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Yeah, but you know what, he's bloody right - for a seasoned toker just load em up straight away, just sort of get past that stoned level and onto a higher plane

coveblue wrote:My question is, what's the best way to partake without getting too blasted to enjoy myself?

The same approach that you would use with viagra...


Have a great time

If you are already a tobacco smoker and happy with that then the answer is easy. Just use more baccy. Also converse with the budtender to find out which strains are particularly hard hitting.

If you do not smoke tobacco (same as me) then it becomes a bit more tricky. Pure joints are quite powerful if smoked alone and all the way through. Try to share if appropriate. Fun to be social.

Buy a 'joint tube' and smoke 1/2 a joint then stub it out and put the rest in the tube for later.
Vaping is a really good option if the shop provides that option. Unfortunately not enough shops in Amsterdam provide vapes.

The pipe option is a really good one as it is a portable way of controlling your dose. If it all starts to get to be a bit too much then a nice walkabout drinking in the beautiful scenery often clears the head.

Keeping the sugar levels up is important as is keeping your stomach full. That seems to 'bring me down' a little when it all gets too much. I'm a lightweight too after all. Burger bar, Wok to Walk are all easy. If you want something NOW there is always FEBO

treetop wrote: If you do not smoke tobacco (same as me) then it becomes a bit more tricky. Pure joints are quite powerful if smoked alone and all the way through. Try to share if appropriate. Fun to be social.

From a personal opinion I dont fully go with that, some of it yes but not all of it. As an ex-tobacco smoker whose last year trip was mixing my joints with tobacco (ex-smoker then to) for the fear of pure sending me over the edge and this years trip doing pure all the way and never done a tobacco joint I dont see much difference.

As if your not a tobacco user yet have that fear like feeling of smoking a pure that you will mix tobacco anyway the buzz a non smoker (myself last year for example) might get off the tobacco via the chemicals making your brain think hay this is good etc is not that much different. Sure a regular tobacco user might say that makes no sence you cant get a buz of tobacco like you can of cannabis. Not saying you can but a non tobacco user can and does get quite a hit of the tobacco in a joint and makes the cannabis feel and taste rough, even high end gear.

What I'm saying is that as a converted to pure joint only person, is it will be a far nicer buzz and enjoyment out of smoking a pure joint that you will ever get from mixing the joint with tobacco even if you are a tobacco smoker in the first place.

I'd never have been able to smoke some of that high end haze gear or smoke as much as I did if mixing as it would have fucked my throat up, pure smoking as many know is as smooth as it gets and a far more enjoyable experience than mixing with anything.

Nope, smoke pure, take your time as said above share if need be. But also as said take your concerns up with the budtender or just ask for a lighter haze untill your confident to try the stronger gear.

enjoy the smoke... take it a little at a time... feel the high... ride it up... when you peak, you'll love that feeling... when your ready for more or the effects have weakened, smoke more.

agree with the pure joint statement above... might as well smoke pure and avoid all the contaminants, etc from tobacco... just take shorter hauls off the joint.

As James once said, "There's no shame in letting a joint go out. You can always light it again."

But seriously, "american style" (smoke small bowls of weed out of a glass pipe) is a lot less of a hassle if you don't already roll well/regularly. (And I'd be surprised if most "lightweight" smokers roll regularly.)

Bluebird sells nice glass pipes for 5 euro. 1e Hulp sells very nice glass pipes for 10 euro. That also makes hash and concentrate smoking easy. Less social though.

smoke small amounts see how it makes you feel, stick with sativa and neck a few cokes.

geekymonkey wrote:As James once said, "There's no shame in letting a joint go out. You can always light it again."

But seriously, "american style" (smoke small bowls of weed out of a glass pipe) is a lot less of a hassle if you don't already roll well/regularly. (And I'd be surprised if most "lightweight" smokers roll regularly.)

Bluebird sells nice glass pipes for 5 euro. 1e Hulp sells very nice glass pipes for 10 euro. That also makes hash and concentrate smoking easy. Less social though.

+1

Two pages of mostly good info for the infrequent user, aka lightweight.
Most times I like not having to pass around joints mainly because of a social thing as well - called social diseases. Herpes anyone?
Just kidding..........
Happy trails...

As a lightweight myself nowadays, a beer or two to take the initial edge off the rush has often helped me. That said I don't think this would work with strong stuff.

You could buy a few tinnies and enjoy them in Vondelpark with a couple of light spliffs, then take it from there. By the second day the tolerance is already rising.

Don't drink too much and don't smoke too much too soon, either. We've all pulled whities...

I suspect this won't please fellow posters, but it works for me.

My problem is to always add a bit more then a bit more (as I'm away) then get so f##ked I end up back in my hotel room a bit too early..... Life of the loner lightweight!

If your guna do something..do it right stock up on copious amounts of drugs like the boot in fear an loathing and just get stuck in!!
its only weed after all it cant kill you
although pulling a whitey feals like impending doom..

dpgsoulja89 wrote:If your guna do something..do it right stock up on copious amounts of drugs like the boot in fear an loathing and just get stuck in!!

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all this for the trip, but once you get locked in a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.


Now that, is a great movie.

This brings me to a funny question.

I'm a daily toker. I'm from BC so the grass is top grade. I don't find I am as buzzed anymore, probably built up a solid tolerance having smoked for as long as I have.

Do you think it would be a good idea for me to stop toking for a couple weeks before I go?

Perhaps if I do, the weed will be better to me... just thinking.

Votes?

Same situation and I considered it for my first trip to Ams.

Honestly, I thought I'd get higher than I ever had when I went to Dam.

Didn't happen.

Now that I've been there a few times, I realize its a mindset not a tolerance thing.

You'll have a better time in Dam knowing you can handle some great herb...rather than suffering a whitey and always remembering that time when u should have had more tolerance.

Just saying. Only my opinion

Pondered that also... but then thought no way... the more I put up my tolerances before I go, the more different varieties I'll be able to sample out there.
May be a good idea if someone wants to out there and get stoned quickly/cheaply, I got a feeling that's not many of us though

"No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. Poor bastard will see them soon enough. " Absolutely classic film.