I have smoked since I was 14 (I am Hindu), and I lived in Colorado for 6 years until recently. So I can help.

You can smoke alone or with friends. Usually it is better to try it with someone who smokes regularly so they can calm you down if you freak out. There is a recording of a police officer who's wife bought some Bud and they made some brownies, and they thought they were dying so they called 911. And they told them everything. The point is, basically, you might want someone there to let you know that you are just high, because you might think that something else is happening.

Second, brownies, cookies, candy, etc. can actually be stronger than smoking. If you just eat half a brownie, or 1 brownie you would probably get a regular, maybe more physical, stoned feeling. But if you ate 2 or 3, you would definitely be giggling the whole time your first time. That might even happen with just 1 brownie depending on the dose.

And the best way to explain the feeling in terms of overall effect, is like going underwater. For example, if I smoke every day, multiple times a day, for a week, the difference between the feeling I have when I wake up from the feeling I have when I smoke is not that different, the high feeling is just more pleasant. But if I don't smoke for 2 Weeks or a Month and then I smoke, it feels like going underwater. It's like a whole body sensation and opening of your mind, and it's not exactly like going underwater, but that is the closest I can get to describing it.

Also, the Hindu God Shiva is this sensation. Shiva is Dance, Shiva is Meditation, Shiva is Marijuana.