At one point, my doctor suggested I try THC. Her fairly strong advice for edibles was, "Start with 1mg - it has a decent chance of doing nothing, but could be quite noticeable, it really depends on the individual - and work your way up slowly."[1] That's kind of water under the bridge for you at this point, but it jibes pretty well with "jumping in at 20mg is kind of a lot".
Not relevant to your recent experience, but she also recommended basically any other edible over gummies - said they seem to be somewhat erratic in how quickly one absorbs THC from them, creating variability both in onset time and effectiveness of any particular dose.
[1] = Online research seemed to corraborate this, both for the obvious reason of not taking too much and having an unpleasant experience that wouldn't wear off for quite some time, and for the less-obvious reason that taking smaller doses may make one's brain more sensitive to THC while hitting one's brain repeatedly with large doses may make it less sensitive, and that doing the former is more economical - $X of edible will go further.
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Not relevant to your recent experience, but she also recommended basically any other edible over gummies - said they seem to be somewhat erratic in how quickly one absorbs THC from them, creating variability both in onset time and effectiveness of any particular dose.
[1] = Online research seemed to corraborate this, both for the obvious reason of not taking too much and having an unpleasant experience that wouldn't wear off for quite some time, and for the less-obvious reason that taking smaller doses may make one's brain more sensitive to THC while hitting one's brain repeatedly with large doses may make it less sensitive, and that doing the former is more economical - $X of edible will go further.