Ok so I had a pretty bad experience yesterday.
I’m using cannabis oil that I take orally. One is a sativa based oil that’s delivered via a small pump that shoots measured dosages of 0.2 mg I think. The other is an indica based oil with CBD delivered via a syringe drip where you can measure how much you take. Both have THC. I use maybe 0.2 mg per use normally. Sometimes 0.3 with the indica. I use it mostly for anxiety or insomnia problems.
Yesterday, I had a pretty high level of pain from a tendon wound when I woke up and instead of taking pain killers I decided to use my sativa oil. But the pump didn’t spray properly a couple of times so I pumped a couple more good doses. I ended up taking twice the dosage apparently or maybe more? This was around 10am. Anyway, around 12 I was really starting to feel a strong buzz and then by 2 I was fucking tripping hard. Dizziness, everything spinning, extreme fatigue, cotton mouth, and it felt like my whole head was tingling like I had bees in there. My face was pale and I felt like I was going to pass out. I had to lie down and sleep and eventually around 5-6pm I came back to a light buzz and by 8pm I a starting to feel normal again.
I’m still feeling out of it this morning. Like it’s not completely out of my system.
Is that normal? Is it supposed to feel this way? I’ve never used cannabis until recently so I’m pretty new to this. Is the effect more intense and longer because it was taken orally?
How is it different from smoking? How strong is the effect and how long does it last when you smoke?
Update: As someone else mentioned, after getting this high, you get kind of an afterglow for a couple of days. I’ve definitely been feeling it. I’ve felt really smooth for a few days now. But I’m extremely tired. I feel like I’m not getting good quality sleep.
Today I’m feeling a bit more normal, 3 days after the experience. I’m glad there’s so hangover like you get from alcohol.
Everything I’m about to share is subjective but maybe it will help.
Method : edibles.
Even with a high tolerance I’ve had experiences that lasted more than a day. The “up” is the most intense and is the first 1-3 hours, then the main portion lasts 2-4 hours. The “down” is hard to track because it isn’t nearly as intense. I’d estimate 2-4 hours for down. After that I’m mostly functional again. So a 5-10 hour experience in total for a standard dose of edibles.
The next day sometimes there is an “afterglow”. It usually means I dosed too much or too late in the night. I think of as a hangover but without pain, more of an inability to get angry and a light cloud on all of my senses. I enjoy it.
It never lasts more than 2-3 days. Less than a day is the most common, though I tried a new edible once where I didn’t return to “normal” for three days, that is rare and usually means you took WAY too much. I certainly did on that occasion.
If you dislike it, you can avoid it with precise dose control and avoiding going to sleep while very stoned. Basically don’t do more than X mg per hour AND don’t get high after Y o’clock. You can figure out your personal X and Y via experimentation.
Vaping is similar but the timeline for “up” is compressed, the up is much faster and the high is much shorter. I haven’t vaped in the past year so I don’t have a lot to say on it.