Welcome to Cannabis School. I'm your host, Jesse Angeles.
And I'm Brandon Elder. And we're here to talk to you
about everything pertaining to cannabis, from vape, flower,
edibles, strains and everything in between.
Well, welcome back to another 101.
We're going to talk about something that's pretty
personal. And really important.
I think so. It's something that some
cannabis users may feel, and this is might sound strange, but
they may feel embarrassed to talk about because they've got
such a strong affinity to it that they don't want to look
like a pussy. You know what I mean?
Cause we've talked to people, they're like, no, you should
just ride it out. Ride out the uncomfortable
feeling. Yeah, just just go through it.
Just go. Through it anyway.
Yeah, that's and that kind of reminds me of kind of how you
were when you were first really getting into cannabis.
Like that kind of was pressed on you.
Well, I also didn't know any better.
There wasn't like, hey, I didn't have the understanding of take
nine part CBD to one part THC, utilize lemon juice or these
other things that can really help manage that.
Experience. Yeah.
Offset it. And.
And today what we're talking about is, you know,
reconsidering your relationship with cannabis.
Re evaluating what that relationship looks like.
And it's not necessarily saying, you know, you should stop or you
should increase, But and and we've talked about tea breaks,
and I'm gonna go into a tea break that I just recently did
and and it wasn't, you know, we've talked about this on the
podcast before. It's actually when we started
this podcast, I had come off of a real bad episode of Panic
Attacks for almost a solid month.
Oh yeah, you remember? And that was Bubba Kush.
That kind of ignited it. But there was other other.
Factors, Lying factors. Right.
And now I just came through. I've been seven days off of
cannabis. This is gonna be my first time
using cannabis. I'm using the Air Vapes Legacy
Pro Steampunk Edition. It's pretty cool.
It's like Copper Levi and some, Yeah, just.
Like a piece of leather. Yeah, leather on it too, but.
It's. Really cool.
Like, see how it opens, right? It just kind of opens like a
coffin clicks. Really cool style it.
Heats up super. Fast, and you get the full
temperature control on there as well, so you can control degree
by degree. And that was my first puff off
cannabis in a week. And the reason why is, is that I
got sick. And then after I was sick, I
started to feel a little bit different, a little bit more
anxious. And then it got really bad.
And then I started having debilitating panic attacks.
And during that time I tried cannabis, Like when I was having
the panic attacks, I tried it and it got worse.
It wasn't doing what it normally would.
Do No, it was it was really affecting me.
And so that's kind of what we want to talk about today is that
there are times when you are using cannabis that maybe taking
a little bit of break from it will allow you to be able to
reset 'cause this is something I don't want to get out of my.
Maybe it's not the at that moment in life.
Maybe it's not the right tool for what it is that you're
needing to address at the moment, right?
And even though it can be a amazing tool for so many moments
and so many people, it might not always be the perfect tool for
every situation, for every person.
It's where I think that people have a kind of a misconception,
'cause I hear some people are like, I'm going to get on
cannabis to help with my anxiety, and I believe it can
help with anxiety, but there are times where it is so strong that
taking this could actually make it worse, yeah.
It could perpetuate or push out anxiety over the edge and cause
panic attacks 'cause these experiences that are so horrible
that it really freaks you out. Now The thing is, is I've had
real bad panic attacks taking too much cannabis.
There was a time where I had taking cannabis and remember
that time we talked about where I drove home, where I had way
too much here and on the road I was in straight panic mode, Got
home, called you and you're like, dude put a bunch of CBD
underneath your tongue. You should be good in about 1/2
hour hour and I did that and it helped a lot.
However, this was way different and this has a lot to do with
life. I am a type 2 diabetic and I've
been working really hard to get it under control.
You probably seen on the podcast I've been a little heavier and
slowly losing weight and that has been really good for me.
My blood sugars are extremely high.
To tell you what high is, it's a high three hundreds, low 4
hundreds. Some are listening going.
I'd be in the ER. It gave me a headache.
That's it. It didn't do much as far as that
was concerned. Then then I'm getting down into
the high one, hundreds into the mid one, hundreds down to like
90 where it's normal and my body had this big fluctuation in that
and it changes like my heart rate and it causes a lot of
stress. And because of that, I've been
having pretty frequent panicky moments because of the blood
sugar change. And it's such a drastic
fluctuation for, Oh yeah, anything you're.
