Hello, I have a problem with smoking weed. I'm baked for too long. Like I'll smoke, and I'll be fully high for the normal 20min-1hr. That's all normal. The problem is, I'm still baked as fuck the next day. I feel stoned, groggy, weak, lazy, etc. And baked, and still feel all the "psychedelic" effects of it all the way through the next day. It doesn't start to wear off until 24 hours, and after that its probably another day until I'm straight sober. Now, some of you would say this is a good thing. Problem is, I have a life and shit to do, and being high doesn't work. I can't be fully functional while high. To make things worse, I end up fighting the high which gives me paranoia. Overall, its not a pleasant experience, and is convincing me to quit weed altogether. Another problem is, it turns me into an addict. I feel like shit so I'll smoke again just to relieve it, and it just turns into a cycle. Smoking at night, trying to sober up during the day and feeling like shit, smoking to stop feeling like shit, and then putting up with the "hangover" the next day and smoking again to relieve it. Over and over, day after day, week after week. Anyone else experience this? From what I can tell, I've always been like this, and its the same whether I smoke mids or headies. And I'm not a lightweight.....I've been smoking every day for about 4+ years now. My tolerance is very strong, I've honed my skills on a 3' PHX where you can take a couple grams to the face and barely have to cough. Lately this problem has been affecting me just sprinkling the smallest amount of dank on top of a bowl of vape waste, in a small bowl. I quit the bong and other strong pieces a week ago. I just want to be fucking sober when I want/need to be. I don't want to put up with spending entire days feeling like shit riding out the weed hangover so I can be sober again. Does that mean my only option is to quit?
Sometimes when I smoke A LOT I'll wake up the next morning with a fuzzy feeling in my head, but that's about it.
I think I've figured it out. Going to spark a bowl and have fun tonight, finish off my stash, don't have much to do tomorrow. Figure that I'll feel like shit and just ride it out, maybe drink tomorrow. Then I'll be straight Tuesday and just go from there trying to sober up completely. Maybe one day I can smoke again when the hangovers vibe with my life. I've always been told that weed doesn't have a hangover effect, and assumed that you were supposed to be pretty much sober the next day. That shit isn't true.
I plan 2 days of being in a daze. Other than that I don't smoke. It's every 4 days or so. I appreciate totally straight and keeping weed for special occassions. Sometimes I also use it to break severe boredom.
I've experienced feeling foggy the next day, but never a hangover.. Why don't you just not smoke when you have plans the next day? Try weaker shit, use joints instead of a bong, get less high, there's so many options
I have the same issues. I limit my smoking now to Fri & Sat nights. The real question is, are you going to bed high? Or even slightly high? I've noticed that weed can be exactly like alcohol where when you go to bed drunk, you wake up hungover...you go to bed high, you wake up foggy.
THC (and a host of other cannaboids) can stay in your blood for up to a full month after use. I've basically decided to give it up for the time, after an almost year long streak of the kind of cycle OP describes. I think as pot hangovers go, it also matters how 'aware' you are. I mean a 'coarser' mind will maybe note that they're not completely off their ass high, and infer from this they are back to normal - while a more 'attuned' person may find they are still a way off from baseline. I suspect regular pot use fucks with your psychosomatic cycles, and while you might enjoy long, deep sleep after smoking MJ, it seems like some brain centers just aren't properly rested. I suspect the relative dearth of dreams (or at least their recollection) after smoking to have something to do with this, but I'm no expert and I'm speaking solely from personal experience. Like with any habit, it's only after you break a cycle (or it's broken for you) that you notice all this time you've been in a slight trance and not quite 'there'. I've been smoking weed for half my life now and while weed has given me all sorts of gifts (an 'inside' appreciation for art, music, language, rapturous sexual feeling, the Saturnian suffering of the universe) I am now at a point in my life where I feel this chapter has run its course, and I can no longer afford the slight cognitive impairment that comes with it. They say MJ isn't 'bodily' addictive, but the day after toking I tend to be extremely moody, emotional and have difficulty dealing with social stress. It can be so bad that it feels like every cell in my body is screaming for me to just load up a bong and restore equilibrium. I shudder to think how the come-down of more 'serious' illicit substances might feel. Like I hadn't smoked up at all since a week before X-mas, then the other day visited a friend who smoked me out, and the next day I was notably agitated. I mean if you feel the intense experience is worth it and have a day to spare and can busy/distract yourself with other things so as to get through the day after without initiating a cycle, then go for it. But personally I don't feel I have that kind of time to spare, and rather could use all the neurotransmitters I can leverage.
i know what you mean, don't feel full on stoned psychedelic effects but especially if i smoke a lot one night, i feel off baseline the entire next day now that i'm on break from school and friends are home i'm smoking fairly often, and i do feel fuzzy for the day after but it's not an issue. when school starts back up i'll be back in school mode exactly because of the fuzziness
+1 I agree. Its like you have to make time for weed, if you're going to smoke. And if you have important things to do in your life and you can't be high for them, you just have to accept being sober most of the time. It sucks but its worth it. That said, I think there's a market for an anti-high pill. Imagine, being able to smoke as much as you want, then you take a pill and you're instantly sober. It could work on absorbing THC and its metabolites, or on the cannabinoid receptors in the brain. If someone made that we could all really be FREE to smoke as much as we want.
I get that very high feeling the next day after I havent smoked for a while. But I just work out a bit when I get that feeling and it goes away. I agree with ariekanibalie, after smoking for a long time, when ever I take a break I feel anxious, I just want to smoke to calm everything down and get on with the day. Weed can be addictive if you use it all the time
