Help! Always half baked, Never Baked!

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I know that the most experienced stoners are right here and I was hoping to ask for some advice.
It's kind of long but well punctuated and written (except for the occasional error lol) So please read on!
Anyways, here goes... So I'm sort of a n00b but not exactly when it comes to smoking. The first time I ever smoked, I was 15 years old. I smoked a blunt of some middies and got so so very high. It was great. After that I didn't smoke again til I was 19. I smoked for the first time again in October of 2006 it was Cali Chronic. It was only my 3rd/4th time since I was 15 (I've only technically been high 2 times at this point.) I didn't get high though. I smoked out of a pipe, something I'd never done at that point so I think I didn't do it right. Then I started smoking every weekend from mid-October to Thanksgiving. I was smoking some home grown. I had no clue what it was. At that point I wasn't smoking correctly and didn't have anyone to really teach me. I didn't know to break the weed up at that point so that it would burn smoother. So I don't know if there were seeds. But I do know that it was sort of dark green, dry, and not too smelly. I had a little more than an eighth maybe 5 G's. I got it from a friend for 20 bucks. Not too shabby. Then I bought my first metal pipe from a gas station and started smoking out of it. Problem was I wasn't getting high. For about a month, I would smoke every weekend sometimes Saturday & Sunday, sometimes either/or. At times I'd get half baked or not baked at all. I didn't want to smoke more then 2 (tiny) packed bowls at a time because I wasn't getting high and I didn't understand why. I was a newbie so middies could have gotten me extremely baked (right?), but at the same time I didn't think I was doing it right. Then Thanksgiving came and I came across more Cali Chronic. I got so so very very high again that whole holiday break. It was wonderful. I smoked out of a metal pipe so when I went back to smoking my middies I knew I WAS doing it right so I was confused as to why I wasn't getting high. I had enough weed to get me through Thanksgiving to New Year's and I was able to get really high, half baked, or not baked at all on the weekends. I smoked my last bowl the last weekend in January.
About 2/3 maybe even 4 weeks later I was able to score some bud again. This time it was Chronic I was told. It was dark and orange-y and smelled very strong and yummy. During the time I was without bud I constructed a Sobe waterfall bong. So I started using that instead of a metal pipe. I got so blown every time. I was buying an eighth and smoking it all weekend and sometimes during the week if I had any to spare. Then I'd go without of weed for a week. Then get another eighth. Then another week clean and so on and so forth. Over the month of February and March I got a bong and some pipes and started smoking out of those too. Mid-March I was unable to score again. However I had leftover Chron. So I smoked it sparingly everyday. I'd get a little tipsy too so that I wouldn't need that much weed. At this point I think I'd been smoking for every day for about 2/3 weeks. Then I found another hook-up. This young 16 year old stoner kid. (I'm 20 btw. This can't be a good set-up can it?) He told me he had "drizzle" so I assumed he had hydro. I was skeptical but I met up with him and got some anyways. It did look different then what I was previously smoking. It was lighter green, very light, no orangeness, but smelled very pungent. I thought it was probably good because of how strong it smelled. I could put it in an altoids can and still smell it at one point. The first time I smoked it I got a good buzz because I was unable to really smoke it so I was unsure if it was good or not. Example: Friday night smoked got a good buzz off one bowl. Saturday night same thing. Sunday attempt at a wake n bake. (Didn't get more then buzzed.) Then in the afternoon another bowl or 2. Didn't get high at all. I know that the first high of the day is the best and you can't get higher than that so I figured maybe because I only got buzzed during the "wake n bake" that's why I was unable to get really high that same afternoon. Is my thinking wrong?
Anyways, to try to move the story along it is becoming long (I'm a writer, I can't help it sorry!)
That Monday I smoked and got buzzed/half baked. From then on I've been smoking this so called "dank" every day til today. Sometimes getting right blown. Sometimes buzzed, half baked, or not high at all. Smoking from waterfall bongs, 10" and 17" glass bongs, and a pretty big glass spoon. I'd say I haven't smoked more than 3 bowls in fear that I won't get high anyway and I don't want to waste weed on top of it.
This Sunday I smoked half a blunt. There must have been an eighth in there. I DID NOT get more than half baked. I smoked and got a buzz on Sunday morning so I thought again maybe that's it. Put the blunt out and smoked the other half Monday. Then smoked a bowl from my spoon and a bong bowl. Did not get ripped. WTF? Yesterday, I smoked a joint. But I didn't exactly roll it I just took all the guts out of a cigg and replaced it with weed. Took out the filter, put in a roach. And put 2 more joint papers over it so it would burn really slowly. Hopefully that gives you an idea of how much weed was in there. I smoked that whole thing yesterday and could feel the head change. Could see the "I'm about to get really baked" through my eyes. Yet when I finished I didn't get higher than that "buzz" so I decided to keep smoking. Smoked a small bowl through my waterfall bong and another small bowl in my spoon. By the end of the night I did not get the high I wanted.
So my question. What the frack is going on? I just don't understand why I'm not getting high at all. Am I just one of those people who can't get high? I've been high. And I've been really really high. So I don't get it. Even when I'd smoke and not get high I'd still get the munchies, still laugh at not so funny things, and still be knocked out and sleep well after a few hours.
I'm just not understanding any of this. Please help! Maybe tomorrow I can post pictures of the weed that I'm currently smoking. The "drizzle" and then I believe I have some middies that was given to me. It has seeds, smells good (piney), sort of a dark/light color. It's mixed in with the drizzle so I'm not sure which is which anymore but there was about $40 dollars worth that was given to me.
So help! I'm a n00b and I admit it. But because of my situation my friends are all very very far from me so even though I am a pothead at heart. I am a lost pothead without direction or guidance or a teacher. I am missing out on what so many of you experienced. But I am trying to teach my self and learn so I don't have to be a newbie anymore. Any help anyone can give me is great. I'll try to post pictures or answer any more questions you have. Thank you!
I must add that another reason I think I've been unable to get really really high is I'm taking too long to smoke?
I'm always gettin interrupted so I'm never able to just smoke, smoke, smoke and be done.
Like last night. I went out about 7:15 to smoke. Walked around got home in about 20 mins. From there smoked 2/3 of a bong bowl, packed another bowl for the waterfall, and another bowl in the pipe. By 9:00ish I decided to stop because I was simply more sober than high.
Could this be a reason I'm not getting high?