Used to. And on top of that, like I had a
close friend of mine who tell me he just suffered a major heart
attack. He suffered a major heart
attack. Like, I don't understand that.
Like it. He's, he's a little older than
me and he's having a heart attack like I was like, fuck.
So that really got me. So today I am smoking on a
strain that we'll review later on cereal milk.
And he's he's been reevaluating his relationship with cannabis
over the last little bit I'd say not even necessarily just last
week but like looking at because it's been a discussion of the
last I feel month probably of constantly looking at it going
man am I using too much am I using too often am I doing this
like. So it's it's a constant
reevaluation and sometimes like we were talking on the phone
before this like that's probably a good idea to to is to re
evaluate your relationship with cannabis every 30 days.
Doesn't mean that's a tea break doesn't mean that that's
changing dosing but it's looking at what your consumption is has
it changed why has it changed You know is it situational is it
stress, anxiety whatever. Is it pain?
Is it, you know, a flare up in whatever condition that you
have? Or, you know, is it the increase
in the amount of times you use a day?
Is it an increase in dose that you use and looking at it and
going, do I need that? Can can I do less?
But at the same time, for medical users, no other
medication, You'd go cold Turkey, and so it would make
sense to taper down to use cannabis.
That's kind of something one I wanted to talk about.
And I told you because I thought that a tea break helps to be
able to kind of get rid of certain things.
But I I kind of feel like it's bullshit.
Because The thing is, is I didn't have any withdrawal
feelings whatsoever. And and to be very clear, I am a
habitual user of cannabis. I was smoking four to six times
a day, whether it's a vaporizer, a bong or a pipe.
I was smoking frequently and it was from morning until night.
And that's exactly what Brandon had talked about, is that now
I'm wondering, like, if I'm consuming a lot more, maybe
there's something else going on. And that was some of the
precursors of telling my body like, hey, you're you're doing a
lot more than you normally do and it's starting to catch up
now. Even though I just smoked this,
I'm feeling OK it. Looks a nice little chill.
It's such a great hybrid. It is a good experience.
And and we'll talk more about it on a on a review but to be
honest it was just it it wasn't like I was worried like I'm ever
gonna be able to use cannabis again.
What I was thinking was is maybe I'm using it too often and maybe
I need to be a little bit more choosy about when as opposed to
I'm bored or I just need something to feel anything other
than I'm feeling right now. And that's that's kind of what I
wonder too. And I look at that and these
last couple days with some of the discussions we had, that's
really been a thought in my mind, is like, OK, when I go to
use, why am I using it? Am I using it because I'm in
pain and I'm like, hey, I need to like, I'm trying to take some
of that edge of the pain off. Am I feeling stressed?
And if I am like what's causing that stress?
Is it something that I can address and remove that stress
or like, you know, looking at it from that aspect?
But I've not been perfect with that, but it's been something
I've been trying to incorporate more because, you know, what is
the purpose of it? It's the intent behind it.
Well, and you shouldn't beat yourself up about it either.
You know, if you are using more, it could be a sign that you are
in one pain. You're in a lot of pain.
And it absolutely like when I'm in a lot of pain, I will use
that. If my stomach is upset, if I
have intestinal problems, I will take that.
It's way better than anything else.
It truly is. It's and that's one thing.
But like we said, like you know, do we smoke it when we play?
Hell yeah. We're having fun when we play.
You know, we play video games if we do disc golf, Yeah.
Yeah. Absolutely.
But I was finding myself using it like I'm going to go to the
grocery store and load up a bowl and take it with me, and I'm
going to bring enough for me to bring it on the way home.
I'll go to work. I wouldn't do it before work.
After work, I'll be driving home.
I'll be token on my little vaporizer, right?
Or on a pen. Or I would stop by the dispo to
pick up a pen because I just had to have something on me.
I had my pen in my pocket all the time.
I mean, I do. I always.
I know cannabis with me. But The thing is is like if it's
with me, I'm. I'm just using it constantly.
Like I don't stop using it. And we've talked about pens are
candy if it's in your. Pocket.
Easy to do? Oh.
