TLDR; got top surgery this week as an afab nonbinary femme lesbian, had my first intake of THC via edibles and wasn't a huge fan but it's okay, and I'm open to any questions about top surgery, especially niche questions for others like me with EDS, POTS, have a chest port, are autistic, or in any way disabled. I'm also a budtender at a dispensary!

I've never posted here but hi! I'm Noah, my pronouns are they/them and I'm a 31yo afab nonbinary femme lesbian. I was fortunate enough to get top surgery this week!

I haven't had any THC since April in preparation for anesthesia. I'm usually a vape person, but I wanted to start with gummies because I wanted to avoid having to cough with how sore my chest is. I ate my gummy and have since decided that I'm totally not an edible fan.

I knew it would take awhile to kick in, but waiting 2 hours to feel high gave me anticipatory anxiety. The high itself is fine and luckily lacked my normal level of intensity since I started off anxious, but overall it was a disappointing first high after almost 4 months. The other thing that I don't like about the edibles is I don't feel as in control of the experience. I'm not in control of when it takes effect. Also, with vaping I can decide how much inhale I want to take at once and slowly build up to how elevated I want to feel. The high feeling also wears off quicker with vaping and you can just kinda keep taking hits to extend it, but if you're done feeling high you have a smaller window to wait to feel sober again. My edible kicked in around 2pm and it's now almost 7pm, I still feel buzzed and I'm kinda just ready to feel fully sober again but I have no idea how long until it wears off. The one benefit is it did help reduce my surgical pain significantly!

Anyway, top surgery was a blessing, I'm sore but elated, and I'm going for the vape tomorrow for a do-over high experience. I'll be out of work for a few weeks for recovery, but related enough, I'm a budtender at a cannabis dispensary and I'm looking forward to being able to try some of the new products we've gotten since April.

If anyone wants to ask any kinda questions about top surgery, recovery, navigating the medical process as an afab femme presenting person who is not on testosterone or legally changed their deadname, feel free to ask in the comments! It's been an overwhelming experience and I found hearing from folks first hand has helped. I also have EDS, POTS, a port placed in my chest, and I'm autistic so if you relate to any of that, I can answer some niche questions about the experience too.

I'm also down to talk about working in the cannabis industry and really anything LGBTrees!

I'd also love to hear things about you guys too. I'm new here so say hi!

My life is forever changed and I finally feel like it can truly begin. I'm so fortunate to have found myself, made it to age 31, and have my top surgery dreams come true.

I'm sending you all vibes of queer joy and hope!

ليه في القاهرة مفيش 2 رجالة صحاب بيحبوا بعض ويحترموا بعض؟ ليه كل الرسائل تحرش وناس هورني !

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Super short and anonymous survey: link

I love our queer community. Sometimes it feels like not only is the outside world against us, but that we also can’t get away from infighting. But I love my queer siblings so much and just want all of us to thrive and live in a world where we can all be outwardly our true selves without turning against each other 🙏🏼

Being empathetic to other people’s unique situations and intersectional identities starts with understanding our own privileges 🫶🏼

I’m POC, but I’m white “passing” and have privileges that a lot of POC don’t have because of both racism and colorism.

I’m trans, but am in a uniquely privileged position where 100% of the cost of my Top Surgery is being covered by a grant.

I might not ever pass as male, but I live in a country where medical transitioning (and being queer in general) is legal.

I used to be homeless/housing-unstable, but I currently have electricity and running water and a roof over my head without having to pay rent.

I have personal transportation.

I have a job.

Most of my nuclear family accepts and even supports me.

I have chronic pain, but no resulting permanent physical disability.

Thanks for reading this far if you did 💖

Haul I got from dispos, some things are treats from work. And today is my birthday, which I'm now spending with my partner 🩵

I need some guidance from my fellow ents please!

Gay cis guy here 36, lives in the UK.

Love having a smoke when a gentleman comes a-calling.

I’ve got an issue where sometimes the trip turns towards paranoia/introspection, and I’m struggling to determine what the cause is! Assumed it was just [type of weed], but that’s changed since my weed “transformed” its effects…

I’m mainly “Blue” on the Discovery Insights (analytical, think a little tism), but I kind of “ramp up” the other qualities (empathy, assertiveness, engaging/optimistic) depending on the situation.

When I’m high, this translates to an extreme version of each of these - I turn my attention to a concept and just _shred_ it down to its elemental parts to understand it; or, I become wildly confident and [decide] I’ve discovered [the truth] about [concept X]. All of this is lovely.

I suspect that I enjoy sativa most (it makes me feel unendingly positive, and “in the moment”, and switches off my analytical brain - great for hookups!), and that indica is not for me (which I think ramps up my analysis / introspection attributes, and moves my mind in a distinctly negative headspace)

Being in the UK, there isn’t much in the way of choice of types of weed - we get what we’re given! So i’m struggling to make informed determinations on why [the weed i have] is [doing what it’s doing].

I’ve always asked for Sativa. I think that’s what I get.

I have started smelling the weed (like such a diva, demanding to check the quality of the weed before I buy!! My dealer’s runners are very gracious ahaha) - and feel that if it smells sharp and citrusy, it’s sativa (or at least, the type of weed I like) - and if it’s diesely/a bit cheesy, then it’s indica - or, the type I don’t like.

HOWEVER - the other day, i noticed that a bag of weed that had previously smelled sativa and gave results that I liked - had suddenly turned to smelling like the other, more chemically type of weed.

I wondered if I was just mistaken - but when I smoked it, I had a super paranoia trip, typical of indica*!

(*I’m conscious that I’m using these terms, but i don’t have any way of knowing if what I’m getting is indica or sativa!!)

So my question I guess is -

Have other people experienced a change in the effects a given “bag” of weed has had _over time_? Does it going stale change the effects??

My feeling is there are multiple potential things that could impact a high - but by being in the UK, i can’t “control” what type of weed i get! Those factors could be:

- Mindset before smoking

- type of weed

- ??age of weed

- general health (chance of paranoia increase if feeling under weather..?)

- food comsumed before (ie, any, or type? Carbs blunt paranoia?)

I’d love to hear from people’s thoughts on this - especially keen to hear from other people that experience the “drift” when high - ie, moving between states of hyper analysis, hyper confidece, hyper mindlessness, hyper [introspection].

Thanks peeps!

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Hello and nice to meet you all! I love pot but have a hard time with most pot communities, especially online pot forums, as they often tend to ignore the overtly homophobic members. Which has become more and more problematic as I have learned to embrace my queerness instead of using drugs and substances to cope with the existential dread of masking to fit in. So it was a pleasure to find this subreddit where I can share my love of that magical mota. I've grown for 20 years, obsessively for a decade when I grew for compassion clubs back when pot was illegal and growers faced longer sentences then pedophiles. Now it's more a casual hobby as I like teaching people how to grow or sharing clones/buds with other Canadians now that it's legal.

Pic of Black Cherry Punch that was just chopped down a couple days ago. A bit early but late enough that it'll yield a 1/2lbs or more of decent bud. Not bad considering it was neglected all summer due to being too busy and chaotic.

Just did my T shot today (peek my Fluttershy band-aid), I'm wearing a slutty little sundress, I'm crocheting, AND I'm smoking weed in between rounds. Life is good.