So my weed smoking days were back in the 70s. In the years since I've become a functioning alcoholic. In addition I have serious physical and mental health probs. Have sought out weed to help with both. Also hoped it might help me cut down on the booze because not only does that rarely give me a lift any more, it actually makes my depression worse. And I'm not talking the day after I mean while I'm actually drinking. I can feel my brain shutting down.

Anyhow, I knew I didn't want to smoke. I have breathing difficulties as it is and knew I'd cough a lung up if I smoked. So I came here interested in vaping. Bear in mind my last experience with weed was a couple of hits on a weak joint over 15 years ago so in modern terms I'm a complete newbie.

So I was drawn straight away to a Cart and bought one (Mimosa) with a battery and charger from the excellent Dr Extracts as my first order. Then I did a little more research and found out for the first time about dry herb vapes (I said I was a newbie). So I bought one (Nebula Fuzion). Then I turned my attention to actual weed. Given my long absence I looked for lower potency, and found some old school South African Dagga from DIUK and some Thai/Lao from mrb4real and promptly ordered both. One of these, with my new vape, was going to be my gentle reintroduction to the world of weed.

Anyway, thanks to all that have made it this far but to cut an unintentionally long story short both the latter have been held up by the postal strike. So two days ago sitting here half drunk and feeling very down mentally my eye kept wandering to my as yet unused vape pen.

Maybe just a little hit to see if it could lift my mood? Put it on low setting, pre-heated it, and took a small hit. Sat and waited, nothing happened. Thought maybe the hit had been too small so took a bigger one. Sat and waited, nothing happened. You can guess the rest. Took a third big hit, and a fourth just for luck.

Holy shit it hit me like a freight train. My legs turned to jelly, my head went into orbit. I was seriously fucked up for the next 3 hours. It wasn't a pleasant experience. I knew what kind of high I was looking for when I came here. This went way, WAY, beyond that.

It was bad to the point it's made me scared of trying again. I'm still waiting for the weed and will try that very carefully. Going to buy some CBD bud and cut it 50/50 to start off with. Just a shame my first experience has been a negative one.