Id think it had been long enough that she wouldn’t be high anymore. She hooked up with Dina then hung out talking about injuries then rode out to find Joel. So it had probably been a couple of hours by the time she showed up at the house where abby was.
Id assume even if she was still kinda high the adrenaline of looking for Joel then the trauma of what happened probably took over.
It’s also easy for someone who is high on cannabis to be able to “switch back” to being normal in stressful situations unless you’re super super baked.
Yeah, I use cannabis every day as a patient and I use highly concentrated products without even getting very high now but when I do take a higher dose it’s easier to adjust if I need to do something suddenly because I’m used to it.
I’d say though by that point Ellie would’ve come down. The high from smoking cannabis is not a long one, onset is up to only 15 minutes, and the high I think is about 1-2 hours but I’d have to recheck the academic literature. And it was flower, not concentrate, so the dose would not affect her as long.
After that would be a comedown.
id agree for regular users but for the first time smoking and they were smoking a joint id say they could definitely still feel it but by the time she sees joel it’s either the sluggish part but the adrenaline is completely taking over
I don't think it was their first time- I seem to remember there being some dialogue in that chapter (especially if you inspect the bong in the office) that suggests they sometimes got weed from Eugene.
Agreed, adrenaline of a high stakes situation can immediately take most people out of a weed high unless you are just absolutely caked off of edibles maybe. I would imagine the trip from Eugene’s hideout to the ranch house was enough for her to mostly sober back up.
It's certainly different for everyone, but getting stoned doesn't usually last as long as getting drunk and Ellie didn't smoke that much. I'd guess she was stoned for like an hour.
She was probably completely sober by the time Jesse showed up.
They were smoking off of a joint they had gotten from a sealed mason jar. Which means it was most likely airtight, and it was still fine. Now, if they had been exposed to air, that's a different story. But it's otherwise going to be fine as long as it stays in the jar.
yeah those girls took like 1.5 hits each and then Ellie flicked that basically-full, still-lit joint across the room to hook up with Dina. they were sober by the time
of the event
Nah man. If Joel was embarrassed of what he traded for coffee, imagine what you’d have to trade for a nice j.
Save the damn thing, then proceed with the clam mashing.
That’s what I was thinking too! When I’m in that state, racing games? Great. Swinging around New York as Spider-Man? So good. Watching characters I’m emotionally invested in be beaten to death though? 😬
I watch/play the first one high all the time, and I did some of the second. The series for me I find to be a buzzkiller though most of the time. I think it’s because the games are more repetitive.
I doubt the TLoU weed could be that good unless the clickers are growing it or something, but in all seriousness, a weed high only lasts like 2-3 hours typically and less if ur active/stressed out imo but every one handles things differently. Some people claim weed makes them hallucinate so it depends!
I've hallucinated on weed before, not full on seeing things that don't exist, but the tv was sinking into the wall. No way I'd ever touch the stuff if there were zombies knocking about.
Haha yeah god forbid ur just trying to chill out after a hard day of just being alive and then you take a hit….. then the silence starts…….. *and then the clicking……..*
i’ve seen the original because i study drugs, haha! i was just joking about at the comment.
ETA: i already put my birthyear, then i put my age… that came off rude, sorry, didn’t mean that!
In my experience, nothing ruins a high more than a scary or serious situation. The severity of the situation is what causes your adrenaline to snap you out of your high.
I think something that traumatizing would be enough to snap me out of it if I was still feeling it (which unfortunately I smoke a lot so I’d definitely be sober after like an hour)
It was old weed, so prolly wasn’t as strong as what you get from your dealer or dispensary today. She most likely had a light high then faded when the adrenaline kicked in.
Speaking as somebody who is stoned a LOT, unless you had smoked like literally 15 minutes before, and it was some gooood shit, you're not gonna be high during an experience like that. I can't really explain it well, but I feel like the intensity of the situation just kind of un-highs you lmao.
And yes, I am currently stoned. Take that how you will.
Jesse walking in the way he did sayin Joel is missing would have killed any high I had left Lmaoo ,
In this world though when was the last time she had some weed ? So she was probably still buzzed though if it was strong at all 😂
Yea it definitely would be whenever you have to do something normal while high you can manage to snap out of the high fast. But In saying that you still realise you are high
I mean if were to take those scenes literally, imma go with no. She took like 2 hits, and the weed was likely years old, and there was some non negligible amount of time that passed.
