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> "I solo'd a joint from the dispensary recently and was tweaking just walking around." Imagine not being able to conceive of a solution to this problem facepa

> "I solo'd a joint from the dispensary recently and was tweaking just walking around." Imagine not being able to conceive of a solution to this problem facepalm Speaking as a stoner for half my life, this most definitely gets filed under "skill issue" / just don't be a moron and finish the whole damn joint at once; is it your last day on earth or something? Heaven forbid you consume less byproduct in getting high! God, the state of average person's logical faculties... P.S. Greetz to all the geniuses downvoting common sense and caution, they probably never smoked a joint in their life to know that halfway through one you should know if it's time to put it down, instead of just yolo'ing the whole damn thing desperately trying to get high as possible and then turning around and complaining they got too high, as if that has nothing to do with their idiotic decision and should rather be blamed on the weed itself. Imagine trying to make this argument with eating too much food! "Oh no, I ate 6 people worth of food in one sitting and now my stomach is sore, damn that overly filling food!" Meh, yet another topic not suitable for HN.

jona-f 2y ago
I absolutely agree. I'm vaping medical cannabis with over 30% THC and like it alot. Yes it's very strong and hard to dose, but there are options. I use an analytical scale with .1mg display, so I can measure the 20-25mg per hit. Without a scale you can start with a very small amount and redose as needed. Also, knowing the effects of weed, I don't mind an overdose if I don't have to socialize afterwards. Don't start with the strongest weed you can find and go slow until you know it's working for you. Then, joints are a horrible way of getting high. The tobacco makes you addicted much more, burning everything destroys half of the THC and then your health and another half ends up as disgusting smelly smoke in your environment.
- pixelpoet 2y ago
  Yep, it truly isn't rocket surgery, and even in the worst case, ohhh no, I might be a little too high for 30 minutes, sacre bleu!! Truly the end of the world, better make it illegal again so we can all go back to smoking larger amounts of dodgy street stuff laced with god knows what. That'll improve everything for sure! Brilliant. I only ever smoke pure (basically the only person in Europe to do so unfortunately) but still call it a joint if it's rolled, maybe there's a terminology issue there. Either way, in practice I'll just go on the balcony with my little bubbler and pre-refridgerated water, take literally one toke and be fine for the evening. How people can try to make a complex topic of this, I cannot begin to fathom...
  - morkalork 2y ago
    I've always known it as joint=weed and spliff=weed+tobacco
  - kevinventullo 2y ago
    better make it illegal again… ??? The article is explicitly advocating for descheduling marijuana altogether in order to unblock FDA regulation.
morkalork 2y ago
Unless you're a daily smoker with a built up tolerance, smoking a whole joint to yourself is going fuck you up. Especially if it's a dispensary preroll. If I was rolling one for myself it would be a lot skinnier and about half the weight. Hell, maybe the problem is that it's too cheap and readily available. I remember in highschool everyone was trying to conserve what they had and stretch it out as much as possible. Like packing a bowl and smoking a corner at a time over the evening.
- a_cardboard_box 2y ago
  Right, but you should be able to tell after the first half that smoking the 2nd half is a bad idea. The "skill issue" isn't not being able to handle a whole joint, it's not knowing when to stop, which is something you should know regardless of potency.
  - pixelpoet 2y ago
    Exactly! And everyone's trying to turn this into some kind of complex or controversial issue... I wish all those people who struggle to transfer their experience with coffee or alcohol to cannabis would imagine the following situation: You have a friend, he decides he's going to do some drinking. All he has to hand is some vodka; pretty strong stuff. He could mix it, he could have just a shot of it, he could take it slowly over as long as he likes. Instead, he chooses to down the entire bottle, unmixed, in one short sitting (!), and then complains of not feeling so great walking around. What do we conclude about this situation? Is the problem REALLY that the vodka is too strong? For fuck's sake, come on guys... isn't HN supposed to have smart users and intelligent discussion? WTF is this?

jona-f 2y ago

I absolutely agree. I'm vaping medical cannabis with over 30% THC and like it alot. Yes it's very strong and hard to dose, but there are options. I use an analytical scale with .1mg display, so I can measure the 20-25mg per hit. Without a scale you can start with a very small amount and redose as needed. Also, knowing the effects of weed, I don't mind an overdose if I don't have to socialize afterwards. Don't start with the strongest weed you can find and go slow until you know it's working for you. Then, joints are a horrible way of getting high. The tobacco makes you addicted much more, burning everything destroys half of the THC and then your health and another half ends up as disgusting smelly smoke in your environment.

pixelpoet 2y ago
Yep, it truly isn't rocket surgery, and even in the worst case, ohhh no, I might be a little too high for 30 minutes, sacre bleu!! Truly the end of the world, better make it illegal again so we can all go back to smoking larger amounts of dodgy street stuff laced with god knows what. That'll improve everything for sure! Brilliant. I only ever smoke pure (basically the only person in Europe to do so unfortunately) but still call it a joint if it's rolled, maybe there's a terminology issue there. Either way, in practice I'll just go on the balcony with my little bubbler and pre-refridgerated water, take literally one toke and be fine for the evening. How people can try to make a complex topic of this, I cannot begin to fathom...
- morkalork 2y ago
  I've always known it as joint=weed and spliff=weed+tobacco
- kevinventullo 2y ago
  better make it illegal again… ??? The article is explicitly advocating for descheduling marijuana altogether in order to unblock FDA regulation.

morkalork 2y ago

Unless you're a daily smoker with a built up tolerance, smoking a whole joint to yourself is going fuck you up. Especially if it's a dispensary preroll. If I was rolling one for myself it would be a lot skinnier and about half the weight. Hell, maybe the problem is that it's too cheap and readily available. I remember in highschool everyone was trying to conserve what they had and stretch it out as much as possible. Like packing a bowl and smoking a corner at a time over the evening.

a_cardboard_box 2y ago
Right, but you should be able to tell after the first half that smoking the 2nd half is a bad idea. The "skill issue" isn't not being able to handle a whole joint, it's not knowing when to stop, which is something you should know regardless of potency.
- pixelpoet 2y ago
  Exactly! And everyone's trying to turn this into some kind of complex or controversial issue... I wish all those people who struggle to transfer their experience with coffee or alcohol to cannabis would imagine the following situation: You have a friend, he decides he's going to do some drinking. All he has to hand is some vodka; pretty strong stuff. He could mix it, he could have just a shot of it, he could take it slowly over as long as he likes. Instead, he chooses to down the entire bottle, unmixed, in one short sitting (!), and then complains of not feeling so great walking around. What do we conclude about this situation? Is the problem REALLY that the vodka is too strong? For fuck's sake, come on guys... isn't HN supposed to have smart users and intelligent discussion? WTF is this?