new to smoking and headache

Hey all
43 y/o, started smoking hash and flower about 6 months ago. Ive smoked here and there but never kept my own stash.
Anyways, some vape pens gave me a headache so I went with flower and started adding ice water hash. Really love it.
This weekend a friend gave me a gram of white buffalo OG distillate. About 2 hours after smoking it in bowl I got a headache that turned into a full blown migraine (migraines, insomnia and ptsd are why I first started up with cannabis). I havent experienced this before and am wondering if I overdid it or if some people react to distillates this way. I smoked about half of the distillate gram with some cbd flower. Any tips?

stick w smoking flower. unless you made the distillate yourself you have no clue what they used for extraction.

I won't smoke or eat anybody's homemade anything.. Not worth it!
Stick with flower.. weed migraines really suck!!

ilovereggae said:

stick w smoking flower. unless you made the distillate yourself you have no clue what they used for extraction.

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Totally makes sense, I have two clones in their 5th week and bought some bubble bags recently.

HydoDan said:

I won't smoke or eat anybody's homemade anything.. Not worth it!
Stick with flower.. weed migraines really suck!!

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the distillate wasnt homemade, it was one of these https://cannawayz.com/brands/nug/products/distillate/538848. Yeah, it was one of the worst migraines Ive had in a long time. Glad Im on the right path growing and extracting my own. Or at least hoping to.

Vyadha said:

Hey all
43 y/o, started smoking hash and flower about 6 months ago. Ive smoked here and there but never kept my own stash.
Anyways, some vape pens gave me a headache so I went with flower and started adding ice water hash. Really love it.
This weekend a friend gave me a gram of white buffalo OG distillate. About 2 hours after smoking it in bowl I got a headache that turned into a full blown migraine (migraines, insomnia and ptsd are why I first started up with cannabis). I havent experienced this before and am wondering if I overdid it or if some people react to distillates this way. I smoked about half of the distillate gram with some cbd flower. Any tips?

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Play around with some strains. You will go through quite a lot of them until you find a few that work perfect for your specific ailments. I always find sativas and almost all hybrids will give me and some buddies of mine headaches that lead to a full blown migraine when smoked to much. We call this the head high and I DO NOT like it at all. Not enjoyable and feels like I am giving myself a headache so I know exactly what you are talking about. Most sativas will do this feeing but not all. Same with hybrids. Gotta play around with the sativas and hybrids to find a few strains for daytime smoking so you don’t have to smoke indicas all day. All my wife and I smoke is 90% indicas all day long as we need the strength. I haven’t found many indicas that give that headache feeling. As they are more body highs than head highs, that’s why I say be careful with the hybrids. Some hybrids will make your head pull back and forth from sativa to indica feeling (hard to describe unless you know) so do what I do, keep a little log book of the strains you try and like and write down beside them if they are good for day, or night, or not at all. This will also help you when people cross breed strains to know if it will be one you will like as it might be crossed with 2 head high strains you didn’t like. We have smoked over hundreds of strains and mostly stick to pure indicas or indica dominant hybrids seem to not have the head high feeling. Don’t give up on the cannabis, just need to find the proper strains !! Also I have had a few friends smoke flower and get super paranoid , then I showed him concentrates and he never got paranoid once on concentrates. So just shows you that it is different for everyone and the way you smoke and It’s form has a factor also. Some strains I absolutely LOVE he doesn’t like at all, so keep trying!! Good luck! Keep a book of strains and keep track of your likes and dislikes. Should help you narrow it down quicker.