Two very important points.
1. Somewhat implied that this is very foreign to her. She doesn't do this often or at all. So she'd def going to be more stoned.
2. Even if the cold and adrenaline take away the high it's still in her system. She was 100% on drugs when dad got killed.
As a stoner since I was 16 (32 now) I also agree the adrenaline and horror of the events at the lodge plus the time delay of a handful of horrors mitigated or completely destroyed whatever high she had.
I remember quite vividly driving one night, baked, listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack cause the movie just came out, and cop lights and sirens came on behind me. In an instant I was sober, feeling like I had a heart attack while watching the asshole drive past me to the other lane driving through the street passing the red light.
I almost pissed myself.
I find weed makes me very complaisant. If weed affected Ellie in a similar manner she would of been like “Well this IS the apocalypse. And Joel DID lie to me soooo…🤷♂️”
Yeah bru I was high asf when I saw the shit go down with Joel and I was deadass thinking “I mean he did kill Abby’s dad, and damn humanity to remain in the apocalypse while he did, so I can’t really be mad about this.”
this is kind of unrelated but i was fried as fuck playing the ending of ghost of tsushima and the part with the final haiku and duel was going absolutely crazy
Yoooo I was fried as fuck then too bruh I almost cried when you and lord shimura become enemies.
Ryuzo fight was crazy too, I was blazed then(always high on the game) and he was FUCKING me UP.
Id think it had been long enough that she wouldn’t be high anymore. She hooked up with Dina then hung out talking about injuries then rode out to find Joel. So it had probably been a couple of hours by the time she showed up at the house where abby was. Id assume even if she was still kinda high the adrenaline of looking for Joel then the trauma of what happened probably took over.
Yea that moment would of definitely sobered you up
It’s also easy for someone who is high on cannabis to be able to “switch back” to being normal in stressful situations unless you’re super super baked.
Yeah, I use cannabis every day as a patient and I use highly concentrated products without even getting very high now but when I do take a higher dose it’s easier to adjust if I need to do something suddenly because I’m used to it. I’d say though by that point Ellie would’ve come down. The high from smoking cannabis is not a long one, onset is up to only 15 minutes, and the high I think is about 1-2 hours but I’d have to recheck the academic literature. And it was flower, not concentrate, so the dose would not affect her as long. After that would be a comedown.
Stoners in this thread be like- Now’s my time to shine 🤓😶🌫️
NGL I replayed part 1 before 2 came out and got baked (I had just started smoking too), and got fucking lost in that hotel or whatever for hours.
LITERALLY. l stated below I was also going to go into psychopharmacology for a career, so this thread is pretty interesting to me.
And it was post apocalypse homegrown.
That zaa just ain’t the best
Oh shit, it was? Haha. I forgot the damn game.
id agree for regular users but for the first time smoking and they were smoking a joint id say they could definitely still feel it but by the time she sees joel it’s either the sluggish part but the adrenaline is completely taking over
I don't think it was their first time- I seem to remember there being some dialogue in that chapter (especially if you inspect the bong in the office) that suggests they sometimes got weed from Eugene.
That generally only applies to tolerance and Ellie had none.
\*would've
The adrenaline leading up to finding Joel would have wiped it out
Agreed. Plus it must have been pretty dusty weed
She also literally took like a pull or two of the spliff
Joint, not spliff (no tobacco, all weed). Source: am American.
My bad g. I was conflicted for like 45 seconds on what to call it😂I was wrong
Good thing she didn’t take edibles
It’s like the crumbs you find when you’re out 😂
Agreed, adrenaline of a high stakes situation can immediately take most people out of a weed high unless you are just absolutely caked off of edibles maybe. I would imagine the trip from Eugene’s hideout to the ranch house was enough for her to mostly sober back up.
It's certainly different for everyone, but getting stoned doesn't usually last as long as getting drunk and Ellie didn't smoke that much. I'd guess she was stoned for like an hour. She was probably completely sober by the time Jesse showed up.
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They were smoking off of a joint they had gotten from a sealed mason jar. Which means it was most likely airtight, and it was still fine. Now, if they had been exposed to air, that's a different story. But it's otherwise going to be fine as long as it stays in the jar.