Yeah, I. Feel like if I bring a vaporizer
instead and a little thing of flour, I'm way less likely to
just pull it out. It's more way more intentional
when I'm carrying my vaporizer. And usually those are I'm
hurting and this is a yeah, I know I need, I need this because
I hurt really bad and this is just going to help take that
edge out. But otherwise, like, I realize
with pens, pens are just that habitual candy.
It's in my pocket. When you were talking this
morning, you're like, yeah, mentioned something about a pen.
And I was like, and I went and I took my pen out of my pocket
because it had been in my pocket all morning long and I had
puffed on it several times around the house.
And I'm like, I wouldn't have done that if, like if it was my
vaporizer, I wouldn't have gone and loaded it up and done that
several times. It would have been way more.
But my because my pen was there and it's convenient and it's
accessible. I just pull it out and it's
like, OK, cool, take a puff. Well, why?
Well, I'm just doing stuff, so it's OK.
But I could do stuff without puffing on that.
Yeah, and and also to kind of think about the pens, like when
you're dealing with distes compared to a live rosin or live
resin pen, I find that the distes make me more panicky.
They get my, and I mean even though they feel really good
too. You're gonna be wrong.
That's what I got into cannabis really with was.
But these were like so the biggest common one at the time.
Well, and and they it was cool. Yeah, like it was convenient.
Seriously, For like every for someone who is trying to get
into it where your spouse doesn't know or your partner
doesn't know or your parents don't know, It was the easiest
way and it was like, OK, well you can try and do this, figure
out, see if it works. Because sometimes it's really
hard to have that discussion before you even know if it does
anything for you. Totally.
And. And you don't realize the smell
of how strong it is too. Because like even my wife had
said sometimes she's like, you know, we we'd had a discussion
kind of a a semi argument about my usage.
And she's like, I don't like it. Did you come in smelling like
like burnt flour all the time, 'cause I'd always duck out to
the garage and and get my pipe or get my little NJ Arsenal
bong. Yeah.
And then, you know, load the ball and be like, oh man, did I
just smoke that whole bowl by myself and I go, that's not that
bad. And then, but I I mean I usually
do a smaller amount like the bowl you have now it was flush
with the top. And for me, I I typically don't
smoke that much but I was and some of the things that I I
wanted to talk about that you know we, you may notice that
you're having is that I enjoy more flour to to flame to flour.
I know Brandon does. We talked about it, the
experience. It sucks, but it's it's the best
experience that you get. Yeah, it's.
Way better than the vaporizers. It's better than the edibles.
Better than distis, better than droppers, better than anything,
so. And I was thinking about this
yesterday because so I rolled a big fat joint and then I talked
to you about it the other day that I was going to roll into
the end of those joints, those carbon filters.
How'd that go? It was amazing.
It was a smooth, crazy joint and didn't even feel like I was
smoking a joint. Those are the same filters used
off of the happy camper pipes, Happy campers.
And I was like, holy cow, but it was still filling with flower
removes a ton of the carcinogens because of that.
And it was a really smooth experience.
I'm like, OK, but there's other other things like that you can
buy for your bongs. They're like Moose Labs is a
company that makes these filters that go over all of these
devices and help filter out a lot of the carcinogens.
So you still get the best experience, the best like and
it's instant when you do flame to flower like I feel sometimes
with a vaporizer it can be 1530 minutes to get the full ride up.
I mean, yeah. Like right now I'm feeling.
It some flowers do that too. They settle in over time, but
it's for the most part the you're there.
The experience is like, cool, you're here.
You might get a little bit of a rise, but most of it's like
you're where you're gonna be, I feel like.
Oh yeah, And it it just honestly like it's the best connection
because you're getting all the terps, all that stuff into there
and I know you're getting in a vaporizer too.
It just feels different. It's a slower onset it the
flavors are either more pronounced or kind of muted and
they kind of just taste like like we used to say with the
packs they taste like. Like roasted peanuts?
Which? Roasted peanuts is fine, but
when I'm using cannabis it's it's different.
There's a connection. This is something that our
ancestor did for a long time, is being able to put flame to flour
and enjoy that. But it was either.
