so, basically, i’ve been smoking weed multiple times a day for about six years now. and like, my tolerance has gotten crazy. like it’s so genuinely not funny anymore because i’m vaping 99% liquid diamond concentrates eight days a week and not only can i not really afford that kind of habit, but also i don’t get high anymore and that fucking blows. my doctors have always been non-judgement about my drug use, so i don’t hide anything from them. they know i have a habit of taking drugs to get high, if they choose to give me something i can get high off of, i trust myself to handle that with care. any time i’ve been prescribed narcotics or anything, i never even ended up taking the full round of the medication before throwing the rest away and switching to ibuprofen. so, i am not, by any means, a narcotics seeker, nor do i have any interest in narcotics anyway. (oxycodone was fucking lame. i took it as prescribed and all i did was take a fat nap. and if that’s the general experience i have no desire to explore further.)
but basically, aside from just having a truly absurd tolerance level for cannabis, i also discovered a secondary effect whereby reducing my THC dosage prevents me from resetting my sleep architecture to be less reliant on the THC. in other worse, the lowered dosage is hitting enough that it prevents me from withdrawal, and thus prevents me from resetting my sleep architecture, but not enough to actually put me to sleep effectively (since I switched to the lower THC dose vape pod—which i will review, but probably when i have a better idea of how it actually works though, and less of what i’ve got going on now which is where it’s not really effective and i think i’m getting a really skewed perception of its effects because of that.
however, coming off cannabis, as anyone who smokes regularly will tell you, comes with some mad rebound insomnia. typically when i’ve done tolerance breaks it takes me about 24-48 hours before i get my first sleep, but after that the sleep feels relatively normal. so i’m hoping for as smooth and relatively painless tolerance break. i’ll be using the time to get some extra work done because if i’m going to be awake, i might as well use the time wisely.