Does THC increase or decrease consciousness?

[AerisVahnEphelia]

17 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

@Clarence You are being too cautious. Your THC will be fine. THC is a very cheap chemical. No one is faking $20 of THC. People got better things to do.

I wouldn’t bet on that in Asia, though.

I’m almost certain that what the Japanese call weed is often made from derivatives, and even the plants themselves might be tampered with.

But anyway, don’t do THC in Asia unless you’re insane.

I found a bottle containing a CBD derivative that completely tripped me out and really felt like smoking joint more than "cbd".

Anyway it was kinda irresponsible but I trusted this dude, because we met in a friendly manner.

 ( but very very grey area, sold to me by an american working in a cbd shop under the street ), and there were also legal LSD derivatives for sale in Tokyo ( that became illegal 3 months before I left ). I tripped at least three times there, although never fully, because, well... I was basically on a year-long vacation in Japan and wanted to avoid getting into trouble, so still stayed in the explorative mindframe.

Still, I let myself stay right on the edge. It was really interesting contemplating life & walking around in Tokyo on Halloween, surrounded by everyone in costumes, while being tripped out as fuck lol.

Edited July 13 by AerisVahnEphelia

[Yimpa]

16 minutes ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

I'm almost certain that using other psychedelics changed my relationship with THC and even other substances, like coffee.

So I do believe you. It's just uncommon, and it might not be genetic. It could be the result of all the spiritual practices you've done or your past psychedelic use, which may have "unlocked" those kinds of sensitivities.

I’ve noticed this as well. I’ve had an almost a dozen experiences with ketamine before, and now when I do a strong session of THC, I get into a profound, zen like state. Dissociated from my self and clearly realizing that there is no me and only Infinity manifesting through everything/nothing.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

3 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

I’ve noticed this as well. I’ve had an almost a dozen experiences with ketamine before, and now when I do a strong session of THC, I get into a profound, zen like state. Dissociated from my self and clearly realizing that there is no me and only Infinity manifesting through everything/nothing.

I’m not doing any drugs anymore ( or rare coffee or thea once in a while ), and I don’t even meditate, yet I can still reach those states while completely sober.

In fact, even green tea can feel strong to me now.

THC is actually a trap, maybe the worst one of all. It can take around four to five years for your brain to recover from heavy use ( despite the mainstream belief that it is a month, this is a the biggest deception about it ), and eventually you may realize that smoking it was a terrible deal. You lose so much energy and money, sometimes even going into debt, just to reach a state that you could eventually access for free.

But I suppose it took me seven years of abuse to get there, so everyone has their own path.

It’s really about clearing your mind of many different things. Once you start doing that, reality can naturally become more psychedelic. Language itself may consume so much mental energy that it dulls or suppresses your natural state.

 

it's very important to sleep a lot too and avoid anxious situations, that is more valuable than gold.

[Yimpa]

tHere is an example of how weed can take you to an insane degree of consciousness:

42:58 - 48:34

 

[Yimpa]

I have not touched my TX THC medicinal cannabis vape in over a month because of how ridiculously powerful it is. I actually spoke to my provider last week. I have to see a provider once a year to renew my prescription. She told me how they underestimated how strong it is - they don’t believe a 5 second puff gives 5 mg of THC - bypassing the conservative law. So now she recommends I puff for only 2 seconds next time. 

One deep, 5 second puff on the highest setting is 100% guaranteed to show me WTF GOD is. Too much Love!

So, does it increase my consciousness? You bet your ass it does!

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-701

Edited Friday at 06:00 AM by Yimpa

[Leo Gura]

@Yimpa You can make your own THC-A vape pen for much cheaper. And you can make it as mild or potent as you want.

[Yimpa]

@Leo Gura Nah, it recently got banned here. So I’ll stick to the legal, medical strong stuff 

[Porphyry Fedotov]

On 7/12/2026 at 5:55 AM, Leo Gura said:

Nope. That is false.

Not true for me. I can do 10 days and have insane awakenings every time.

I'm telling you: genetics.

If weed is psychedelic for you, you are in the minority. I am not speculating, this is from experience with real people. I interview people for my retreat and ask them about this.

Weed is as potent for me at 5-MeO-DMT, but lasts 5x longer. I can trip so deep on weed that stoners would not believe me.

Did weed have the same god-realization properties for you before you tried 5-MeO-DMT? You mentioned somewhere that 5-MeO-DMT switched something in your mind and it changed how you experienced psychedelics afterwards

[Leo Gura]

3 hours ago, Porphyry Fedotov said:

Did weed have the same god-realization properties for you before you tried 5-MeO-DMT?

I can't say because I never tried it before 5-MeO.

