ago
  I didn't get that from the GP comment. IIUC, they're just saying that they prefer less potency, but have trouble finding it in the current market. That doesn't necessarily mean they want only weaker weed to be sold.
  - wahnfrieden 4y ago
    excuse me for interpreting "I just wish that we would take measures" as promoting regulation edit to reply to below: California already has accurate labeling and is being called out as a problem
    - CoastalCoder 4y ago
      I assumed that they were talking about regulations requiring accurate labelling of THC and CBD concentrations.
      - selfmodruntime 4y ago
        Yes, that is what I meant
    - selfmodruntime 4y ago
      The original comment was from me. Measures include warnings and advertisements. They also include offering low dosage alternatives
  - selfmodruntime 4y ago
    Exactly!
- unethical_ban 4y ago
iinnPP 4y ago
In Canada we can buy such a wide variety of strains, all of them labeled with both THC and CBD levels. We can buy vape carts, prerolls, candy, drinks, and much more. Finding the "dose" that works perfectly for you is quite simple and available everywhere. It's a vast improvement over what was there before.
- macNchz 4y ago
  Yeah I never cared much for weed when it was whatever my college friends were buying in the early 2000s, it made me feel edgy and uncomfortable. I was curious when it started to become legal in the US and realized it was actually just too strong for me back then. A small amount of some low THC, high CBD product is pleasant without being intoxicating, and so much easier to come by with everything being tested and labelled. To me it’s comparable to the single after-work beer I have long enjoyed, vs the high grade stuff being more like… an after-work 5 shots of vodka.
yuuu 4y ago
I live in a state where marijuana is legal and recently tried it again for the first time in over a decade. I strolled into a recreational store and asked for a recommendation, specifically requesting a flower with a low THC concentration. They ended up giving me something ("Biker Kush") that had 28% THC, which I had only noticed on the packaging after I left the store. Gee, thanks. Anyway, then I bought supplies to make one marijuana cigarette, sometimes also called a "joint." I did not want to get too high, so I smoked one hit at a time, putting the joint out for breaks of twenty to thirty minutes between attempts. After around four of those hits spread over two hours, I did not really feel anything. The next day, I bought a one-hit dry herb vaporizer, to be heated with a butane torch. I wanted to feel "high," and the joint had not worked. I used the same approach of waiting twenty to thirty minutes between hits with the vaporizer. In most of these hit attempts, the marijuana ended up combusting instead of vaporizing, as I had heated it up too much. For the first three hits, I did not really feel anything. However, the fourth hit was very rough, burning my throat, and sent me into a coughing fit. Over a period of about fifteen minutes, the effect began to take hold. I decided to take a shower, and I started freaking out about halfway through, calling out to my wife. I thought I was having a stroke and suddenly felt like I did not have control over my body. I went up to bed and lied down for a long time, where my mind was racing with obsessive, intrusive thoughts. It felt like I was not the person controlling my actions or my thoughts. The feeling that I would be stuck like this forever - that I had lost my mind and entered some state of irreversible psychosis - persisted for at least an hour while I desperately tried to relax myself. After some amount of time, I got out of bed and threw up in the sink and the toilet, then went back to lie down. The entire night, I felt unable to express what I was thinking, but it was filled with the greatest worry that I have ever experienced. (I say this as someone who had actually experienced a couple panic attacks over a decade ago.) The next day, when I woke up, the effects had subsided, but I was still left with a feeling that I was milliseconds behind the present moment. The worry that I would never feel normal again continued even after the high had diminished. It's a very difficult feeling to explain in hindsight, but after a bit of research, I think I experienced what's called "derealization." This continued into the rest of the day and a bit into the next, and it was a really scary situation for me, since I feel like I always need some amount of control over my mind. (Alcohol has never made me feel this way, though.) Anyway, the derealization effects were gone after two days, and now, I'm afraid to try marijuana again. I would really like to enjoy the pleasant feelings reported with its use, but I'm worried that my personality is such that I just can't lose control over whatever part of my brain is affected by THC. But I also partly blame the salesperson who sold me something with such a high THC concentration, when I specifically requested something with a low concentration.
grasshopperpurp 4y ago
Anecdote: I've never seen someone suffer anxiety from an Indica strain, but I have seen plenty of bad trips from Sativa strains. Medical is legal where I live, and I like both (and hybrids) depending on what I'm doing. In the evening, I would stick to Indicas and Indica-dominant hybrids. Since I work, and I never use while working, I use Sativas far less, but I like them for weekends - walks, chores, etc.. It's a bright feeling and more of a head-high, but under the wrong circumstances, that bright feeling turns dark. Particularly in the evening, Sativas can make you buzzy and unsettled. My gf thought she hated herbs until she tried Indicas. She knows how and when to use now, so she can enjoy Sativas under the right conditions. Again, this is just my personal experience, but it tracks with my understanding of the strains, and I hope it's helpful to someone.
- treis 4y ago
  The difference between Indica and Sativa is to a large extent imagined. Even if it's not most of the strains you buy today are hybrids.
  - grasshopperpurp 4y ago
    >The difference between Indica and Sativa is to a large extent imagined. Can you elaborate? This is very contrary to my experience. . . . NM I looked it up and see what you're referring to. I'll have to look into it more, because, again, it doesn't sync with my experience. >Even if it's not most of the strains you buy today are hybrids. I've never had an ounce of difficulty finding Indicas or Sativas at dispensaries. Maybe there are more hybrids (never took the time to count the options), but if there are quality options available for all three, I don't see how it matters. And, within hybrids, there are Indica-dominant and Sativa-dominant strains.
    - treis 4y ago
      https://www.insider.com/why-theres-no-difference-between-indica-and-sativa-marijuana-strains-2020-4 https://www.insider.com/why-theres-no-difference-between-ind...
scifibestfi 4y ago
I don't understand why this is a problem. You can adjust the amount. What am I missing?

Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago

Hopefully the canabis producers will see the low (by todays standards) THC level weed as having its own niche and market it accordingly. Like 'light beer'.

BrianOnHN 4y ago
I wonder how alcohol would look of people were so incompetent that they would drink vodka by the pint, like beer! Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  High-grade joints are a popular product in Canada
  - BrianOnHN 4y ago
    Source?
    - wahnfrieden 4y ago
      you can look it up yourself
      - BrianOnHN 4y ago
        wahnfrieden 4y ago
        it's not hard to understand that many people enjoy a potent product
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        iinnPP 4y ago
        Not everyone is you. Not everyone thinks like you. A good pre-roll is actually a great experience. It's a 'treat" for many habitual users.
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        samatman 4y ago
        Stop behaving this way on Hacker News. It is aggressive and unwelcome, and we don't want that here.
        BrianOnHN 4y ago
        wahnfrieden 4y ago
        No. You sound like a square edit: disengaging, have a nice day
        deleted 4y ago
        [deleted]
- alar44 4y ago
  Um, seriously, I like smoking joints, but I can't because the shit around these days is so sticky and potent. It's as if the only thing available is vodka, but I'd like a beer. Drinking less vodka doesn't make it a beer. They're completely different things.
  - BrianOnHN 4y ago
    Vodka + water. > but I can't because the shit around these days is so sticky and potent. And I call BS on this.
    - alar44 4y ago
      Weed is definitely stronger than it was in the 90s.
  - selfmodruntime 4y ago
    Yes, that is exactly my problem. I enjoy the smoking process.
- rascul 4y ago
  > Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong. I've met people who prefer smoking joints over other smoking methods. Sometimes I like to have a joint, also. Why are we wrong?
  - BrianOnHN 4y ago
    Why are you right? It's probably best if you don't do anything that could be potentially harmful.
    - wonderwonder 4y ago
      Everything is potentially harmful. Not having a perfect diet, drinking a couple beers, not having 8 hours of sleep a night. Life is short, weed is generally not harmful, if you want to occasionally smoke a joint, let them smoke a joint.
    - rascul 4y ago
      You said it was wrong. I'm trying to understand why. Are you saying that smoking joints is potentially more harmful than using a bong? I don't understand.
- wonderwonder 4y ago
  Snoop disagrees.

wahnfrieden 4y ago

You strongly agree that they should regulate weed to be weaker so that you don't have to check potency before purchase? ok

CoastalCoder 4y ago
I didn't get that from the GP comment. IIUC, they're just saying that they prefer less potency, but have trouble finding it in the current market. That doesn't necessarily mean they want only weaker weed to be sold.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  excuse me for interpreting "I just wish that we would take measures" as promoting regulation edit to reply to below: California already has accurate labeling and is being called out as a problem
  - CoastalCoder 4y ago
    I assumed that they were talking about regulations requiring accurate labelling of THC and CBD concentrations.
    - selfmodruntime 4y ago
      Yes, that is what I meant
  - selfmodruntime 4y ago
    The original comment was from me. Measures include warnings and advertisements. They also include offering low dosage alternatives
- selfmodruntime 4y ago
  Exactly!
unethical_ban 4y ago

iinnPP 4y ago

In Canada we can buy such a wide variety of strains, all of them labeled with both THC and CBD levels. We can buy vape carts, prerolls, candy, drinks, and much more. Finding the "dose" that works perfectly for you is quite simple and available everywhere. It's a vast improvement over what was there before.

