In my 50s and want to try edibles for the first time

[Anonymous]

New poster. In menpause and i just want to sleep. Nothing works. Haven't done pot since college. What gummie amount will help me sleep? No need to get high.

Basically i wantv a gummie that is likec ambien (whivh is hard to get now - at least my dr won't prescribe it. She says I have to go to a psychologist).

[Anonymous]

I'm 57. As soon as I retire from my job which can require random drug testing, I'll be buying some gummies too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people saying "gummies/edibles are strong" don't understand that there are different does, and you can start with 5mg THC.

Most important thing to realize that it takes hours to ramp up and down, much slower than inhaling.

So try it on a day/evening when you aren't going anywhere, and if you take it at night, don't plan to go out early in the morning after.

There are even gummies with just 1mg. I get one that has 1mg THC, CBD, and melatonin. I usually take 2 but no more. Usually helps a bit with sleep but nothing miraculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:New poster. In menpause and i just want to sleep. Nothing works. Haven't done pot since college. What gummie amount will help me sleep? No need to get high.

Basically i wantv a gummie that is likec ambien (whivh is hard to get now - at least my dr won't prescribe it. She says I have to go to a psychologist).

I take 5mg indicate gummy like 90min to two hours before I want to fall asleep. I sleep amazing and no hangover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to relax, go take a nap.

Seriously, best comment here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in the cannabis industry on the legal side. Ask the people who work there. They will give you one thing for pain from an injury, another for arthritic pain, yet another to stimulate appetite, another for relaxation. They will also talk with you about how much/little when you're first starting out.

The people who work there are very knowledgeable- go up to someone older rather than a guy in their early 20's.

And what medical training do they have for all this?

There was no medical advice given

[Anonymous]

I don't get the allure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if you're just starting out with weed, go for the 5 milligram (mg) gummy/candy dosages.

The rule with edibles is that you always start with less to see where your baseline is. Edibles go through your digestive system and not your lungs, so it takes like 2 hours for an edible to kick in, and it can take from 6-8 hours for the THC to vacate your system. You'll feel right as rain afterwards, though. There are no weed hangovers. You just stay a lil high a lil longer.

I personally like these new vaporizers they have at my dispensary. The products they have advance by the day. Last time I was in a dispensary was 2 years ago, then I went in in March and the entire menu was different.

The vaporizers are dual cartridge and disposable, 1gm sativa on one side, 1gm indica on the other. There's a button you can move to engage only the S side or only the I side, or for a hybrid you slide the toggle to the middle. They now have 2g units like this for $70, when before I would have had to buy four .5g disposables at like $35 each.

They also just have straight up 2g cartridges that fit into 510 thread batteries, another improvement on the .5g cartridges.

Don't let the trolls scare you. They're almost all guaranteed to have agenda accounts.

I am 100% pro cannabis but the truth is that vape carts are bad for your lungs. If you really want to inhale then you should use a dry herb vape like the Pax or the Volcano. Otherwise eat your veggies.

Interesting. The PAX pens I have are all oil-cartridge based. I actually bought several more of them because back in early days of my legal medical cannabis journey I was convinced it could all just be taken away like that (snaps fingers) so I stocked up on PAX pods. Not really knowing if they would eventually go all Betamax. I was also having issues with my original PAX pens dying simply for battery life.

I have several dry herb vapes available as I had a suscription to a cannabis gift box type thing which kept setting me up with regular glass, a lot of which I did not even recognize. I still don't know how to use a dab rig and things like bongs and pipes, though it's been a minute since I've just purchased carts or disposables.

Flower isn't really my thing, which is crazy, since I basically farm it every year. It's a fun plant to grow

Don't know what a volcano is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many scientists and pharmacists on this thread.

I grow the plant on my home farm

It's a plant, no one makes it in a basement. It's naturally occurring.

I do not know how many "scientists" have experienced weed, but pharmacists are probably barred from that experience due to licensing restrictions. Maybe if you're employed as a "scientist" your job will ding you if you don't screen.

