Help! Always half baked, Never Baked!

[HalfBak3d]

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Well this is my first post so I suppose I should introduce myself. I love this forum. It's one of the best on the net with the best members and funniest stories. I lurk and read thread from stories to dumb questions to advice on how not to get caught. I've even read the entire "Stoner Mistakes" thread. So because I have a bit of a problem I've got a question for ya'll here:
So I hope I don't get in trouble for putting this in the wrong section of the forum, but I know that the most experienced stoners are right here and I was hoping to ask for some advice.It's kind of long but well punctuated and written (except for the occasional error lol) So please read on!
Anyways, here goes... So I'm sort of a n00b but not exactly when it comes to smoking. The first time I ever smoked, I was 15 years old. I smoked a blunt of some middies and got so so very high. It was great. After that I didn't smoke again til I was 19. I smoked for the first time again in October of 2006 it was Cali Chronic. It was only my 3rd/4th time since I was 15 (I've only technically been high 2 times at this point.) I didn't get high though. I smoked out of a pipe, something I'd never done at that point so I think I didn't do it right. Then I started smoking every weekend from mid-October to Thanksgiving. I was smoking some home grown. I had no clue what it was. At that point I wasn't smoking correctly and didn't have anyone to really teach me. There weren't any seeds as I never heard anything "pop" while smoking the weed was sort of dark green, dry, and not too smelly. I had a little more than an eighth maybe 5 G's. I got it from a friend for 20 bucks. Not too shabby. Then I bought my first metal pipe from a gas station and started smoking out of it. Problem was I wasn't getting high. For about a month, I would smoke every weekend sometimes Saturday & Sunday, sometimes either/or. At times I'd get half baked or not baked at all. I didn't want to smoke more then 2 (tiny) packed bowls at a time because I wasn't getting high and I didn't understand why. I was a newbie so middies could have gotten me extremely baked (right?), but at the same time I didn't think I was doing it right. Then Thanksgiving came and I came across more Cali Chronic. I got so so very very high again that whole holiday break. It was wonderful. I smoked out of a metal pipe so when I went back to smoking my middies I knew I WAS doing it right so I was confused as to why I wasn't getting high. I had enough weed to get me through Thanksgiving to New Year's and I was able to get really high, half baked, or not baked at all on the weekends. I smoked my last bowl the last weekend in January.
About 2/3 weeks later I was able to score some bud again. This time it was Chronic I was told. It was dark and orange-y and smelled very strong and yummy. During the time I was without bud I constructed a Sobe waterfall bong. So I started using that instead of a metal pipe. I got so blown every time. I was buying an eighth and smoking it all weekend and sometimes during the week if I had any to spare. Then I'd go without weed for a week. Then get another eighth. Then another week clean and so on and so forth. Over the month of February and March I got a bong and some pipes and started smoking out of those too. Mid-March I was unable to score again. However I had leftover Chron. So I smoked it sparingly everyday. I'd get a little tipsy too so that I wouldn't need that much weed. At this point I think I'd been smoking every day for about 2/3 weeks. Then I found another hook-up. This young 16 year old stoner kid. (I'm 20 btw. This can't be a good set-up can it?) He told me he had "drizzle" so I assumed he had hydro. I was skeptical but I met up with him and got some anyways. It did look different then what I was previously smoking. It was lighter green, very light, no orange-ness, but smelled very pungent. I thought it was probably good because of how strong it smelled. I could put it in an altoids can and still smell it at one point. The first time I smoked it I got a good buzz because I was unable to really smoke it so I was unsure if it was good or not. Example: Friday night smoked got a good buzz off one bowl. Saturday night same thing. Sunday attempt at a wake n bake. (Didn't get more then buzzed.) Then in the afternoon another bowl or 2. Didn't get high at all. I know that the first high of the day is the best and you can't get higher than that so I figured maybe because I only got buzzed during the "wake n bake" that's why I was unable to get really high that same afternoon. Is my thinking wrong?
Anyways, to try to move the story along it is becoming long (I'm a writer, I can't help it sorry!)
That Monday I smoked and got buzzed/half baked. From then on I've been smoking this so called "dank" every day til today. Sometimes getting right blown. Sometimes buzzed, half baked, or not high at all. Smoking from waterfall bongs, 10" and 17" glass bongs, and a pretty big glass spoon. I'd say I haven't ever smoked more than 3/4 bowls in fear that I won't get high anyway and I don't want to waste weed on top of it.
This Sunday I smoked half a blunt. There must have been an eighth in there. I DID NOT get more than buzzed. I smoked and got a buzz on Sunday morning so I thought again maybe that's it. Put the blunt out and smoked the other half Monday. Then smoked a bowl from my spoon and a bong bowl. Did not get ripped. WTF? Yesterday, I smoked a joint. But I didn't exactly roll it I just took all the guts out of a cigg and replaced it with weed. Took out the filter, put in a roach. And put 2 more joint papers over it so it would burn really slowly. Hopefully that gives you an idea of how much weed was in there. I smoked that whole thing yesterday and could feel the head change. Could see the "I'm about to get really baked world" through my eyes. Yet when I finished I didn't get higher than that "buzz" so I decided to keep smoking. Smoked a small bowl through my waterfall bong and another small bowl in my spoon. By the end of the night I did not get the high I wanted. I was actually closer to sober than high.
So my question. What the frack is going on? I just don't understand why I'm not getting high at all. Am I just one of those people who can't get high? I've been high. And I've been really really high. So I don't get it. Even when I'd smoke and not get high I'd still get the munchies, still laugh at not so funny things, and still be knocked out and sleep well afterwards.
I'm just not understanding any of this. Please help! Maybe tomorrow I can post pictures of the weed that I'm currently smoking. The "drizzle" and then I believe I have some middies that were given to me. It has seeds, smells good (piney), sort of a dark/light color. It's mixed in with the drizzle so I'm not sure which is which anymore but there was about $40 dollars worth that was given to me.
So help! I'm a n00b and I admit it. But because of my situation my friends are all very very far from me so even though I am a pothead at heart; I am a lost pothead without direction or guidance or a teacher. I am missing out on what so many of you experienced. But I am trying to teach myself and learn. Any help anyone can give me is great. I'll try to post pictures or answer any more questions you have. Thank you!

