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It’s because alcohol fucking sucks.

Personally I microdose THC via an extraction I make myself(somewhat ironically using alcohol). Can’t do it in the mornings as I wish though, society still hasn’t caught up with a more heterogeneous drug use, only caffeine and tobacco are erlaubt…

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I wish I could do anything with THC. It's not illegal under Ohio (where I live) law anymore.

But my job involves chemical plants and oil refineries, and they use DISA, and DISA drug tests everyone thoroughly.

I can count on getting a test that involves hair, urine, and breath samples at least twice per year. (It's supposed to be annual and random, but "random" seems to be rather heavily-weighted.)

THC hangs out way too long for that.

It's stupid: A person can be completely ripped on booze every night and cocaine occasionally, or live entirely in a world of psychedelic drugs like LSD or mescaline and that's... fine, I guess?

But smoking a bowl will ruin them on those tests.

I have an acquaintance who works for Chevron in a normal office job. In California, only the refinery workers get regular drug tests. In Texas, everyone does. And this dude used to smoke a fair amount of weed. It’s a good job, so he stays clean, but there’s really no reason to require it of someone in his role - he has never even been to one of their refineries.

I work inside of these plants, but only just barely. I'm not turning wrenches and cutting pipes and stuff; instead,.I work on the back ends of their radio systems.

I just drive over to the radio shanty near the tower, park, and walk inside to poke at a computer or move a wire or whatever.

A friend of mine does work on the corpo AV systems for some of these same places. This doesn't ever put him inside the plant; he's always separated from it by a magical chain-link fence.

He was rather surprised when I told him how arduous the drug testing was, as he was never required to do anything like that (and wouldn't stand a chance at passing if he were).

I struggle with ADHD, have been for years, and no pharmaceutical drug helps, while they all have severe side effects. Meanwhile every time I take a single drag of my friend’s joint, I feel most relaxed and have most coherent thoughts, while able to pull the exact words from memory I need. A single drag, mind you.

I have not heard a single doctor talk about microdosing THC as a cure for ADHD and I wonder if my experience is coincidental or there’s really something there?

There's no studies, but a lot of anecdata.

this is my experience, with very low dose edibles

Definitely something, there's an intersection between THC and neurodivergence for sure. One line of thought relates to the amygdala, the idea is that reducing the activity in that brain regions creates a sort of "space" for other things to get processed, like emotional memories from the hippocampus, so the limbic system is involved.

The subjective experience has a loose correlation to mindfulness meditation which has also been linked to the amygdala/hippocampus processing loop.

I'll leave this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticAdults/comments/1pn21r7/why...

That they describe there is exactly how I feel! That's amazing, thank you for that.

This web site is interesting. Not sure what they're trying to sell but the content is a good read.

https://neurolaunch.com/weed-helps-me-process-emotions/

This is basically what I've replaced with my tincture. I used to roll the smallest doobies you can imagine(one drag joints basically). However since it's terrible for the lungs, I've completely replaced it with my shot. The effect is slightly different but it works well against my ADHD.

I still enjoy drinking a bit but agree with your take in principal. I'd rather smoke a joint, take an edible, or drink a thc drink most nights than go for alcohol, and it strikes me as odd that although it's been fully legal in my country for years, it would still be wildly more taboo than alcohol in the workplace, even though nearly everyone probably does something outside of work.

Taking THC at night is not good for you health either. That's going to mess with your sleep, which will have all kinds of long-term health impacts on you.

That's not been my experience at all. I sleep like a baby thanks to it. We're all different with different needs. Read the sibling comment from 'cromka'. That's my experience as well.

I'm taking a break due to anticipating a drug screening, but REM suppression/interruption is a thing with cannabis and I've been having horrible trauma nightmares without it. Drug screenings are anti-human and it's ridiculous that due to federal prohibition companies aren't required to respect medical cannabis prescriptions.

Oh, you feel like you sleep well, but the sleep data if you are wearing a wearable is quite poor.

Weird how I struggle to sleep without it but sleep like a baby after 1ml of my drops.

I think this is very subjective.

The only time I smoked a joint I thought I was gonna die. Never fucking again, lol.

Nothing beats taste and effects of small dose of whiskey with some fruut or vodka with an appetizer. Or a few glasses of wine.

Same here. I've tried edibles multiple times as they're legal here. The experience ranged from mildly bad to horrible. I either felt like a zombie (not relaxed) or became paranoid and anxious. I had to come to the conclusion it just doesn't gel with me.

CBD does seem to help with my joint and muscle pains though.

Same here. I've never had a good experience with weed. Smoking it or edibles. I feel like the former doesn't do anything for me and the latter just sends me into a panic state from which I can't come down for several hours.

Consider that perhaps what you smoked, is the equivalent of a newbie chugging down bottle of whiskey.

I don't recommend smoking/inhaling weed at all. It's bad for your lungs.

True, no experience or an experienced friend around.

>It's bad for your lungs.

15 years of smoking here, unfortunatelly.

But that's mostly in the past now. A silver lining: can't even think about smoking after this experience.

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