Post your Pot

[Griff]

Originally Posted by BigV

dear smokers

I don't partake, so I'm asking out of ignorance. How often do you smoke? How much of an effect do you seek (I'm sure it ranges). I only have my own drinking for comparison, I drink regularly, but not heavily. I very rarely get drunk enough to be impaired, only sometimes do I feel an actual buzz. I'm curious about the similar habits/effects for you smokers, if you please. anonymous replies are of course welcome.

It has been many many years but my smoking was purely a social activity. I would smoke at parties or while camping or skiing. I would go months without smoking. The buzz level was generally appropriate to the circumstances. The guys I smoked with usually considered a light buzz enough, although there were the rare bake-offs. It is too bad it is illegal since pot is much more appropriate for me than alcohol which I drank to get drunk and built a hell of a tolerance for.

[anonymous]

I smoke until you're pretty.

[BigV]

that is a lot of smoke.

[Gravdigr]

Me, personally, I smoke basically everyday. Multiple times, usually. Occasionally, I'll pull the ol' Wake & Bake, you know, jump out of bed, nothing on for the day, smoke almost immediately. I'll eat a little bite first, though, then hit the patio if it's early enough...I am worthless the rest of the day when I wake & bake. GFN. Good For Nothing.

As far as what I'm looking for? I'm usually looking for the full-on high. If I gotta be somewhere, or do something, I don't smoke til afterward. When I feed the head, I'm feeding the head. I don't usually settle for a little buzz. If I'm spinning one, I'm twisting a tater.

As for drinking, I drink to get drunk. I don't usually drink 'a' beer, it's at least three or nothing. If I'm drinking it, I wanna be feeling it. I will take the odd celebratory shot, by itself, but, even then it's gotta be good stuff.

Oh, and the only time I drink whilst dining is if I'm eating pizza, or spaghetti. As a rule I don't drink a lot in bars/restaurants.

[Gravdigr]

Damn.

I just bent a resolution.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Damn.

I just bent a resolution.

What, by posting that? You can still edit it.

I appreciate your honesty. One of the great things about the cellar is reading honest stuff by other people.

I drink somewhat often, but don't drink to get drunk. When I start to feel it, I stop. It's pretty rare for me to have 3 drinks, and I haven't had more than 4 drinks in a decade or more. Usually, it's 1-2 drinks. But sometimes, I feel a call from that glass of wine. When I realize that the wine is calling me, that bothers me a little, and I'll cut back. I drank almost every night over the holidays, and that felt like too much, so I haven't had anything in the last week. Not a resolution, it just hasn't appealed to me.

In college, I got seriously drunk every weekend. To the point of blacking out and throwing up routinely. I enjoyed it at the time, but in hindsight, it wasn't good.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by glatt

What, by posting that? You can still edit it.

Nah, it'll be fine. I'd thought about leaving a little more Me® outta the Cellar this year.

[DanaC]

Every day, several times a day. There's nothing quite like that first spliff of the morning.

[Gravdigr]

I never drank much at all, until I had four years federally supervised dope-free probation. Longest stretch w/o a drug test - 21 days.

You can drink all you want, just don't get into trouble.

Hello, alcohol, my new friend.

[Clodfobble]

For the most part I drink only to be sociable when we're eating with friends, once every month or two. About twice a year I'll deliberately drink to relax, but even then it only takes 1-2 drinks before I'm wavering a bit, and then I stop. I haven't been anything close to drunk since my bachelorette party, almost ten years ago.

I've never smoked pot.

[DanaC]

I rarely drink alcohol these days. I had some port over Christmas and New Year. Out of the two bottles I bought I still have half a bottle left.

I just have such a ridiculously low tolerance for alcohol. And my 'tipsy' stage is too short, followed almost immediately by my need to sleep right now stage.

[ZenGum]

Easy drunks are known here as either a "cadbury" (glass and a half) or a "dynamo" (a third of a cup, in with the wash).

Hmm, I wonder if these ad slogans will be recognised in the cellar...

Me, I smoken a pots or two most days, but not everyday. I usually don't smoke until "evening" which may be 4 to 6pm. That way I get stuff done during the day. I'll usually smoke if I go for a hike or something.

I rarely drink, maybe a glass of wine with dinner or a beer with a friend two or three times a week.

I never touch tobacco, even in a mixed joint. That shit is nasty.

[Nirvana]

I keep coming back to this thread looking for cute pet pictures I must be getting a contact high...

[BigV]

Thanks to all for sharing your experiences, I found your answers helpful. I'm kinda curious about it, and now there's no legal barrier to me trying it, we'll see what happens (likely nothing). Griff, your mention of a hell of a tolerance for alcohol snagged my attention. I wonder what kind of tolerance I've built up in my own system for alcohol. I don't see an increase (but maybe I wouldn't see it... hmmm?) in my own consumption, but it's something that is on my mind.

[Sundae]

Pot makes me sleepy-bo. And prior to that a bit giggly, depending on the type.
I never developed a tolerance to it, so instead had a partiality to smoking in a secure environment where I would be able to sleep if I wanted to.

When I was in the 'Dam - which I can post freely about as it was certainly legal there at the time - I would buy single joints and smoke about a third at a time. Get buzzed, but not to the point where I faced any danger walking the streets alone. I preferred muffins as I was in a non-smoking hotel room (there are few exceptions to this rule in Amsterdam). The high isn't the same, it's a mellow feeling of contentment. I could eat one while out sightseeing knowing I was rarely more than 30 minutes from my bed.

I once had a fling with a travel journalist who got me cabbaged every time we had sex. I wasn't an unwilling participant - this was not coercion. But in hindsight he was really quite peculiar. He'd pick me up from work at the bar (23.00) drive me over 20 miles to his house, hand me pre-rolled j's that wouldn't put me to sleep but would make me able to see the music on the car stereo, then bang me while looking at my arsehole and telling me how much I wanted it up there. When I suggested he could if he wanted to he was horrified.

Or maybe I'm the weird one for doing this on and off for about 9 months.
But then apart from the cabbaging and the weird sex he was intelligent, well travelled, intersting and I fancied him. So there.