How long until you started becoming tolerant?

[Dalfir]

SWIM has been smoking on and off for about six months, sometimes a month break between getting stoned. Lately, SWIM has been buying his own weed and has smoked about 10 days in the last two weeks, which is basically just two days off a week. Will this start affecting him negatively in regards to tolerance?

How long did it take SWIY to get to the point where they really needed to smoke a lot to get stoned?

[amanda]

if swim keeps taking breaks, he'll have a lot less problems with tollerance.

my friend swim thinks its not that you need to smoke more after a while, but your high lasts like half as long. its a bummer but when you smoke as much as swim does, its just like darn lets spark again - and swim says thats fun bc its a social thing

[vantranist]

Tolerance with MJ for SWIM is simple just a shorter duration and less goofy feeling... the only increase in dosage would be becuase he will need to redose since it doesnt last as long.

SWIM noticed tolerance after quite a few uses... daily use def.

[Nature Boy]

Cannabis tolerance isn't comparable to say, alcohol tolerance or opiate tolerance. SWIM smokes daily and will get high off every joint he smokes granted it's of decent quality. The highs tend to get shorter and less intense if he smokes a large amount of one particular type of cannabis however. To avoid this, it's best to space out time between smoking sessions or regularly change one's type of cannabis in order to enjoy the effects of different cannabinoids.

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[ProtectedByTheGods]

Yeah, unless one smokes every day, tolerance won't be much of an issue with weed.
And of course, smoking different strains in an alternate fashion is good advice.

[cartex12]

Building a tolerance to weed is not at all a downside. Once you build a bit of a tolerance you will have a more controlled high, and you won't get cotton mouth so badly. Once you have built a tolerance your high will end more often with sobriety than a nap, so you can smoke all day long, and stay very high.
When swim first started to smoke if he got really high he got tired, and if he smoked a few times, he'd be in bed by 9:30.
the tolerance, as mentioned above, is not a massive wall, swim smokes an average of 5 grams a day, at least, some days swim smokes and ounce with his friends. But even if its mids, if i smoke a personal joint, i always get high.
tolerance to cannabis is something to stride for, acheive your goal!

[ProtectedByTheGods]

Originally Posted by cartex12

tolerance to cannabis is something to stride for, acheive your goal!

Hmmmmm..... now that sounds weird to me.
And I guess most people would disagree with you on that one.
I mean, what is tolerance really good for?
Just so that you can (no, wait, you HAVE to) smoke one after another
all day long? I mean, 5g/day is really a LOT.

Not everyone has unlimited access to the good stuff, so having a rather low
tolerance seems like a good thing, in terms of felt effect and efficient use.
Not to mention the stress on ones lungs!

[hibushin]

its fairly easy to tell when you have built up a tolerance, it wont hit as fast when SWIY takes a hit and it generally wont last as long, SWIM tends to smoke every other day or 1/3 days sometimes as long as a week between sessions and doesnt tend to feel as though a tolerance is building up as it is usually very irregular. SWIY's body will feel any regular pattern and adapt to it, if anything a week without a joint can remove any tolerance.