My best guess is Yes. Weed is insanely psychedelic for me I think regardless of 5-MeO.

Edited Monday at 07:36 AM by Leo Gura

[vibv]

For me it definitely increases consciousness.

Though it definitely has a kind of "carnal" aspect, too. Especially if consumed over the course of multiple days in a row or longer times without break in general.

[Leo Gura]

Weed is much stronger for me if I don't use it for a long time. Weed def has some tolerance build-up.

If I don't use weed for a year, it will be insanely strong. Even just one puff.

Edited Monday at 11:25 AM by Leo Gura

[Clarence]

4 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

Weed is insanely psychedelic for me I think regardless of 5-MeO.

What is weed like for you, and what is so good about it?

How does it compare to other psychedelics?

Edited Monday at 12:02 PM by Clarence

[Leo Gura]

39 minutes ago, Clarence said:

What is weed like for you, and what is so good about it?

How does it compare to other psychedelics?

It gives me some of highest and most stable consciousness of God.

Hours of stability and clarity. Almost no psychedelic is that stable for me. Finding a stable, deep psychedelic that is clear and lasts a long time is hard. Most psychedelics are pretty chaotic, wavy, weird, inconsistent.

Edited Monday at 12:41 PM by Leo Gura

[AerisVahnEphelia]

53 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

It gives me some of highest and most stable consciousness of God.

Hours of stability and clarity. Almost no psychedelic is that stable for me. Finding a stable, deep psychedelic that is clear and lasts a long time is hard. Most psychedelics are pretty chaotic, wavy, weird, inconsistent.

Imagine how conscious I was, having no survival-related responsibilities at all, just contemplation and THC for seven years straight, from morning until night. ( I was following your channel when you were anti psychedelics and started as the same time you got convinced, I mean, aside THC at the time )

I think I consumed something like 3 kg of cannabis in my life. ( 100 oz )

There was tobacco mixed in with it, though, the European way, which made the effects more stable and far less psychedelics ( or I just got to experience the state as normal ).

In fact, I would say the psychedelic effects can almost completely disappear after just seven days of daily use if not even less, then you might need a month or two to get it back.

the best thing to do was to smoke a lot while doing LSD, I think this is really what makes LSD work to get breakthrough and effect or your brain can control time.

LSD alone is less strong compared as to when you do THC with it. ( and all psychedelics basically )

Edited Monday at 01:32 PM by AerisVahnEphelia

[Leo Gura]

14 minutes ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

just contemplation and THC for seven years straight, from morning until night.

I am surprised you are still alive.

[spiritcore]

On 13/07/2026 at 4:43 PM, AerisVahnEphelia said:

It can take around four to five years for your brain to recover from heavy use

Where did you get this info from? Do you have any source?

I smoked for 12 years. At the end it was 3g a day. I felt much better after a month. Im 7 weeks sober now (longest ive ever been without weed).

[Clarence]

8 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

It gives me some of highest and most stable consciousness of God.

Hours of stability and clarity. Almost no psychedelic is that stable for me. Finding a stable, deep psychedelic that is clear and lasts a long time is hard. Most psychedelics are pretty chaotic, wavy, weird, inconsistent.

I wonder what effect it will have on me.

[Yimpa]

My med dispensary recently released a new THC vape strain called Rainbow Belts. I wonder how that'll affect me...

Unicorns?

Edited Tuesday at 12:38 AM by Yimpa

[Yimpa]

B r u h (this was off a vape + tiny edible... First time doing an edible. I just took the heated plant material after I had vaped, and ate it. I was a noob at the time and thought it would do nothing. I was wrong!)

(I posted this on another thread before, but I love this Short so much )

Simple math. Oh + My = God 

This experience was both extremely beautiful and terrifying simultaneously. It kept going deeper and deeper, which isn't shown in the Short. 

Edited Tuesday at 01:21 AM by Yimpa

[AerisVahnEphelia]

On 7/27/2026 at 3:45 PM, Leo Gura said:

I am surprised you are still alive.

Lol. I haven’t done any THC for almost four years now.  (I mean, I kind of did some weird CBD in Japan and was high for a total of five days, and it was really strong like THC to me, so... that’s not entirely true.)

 

But I was almost disabled by it for 16 months after I truly quit.

 

I still have lingering side effects, but nothing dramatic.

 

I think I’ll be back to baseline, or even better than before, but four years is hella long, if I didn't found some rare people on Reddit with my symptoms I would have thought I was doomed at times. 

 

I was definitely living on another plane, and I’m still landing, in a sense.

 

But no human should do this.

 

I was very naive about the physical consequences, more than the spiritual ones.

 

And my “normal human life” is just getting back on track.

Edited 6 hours ago by AerisVahnEphelia