Very simply, how long before bed do vape or smoke up?
I’d been successfully treating my insomnia with flower for 2 years but recently when I’ve used it I either haven’t been able to get to sleep or stay asleep for more than a few hours. Normally I’d vape an hour or 45 mins before bed and that would knock me out. Now I find that my mind starts racing around the hour mark.
Mainly wondering how many people use it and then hop straight into bed.
I’ve tried swapping strains, tolerance breaks of a few weeks, and even zopiclone isn’t all that effective right now on the nights I don’t vape.
Been treating my insomnia with the good stuff pretty much daily over a decade. Dry herb microdosing and getting down the timing of the high cycle.is key to maintaining tolerance in the long term.
Let’s touch on the later point quick first. Everyones different but for me being high is something like vape -> get high -> crashout(sleepy) -> (caffeine or more vaping). If you can establish a time based sleep schedule to align your circadian rythm while timing the crashout at the same general time youre golden.
Now for tolerance. Im going to be blunt with you, most cannabis smokers/vapers are doing it… Unscientifically. They’ve never heard of a dry herb vape or if they did its a decade old dinosaur like the fucking pax, never considered microdosing, never wanted to understand what the bare minimum and healthiest vaping methods is. If your burning your bud your doing more harm to your lungs than good, and your wasting your herb big time. Sorry, thats how it is.
The journey these questions lead me on changed my life and truly turned the herb into dosable medicine. You want to stop building tolerance? You need to work your way down to 0.05g-0.10g dry herb hits green. Its effectively the smallest unit of bud for an appreciable hit. You can microdose all day and never build appreciable T. it will basically fully reset tommorow or the day after.
And guess what? All the black and brown leftover ABV is still good, decarbed and chock full of CBC/CBN with a little THC. Save it up and process into nighttime oil sleeping pills
The best part of dry herb vaping is that because my tolerance is so low now, I get completely annihilated when I smoke pot with my friends. I haven’t felt this faded in YEARS before I switched to dry herb vaping.
Appreciate you evangelizing for dry herb vaping. It’s mind blowing to me that more people haven’t made the switch. I haven’t convinced a single of my local friends after doing it myself for 10 years and sharing it with them. Probably should just give them my old vapes.
Thank you! I like to spread the word about things I feel passionate about. Theres so much crap that promises to improve your life and only a few good things that actually do. Dry herb vapes rocked my world and its my privilege to potentially be the internet comment ear worm that eventually convinces some to try the journey to see if it changes their world too.
Unfortunately just a lot of close minded individuals who are happy with what they got going on and dont understand the point or had a bad experience 10 years ago or just confuse it with cartridge vaping. Some people dont like the look of something so they refuse to ever try it. Just because it didn’t pass their vibe check. Its fustrating but thats people and stubborn tradition for you. I believe that if its meant for you, then eventually it will find a way into your life when you need it.
Jazz cabagge in the long run fucks up your sleep, it’s not something you should use long term for insomnia.
Yeah definitely not ideal. Was working with a sleep specialist/psychiatrist but he’s gone on extended personal leave, is the only specialist in my city, and I had adverse reactions to the medications he was trialling me on.
Yeah, it makes it more difficult as your tolerance gets higher. Using a strain with high CBD / CBN as opposed to high THC will help tremendously.
I’ve had insomnia since I was teenager, and have used cannabis for that and some other medical issues since then. My health impacts my sleep, which obviously makes my insomnia worse. Cannabis helps with sleeping until your tolerance is high, so my tip for making it work is to swap types of cannabis each time you buy - not just changing strains. So if you buy indica one time, buy an indica-dominant strain the next time. Obviously the terps will give you a better idea, but that’s an easy place to begin.
Unfortunately, I can’t stop taking cannabis until I’m fixed. So my tolerance is high and will stay high for the foreseeable future. But even if you’ve done all of the above and still can’t get to sleep, try meditating after smoking. Not in the traditional sense, but in the sense that as you try to fall asleep, take big deep breaths and force individual muscle groups to relax. As you take a few breaths, force your neck and head to relax, then your shoulders and chest, etc. Focus on just that, and it will help somewhat. If that doesn’t work, I’m truly sorry. I have those nights every now and then, so I understand how debilitating it can be.
