EFFING DARN CANBIS DISPENSARY AND THEIR DUMMY EMPLOYEE

[BonzaiDuck]

Or -- "I WANTED A GUMMI, DUMMY!! "

OK. Here's the story.

I went over to a local dispensary some weeks back. Good place. They have good shit.

I had previously obtained these Green Apple gummies at another place, but they don't have them anymore. Those gummies were 100 mg THC. 25 mg is enough for me to get ripped for an evening; 50 mg will have me flying beyond noon the next day. So I would take my pocket knife and split these gummies.

I ASKED their employee for gummies – and said “something like 100 mg of THC”.

He took me to a display and said “here are some 50 mg, some 100 mg, and some 200 mg.”

I bought the 200’s. 50 is all I need to get really looped into the next day, like I said.

SO I bring home the little sealed packages, and open one. IT’S NOT A GUMMI! IT’S A GEL-CAP! I can’t cut it with a knife and save the rest like I do with the gummies! Or, if I do, it could be a mess.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to use these? 200 mg of THC is going to get somebody Warp-Drive Stoned and not coming back until a light-year's circuit around the universe. A person might encounter the Borg Queen and have to watch her remove her torso from her hips for mechanical maintenance.

 

[mikeymikec]

Take the rest back to the shop and get them exchanged?

 

[lxskllr]

Mix it in olive oil, spread half on a piece of toast, save the rest for later.

 

[balloonshark]

Are you trying to get him toasted? 😛

I also divide the cheap gummies I take. One and a half D9 or 15mg or one and a half D8 or 45mg. Sometimes I do 1 and 3/4 gummies. I like to alternate the D9 and D8 gummies. I weigh about 130lbs wet and I'm a light weight.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The Green Apples I'd acquired were Delta-8. My friend of 20 years who owns the smoke shop had been selling them, then told me at last visit that they'd regulated the D8 and he couldn't sell the gummies anymore.

I still have a gram of a hashish that looks like Afghan but it was Made in the USA.

I'm sort of fazed today from that 50 mg slice yesterday. The olive oil idea sounds good. What do you mean by being a light weight? Susceptibility to THC?

My brother died in 2022, leaving me a pile of new unsealed vaping cartridges. I can't say I "need" my THC badly. Either for the supply, or the inclination.

 

[iRONic]

Those carts may be as thick as 90 weight gear oil by now. You should send them to me so I can dispose of them properly.

 

[balloonshark]

The Green Apples I'd acquired were Delta-8. My friend of 20 years who owns the smoke shop had been selling them, then told me at last visit that they'd regulated the D8 and he couldn't sell the gummies anymore.

I still have a gram of a hashish that looks like Afghan but it was Made in the USA.

I'm sort of fazed today from that 50 mg slice yesterday. The olive oil idea sounds good. What do you mean by being a light weight? Susceptibility to THC?

My brother died in 2022, leaving me a pile of new unsealed vaping cartridges. I can't say I "need" my THC badly. Either for the supply, or the inclination.

It doesn't take much for me to feel the effects. Then again I'm not trying to get completely ripped. I just want to relax most of the time.

I did pick up their disposable vapes just to try. I have a regular vape but I can't use it in this building. These disposable vapes can be harsh so I only take about 4-5 gentle puffs. I don't want to start coughing like my next door neighbor.

The fazed feeling you have (I call it crispy lol) is something I try to avoid and is another reason I self regulate how much I take. I was fazed the other day because I took another couple of puffs before bed.

 

[iRONic]

Oh, BTW… it’s cannabis.

 

[IronWing]

Oh, BTW… it’s cannabis.

In his case, cantabis.

 

[WelshBloke]

Holy shit! Who sells a 200mg THC ingestable that you cant divide up!
My tolerance is fairly low but 200mg would put me out for a week!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Holy shit! Who sells a 200mg THC ingestable that you cant divide up!
My tolerance is fairly low but 200mg would put me out for a week!

Identical to my own thoughts about it. In the local dispensaries in the nearby community, I could get 10mg gummies. I saw a caution somewhere "Don't take two unless you know what the effect will be." 20mg is just enough. Lately I take either 25 or 50mg. But not 100!! Certainly not 200!

The dispensaries over in the nearby community of Highgrove have a wide variety of product. Within my own city limits, they've attempted to regulate and prohibit dispensaries. There are many cities in So-Cal where the dispensaries are banned, even as they are legal according to state law.

What's the status quo where you live, in UK?

It's got to the point lately where I just don't feel like being high. After I get some things done in the next several days, I can say "maybe".

Ha! Just saw the Google results for "Highgrove", one mentioning Charles and Camilla. Our "Highgrove" cannot be that "Highgrove"! If the Royals were in the Highgrove here , they'd tell the driver to get them the hell out!! 😛

 

[WelshBloke]

What's the status quo where you live, in UK?