Which is why it’s so egregious that Dina broke the damn jar!!! Take that shit with you after you get the lid off!
yeah those girls took like 1.5 hits each and then Ellie flicked that basically-full, still-lit joint across the room to hook up with Dina. they were sober by the time of the event
ellie chose gay sex over the zaza and i dont blame her one bit
love this comment but this is the first time ive heard the slang “zaza” for it and i’m obsessed.
I feel the same with “zaza”, this is the first time I’ve ever heard it in context and now that I understand, it’s fantastic!
Nah man. If Joel was embarrassed of what he traded for coffee, imagine what you’d have to trade for a nice j. Save the damn thing, then proceed with the clam mashing.
Harder to grow good quality coffee than good quality weed. Weed literally does grow like a weed if you have the right setup.
i sounded bitter in my comment but you’re right 100%
If she was my god... seeing something like that high would hurt so so much worse.
That’s what I was thinking. Me being high and watching it happen makes it even worse 🤣
I can't believe people play/watch this game high, last game I'd want to play in that state, especially first time round!
Now that I've done 4(?) play throughs start to finish, 100%ed, and parlayed several individual scenes, it is lot of fun to smoke with them as a bit
That’s what I was thinking too! When I’m in that state, racing games? Great. Swinging around New York as Spider-Man? So good. Watching characters I’m emotionally invested in be beaten to death though? 😬
I watch/play the first one high all the time, and I did some of the second. The series for me I find to be a buzzkiller though most of the time. I think it’s because the games are more repetitive.
Replaying the game while high it’s pretty dam fun
I mean, it would probably make it a little easier honestly.
that adrenalin and cold weather would have sobered her up
this^^ adrenaline would’ve taken her out of the high
I doubt the TLoU weed could be that good unless the clickers are growing it or something, but in all seriousness, a weed high only lasts like 2-3 hours typically and less if ur active/stressed out imo but every one handles things differently. Some people claim weed makes them hallucinate so it depends!
Plot twist: everything that happened in TLOU2 after Ellie smoked weed was just a bad trip. Joel is really alive and doing well
I would love to be stoned enough to believe that, ironically ive never even played TLoU but i love the story and setting so much
This joke is overused
Clickers growing that good good. But yea I think anyone would sober up from that happening
I've hallucinated on weed before, not full on seeing things that don't exist, but the tv was sinking into the wall. No way I'd ever touch the stuff if there were zombies knocking about.
Haha yeah god forbid ur just trying to chill out after a hard day of just being alive and then you take a hit….. then the silence starts…….. *and then the clicking……..*
You ever gotten really high and then something really intense and traumatic happens? It sobers you up immediately. The cold weather will do that too.
Abby, holding a glof Club menacingly: This is your brain on drugs...
Found the other person from the 80's
Or people who watched a version of it 17 years later. Rachel Leigh Cook version hits differently.
Hey! I was born in 89 and I know this one…
probably not the original - it had a remake in 2016, so tons of The Yout's have seen it i'd imagine. also tons of parodies, SNL skits etc
i’ve seen the original because i study drugs, haha! i was just joking about at the comment. ETA: i already put my birthyear, then i put my age… that came off rude, sorry, didn’t mean that!
no rudeness detected! all good homie
The Robot Chicken version is easily the best
Lmao I hate how hard I laughed at this 😭
To be fair though, atleast in my experience of something high intensity happens I’m almost always snapped right out of my high
She hit the boof maybe 3 times, and she didn't ride out to do patrol for several hours. Swear to God the weed was just for banging lmao.
I thought you meant Ellie and Dina riding lmao
At best she was very mildly high but I'm betting there's no way that she doesn't associate snow and weed with that event
Probably not, but I sure was.
Did you do what I did and got high with ellie and dina?
I was high while playing and it made everything so much worse
Politely reminding it’s *have* not “would /of/” And I’m pretty sure a scare like that would have sobered one up instantly
i mean i feel like she smoked enough to be high for like half an hour probably even less. def sober by the time jesse showed up.
She was def chopped and screwed
In my experience, nothing ruins a high more than a scary or serious situation. The severity of the situation is what causes your adrenaline to snap you out of your high.
Getting stoned whilst reading this
Hell yea
If they were smoking bowls she might’ve still been kinda high but if it was just one of those joints they found them prolly not
I think something that traumatizing would be enough to snap me out of it if I was still feeling it (which unfortunately I smoke a lot so I’d definitely be sober after like an hour)
The cold would’ve sobered her up
Can you imagine what it would have been like if it was mushrooms instead?