[HalfBak3d]

I must add that another reason I think I've been unable to get really really high is I'm taking too long to smoke?

I'm always gettin interrupted so I'm never able to just smoke, smoke, smoke and be done.

Like last night. I went out about 7:15 to smoke. Walked around got home in about 20 mins. From there smoked 2/3 of a bong bowl, packed another bowl for the waterfall, and another bowl in the pipe. By 9:00ish I decided to stop because I was simply more sober than high.

Could this be a reason I'm not getting high?

[JollyRoger227]

Try smoking better weed, holding your hits in longer, and dude, maybe you just don't realize that you are high? Who knows, smoking herb affects everyone differently, I never really get that high of blunts anyway. But I'd try just smoking more, when I toke I smoke like a few grams at a time

Good luck dude, just remember you don't need to smoke till you're all fucked up and can't walk and shit, sometimes just mellowing out can be nice too

[What'sThatSmell]

Definitely hold your tokes longer.
It always works.

[HalfBak3d]

I really do appreciate the help. When I first started I was holding my hits in for 30-45 seconds. Now I count to 5 or 10. Is that enough?

Also, I'm not trying to smoke myself retarded I just want to get stoned. Not just kinda buzzed or that hazy feeling but stoned.

[doob3r]

dude smoke Bigger bowls, hold that shit in, and smoke faster, maybe ty to keep a decent pase i know i can casualy smoke a bowl while watching tv and I take so long between hits i dont get as high, but maybe your just smoking schwag no offense,
next time you go to pack a powl pack that mother until its overflowing then smoke it like a frieght train

dude, also around here people have a saying "if you dont cough you dont get off" choke yourself up real good with a big as bond hit, if that dosent get you uber baked, id say its your smoke.

-doober

[ondrugz]

dude your prolly building up a tolerance, if your looking for that intense 3-4 hour high you had when you first started smoking your gonna have to quit for 2-3 months. i cant beleive none of these other guys thought of it but my bet is your tolerance is building up

[cigga-dro]

ur thinkin about it to much. the first few times i smoked, i didnt realize how high i was until the next morning. power cheef a fat bowl of the best herb u can get, sit back, and just chill.

[Qoric]

Originally Posted by ondrugz

dude your prolly building up a tolerance, if your looking for that intense 3-4 hour high you had when you first started smoking your gonna have to quit for 2-3 months. i cant beleive none of these other guys thought of it but my bet is your tolerance is building up

not that long more like a week or 2 if you exercise. I had a friend that this use to happen to.. so i'm wondering are you skinny? Is it possible you don't have the body fat content to fully absorb the thc? (this may or may have not made since)

[HalfBak3d]

I don't think it's a tolerance because I've always smoked off and on. I've only been (trying to anyway) smoking everyday for I'd say less than a month. Can a new smoker really build a high tolerance that fast?

And to the other poster, I am skinny but not skinny no fat on you skinny. So I don't think that's it. I have been dieting though, does that have anything to do with it?

[ondrugz]

Originally Posted by HalfBak3d

I don't think it's a tolerance because I've always smoked off and on. I've only been (trying to anyway) smoking everyday for I'd say less than a month. Can a new smoker really build a high tolerance that fast?

And to the other poster, I am skinny but not skinny no fat on you skinny. So I don't think that's it. I have been dieting though, does that have anything to do with it?

just quit for a week then smoke a fat blunt of good weed and if you get stoned ass shit it prolly is your tolerance idk though

[HalfBak3d]

bump! updated with pics!

[jboodradle]

are you eating right after you smoke?