Recreational cannabis is still illegal. I have a prescription which is, as I understand it, a lot more involved to get here than in the US. You have to have a diagnosed thing, you have had to have tried several traditional treatments that failed and you have to sign up with a private clinic. There you’ll have an appointment with a consultant level practitioner, they’ll agree to take you on or not then you can order what cannabis therapies they prescribe.

I'm with Curaleaf. Their criteria are on their website.

Curaleaf Clinic

Curaleaf Clinic are a multi-award winning, CQC registered Medical Cannabis Clinic who specialise in online consultations.

curaleafclinic.com

The strongest gummy I can get is 20mg thc, which is strong enough for me!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Recreational cannabis is still illegal. I have a prescription which is, as I understand it, a lot more involved to get here than in the US. You have to have a diagnosed thing, you have had to have tried several traditional treatments that failed and you have to sign up with a private clinic. There you’ll have an appointment with a consultant level practitioner, they’ll agree to take you on or not then you can order what cannabis therapies they prescribe.

I'm with Curaleaf. Their criteria are on their website.

Curaleaf Clinic

Curaleaf Clinic are a multi-award winning, CQC registered Medical Cannabis Clinic who specialise in online consultations.

curaleafclinic.com

The strongest gummy I can get is 20mg thc, which is strong enough for me!

I would say 20 is enough. 50 after dinner one night will leave my still floating by noon the next day. I'm surprised recreational use hasn't been legalized in UK. Right across the Channel, there's Amsterdam. I remember a movie from the mid- to late 60s -- and it was a British movie -- "Blowup". It featured the usual depiction of a party where someone had chopped open a kilo-brick.

California's Proposition 64 was passed in 2016, but prior to that, my departed brother had a medical card, and they delivered to the house. So I'd just ask for an ounce of primo Sativa flower-bud and some vape cartridges, and reimburse him.

I turned both of my brothers into cannabis procurers after I returned here from the East!! I should be ashamed! When I was working, I would simply not go out looking for it, although it wasn't hard to obtain in the DC Metro Area. But it would just "find me" a couple times a year. And -- of course -- when I came home for the holidays, there was never a shortage.

The COPD cripples my ability to enjoy it in the traditional way. I always think of that Lynard Skynard song:

Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars
Oak tree you're in my way
There's too much coke and too much smoke
Look what's going on inside you
Ooooh that smell
Can't you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you

Never thought of it as "the smell of death" around me, though. Oh! There was another song, theme to the movie "Leaves of Grass" with Edward Norton cast as twin brothers, Susan Sarandon as the mother in assisted care, and Richard Dreyfus as a Jewish crime-lord in Tulsa:

"Them Oklahoma Boys roll their joints all wrong
They're way to skinny and they're far too long . .
I ain't a holy roller and I use a bong!
Them Oklahoma Boys roll their joints all wrong!

 

[WelshBloke]

I would say 20 is enough. 50 after dinner one night will leave my still floating by noon the next day.

I tend to use 10mg ones and top up with some bud in the evening.

California's Proposition 64 was passed in 2016, but my departed brother had a medical card, and they delivered to the house. So I'd just ask for an ounce of primo flower-bud and some vape cartridges, and reimburse him.

Getting it delivered legally through the post for the first time was such a weird thing!

The COPD cripples my ability to enjoy it in the traditional way.

I have a dry herb vape (its actually illegal to smoke even prescription cannabis over here) and thats very easy on the lungs.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I tend to use 10mg ones and top up with some bud in the evening.

Getting it delivered legally through the post for the first time was such a weird thing!

I have a dry herb vape (its actually illegal to smoke even prescription cannabis over here) and thats very easy on the lungs.

It sounds like my ARGO Arizer. The taste or aroma is heavenly for the first few puffs, but you have about 20 more pulls worth taking when the terpenes are gone.

Maybe the NHS is trying to discourage people developing COPD. Or maybe "that smell" is considered a public nuisance like tobacco smoke?

I don't think it's somehow "uncivilized" that UK hasn't legalized it, but I'm mildly surprised. Here in California, there are terrible flaws in its proper regulation and taxation, and they are still stumbling to fix it nine years later. The current status-quo encourages outlaw cultivators who then turn around and sell their product to the legal dispensaries, depressing prices on the legal product and discouraging legal production.

Some of the gangs associated with Mexican drug cartels have been cultivating it in our national and state parks! Can't have that! No sir! Could you imagine hiking in Yosemite to discover chemicals in barrels, furrows lined with plants, plastic hoses carrying water from pristine streams? Worse! Someone tending that garden could point a firearm at you and pull the trigger! Just for "taking a hike"!

