The edible experience.

 

Instead of the 2 ounces of weed called for in the Salve recipe, we only used one. We used one ounce of smoking quality bud, and a cup and a half of coconut oil. 

Needless to say, it made a lot of oil! We made two small mason jars of the salve, and a lip balm. We also used the left over plant matter to make "Medicinal Chocolate", but that I’ll come back to.

And after all of that stuff, we still have a FULL small Mason jar of oil.

My eczema, is amazing right now. I didn’t want to jinx it yesterday and say anything because I had only been using the salve for less than 24 hours.

But, you wouldn’t believe it, unless you saw it. The difference is very drastic. The swelling is disappearing rapidly, and my skin is healing for sure. The colour where the outbreak is was very dark, a good dark purple-ish brown, and it looked like the patches had aged a hundred years. It looks a lot better, and I’m so thankful that this salve is working some voodoo magic on my skin!

The only negative is the smell of the salve. It smells like burnt weed with a slight coconut finish. It’s not great, but I can handle it if it’s going to help my eczema!

So I had a bit of an itchy outbreak this morning, but I couldn’t sleep for the life of me. I’m trying to be more responsible, and staying up late and watching Netflix, then sleeping until noon is getting old. I’m much too old to live like a teenager.

So Sam worked this morning, and I figured, when he goes to bed, so will I. So I went to bed at  10:30 and decided I would read until I was tired, so I read for about an hour, and my eyes felt heavy, so I put down my book, brushed my teeth and turned off the lights. Then I proceeded to toss and turn, fully awake for some reason until 7:30 this morning.

So yeah, my go to bed early and wake up at 9:30 didn’t work out very well. I slept until 11:30 anyways.

Ok, so back to edibles.

I’ve only had an edible once, well a Marijuana edible once. When I was 22 we partied in Wasaga and had Shroom edibles, but only once have I had a pot brownie, and by the time we headed to bed, it hadn’t kicked in. Even the shrooms were a soft haze over the day, that simply made the day feel more enhanced if you will.

So, since we simmered and strained most of the THC out of the plant matter, I was expecting a less intense high, than I got.

Sam had to work, so I got to be the Chocolate Guinea Pig, and he gave me a 1 inch by 1 inch square of chocolate. 

I peaked the fuck out. 

I ate it, and we chilled, we watched Intervention, then I tucked him in and threw on an episode of Nip/Tuck, which I’m currently engrossed in. 

What felt like forever into the episode, turned out to be about 20 minutes, I started feeling a little dizzy, then my chest felt really heavy and my heart felt like it was beating 1000 beats per minute. So I got up and walked around a bit. That sort of turned into a panicked pacing back and forth.

Seriously, I must’ve looked crazy pacing around my apartment. The apartment felt like it was getting smaller and smaller, and that’s when I shut everything down and decided sleep was my best option.

The thing about Weed is, you know you’re not going to die from it… but edibles in too strong of a dose can exact paranoid feelings, dizziness and vomiting. The problem is if you "overdose" theres nothing you can do except wait it out, and let it metabolize out of your system. 

I still freaked out. I went to lay down, and brought a 1.5 litre bottle of water with me. As soon as my head hit the pillow, rather than fall asleep, much to my dismay my mind started attacking me.

I started thinking about all of the things I hate about myself, all of the times I’ve made mistakes, and all of the things I’ m self conscious about. 

The worst part was that I couldn’t turn it off, and I couldn’t sleep. I drank that whole bottle of water, in about 30 minutes, and then 2 more. I think I finally fell asleep around 4am. Not before I woke up Sam, and asked him to semi-cuddle. I think just knowing that he was somewhat aware that I was peaking out was comforting enough for me to sleep.

I haven’t smoked since. Well, not true. When I couldn’t sleep this morning I took a small hit of the pipe to try to help, but aside from that… I need a break. The edible was way too intense. But from my research edibles are a science, dosage varies from edible to edible in some cases.

Anyhow, I think I’m marijuana’d out for a while! I’m wondering if the trouble sleeping came from my edibles experience. 

Sam said "Next time we know to eat a smaller piece" to which I replied that I would probably not eat that chocolate ever again…!