First time on weed - Report

[Cepzeu]

Hi everyone,

This post is just to share my experience of having weed for the first time. It's intended for those that have not tried it/are thinking of trying it and it's also intended as a report of insights I had. Those that have done it/ do it regularly will have experienced most,if not all, of the following so this may be of no interest to you.

Intro - I was very anti-weed for a long time for two reasons. I was strongly conditioned not to smoke cigarettes by my parents and I also had a negative image of 'stoners' in my mind. Since Leo released his psychedelics videos around a year ago, I changed my view on them and drugs in general. I wanted to try LSD but one of my friends suggested I try weed before LSD because weed may never be the same after LSD (he was so scared of getting addicted to weed that he did LSD before ever smoking weed). There was a lot of resistance to me doing it. I was very skeptical of the whole thing because of the aforementioned conditioning plus the fact that I didn't want to get addicted to it and do it regularly. There are a lot of people in my city who smoke weed daily and their life is in ruins. I decided that I should turn my skepticism on itself, and in the spirit of self-experimentation and trying to understand the people that I used to judge I decided to try weed.

Set and Setting - Because I wasn't interested in doing it socially or chronically, I wanted to make sure I was set up so that I would be comfortable and could experience the drug itself without interference from lots of other people. I did it with my friend who I mentioned before and it was just us two in his apartment and we just had some music going. I'd had some food before and had just finished exams so had no more plans for the afternoon.

Smoking it - I smoked a small joint just to start off with. Because I'm a pretty big guy, and the fact that I couldn't hold it in for long (virgin lungs - never smoked), and because I didn't want to inhale the smoke too deeply, it took about 20 min to take effect as opposed to the usual minute (as my friend described). I sat back and waited to notice changes. 

Changes in perception - it came on very gradually, I was very tired so I was already pretty relaxed but the first things I started to notice were slight tingling sensations around the skin of my legs and arms which felt pleasant. It felt like a microscopic layer of popping candy going off between my limbs and the surfaces they were touching.

Something that surprised me was that my monkey mind was very quiet and I was conscious of the experience. My body started doing the things you see from the outside - speech dragged out, smiling, laughing/giggling. I always thought that people's consciousness was decreased from what I saw from the outside (sort of like with alcohol), but this was like all the good things of alcohol but with none of the draw backs and also improved consciousness. This was also like a mild version of my awakening experience on the toilet (search toilet meditation in forum).

I went outside for a walk with my friend and was describing my experience. I noticed that I was more aware of little things that I would ordinarily not pay attention to. Not in the sense that I focused on one thing more but that all of my vision was able to focus on more things at once in one viewing frame.

Lastly, as I was describing the experience to my friend I was aware of myself as consciousness being conscious of the situation. This was similar to my awakening experience, just more mild. I noticed how my body was just doing its thing. A major insight I had was that I was speaking very articulately and with really unimpeded flow, but I was not thinking of how to explain myself. Usually I think of what I'm going to say as I'm talking with someone, but this time words were just coming out of 'my' body's mouth and I was just aware of it. Monkey mind was off. This kind of reminded me of Leo's description of infinite intelligence. 'It' was 'happening' through my body, the words were happening without thought, which I found interesting.

Other than that, it wore off in about two hours.

Final words - I had a really good experience, which I attribute to set and setting and also starting small. I know of some people who had really bad first experiences. I can see why people enjoy it. For me it was like the best of alcohol with none of the drawbacks. I think that it does have the potential to cause dependence, it is a very real thing, but I think you have to use it very unconsciously or be in a bad/stressful time in life to turn to it - but dependence on alcohol can also happen this way. In the future I may experiment with a bong or edibles. I'm not interested in damaging my lungs so aside from just trying it once, I probably won't smoke it without a bong again. I also might try LSD next week but I'm just sorting out a drug testing reagent. Will likely post a report on it as well.

For those that are thinking of trying it for the first time, all I can say is try to be in a good place in life, maybe don't do it for the first time when depressed/stressed, don't mix with anything and also have a good set and setting. Also think about starting small.

 

[Gabriel Antonio]

Nice =) 

Carl Sagan has an excellent essay on marijuana: http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/

 

Edited October 26, 2018 by Gabriel Antonio