macNchz 4y ago
Yeah I never cared much for weed when it was whatever my college friends were buying in the early 2000s, it made me feel edgy and uncomfortable. I was curious when it started to become legal in the US and realized it was actually just too strong for me back then. A small amount of some low THC, high CBD product is pleasant without being intoxicating, and so much easier to come by with everything being tested and labelled. To me it’s comparable to the single after-work beer I have long enjoyed, vs the high grade stuff being more like… an after-work 5 shots of vodka.

yuuu 4y ago

I live in a state where marijuana is legal and recently tried it again for the first time in over a decade. I strolled into a recreational store and asked for a recommendation, specifically requesting a flower with a low THC concentration. They ended up giving me something ("Biker Kush") that had 28% THC, which I had only noticed on the packaging after I left the store. Gee, thanks. Anyway, then I bought supplies to make one marijuana cigarette, sometimes also called a "joint." I did not want to get too high, so I smoked one hit at a time, putting the joint out for breaks of twenty to thirty minutes between attempts. After around four of those hits spread over two hours, I did not really feel anything. The next day, I bought a one-hit dry herb vaporizer, to be heated with a butane torch. I wanted to feel "high," and the joint had not worked. I used the same approach of waiting twenty to thirty minutes between hits with the vaporizer. In most of these hit attempts, the marijuana ended up combusting instead of vaporizing, as I had heated it up too much. For the first three hits, I did not really feel anything. However, the fourth hit was very rough, burning my throat, and sent me into a coughing fit. Over a period of about fifteen minutes, the effect began to take hold. I decided to take a shower, and I started freaking out about halfway through, calling out to my wife. I thought I was having a stroke and suddenly felt like I did not have control over my body. I went up to bed and lied down for a long time, where my mind was racing with obsessive, intrusive thoughts. It felt like I was not the person controlling my actions or my thoughts. The feeling that I would be stuck like this forever - that I had lost my mind and entered some state of irreversible psychosis - persisted for at least an hour while I desperately tried to relax myself. After some amount of time, I got out of bed and threw up in the sink and the toilet, then went back to lie down. The entire night, I felt unable to express what I was thinking, but it was filled with the greatest worry that I have ever experienced. (I say this as someone who had actually experienced a couple panic attacks over a decade ago.) The next day, when I woke up, the effects had subsided, but I was still left with a feeling that I was milliseconds behind the present moment. The worry that I would never feel normal again continued even after the high had diminished. It's a very difficult feeling to explain in hindsight, but after a bit of research, I think I experienced what's called "derealization." This continued into the rest of the day and a bit into the next, and it was a really scary situation for me, since I feel like I always need some amount of control over my mind. (Alcohol has never made me feel this way, though.) Anyway, the derealization effects were gone after two days, and now, I'm afraid to try marijuana again. I would really like to enjoy the pleasant feelings reported with its use, but I'm worried that my personality is such that I just can't lose control over whatever part of my brain is affected by THC. But I also partly blame the salesperson who sold me something with such a high THC concentration, when I specifically requested something with a low concentration.

grasshopperpurp 4y ago

Anecdote: I've never seen someone suffer anxiety from an Indica strain, but I have seen plenty of bad trips from Sativa strains. Medical is legal where I live, and I like both (and hybrids) depending on what I'm doing. In the evening, I would stick to Indicas and Indica-dominant hybrids. Since I work, and I never use while working, I use Sativas far less, but I like them for weekends - walks, chores, etc.. It's a bright feeling and more of a head-high, but under the wrong circumstances, that bright feeling turns dark. Particularly in the evening, Sativas can make you buzzy and unsettled. My gf thought she hated herbs until she tried Indicas. She knows how and when to use now, so she can enjoy Sativas under the right conditions. Again, this is just my personal experience, but it tracks with my understanding of the strains, and I hope it's helpful to someone.

treis 4y ago
The difference between Indica and Sativa is to a large extent imagined. Even if it's not most of the strains you buy today are hybrids.
- grasshopperpurp 4y ago
  >The difference between Indica and Sativa is to a large extent imagined. Can you elaborate? This is very contrary to my experience. . . . NM I looked it up and see what you're referring to. I'll have to look into it more, because, again, it doesn't sync with my experience. >Even if it's not most of the strains you buy today are hybrids. I've never had an ounce of difficulty finding Indicas or Sativas at dispensaries. Maybe there are more hybrids (never took the time to count the options), but if there are quality options available for all three, I don't see how it matters. And, within hybrids, there are Indica-dominant and Sativa-dominant strains.
  - treis 4y ago
    https://www.insider.com/why-theres-no-difference-between-indica-and-sativa-marijuana-strains-2020-4 https://www.insider.com/why-theres-no-difference-between-ind...

scifibestfi 4y ago

I don't understand why this is a problem. You can adjust the amount. What am I missing?