So maybe the powers-that-be in UK are still trying to think it through. Does Britain have an organization like NORML? I could kick them a small donation in USD.

Uh! Answered my own question. UKCSC -- that's a great title! And there's also NORML UK. I'll jump right on it!

 

[WelshBloke]

It sounds like my ARGO Arizer. The taste or aroma is heavenly for the first few puffs, but you have about 20 more pulls worth taking when the terpenes are gone.

I use a Crafty+ and it's great, probably pretty similar your one.

Maybe the NHS is trying to discourage people developing COPD. Or maybe "that smell" is considered a public nuisance like tobacco smoke?

Well you can't get cannabis flowers under any circumstances from the NHS but, yeah, it's because smoking is bad for you and there's no clinical reason to smoke it. It's very much considered a medicine here.

I don't think it's somehow "uncivilized" that UK hasn't legalized it, but I'm mildly surprised. Here in California, there are terrible flaws in its proper regulation and taxation, and they are still stumbling to fix it nine years later. The current status-quo encourages outlaw cultivators who then turn around and sell their product to the legal dispensaries, depressing prices on the legal product and discouraging legal production.

I honestly can't see it being legalised for recreational use here in the UK in the short or long term.

Some of the gangs associated with Mexican drug cartels have been cultivating it in our national and state parks! Can't have that! No sir! Could you imagine hiking in Yosemite to discover chemicals in barrels, furrows lined with plants, plastic hoses carrying water from pristine streams? Worse! Someone tending that garden could point a firearm at you and pull the trigger! Just for "taking a hike"!

There are illegal cannabis grows everywhere here! If there's a big unused building it's probably got a grow in it!

So maybe the powers-that-be in UK are still trying to think it through. Does Britain have an organization like NORML? I could kick them a small donation in USD.

It's turning into big business here. I can't see the private clinics giving up this revenue stream!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I use a Crafty+ and it's great, probably pretty similar your one.

Well you can't get cannabis flowers under any circumstances from the NHS but, yeah, it's because smoking is bad for you and there's no clinical reason to smoke it. It's very much considered a medicine here.

I honestly can't see it being legalised for recreational use here in the UK in the short or long term.

There are illegal cannabis grows everywhere here! If there's a big unused building it's probably got a grow in it!

It's turning into big business here. I can't see the private clinics giving up this revenue stream!

Interesting information. What mitigates legal recreational use from the long term? Is this just because we Yanks are dissolute and corrupt in our hedonistic culture? 😉

I guess the biggest drawback to illegal status is the difficulty in acquisition and the risk of criminal penalty. But if you have legal medical use, you're not going to the big house for 30 years, getting your puffs outside legal channels!

 

[Jimminy]

Or -- "I WANTED A GUMMI, DUMMY!! "

OK. Here's the story.

I went over to a local dispensary some weeks back. Good place. They have good shit.

I had previously obtained these Green Apple gummies at another place, but they don't have them anymore. Those gummies were 100 mg THC. 25 mg is enough for me to get ripped for an evening; 50 mg will have me flying beyond noon the next day. So I would take my pocket knife and split these gummies.

I ASKED their employee for gummies – and said “something like 100 mg of THC”.

He took me to a display and said “here are some 50 mg, some 100 mg, and some 200 mg.”

I bought the 200’s. 50 is all I need to get really looped into the next day, like I said.

SO I bring home the little sealed packages, and open one. IT’S NOT A GUMMI! IT’S A GEL-CAP! I can’t cut it with a knife and save the rest like I do with the gummies! Or, if I do, it could be a mess.

Does anyone have any ideas about how to use these? 200 mg of THC is going to get somebody Warp-Drive Stoned and not coming back until a light-year's circuit around the universe. A person might encounter the Borg Queen and have to watch her remove her torso from her hips for mechanical maintenance.

You could try using them as suppositories. The stupor produced will be less, but they will act over a much longer time period. I assume you're looking to stay at least half way fucked up for as long as possible.

Short version ... stick them in your ass and see how they work!

Then look for a better dope dealer.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

You could try using them as suppositories. The stupor produced will be less, but they will act over a much longer time period. I assume you're looking to stay at least half way fucked up for as long as possible.

Short version ... stick them in your ass and see how they work!

Then look for a better dope dealer.

Do they have legal dispensaries where you live? I haven't thought in those terms for years -- "dope dealers". I could tell a story about when I was a senior in college, off the the summer, and I wanted some blond Moroccan hashish. I tried to play "dope dealer" with one of my contemporaries by selling him half of it. So that was OK, but I wasn't going to make a regular repeat business of it.

Senior year -- that was 57 years ago!! Long expired statute of limitations for my candid confession.

I think I'll stick to the olive-oil idea.