I'm getting to good at baking

[lxskllr]

Quick, someone give me a reason I need two of them.
And why is it again I need the metal box to keep my Snus in?

I would get 1 now, and wait a bit for the next. They come in 3 sizes. If you start with 1, you can get a different size later if you're not completely happy with the one you have.

Snus box? I'm not so much interested in that for myself. I always carry 2 or 3 snus' with me, so a metal box isn't that practical. If you're the type that travels with 1 snus, a box would make a nice, classy accoutrement.

[ddandb]

You're a genius!

Now I have an excuse to get three of them.

[Soft Morning, City!]

And even better, they go together so well.

I first tried pot when I was 14 (the day the US beat the Soviets in hocky at the 1980 Olympics. :lol:

I did a bit here and there for the next 8 years. But when I was 22, I almost killed myself after getting badly drunk one night I was too depressed to drink. That REALLY scared me. I decided that day that pot was a much safer, for me atleast, alternative. But it still wasn't for another 3 years before I made a decision when i was 25 to smoke every day. I had just learned that pot was healthy for me. It pushed down the very bad type A side of me that was really bad at making me friends. I was just a much better, far more tolerable person when I smoked.

Over the years, I have taken breaks here and there. Most often, when looking for new work. My last break a year ago finally taught me why post was so critical for me. With pot, I forget about all that happened yesterday and just focus on the here and now and the future. Without it, I get caught in regret loops that never do anything for me. But as soon as I smoke, that stops and I can see clearly what is right in front of me and what is coming down the pike. I am forever grateful for that perspective that pot gives me.

In many ways, I think I have now just learned to think that way and probably could walk away without too much regret. I love my snus. It would be a hard choice. One I never expect to have to make.

Everything you said pretty much describes my experience with pot.

Alcohol never really did much for me. I still drink on occasion, but I mostly keep it to beer and I rarely get drunk, certainly not by myself. Being drunk just makes me feel like hell and has a very negative effect on my mood. Essentially, being really drunk makes me want to die. And personally, I've never really found wishing for death to be too much fun. If beer didn't taste so good to me, I would never drink again and have no regrets about it.

Pot has a lot of advantages for me. It enables me to do my homework and personal writing/songwriting with a lot energy and precision. It stimulates my ability to absorb information. Indeed, I do most of my reading and all of my writing stoned.

It also has the nice side effect of stabilizing my mood. I suffer from pretty severe depression/anxiety and it makes living a lot easier and pleasurable. It isn't that it takes away my depression or anxiousness. It just allows me sit down, think about it, move on and enjoy myself. Depression has haunted me my entire life and pot is the only thing I've found that really works for me. Anti-depressants just numbed me and gave me horrible writing/artistic blocks and didn't really do anything for my panic attacks. I quickly gave them up and never looked back once I found pot at age fifteen.

I'm also very shy and it helps me to open up and be more social. I don't think I'd have any friends if I hadn't been stoned upon meeting them for the first time.

I really hope I never have to stop using snus. I love the two substances in tandem or on their own. But when it comes down to it, pot is more beneficial to my existence than tobacco is.

Whatever. I'm going to smoke a bowl, put in some Ettan and go read. I'll be back later on.

[sagedil]

Soft Morning, City!, we have much in common. And I too am enjoying my two favorite drugs as I type. :wink:


I drink about once a quarter. And most times I do, I am a strictly 2 drinks and I am done kind of guy. I have just learned that is my limit where any more, and I get uncomfortable. I still get drunk every other year or so. But always in very controlled, happy circumstances. I haven't been drunk for 2 years since my wife left, and don't expect to for a very long time. I didn't even touch a drop of alcohol for the first 9 months.

Lat year, in my first of three dry periods, that one cause I really needed to decide if I wanted to stay at my current job, and didn't want a possible drug test to sway my decision, I went through the darkest ever depression during these past two years. Close to suicidal in fact. Not there, but way too damn close.


My depression lifted immediately as I finally smoked again. it was literally like a hood lifted off my head. it was at that moment when I finally understood EXACTLY what pot did for me. For over a month, I had been obsessively remembering, looping back over and over every mistake I had made that had led us to where we were.

My ex and I both were involved with Roller Derby. Have been for 5+ years. And bouts were already an explosive mix of emotions for me. For one, I saw her. And she had been so involved with it, it just permeated everything I did. I had a hard, hard day that day. And almost didn't go to the after party. I had already made my decision to stay with my company, and was just waiting for money to go buy some more pot. At the after party, I had my two drinks. I learned right then that alcohol doesn't make you forget, it just makes you care a bit less. But then some folks started smoking and joined them.

