From someone who thinks he can help.

Control yourself man, wtf!

 

Yeah tolerance is a double edged sword, it can be good and bad. I can completely control myself when i'm high, but sometime I don't wanna be in control lol.

 

An O a day? Holy Hell! Rich?

 

Your body creates associations from habituation. If you smoke with the same piece and in the same place frequently, you will associate that place with getting high, and your brain will begin to make counter adaptations before you even smoke.

It's all about the chemistry in your brain. THC affects the balance of many of the chemicals that exist in your brain, such as serotonin, anandamide and norepinephrine. The THC (and other cannabinoids, some of which are naturally occurring in your brain) will let you feel "high" until the brain is able to adjust the levels of the chemicals in your brain to counter the affects of the new chemicals that you have introduced. When your natural equilibrium is reached again, you will no longer feel high.

If your brain anticipates you getting high (through classical conditioning), it will start to change the balance preemptively, which is why the effects may not be as strong or last for as long as you desire. This is otherwise known as tolerance. Unfortunately, with harder drugs like heroin, this is why a lot of experienced users still overdose. You may build up a tolerance to the drug at a specific location, and be able to handle what would be considered a lethal dose to an average user. However, in a novel environment, the same counter adaptations do not exist and that same dose would very likely cause you to overdose.

Obviously overdosing isn't an issue with bud, but if you are looking to keep tolerance minimal, change the method of smoking, how many people you're smoking with, the environment, music, whatever.

Also, I have no idea whether or not it's true, but I read that how big you roll your joints/blunts has an affect on your high as well. Basically, the thinner and faster burning they are, the effect will be more like a sativa, whereas a fat joint that burns slowly will be more of an indica high. The reasoning behind this is that a slow burning joint is less likely to burn through the bud fast enough to destroy some of the cannabinoids, and the 40+ cannabinoids (other than THC) in marijuana are responsible for indica highs. Again, I have no idea if this is true, but it did seem to have this effect for me.