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I track my cannabis consumption. Every time I buy I record the weight, price, date, and strain info. My daily consumption in grams per day averages out to 1.5g. Yet there are days when I'm consuming 3+ grams, and if you look at my spreadsheet you can see that more often then not those heavy days fall in a row. I'm not having days where I intake more THC, I'm having days where I consume more cannabis than normal from an inferior batch that has a property like low THC, poor growth, or incomplete curing.

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In the 90s as a teen the height of my pothead days I was consuming an ounce a day, that's 28g. I smoked joints like a pack-a-day tobacco user.

Now, I consume at most 1-1.5g a day. And that's a high all day kind of day for me.

I'd say my tolerance is down because I don't consume regularly or nearly as much but the main difference is in the 90s I only had access to mexican brick (low THC) and now I wouldn't touch that stuff if you paid me. Oddly, I do miss the act of just having a long smoking session but there's no way at current potency I can even justify rolling a joint when 2-3 hits sit me down. So there's definitely some substance to the potency being a self regulator.

For a time, I grew hydroponically and if anything is making people sick, my bet or first inclination would be to see if it's the nutrients not being properly flushed before harvest. I'm not sure if there are any regs on that stuff yet?

virtually no teenagers or college students do any of this.

I'm in agreement that marijuana use is self limiting.

I'm not arguing that people need or should monitor their use like mine; my monitoring is for budgeting reasons anyways not managing my use.

Sure an inexperienced user can experience a distressing reaction when consuming something too potent, but the original article is about daily users.

We were fairly aware of our usage and strain potency back in University in 2007. But this just might be what happens when you get a bunch of stoner biology, engineering, and tech students all living together.

Great. Are you an outlier or a typical user?

Good question.

I'd also like to ask GP whether they think 1.5-3g a day is a low, moderate, or high quantity in a day, in their opinion.

Not the GP but in my experience that is moderate for a habitual user (i.e. "occasional" users do not fall on this scale). Averaging an eighth of an ounce of flower or a gram of concentrate every day would be considered high usage and anything over a quarter ounce flower or two grams concentrate a day would be extreme (at that point you're getting more than a gram of the psychoactives a day, let alone all the other cannabinoids).

As a heavy stoner in the midst of a quit, I'm very surprised by the numbers you gave. I would characterize 1.5-3g as "heavy smoker", 1/8 oz/day as extremely heavy smoker, and 1/4 oz/day as unbelievable.

To put it in monetary terms (error +/-50%) this is about $20/$40/$80 / day, respectfully.

I don't intend to change your opinion on this, just sharing my perspective.

I think you're just out of your league ;)

I'm also surprised you think 1/4 oz a day is unbelievable. A smoker with a 2 pack a day habit can easily smoke through a 1/4 oz by just replacing half a 0.5g cigarette with cannabis (40 cigs x 0.5 gram => 10g cannabis + 10g tobacco). When I was using concentrates heavily and pressing my own rosin, I was easily using up to an ounce of flower on my worst days (with 15-25% yields by mass).

It's definitely a very fuzzy and subjective scale. Personal experience plays a big part and I suspect heavy smokers anchor around their most common daily average - I suspect you smoked 1.5-3g a day?

I smoked more than 3g a day, thats why I’m making these comments.

I don’t really appreciate the outta my league comment, but I’ll take it as a joke. I just am surprised to see these numbers normalized in a discussion. I think we’re just using different definitions. All good,

I definitely think I'm smoking more than most people but I don't think I'm that extreme. Maybe 80th percentile, not 99th.

It can vary pretty wildly. I've dialed back my consumption to an ounce of ~19% THC strains per two months for financial reasons. Which falls in line with some of my peer group (mid to late 30's friends). But I also live in a state where its still illegal recreationally so I don't have a shop around the corner yet. Meanwhile my friend in the same state with a medical card has a habit of grabbing their largest bong and pounding out 1 gram bowls sometimes consuming an ounce a week of 20-25% strains. Even if I had the money and access I doubt I could pull that off.

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