TIFU by taking two edibles

Obligatory this happened mostly yesterday, technically, but lasted past midnight so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

My friend brought cannabis infused peanut butter cups to my bachlorette party. I've only done joints or hit a pen in the past while I was already very, very drunk. Some people enjoy crossing. I am not one of those people. I've only had horrible experiences after taking weed because of that and then get an equally bad if not worse hangover to follow. But we've talked about it, and I agreed to take edibles since I've been wanting to give weed another try - sans the alcohol.

So after lunch me and two of my bridesmaids settle in for an afternoon of movies (my other two bridesmaids did not partake and just got a kick out of this). We eat one edible and then I set my alarm for an hour, I know they take a while to kick in.

What I didn't know was that weed has like a reverse tolerance the more you take it. My one bridesmaid is a bone fide pot head. My maid of honor bridesmaid smokes socially with her friends. They both felt the weed kick in around the 45 minute mark. The last time I smoked was in college, pre-pandemic. I felt nothing when my alarm went off. I gave it another half hour, nothing. So now my bridesmaid and maid of honor are telling me I should take another because "10mg of weed is NOTHING!" I have another 10mg edible, set my alarm for another hour. They taste great, by the way. My friend got some really good high quality edibles.

Another 20 minutes pass, one of the sober bridesmaids suggest we go shopping. I walk upstairs to get my shoes, sit on the bed to put them on, and then....it all hit. I felt like I was dunked in ice water, but not at all cold. Like the world was lagging and I had to move really slowly or else I'd clip through the floor. I put my shoes on and felt way too aware on my toes. It was like I was tipsy but without the sickness or stupidity of alcohol. It was honestly great. I felt chill and like everything was a little bit funny. I kept giggling.

Problem was that feeling got more and more intense. While walking around the mall I could barely think. All my energy was on putting one foot in front of the other and making sure I didn't fall over. Gravity felt like it was pulling me to the left for some reason. And the chillness quickly wore away in paranoia. I felt exactly as I did before I started taking my anxiety meds. Like I was constantly doing something wrong, that my bridesmaids are unhappy at the mall and it's all my fault, that I don't deserve this amazing party they made for me. I got it in my head that they hated doing these activities with me (even though they suggested shopping) and I should rush to finish it so we can leave. So I'm power walking through the mall, my maid of honor is trailing me to make sure I didn't get lost. I totally would have gotten lost without her babysitting me, she was great.

After that we went to a brewery for food and drinks. Thank Pete I had the good sense to not order beer. I'd been feeling it for about 3 hours at this point. I actually don't remember this part too well. But who needs memories when my lovely bridesmaids have copious amounts of blackmail material now. My maid of honor has a pretty funny video of me silently and very slowly eating a pizza slice. The other high bridesmaid had a great photo of us just completely out of it. We were at a high top and I was gripping the chair to prevent myself from falling to the left. I genuinely did not have a single thought in my head. I couldn't think of a single thing to say or do, I just had a feeling that if I opened my mouth it would be horrible. I was apparently completely silent for about 2 hours. But I was chugging water. Just downing it like crazy, my mouth was so dry. And shaking.

I don't remeber this, but this morning I saw my recent Google searches and aparently I was Googling like crazy. "Shaking from weed normal?" "How long does 20mg last" "weed no balance" "does water make a high go away?" I Googled "sunfish" twice apparently?

We got back to the house, settled in for more movies for the rest of the night. I started to come out of it more and more as the hours passed, with around 1am being when I felt totally normal again.

I looked it up this morning. 3-5mg is considered a good beginner dose for "new and/or inconsistent users".

20mg is a high dose, "only recommended for edible consumers: expect strong euphoria and impared coordination and/or perception."

I asked my bridesmaid who brought the edibles if she knew this, and she was like "oh yeah, I probably should have mentioned that, huh?" YES. YES YOU SHOULD HAVE! We were all just roasting her over breakfast for drugging me, haha!

TL:DR I haven't done weed in years, stupidly took 20mg at my bachlorette party. Glad I did it, never doing it again!