throwaway_weed

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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
The chocolate bars I sometimes get are very consistent in dosage, easy to slice into even fractions, don't bother my digestion the way gummies often do, and seem to be less affected by whatever else is in my stomach at the time. Howeve
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
OK – well first of all congratulations on your recent success, but a word of warning. I have fully quit from cannabis before, though in my case this would be the first time it has not been prompted by some external circumstance. I have also
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Interesting. I take a protein supplement with a lot of L-glutamine which I need to fast for, as I believe is traditional for amino acid supplements, so I'd have to carve out another time of day to make sure I'd take it on an empty
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I've made a couple of other comments about exercise in here but suffice to say, I have long since deeply integrated my exercise with my cannabis consumption, it's very much part of my reward system so my challenge is not so much s
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
TIL about xantohumol. Very interesting, I will look into it. Thank you
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Edibles are... well there's a lot more options out there than there used to be, that's for sure, and I can't claim to have tried them all, but I can't see working them into a sane consumption schedule. I don't get t
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I mentioned somewhere else in the thread, but I'm exercising a fair amount already, and in my case the traditional reward for a solid workout is a vape session so while I do intend to keep it up I'm sort of maxed out in terms of u
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I am going to explore this possibility Thank you
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Your comment is very kind and insightful, yes there's a lot to all of this but I do appreciate you sharing your experience, it doesn't have to provide answers and you know, I think sometimes it's better not to. One conversati
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
In my situation, being very much settled into mid-life and a whole house I only have to share with my very tolerant partner, I don't have the same aspirations that discourage heavy use. However I do think that during this time of incre
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I have been using a Pax 2 for a few years which has stood me in good stead. Very occasionally I'll have some water-filtered smoke but not often. The interesting thing about the vape to me was that, while it was a distinct improvement f
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
All the sedentary screen time (I am a SWE, surprise) is an ongoing prompt to indulge in little side rewards, and it makes good sense to substitute relatively innocuous ones. I used soda and cigarettes heavily early in my career which would
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Haha "the same level of mundane as before" but healthier and less expensive seems like a very worthy goal. Thank you!
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I will look into these, thanks! I have found that I feel my best when I'm taking some vitamin supplements. Very likely a placebo effect but hey, if it works it works... Also I am taking some melatonin to hopefully help with the insomni
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I knew about that subreddit but for whatever reason hadn't thought of it recently. Maybe I'll spend some time in conversation over there soon. Thank you!
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Yeah, as regards weaning, as I touched on in another comment, playing a game with myself about how much less I'd try to use today seems more wearisome than just stopping entirely and dealing with the feels. When I've weaned before
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Yes, and I often recommend it to people trying to make similar life changes, but I already cycle 6-10 hours a week and do plenty of other stuff, yoga etc. Not only do I feel like I'm already fully utilizing the benefits of a physical r
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
Yes, you are right in many respects which are already familiar to me and my own long-held feelings about cannabis. Indeed I spent much of my life feeling like its relative benevolence was a reality that I needed to make more people aware of
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I have done exactly as you suggest but it's tough. It's the early part of the day that's so challenging. I have perhaps built up my morning coffee + cannabis routine into too much of an idealized mental state. I really do lov
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I'm meh on mushrooms, and most psychedelics. My relatively few experiences with them were neither enjoyable nor productive, in terms of personal insights. I contrast that with MDMA which I've used even less but found far more ther
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by throwaway_weed 5y ago
I certainly find with cannabis that the mental struggle is far more significant than any physical dependency, to the extent that it even exists (and I can distinguish it from my overall mental state). Indeed I've dropped much more chem
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