Tolerances for Alcohol and Weed

This is going to sound really strange but I think my tolerance for both of these substances was "reset" after drinking a bit too much whiskey.

I have never been a big drinker but over the past couple of years I developed a taste for liquor over beer. Lately I have been all about Captain Morgan and Crown Royal. I went out with my parents and some of their friends to float down a local river on tubes and relax for the day. The 3 hour float is usually full of college kids pounding cases of beer but it was pretty quiet when we were out there. I brought along a full bottle of Crown Royal and about 3/4 of the way down the river I had consumed most of the bottle. The heat, an empty stomach and the motion of floating down the river left me pretty drunk. I can't even remember the last time I had a real hangover. I've woken up a few times and felt a little below normal but this time I was fucked. I blacked out on the car ride home, passed out in my bed and woke up ten hours later. My head felt like it was going to explode and while I was a little hungry, eating even bread wasn't much of an option. Because I had just slept a solid ten hours, I was awake for about 12 hours and just felt like shit the entire time. After sleeping again for about six hours I smoked a bowl to ease my stomach and I felt a bit better.

My alcohol tolerance has never been anything crazy but I could handle drinking 8-10 beers in a night without getting too drunk to function. My weed tolerance was VERY high last year as I pretty much stayed stoned although due to a few long breaks it has gone down some.

Ever since that Crown Royal River trip, it feels like I am re experiencing my first drink and smoke. I didn't drink for a couple weeks after that incident but after I did, I would fall asleep after drinking a couple beers. Alcohol normally makes me tired but after two beers I was guaranteed to pass out if I laid down. My weed tolerance also seemed to start at zero, as I found anything more than 10 hits to be a bit uncomfortable. The weed I'm smoking now is of the same quality as the shit I smoked last year but I can no longer smoke bowl after bowl or take a blunt to the face.

Has anyone had anything like this happen? I haven't touched any liquor in over a month now but I still enjoy the occasional beer or two like the Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat I'm drinking now.

 

So has it been a year for smoking and drinking, basically? I know a year away from anything will start your tolerance over.

 

Maybe I should have been more specific. I'm a sophomore in college.

My drinking was minimal during high school for the most part. Senior year had a bit more due to Spring Break and that good stuff. Freshman year of college got me into liking beer. PBR was with me for much of my first semester but usually on the weekends. Second semester, my friends and I would just buy cheap bottles of whiskey and rum. My friends that didn't go to school had strange work schedules so I'd find myself drinking Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night but not much on the weekends. This year I'm living at home, still waiting to find my own place, and the availability of free liquor had me going for a while. That horrible hangover I had was about a month ago.

I've been smoking weed regularly since sophomore year. By the middle of junior year, I was probably smoking at least an eighth of dank a week. I stayed pretty stoned most of junior and senior year. Took a break over summer for a few reasons and then when my freshman year in college started, my tolerance was through the roof. By the end of the year, smoking a bowl of dank didn't do much to me. To get properly stoned I'd have to smoke a blunt with a friend or two. Again, I took a short break this past summer but now I've started smoking again. My tolerance had gone down because of a 2 month break but I was still very capable of controlling myself after smoking a lot. A month after that hangover, smoking a bowl is about my limit.