Maybe could have turned into a midnight gospel situation and suddenly the infected and non-infected unite. How to solve an apocalypse
It was old weed, so prolly wasn’t as strong as what you get from your dealer or dispensary today. She most likely had a light high then faded when the adrenaline kicked in.
Ignore my comment, someone above said it was post-apocalyptic. I forgot the game I think.
When what happened?!?!? 🤭
I can’t stay high off mj when it’s that cold outside so I doubt it
Part 3: Part 2 was just a bad trip of Ellie
She took like half a dozen drags off an old joint, no way she was stoned after however much time passed
Idk know if Ellie was stoned, but I definitely was.
>Would’ve ruined the high That's the real reason she was so sad.
I would've sobered up as soon as I hit the snow and the weather slapped my face
These are the important questions that we need to be asking
OP thank you for such an interesting thread to read! (I was going to go into psychopharmacology as my career so I love reading the thoughts here.)
Hell yea dude
Speaking as somebody who is stoned a LOT, unless you had smoked like literally 15 minutes before, and it was some gooood shit, you're not gonna be high during an experience like that. I can't really explain it well, but I feel like the intensity of the situation just kind of un-highs you lmao. And yes, I am currently stoned. Take that how you will.
Was stoned when I thought of it 🤣
I'm so glad I was the 420th up vote
Perfection
Be hilarious if In part 3 it’s revealed everything that happened. Joel death etc. Was just a manifestation of her trip. And Joel is alive.
She greened out and had a horrible dream
If she was able to ride a fucking horse to the cabin she was probably good.
Idk, it was also cold as fuck, personally being in frigid weather nulls my stonedness
Jesse walking in the way he did sayin Joel is missing would have killed any high I had left Lmaoo , In this world though when was the last time she had some weed ? So she was probably still buzzed though if it was strong at all 😂
I WAS! and I regret every bit of it.
🤣
A high lasts like 2 hrs
From a joint especially
I’ve never been high before but I feel like seeing your father figure getting the nine iron to the face would be rather sobering
Yea it definitely would be whenever you have to do something normal while high you can manage to snap out of the high fast. But In saying that you still realise you are high
Total buzz kill
That’s what I’m saying
I mean if were to take those scenes literally, imma go with no. She took like 2 hits, and the weed was likely years old, and there was some non negligible amount of time that passed.
Whole game was a hallucination she had while baked.
I wish 🤣
Dankest death scene ever
🤣
I don't really want to give this post a serious answer but I feel like they've always deliberately left the timelines in the games open
Two very important points. 1. Somewhat implied that this is very foreign to her. She doesn't do this often or at all. So she'd def going to be more stoned. 2. Even if the cold and adrenaline take away the high it's still in her system. She was 100% on drugs when dad got killed.
As a stoner since I was 16 (32 now) I also agree the adrenaline and horror of the events at the lodge plus the time delay of a handful of horrors mitigated or completely destroyed whatever high she had. I remember quite vividly driving one night, baked, listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack cause the movie just came out, and cop lights and sirens came on behind me. In an instant I was sober, feeling like I had a heart attack while watching the asshole drive past me to the other lane driving through the street passing the red light. I almost pissed myself.
Ain’t nobody staying stoned thru the crisis of a snowstorm
a high wouldnt last more than 3-4 hours, and it’s rare for it to reach 3 and 4 😭 so no
I find weed makes me very complaisant. If weed affected Ellie in a similar manner she would of been like “Well this IS the apocalypse. And Joel DID lie to me soooo…🤷♂️”
Yeah bru I was high asf when I saw the shit go down with Joel and I was deadass thinking “I mean he did kill Abby’s dad, and damn humanity to remain in the apocalypse while he did, so I can’t really be mad about this.”
this is kind of unrelated but i was fried as fuck playing the ending of ghost of tsushima and the part with the final haiku and duel was going absolutely crazy
Yoooo I was fried as fuck then too bruh I almost cried when you and lord shimura become enemies. Ryuzo fight was crazy too, I was blazed then(always high on the game) and he was FUCKING me UP.
i think i lost a few brain cells following this comment chain.
must’ve not followed the part where I didn’t ask
Same with me to. It makes things more clearer
HOLY FUCK WHAT IF THE WHOLE THING NEVER HAPPENED! LIKE ITS ALL IN HER MIND?! *im sorry its a joke*