Does THC increase or decrease consciousness?

[ZeldaStar]

I've only done small doses of THC but my experience has been that it felt more similar to alcohol than psychedelics. It has usually made my thought process worse, more cyclic, stuck. 

Curious if people had similar effects here? 

[Oppositionless]

Chronic use definitely decreases consciousness. Acute use could increase consciousness. Altho it's not as simple as that , it does lots of different things to the mind.

I think smoking it is more likely to decrease consciousness than vaping or eating it.

Edited Wednesday at 07:58 PM by Oppositionless

[Leo Gura]

Depends entirely on your genetics.

For most people it does not increase consciousness but for some (like me) it does by a lot.

Edited Thursday at 06:21 AM by Leo Gura

[Cireeric]

14 hours ago, ZeldaStar said:

I've only done small doses of THC but my experience has been that it felt more similar to alcohol than psychedelics. It has usually made my thought process worse, more cyclic, stuck. 

Curious if people had similar effects here? 

It seems to vary greatly for people, I know many people who can use it like alcohol to distract or just to relax and chill or others use it to function more properly in daily-activities, for me it becomes psychedelic very fast, with higher doses almost feeling like LSD.

[Cireeric]

For me it also almost always has some quality of paranoia. Also it almost always leads me to contemplate my thought-process and getting very deep insights into the nature of thought and also the capacity to turn off thoughts completely.

[Cubbage]

I've been complimenting my sobriety with cannabis (one mild dose of sativa during the day and of indica at night) and I've found it has been very beneficial for my consciousness. I used to abuse weed so now I know not to and have learnt how to healthily interface with THC. I use a vape, lasts me ages cause I use it so sparingly. It has made me much more creative, in some sense it feels like a nootropic.

[LifeEnjoyer]

@Cubbage If you like that then I'd highly recommend phenibut too. I used to use it once a week (to ensure I wasn't abusing it,) and use a taper off strategy where I'd take 750mg in the morning 500mg in the afternoon and 250mg in the morning, the next day. 

Since it's so little it acts like a nootropic too, combining it with cannabis too is overpowered. 

[Recursoinominado]

In my case, it increases consciousness but can be murky. Doesn't give me much clarity, but makes me more intuitive and i have spontaneus insights.  I guess it also depends on the method of ingestion. Smoking flower is one of the "dirtiest" ones, since yous smoke a lot of substances, not only THC. Consuming orally is cleaner but takes too much time, the high is a bit different. I would love to find the "THC crystals" that Leo spoke about that are pure THC. Very hard to find it here in where i live. 

[Leo Gura]

@Recursoinominado You can buy 100% THC distillates:

THC-A, THC-B, THC-V, THC-P, THC-H, THC-O, Delta 10 THC, Delta 8 THC, HHC, HHC-P, HHC-O, etc.

They are all different. Some are much better than others.

Smoking the plant is stupid.

Edited 22 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Michal__]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

@Recursoinominado You can buy 100% THC distillates:

THC-A, THC-B, THC-V, THC-P, THC-H, THC-O, Delta 10 THC, Delta 8 THC, HHC, HHC-P, HHC-O, etc.

They are all different. Some are much better than others.

Have you tried thc-p? I have, and it's much stronger than THC...

[Leo Gura]

2 minutes ago, Michal__ said:

Have you tried thc-p? I have, and it's much stronger than THC...

It's much stronger/longer, yes.

THC-A & THC-B seem the shortest, but this may vary per individual.

Edited 22 hours ago by Leo Gura

[Yimpa]

On 6/4/2026 at 10:22 AM, Cubbage said:

I use a vape, lasts me ages cause I use it so sparingly.

The lightsaber, my weed pen is 🤪

 

[Schizophonia]

It makes me dumb; nothing to do with psychedelics.