It was an enjoyment, whether it was pain meds, whether it was
just a spiritual journey, whatever it is, he was able to
experience it. And even right now being a week
off. And This is why I kind of think
that tea breaks are bullshit because I feel the same as I did
before. I know that cereal milk is a
very chill strain. I won't go further than that
because we'll talk about that more in a in a more dedicated
episode. But you know, I I am quite
relieved to be honest. Because cannabis, it it's not
something that has to be in my life.
I want it to be in my life and when it's not there, certain
things I'm not as sharp on. And that's funny because we
talked about that, right? They're like, oh, short term
memory loss. Like, yeah, But I think it's
just a bullshit filter, 'cause there's just certain things that
just don't care to know when I'm.
Well, and it's it's really interesting because I see that
so many people that I know who I know have never taken any
prescription medications has that exact same thing where they
forget their train of thought, what it was they were talking
about all of these things all the time.
So it really isn't something that I'm truly associating with.
Utilizing cannabis, going, hey, this makes me forget these
things. No, I noticed that's a trait
that happens in people all the time.
But that that also to kind of go off that now we use cannabis
specifically for with intent we we have for a very long time we
both. Used to just.
Yeah, but I mean even then though, I mean no, but I mean
you try to, but even even when you're using it, you don't get
to the point of inebriation. You're.
Elevated but not inebriated. And I think that like earlier on
when I was using cannabis, like, especially that pen like dude, I
would get fucking stoned out of my mind to go mow my lawn.
Because at the beginning, and this is, this is what happens.
And I think about I thought about this the other day.
I was just on someone else's show and we were talking about
this because I had watched some PhD talking about it and it
reminded me of when you take a tolerance break.
So the more you use cannabis, if you use it every day, the CB,
like the receptors in your brain, there are less and less
of them over time. Correct.
So when you take a tea break, those actually come back.
You can get those receptors back.
So if it's a longer tea break, you can experience like some of
those initial crazy highs. But.
Yeah, but again, it's moderation.
I mean, I I've never, I I, oh, I wouldn't say never.
I now use cannabis with intent and I have even when I was doing
it all the time during the day, it were smaller amounts.
I didn't try to take too much. But again, it was 'cause you
were feeling anxious, you were feeling stressed.
You were there was still something, you know, most of the
time when you're like, oh shoot, I'm bored.
It's this anxiousness of, like, I don't know what to do.
I need to be doing something, but I don't know what that is.
But I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this.
Yeah, and it's really hard to step outside of that and go
chill. Fuck out.
Just chill like you're OK Like, look at where you are right now.
Oh, man, I'm just, I'm sitting here.
I got like a tree. I got like, yeah, all right.
Yeah, right, right now is is OK. But it's really hard to be
right. Here, yeah, to be here.
Now. And so it's like when their life
is tough and there's all of this crap, it's we're not here, we're
here. And being here is where all of
the stress and the anxiety and the depression.
Comes from. Yeah.
And it it was that point for me, man.
Like I had broken down just last Saturday, and this is, if you're
listening to us now. It was almost May and I I was a
Saturday morning and I woke up feeling it, but I was like,
that's OK. I'm gonna go make myself some
breakfast. And I make myself some
breakfast. And before I could even eat it,
it hit me. Hit me so hard.
And this fear of having a heart attack was right there.
And I've had this unreasonable fear that I was gonna die
literally, 'cause I had a friend who had a heart attack.
It really hurt him, changed his life, and he told me all about
it. And for me, at that time, I was
thinking, fuck, I'm gonna die and I don't wanna die.
I I've got too much responsibility, too many things
that I need to take care of. And it got to the point where
that Saturday I was, I was bawling.
I couldn't, I couldn't handle it and I didn't know what was going
to happen. And I I had to call a doctor,
'cause I'm just like, I don't, I don't know what to fucking do,
right? And I cannabis definitely wasn't
helping me at the time And and So what I did is I was able to
get on certain medications to help with anxiety and and
depression. And it's not necessarily.
Depression is the anxiety of life.
Do I want to die? Hell no.
Do I feel like I'm worthless? No.
Do I feel that everything is overwhelming?
Yeah, sometimes. And it became more frequent.
And my cannabis use was leading up to that.
It wasn't the cause of it. It was leading up to it.
You know what I mean? Yeah, When it's because that you
weren't still addressing it either and that it's still
there. And so it was just something
that was constant and that cannabis just, you know,
probably hyper fixated at in those moments and that just
makes it worse. Well, and it's exactly, you just
said it, you know, I wasn't addressing it.