 

If i where you i would post up a few pictures. Because from they way you are sounding. It sounds like you may not know the difference between good and bad. I don't exactly mean bad, just different potency levels.

Another thing is it seems like your spreading a small amount of weed over a really long period of time. I know for a fact that if i smoked 2/3 of a bowl. Then stopped, waited a little bit and smoked again. And didn't get finished until around an hour and forty five minutes. That i probably wouldn't be high, or even half baked.

If i were you i would smoke two bowls within a 15 minute period and see how that does you.

Is there a certain reason why your being stopped early? Or do you just like to take your time. Or even maybe get distracted.

(P.S. that was probably the longest post i have ever read. Regarding such a small topic. )

 

sounds like you might be "top shelfing" the hits. That means that your not inhaling it all the way. inhale the smoke so that you can taste it, then inhale as much air as you can (and I say air, not more smoke), this will pull the smoke down to your lungs. Hold in the hits until your lungs feel like they are on fire. This is how you get high. Maybe you are not holding in the hits long enough. If that is not it, maybe you got cheated and these people gave you either bad or fake weed. Just remember, inhale the smoke until you taste it, inhale a TON of air to pull it down to your lungs, and hold it down there for at least ten seconds

 

Sorry for the long long post. Like I said I'm a writer so I can get carried away easily. My friends find it funny how I can write them Emails that are essay's lol. A 20 page term paper to me is a breeze!

Thanks for the advice to the both of you. I don't think I'm inhaling wrong because I've been high off of my pipe, bong, waterfall bong, blunts before. But I will try doing what you suggested and not top shelfing hits.

I usually hold my hits in for 5-10 seconds. Before I used to hold it for 30-35 seconds.

I definitely plan on taking your advice thank you so much! I'll post pictures when I can.

Also the reason I'm getting easily interrupted is because of the neighbors. They tend to get nosey so it almost feels like I'm one of those 15 year olds living with her parents lol =(

However, yesterday I did smoke a jay in about 10/15 mins. No interruptions.

It's scenarios like these that confuse me

 

Well the next question is can you smoke at your place? And even if the neighbors are nosy what do they do? Because if it's your place they should just leave you alone. ( i hate nosy people, especially people who can't mind their own business.)

 

I can kinda smoke at my place. It really depends on how active my apartment complex is at the time.

I'm in the basement (close to the laundry machines) that's my problem. There's always people around and then there's the smell. Maybe I'm just too easily paranoid. But I've gotten alot of "It smells funny down here" which is why I think I am. I even created a spoof and bought Ozium but it doesn't seem to really really do it.

Then again I have had moments where I was able to smoke uninterrupted and smoke fast and yet I still have the same problem.

 

quality, quantity and tolerance are the popular factors of this subject,

 

bump. updated with pictures!

 

erm I really dont know man. you need to just find some stoner friends and smoke up with someone else. that way, youll be with someone who knows more, and theyll be sure to have good bud, and theyll be sure to show you if youre doing something wrong.

good luck!

 

Dude, that might be why you're not getting truly roasted, you're worried about getting caught. That's a total buzzkill dude, that could definitely contribute to your problem. Try a new spot where you have absolutley nothing to worry about, clear your head. Then blaze and watch how fucked up you are.

 

that was a LONG post.