And OMG, it was like magic. For the first time in over a month, I was suddenly genuinely happy. It was later that night when I finally realized that it was the pot that finally freed me from my negative feedback loops. It was the pot that brought me back and let me enjoy the moment, the people I was with right then. It was the pot that suddenly let me look hopefully again to the future when, one day, I wouldn't be lonely again.

My depression lifted that day and has never come back like that again. Even the next several times I had to quit cause I was looking for work. That understanding and experience of what pot did made me try to replicate that attitude when I didn't have it. Maybe not quite as well. But at least I had learned what not to do to trigger my depression.

[Soft Morning, City!]

Well, I got some reading done. Now it's back to the web. Still got a nice stone going and about to put in another pris of Ettan.

I've pretty much decided that passing drug tests aside, I'm never going to stop using pot. My hope is that it will someday be legal so I don't have to hassle with severe depression and mood swings just to get a job.

Good to see further proof that pot isn't the soul destroyer that the government/anti-drug lobby still says it is. Keep on keeping on, sagedil. I will do the same.

[sagedil]

:wink:

[Mr. Snuffleupagus]

You need the icetool because you need the icetool

You might be able to smoke pot with it too. Haven't tried yet.

[Soft Morning, City!]

A nifty alternate use for the Icetool is as a tamper for smoking a tobacco pipe. I've used it for this purpose many, many times.

[mercvrivs]

Back on topic;

I was a dedicated hand-baker, and a skeptic of the Icetool.

I ordered one and my opinion has now changed. Hand-baking is still very efficient, enjoyable, etc. for me; but now I use my Icetool most of the time. To find out why, check out my review in the Icetool Testimonials thread!

[Condor]

hippies....


ANYWAY...
I say go for the icetool, man. I really love my 5mL, and the 4 mL is good for not overdoing the strong varieties. It still has a good feel in your lip, as it doesnt feel as skinny as the 3mL. I would say get a 4 and just stick it out. the 3 is too small. plus its a good conversation starter, and people think you are into obscure tobacco usage, hip, and way ahead of your time.

very nifty little invention....

[deebocools]

to get back off topic, I could take either of your stories about pot and replace your name with mine and pot with alcohol and it would be just about correct .

I can effectively limit my consumption in times of need, but every time I get to drink again the weight of the world lifts off my shoulders. Sober all the time, I get crazily overwhelmed and start lashing out at people sometimes. Getting drunk, even if only once a lunar cycle, is like a reset button for me. I wake up, and despite a crushing hangover, the slate has been cleaned.

but considering prioritizing drug use, I think nicotine would be the last one I give up(I run the normal trident caffeine/nicotine/alcohol

[joshua]

1. Stretch out your mouth
2. Develop an astonishing tolerance to nicotine.
3. Just shovel snus into your mouth with a big wooden spoon.

[Eidekker]

Never say never. Tobacco is getting criminalized, while weed is going the other way. In a few years, you'll be going to the city and buying dime bags of snus... Right after you stop at the liquor store to pick up a quarter of weed :^D

So true. :lol:

[ladysnus]

Found me a good reason.

I've been getting braver with Los and was using some today outside of the confines of my house for the first time.
At work with it, nobody knew. Came time to get rid of it, went to the bathroom, swished some water around in my mouth, no problems.
Got in the car to come home and made a nice little Pris and......
Now what do I do with the juice on my hand and little crumbs of tobacco?
At home I just wash my hands.
Now I have a problem. Well, now it's my wife's problem because I wiped my hand on my pants.
Must have an Icetool.

Hmmm. If I settle for black I can have it Tuesday if I get it from Getsnus. If I want it in champagne, the color I really like, I'll have to wait 2 weeks for Northener.

Quick, someone give me a reason I need two of them.
And why is it again I need the metal box to keep my Snus in?

I'll give you a reason to buy 2. One, yesterday WASN"T SOON ENUF, so you need to order from Getsnus, so it gets here really fast. Oh man, but I really liked that other color they had on X website...cus the look and feel of STAINLESS STEEL is amazing
That is exactly what I did :wink:

The icetool is excellent, even if you want to hand bake. I use it to get out the amount I want, compress it down really well, and from there I can form it thinner and it still stays together.
So you have clean hands and sure you"ll find you don't use as much los with the icetool.
I had to have the portion can too :wink:

[ladysnus]

Obviously, women can always find a reason to justify buying two of something when it comes in so many different colors, we can NEVER make up our minds
Most of us are like Magpies, attracted to shiny objects

I wish they would make a 1 or 2ml and I would be the first to buy it.
I would love to see pics of you guys with a 5ml pris in your mouth, that seems shockingly huge :shock: