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Yeah, but you were still drunk. You would get physically about as impaired as the regular person. Not equally as, because there's certain parts you get accustomed to. But more or less.
The lethal dose would be roughly the same. You would be able to drink more, and stay conscious longer despite the impairment, but you would be impaired.
I'm Finnish and from a small town and I definitely know alcoholics. My third cousins and their father have an insane "tolerance" to alcohol, insofar that they can get incredibly drunk. They don't have a tolerance in the sense that they consume several times more potent alcohol several times more than me at a faster rate without being as impaired.
I believe this is true for most people, but I would know. I know I'm tooting my own horn on an pseudonymous forum, but having driven a taxi in Finland for years and being pretty perceptive in general, I would know. But I do believe you that most wouldn't know. However, you would have an impaired reaction time, you'd have an impaired balance, etc etc.
With weed, there's a huge difference, and people who have bad experiences generally just had a very strong experience, because someone who's a regular smoker gave them a hit, and since monkey see monkey do, they took roughly a similar hit, thinking "one can't hurt, he's taken several", and then ended up being silly high and feeling even feeling nauseous (a lot of the people in my generation tried weed first time when drunk, which is an even worse idea, as alcohol in your blood actually makes you more high, affecting how liver handles cannabinoids, albeit very lightly).
So yeah I am generalising, alcohol does have a tolerance, but compared to weed, it's really non-existent. I can smoke a huge bowl and I won't even get puffy red eyes. If some of my non-smoker friends are even in the same room, they get lazy for the rest of the evening, and if they take a hit, I won't let them take a large one. With alcohol, no matter how experienced you are, people still drink fairly similarly sized drinks of roughly the same strength. You don't see people chugging four bottles of whisky glass after glass in a party of a few hours and then walk out of there, you know?
I think we have different definitions of tolerance. I enjoy the insight into your Finnish life. I'm US. My grandparents hosted a Finn on foreign exchange while my mom was in university. Even as a child I remember they would exchange letters and talk about her.
I don't want to argue, I just want to say that weed and alcohol is a wonderful combination. It's just too bad people decide to try it while drunk. Recipe for a bad night.
Yeah if one is trying weed for the first time, they really should smoke first and then start drinking. But a lot of people only worked up courage through drinking all night, then take a massive hit from some super strong strain. Not good.
Yeah I mean I agree with you, there is tolerance, obviously, but I'm trying to show the difference in tolerance in relation to cannabis. The scale is just so wildly different that in terms of the type of tolerance you can build with cannabis, that type of tolerance does not exist for alcohol. Is what I was saying.
I think I finally understand, this takes some time for me sometimes. I got lit up by what seems like you had no understanding of alcohol tolerance by saying it's all dose vs body weight. Since alcohol tolerance was a big part of my life I weighed in as expert counsel.
I'm quite skilled at evading mandatory drug tests if you'd like any tips should you need work here.