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THC seems like the only thing that's ever stood up to my executive dysfunction.
There's a butter zone to being able to get shit done and eating an entire bag of chips in one sitting.
Mmm I should make some weed butter
🤣 🤣 🤣
I almost never get the munchies unless I've been drinking too. Most of the time a 0.2g in a dry herb vape and I'm ready to rock.
Lucky, THC just makes my ADHD worse (but I can't sleep without it). I need a heavy stimulant to get anything done, and because my tolerance shoots up so fast, I can't take any stims more than once or twice a month or they stop working entirely. So basically I'm a useless blob 28-30 days out of the month. Kratom helps with the depression and anxiety but it doesn't motivate me.
Do be careful with the kratom there, eh...
Meh, I've heard the horror stories but I've been taking it almost daily since 2018 (except on weekends and vacations). I'm actually in the middle of a two week tolerance break right now, and the worst side effect I felt was a slight shoulder pain that went away by day three. (Turns out I was over exerting at work without realizing it because the kratom was numbing the pain.) And the depression's back too of course but being miserable is my baseline.
So no, I'm not worried about it. It doesn't even induce respiratory depression like a real opiate does, so the risk of overdose is next to nil. And I'm always careful to obtain my kratom from trusted sources, of course.
If you want to warn me about anything, you should be warning me about kratom's isolated form, 7-OH. While still not deadly, that little molecule is pure evil. It hits you like a freight train and wears off within 30 minutes, making you constantly thinking about next dose every waking moment. It's more intense than kratom, sure, but you don't get the same full spectrum effect (it's similar to the difference between live resin and THC distillate, if you want a familiar comparison). After a month of being chained down by this drug, I ditched the 7-OH pills and went right back to the powder. At least with kratom I enough relief from a single spoonful to have me feeling good enough to be a functioning adult in the workplace.
That 7-OH shit is harsh. I've tried it exactly once and didn't have a good time with it at all. Just felt extremely dirty without the rest of the plant components there with it and mostly just caused one of the worst splitting headaches I've ever had.
It's plain leaf for me as well, from a trusted vendor that tests for heavy metals and all that. I'd rather raw dog a couple spoonfuls of gritty vegetal powder on the regular than mess with sketchy gas station pressies or even the normal extracts.
The 7-OH craze kinda reminds me of the situation with synthetic cannabinoids (spice, k2) a decade or so ago.
I could see how you'd make that comparison, but personally I'd argue that the synthetic cannabis shit was far more dangerous. At least with 7-OH, you know what chemical compound you're getting. With Spice it was a complete crapshoot cause the manufacturers would keep rearranging the chemistry in order to get around the DEA ban. Every time you went to the headshop to pick up a tin of that nasty-ass potpourri shit, you never knew what you were getting. At least the 7-OH pills list their ingredients; you didn't get that at all with Spice, beyond a generic "not for human consumption" warning.
But regardless I still would suggest staying far away from the stuff, especially if you have poor impulse control.