I was addressing the underlying issue, what was going on.
And I can say yes, it was you know, my diabetes, which was a
part of it, but it was a lot of everything going on in my life.
And you know, to be honest, things have been going a lot
better and things are are doing well.
And you know what I'm involved in now?
It's been really rewarding and I've been seeing a lot of good
from it. But at the same time, it's
always in the back of my head that I'm not doing enough, that
I'm not good enough, that I gotta do more.
And and you know this and and many of you know this 'cause
you're dealing with the same. Struggle of feeling valued or
like that you bring the value or all of this stuff.
And yeah, it's it's the constant struggle.
But it's been hard. Like seeing you struggle with
that the last couple weeks, like the last week has been fucking
tough for you. But yeah, that is bad.
We were playing video games couple nights ago and I didn't
tell him, 'cause I didn't, you know, wanna worry him.
But while we were playing this game, I am having a full blown
panic attack. I was holding the controller and
my hands were like this. Is that why I beat you?
Holy shit, man. It never happens.
I was like, Oh my God, this fucking sucks.
And I was just like, I couldn't. And you were like, yeah man,
well, hey, I'm good. I was like, alright, cool.
And I just laid in my wife's lap just like fuck.
And I'm shaking, dude. My my teeth would chatter and my
hands would would vibrate all day long.
And you know, today and I and I, I was nervous about smoking
today. I really was nervous because I'm
thinking fuck if this I. Was nervous for you.
I've been like, it's been the weirdest week because we we're
best friends and we usually talk all the fucking time and I'm
not. And this week it's like, I know
you've been so crazy stressed and not that I'm like, yeah, I I
can't, like I don't want to stress him out.
And he didn't. It just, it was just everything
in life. And so now, like, even, you
know, puffing on this was great, I feel good.
I don't feel, I mean, do I feel a little bit in my chest?
Yeah, because it's cannabis. Like your blood pressure drops.
It's reverse tachycardias. What happens to you when you
first smoke? And so when your body notices
this drop, and noticing that there's nothing really wrong,
yeah, it increases your heart rate and then your heart rate
pumps the THC through your cyst. Body real fast and.
Then about 10-15 minutes it starts to level out and feel
fine. They're strains that you don't
feel it at all in the chest, like that new one that we got to
experiment with, with one day we will give a name to.
And it was amazing because it it literally took all of my panic
and anxiety away. Yeah, high CBG, but like.
It was incredible. Experience.
So and it lasted hours one bull listen out I was it was
absolutely amazing and and but at the same time like you know
it's an enjoyable thing to me. Cannabis unites so many people
it helps so many people whether it you know I would rather
somebody saying you know I had some liquid courage saying I
went out in the parking lot puffed a little bit and got out
of myself saying why am I so fucking stressed about meeting
new people. Yeah, and a lot of people do
that shit. Oh.
Yeah, I do all the time. The show yesterday that I came
on, I actually, I puffed a little bit before but I actually
took a micro dose of psilocybin because I was like yeah, I just
no, I it's been a weird month. It's been a hard.
Yeah, it's been a hard month for you too.
And. But things are good.
Things are good, things are great, so.
Yeah, everything that happened with you and all that, I know
we're all talking cryptically. If he wants to share, you can.
My my dad had a crazy surgery and it was he had a really high
risk thing. But he couldn't have made it
through. And it scared the shit out of
everyone. And the doctor didn't want to do
the surgery. And I basically rewrote his will
for him, went over and added like, trust addendums and stuff
for the family and like, tried to spend as much time with him
as I could. And then he, he made it out.
Yeah, they pushed the surgery up like a week early.
And that was fucking scary. Scared the shit out of me,
'cause I was like, wait, no, like I.
Haven't had enough time like you.
Just took a week from me maybe and then it went great and he
came out and he's off being his normal crazy self walking and
working and doing crap and crazy bastard.
I know so, but it's been crazy, stressful and so.
So during that stress, did you find that you were using more
cannabis or less cannabis? Both, yeah.
Depended on I actually. If you remembered.
Yeah, I well, I used more in certain moments because I also
stepped off my longboard funny and twisted my knee and my.
Wrinkle. So I was using like high doses.