I know how to grow the plants, selectively harvest them to leave only unpollinated females to produce flower, I combat pests and weather rot. I take my flowers that I have grown from seeds I have produced, and trim the harvest, cure it all, and properly store the flower so that it's still potent for use for years to come.

I'm also a medical patient for I think 8 years now, so I also know how at least my dispensary works and have now experienced a variety of THC CBD products. They keep getting better and better.

Mariujuana is doing so well that the local alcohol lobby in my state literally hired moron dip-swirls off craigslist to sit at tables outside the grocery stores and get signatures for an initiative to "keep kids off drugs" when it was really to try to make cannabis illegal again. Just lies and idiots, there are a lot of them who need the $50 an hour to lie to people

I saw them once and just scrawled "MK M. Mousse" ... I wasn't going to even try to argue with them but their petition can be disqualified for making up signatures. I'm a-OK with that

[Anonymous]

I posted a link in the menopause forum to a segment they did on CNN about women and menopause and how THC is proving to be very helpful with the symptoms (even hot flashes). The fear mongering on this site is unreal. They have no problem popping three different hormones, sleeping pills, and all kinds of other stuff, but are horrified by a low dose gummy. I take one nightly for sleep and it works SO WELL.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/health/video/gupta-women-weed-pregnancy-perimenopause-pdg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get a 5mg gummy. This wont send you into a psyhcotic break. I had way too much of an unregulated edible before weed was legal in this area and was high for at least 48 hrs. I can see how this send you into a psychotic break. Taking a 5mg gummy will give you a nice, controlled body high for a few hours.

Complete and utter horseshit. The half like of THC is 6 hours. It's 100 percent out of your system in 8 hours.

This is pp. I was absolutely high for two days. It may have been like 35-40hrs but I was that high. The half life is 6 hrs, but if you have 1000mg thc that’s still 30 plus mg after 30 hrs.

I'm a marijiuana enthusiast to the point where I have had CHS multiple times, though I think not since 2024. I write them down in my diary when they happen.

But I did send my sister a 1000mg brownie once. She lived in an illegal state and I took the packaging off and recut the brownie and mixed those pieces in in ziplock bags with other treats to 'disguise' them. All supposedly intended for a girls night out. She asked me to do it as a special favor.

Well she didn't listen to me and she and 2-3 of her friends tried to share the lil brownie bites between them like they were all having only 1/4 of a single brownie. They were getting ready to leave their hotel room to some concert, probably someone headlining with American flags everywhere, given their area, were also pre-gaming with some mini bar shots ... and they did not make the concert.

From what I heard half of them spent the same night on the same bathroom floor, in the other room they called 911 for one another but in the bathroom floor room they were afraid they were going to "lose their kids" for their drug use

I am not lying my sister has never spoken to me since, I think the whole experience was seminally traumatic

But not because of the marijuana. Because they were stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how to get these gummies? -not op

I'm a dummy when it comes to anything related to this. I have never tried anything like this, ever.

If you're in VA, get a medical marijuana license. I got one so that I could get gummies to assist with sleep (which they do!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how to get these gummies? -not op

I'm a dummy when it comes to anything related to this. I have never tried anything like this, ever.

If you're in VA, get a medical marijuana license. I got one so that I could get gummies to assist with sleep (which they do!).

Or just drive across the bridge to MD and go to a shop. No license needed. I take them for sleep too and they work great.

[Anonymous]

You can also check out the website Feals - they sell sleep gummies and regular gummies in 2.5mg dosages. You can subscribe for a monthly delivery. They also taste good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work in the cannabis industry on the legal side. Ask the people who work there. They will give you one thing for pain from an injury, another for arthritic pain, yet another to stimulate appetite, another for relaxation. They will also talk with you about how much/little when you're first starting out.

The people who work there are very knowledgeable- go up to someone older rather than a guy in their early 20's.

And what medical training do they have for all this?

None. It's like asking the clerk at the liquor store what you should use to get your drunk on.