High Thread - Page 336

On July 29 2010 13:25 Wysp wrote:
I used to spend basically every extra cent I had on weed. With that said I now feel like telling a story. I'll start by saying what a shottie/popper/yeti is.

Cut a 3-7mm cylinder off the end of a cigarette and put it in the stem so the tobacco is exposed. Take the stem out and press it on a pile of ground weed until you have a nice little cap of weed stuck all over the tobacco. Rip it until everything pulls through into the chamber and get your socks knocked off (especially if its so big you can't do it in one.) Its kinda like putting tobacco in the bottom of a bong and pulling it through, but when you get it in the stem like a 'true' shottie its just way stronger, in my opinion the strongest high you can get from smoking weed.

I guess its kinda funny recommending them, because they kinda ruined weed for me. I wish weed did what it used to for me and if I did I'd be smoking shotties every time.

I quit after 5 years of smoking with 2 years of smoking shotties from wake up to bedtime. I started pretty casual due to living at home during high school, but always took every chance I could get to smoke up.

After one year of university and building up a solid bedtime joint habit (combined with all those random sessions) I got switched on to shotties after my closest thing to quitting, which was a streak of traveling the country and working various jobs. And, of course, smoking up with all the stoners I could find. Being on the road made it harder to get high but I could usually meet the right people, and was overall pretty bold in asking strangers about weed (good thing I live in Canada!) Coming home I found my friends (80% of my main core were chronic shottie smokers) and when I had to bum weed they'd offer me shotties (which I at first hated, they ripped my throat apart [which wasn't weak, as I used to mainly smoke lungs/parachute/balloons] and I wasn't a tabacco smoker, but a free hit is the best hit.) After a few seshs with the ol' shottie bong my iron throat become chromium plated and I got completely hooked to the head rush and massive weed high of the shottie.

If I took a break in those two years it was not more than a 2 week and even then I'd have enough seshs with my friends for it not to be considered a break to any casual smoker. I Didn't save any money, had a credit card bill and I gotta say quitting was way harder than I imagined it could be. Weed became a part of my life; I could smoke pretty well endlessly (and did) without getting past that minor enhancing buzz you have when you're a true chronic.I can certainly say it made it easier to cope with a difficult times, but it also delayed me from moving on in many ways.

When I finally had the break down I needed to make a change (crazy mushrooms) I set about to quitting and then realized how I had begun using weed not only everyday all day, but also as a response to anxiety. As I was smoking less and less I found myself having anxiety when I wouldn't smoke, and when I did cave to the bong I would have panic attacks (the kinda newbie shit first time smokers get.) Going back to summer job in tree planting camps, where funnily enough, most my friend coworkers are chronic shottie smokers and weed flows freely, I found it easier to quit with the constant 12 hour work day and the drive for money piecework inspires.

I have noticed some new cognitive errors I make frequently now after quitting (of course its just a correlation, but I think they're things most chronics notice.) Not severe but I can imagine the effects being much worse if I kept it up for half a decade.

The worst part though is that I no longer enjoy weed the same way which used to. Smoking weed was my favorite thing, but I don't get high when I smoke now! It sucks but I still smoke when someone really wants me too (IE on a canoe trip when some of my casual smoking friends want to smoke a joint and everyone doing it is a part of the atmosphere,) but like I said, I don't get high like I used to. Its just like being a little dumber, more paranoid and overall feels like a waste of weed. I don't get extra joy from humour, music doesn't inspire deep euphoria and I certainly don't fill up with wonder.

Certainly chronic smoking drained my cash and slowed my getting back into to school. I personally feel I can't concentrate as well as I used to, I tend to mix up words more and my skill at improvising and humor feels overall decreased. I've only been off chronic smoking for 3 months, so this will hopefully improve as school forces me to concentrate for long periods of time.

No regrets of course, but no recommendations either. Some people smoke all the weed they want for their whole life and live fantastically. But If you're a smoker and want something to make a change in your life, maybe consider kicking the bong. Put the money you save into debt, or if you're not in debt like most stoners, into savings. Most of all, remember weed isn't necessarily an endless well, the magical well can run dry.

Here's to waiting for mine to fill up again. I know I'll keep looking down it.