Yeah, I was walking with a cane for three weeks and my it still
is sore. Like it still feels really weird
down my leg. But it's not, it doesn't hurt.
It's just like a weird twingy, achy feeling now.
But it's been crazy. So I I've just, I used more
microdoses because I thought it'll help clear my headspace.
And I am thankful for that because I have no idea what it
would have been like if I didn't.
But I definitely have utilized like more cannabis at times, but
then less at others because I'm like I'm spending more time with
my dad. So I'm not using as much
cannabis because I'm hanging out with my dad.
But at the same time, I brought along my vaporizer and my dad
saw me use it more than I. You know he's ever seen me
consume. Well, and then, but
understandably so. And that's another thing I'll
be, you know, re evaluating it. Sometimes I feel that more use
is not necessarily a bad thing because you are trying to be
able to help your body. Now one of the things you'd
brought up before, even with medications you don't just cut
cold Turkey. I will say this.
I feel bad for those who have a hardcore dependency on this,
where if they go without, they feel it.
I did not. Now I was more preoccupied with
being fucking panicky all the time.
I think it depends on what it is, 'cause I don't know if I
would feel, I mean, I would feel weird because it is always in my
system and I would feel a lot more pain.
But I don't know if I would honor, like, I don't feel a need
to take it. It's never like I need cannabis.
It's like, man, I'm hurting, man, I'm stressed, man.
I'm whatever. And I've got something.
I have a tool that I know will help with that because I know it
helps me with that. And so for me, I look at it and
go man, am I stupid if I don't go use this tool I have that
helps me and that's how I see it sometimes.
But then I also look at it and go man am I using this tool too
much? Like.
Do I need this tool this often? And so it's just looking at it
differently? Like I actually through this
month, I end up making my own THC infused lotion and I've been
rubbing it on my leg every single day.
And everywhere else. Yeah, everywhere else.
Because I'm like, I want to be soft, Daddy.
No, it's it's been good. But I think in that I've used
less like smokables. I've also been thinking about
making a tincture again, kind of like we've been talking and
going, hey, would that help? Just take like the For those who
use it for stress, would a tincture be great for that mild
just taking the edge off through the day?
Oh yeah. Or, you know, like we had talked
about too. Like, I've been noticing that
I've been coughing a lot more and wheezing sometimes.
Like after I smoke like like, you know, I hear something like
that and I'm like, what the? Fuck.
And I clear my throat real quick, thinking that that's
going to take care of it. Taking that time off, I already
noticed a difference. And I'm I'm wondering if because
we talked about it a little too and I think the next tincture I
make, I want to actually incorporate Mullen into the
tincture. Just to kind of see how it
affects to. See how it will help with like
any congestion or that that does come from consuming cannabis.
Nice. I like that.
I like that because, I mean, it's something that'll help out.
I mean, even right now, like I feel it.
I definitely feel in my head. I feel great.
Like, I just feel so chill. And I'll tell you right now, it
it has made it more intense. Did it make me regret going on a
tea break? It was unintentional.
But I thought, you know, sometimes maybe I don't need to
use it every day. And that sounds strange to me
because I use it every day. And so I'm just like, you know,
I'm not gonna give myself a hard time anymore for using it every
day if I do. And if I wanna take a break, I
wanna take a break. Yeah.
It's just what what feels right for you and you know, don't
shame yourself whether it's taking a break or not.
Like it's it's OK to take a break.
Yeah, Or don't shame yourself because you know you've got a a
significant other that is not really cool about you using.
Like I met this kid at the gym, you know, weeks before this
happened and he was like, you know, what do you do?
And I joke around, of course, you know, I smoke pot for a
living. And he was like, man, that's
where it's at. And he's got like this Brigham
Young University shirt, like the Mormon of Mormon churches and
this kids wearing it. And I was like, well, that's
awesome. Do you partake?
And he goes, yeah, but I can't. I've got a fiance now and I'm
like, what does that have anything to do with?
And he goes, well, she'd be really upset with it.
And I'm like, oh, so you lied to her.
And the girl was like their friend.
She's like, yeah. And they're like, look, if
you're not going to be honest with yourself or her, then dude,
what's the point? Like if you using it just to
have fun. I totally get it.
