One hit wonder?

So, lately I've found that in order to smoke kief, I literally have to take 1 hit and wait sometimes as much as an hour before hitting the bong again.

A few days ago, before I figured that out, I'd taken about 3 or 4 hits, and within 10 minutes was freaking out in full panic attack, which lasted over a half hour or more.

Plus, I've noticed that this buzz is much more active than couch lock. The calming affect comes on later when the buzz starts wearing off. Fortunately, the second and third hits seem to be less racy and more stoney.

The strain was just some unknown mid-grade bag seed grown out 9 months ago. It dried out in the - not so well sealed - jar.
Some kind of hybrid as far as I could tell.

It's a great one hit wonder. It sucks that it can be so racy. I prefer couch lock over an active high at night. Of course the active high is great for house work and chores and stuff. I get a lot done, that is when I don't forget what I was doing and space out.

Why do some strains do that? Really speedy/racy instead of trippy/stoney? Does decarboxylizing it help take some of the edge off the buzz?

Perhaps I was trippy/racy?... speedy/stoney? I d'know? Whatever...

I remember hash from the eighties... a little black ball the size of a BB tasted like bubble gum and would get you fucked up in three hits!

Well, the basic generilzation is that sativa's smoke more racy and indicas are more stoney/couchlocky. If you look at some of the THC/CBD tests of some of the pure sativas you will notice that many of them have low ratings in both those measurements, but still can be some of the hardest hitting shit around. That's because there are 75+ more cannabinoids besides THC and CBD and because of the war that has been waged on marijuana there is little research on many of the other compounds found. Tetrahydrocannabivarin is believed to be what gives marjiuana its psychoactive properties like you experienced, but I am sure there are others interacting as well. In the age of hybrid genetics, which likely your seed was, there is always a chance you will get a phenotype that leans more heavily to its sativa side.

I wouldn't think decarbing would really do anything to change the nature of the high...I know what you mean though, I have anxiety and find that most sativas don't do anything to help that. I like a good couchlock high as well. If your kief is giving you panic attacks then I wouldn't be smoking it(yet)! Just take a single toke here and there, space them out to get a better feel how your body is reacting. Let your tolerance build up.

Trust me, the hash that is made now will put you on your ass in one single hit if it's well made BHO.

I used to like the trippy part of getting high, but not at the expense of losing my mind. So now it's one hit, then wait a while, then more if my head's not racing.

I'm gonna have to try a true indica next time. I'm also gonna try a medical variety with high CBD(?) (Too bad I don't live in Colorado where I could sample enough different buds to find the buzz that works best for me.)

Just finished up 2 Purple Dream (freebies). Letting the buds cure now. One pheno leaned more sativa. Very nice fruity almost sweet smell. While the other leaned more indica, similar fruityness with a hint of skunk. Very frosty buds on both. They looked great. The indica seemed to finish in under 50 days while the sativa finished just over 50 days. I picked them when roughly 10-20% of the trichs on the buds were amber. Got them re-growing but the indica doesn't seem to be taking well to it. Oh well, whatever. I got enough preserves to last quite some time. Hence the kief/hash.

If it was dry sift, i'm not surprised. It has much more of a kick than people think if they've never really had high grade kief.

Thc% does not the whole story tell.

Sounds like somebody been hitting that concentrate...made a rule for myself -no kief or dabs til after work. Dank only for breakfast...or I'll be a stoned out zombie all caught up in deep thought & half asleep all frikkin day. It's not couchlok it's pure potency moderation is key