So as I've made quite clear in the past, depressants just aren't for me. Like alcohol for example, it doesn't even feel good... It just leaves me tired and exhausted after 20 or so minutes of word slurring and body heat. So I did not walk into smoking weed with high expectations... And even the first times, they did indeed underwhelm me. It can be kind of hard to grasp the full scope of what this stuff can do at first, especially when the person giving me the weed smoked strictly indica strains. My first time was also a 99.9% THC dab, so it took me by surprise because I was ignorant of how powerful a dab even was. I was to be pleasantly surprised when I did get my hands on my first sativa strain.
Sativa actually did invoke some very cool thoughts that I put in writing and still thought were cool after I wasn't high. It also stimulates wanderlust that made me walk around outdoors. I saw that the outdoors environment really enhanced the weed, which I would learn later on was so true. I did have some "trip outs" from hybrid dabs because the combo of the body load and mind high made me convinced I was suffocating, but I haven't had anything like that lately.
Now, at the time I only smoked a few times a month but the whole game has changed since I found myself in a far more weed friendly environment and have been given a lot more of it in various strains. I find it can be very hit or miss and vary wildly strain to strain. The best stuff I've had is named white widow. I don't like being sedated but I like the way it can sometimes connect the two sides of my brain in a sublime way, and make me experience shit like synthesisia. Certain weed strains are definitely somewhat of a mental psychedelic.
Due to the variation in quality of the high I cannot give too high of a rating but it's at least a 7/10
PS- 1g of chocolate bar shrooms knocked weed out the park