I totally. Get it if you're If you can't be
honest with yourself or your partner, that's hard.
And then you need to re evaluate.
Do I need to continue doing this?
Do I want to continue to do it? Do I enjoy the feeling or do I
just do I do. I see.
Is there benefit and value that I'm actually getting from this,
right? And then, yeah, it might be
several conversations over many months or years with your
partner going because like every one of us, this stigma has been
perpetuated through everything. Oh yeah.
And so it's even we've talked about it.
Oh, hey, am I consuming too much over the years?
All the time? Yeah.
Because it's like, oh, maybe I should take a tea break, because
I feel like. Maybe I'm using it too much,
maybe I'm too dependent upon it. Yeah.
And versus just seeing it like anything else, I'm just.
Gonna take a break? Yeah.
And that. And that's OK.
Like, it's it's like a diet. It really is a diet.
And there's certain things like we get our greens every day,
right? And we like our greens.
No big deal. But at the same time, am I doing
too much? Maybe.
But that's it for me to decide, not anybody else.
And so it's like, you know, kind of concluding all this is that
it's OK for me to take time off with it, with feeling out.
I have to have it. If you struggle with pain, if if
this actually helps with your anxiety, then I wouldn't stop
and I wouldn't. I wouldn't feel bad about it.
I don't need to tell anybody. I'm sorry for using more.
But it's always good. Just maybe it's good to re
evaluate what your consumption looks like.
Or what you're consuming, right? Maybe it's maybe too much flour,
Maybe you're smoking way too much flame to flour and you
start to develop a smell around you, dude.
Like after a while, like, I I just was not sensitive to the
smell of cannabis. My wife's like our closet reeks
and I'm like what? I'm like it's in a it's it's in
a box. It's just like it's still reek
and then Roz like and then days after like going in I'm like Oh
my God it fucking stinks in here.
So then I got a new smell proof bag and took it all away.
So it's just like, you know, OK yeah, I'm, I was way more
sensitive. I'm actually looking forward to
enjoying it differently now because I think I'll be a little
bit more sensitive and the flavors are more pronounced.
It's just good every once in a while, just good.
Declare the palate maybe a few days, maybe a week.
Yeah. Some people go like a whole
month or a year and they're like, yeah, I'm just taking it
off. Well, if you really want to
experience that same euphoria the first times you're mowing
the lawn got really high, you can.
You can take that tolerance break, let those receptors come
back and go, experience some really fun new highs again, but
at the same time, be cautious because that also comes with all
the new fun experiences that you might have started with the
first time. Yeah.
And also on top of that, like thinking that your tolerance
will just magically go lower because of that.
That's a misconception. Yeah, it doesn't necessarily
mean that your tolerance like that.
You can't handle the high doses. My buddy took a year off of
cannabis and he came back and could smoke just as much or take
as many edibles and yeah, not worry about getting crazy high
to the moon. And it was.
Even now, like I mean I I smoke this and I feel fine.
Oh yeah, I believe that. Totally fine.
And it's just part of it. But I I just you know,
concluding on it. I really, you know, I want to
stress it do not feel bad about your cannabis shoes.
Don't feel like others judging. You need to weigh on your
decision. That's your decision alone.
If it becomes a problem, if that's getting in the way of
your work or your relationships or even your own productivity,
yeah, re evaluate it going shit, am I turning into a fucking
Stoner because I there's a Gen. I function do I like?
Am I still the human or? Am IA I'm a Stoner?
Or am IA functional Stoner? And I'm a functional Stoner.
I can do a lot of things. I can complete a lot of tasks,
but if I was just staying home, getting high all the time, man,
I even thought about that. If I was rich, fuck.
What would I do? I'd be bored, I couldn't do.
That I would. I would build A room on my house
that had ventilation to just pull it out of that room all the
time so nobody would know. Well, my neighbors would
definitely know, right? But but you know, I would don't
get rid of the house like his dad smoking in here.
Like, fuck, no. Like, yeah, 'cause I built this
fucking room. All right.
But even that, like, yes, I might smoke, but I would still
do so much because it's it's not something that I can never just
sit there all day. Right.
But it's, I don't know, just just re evaluating it let.
Us know if you guys are re evaluating your relationship
with cannabis or like want to help with that?
Let us know Reach out. Yeah, yeah.
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