yeah, weed is like a hit or miss type of ordeal, either people like it or they don't, there's not really an inbetween
the thing I see is, when some of my friends who don't blaze, all the sudden one day come over and tell me "yo bro, tonight were getting stoned", and i'm like okayyy sweet, here we go again... we pre-game, get a nice beer/liq buzz, then I spark up a blunt, and they'll just keep ripping it everytime it gets passed around... And you know when you don't smoke weed rarely, then do, it takes a good 15 min to feel it.. So by the time they start to feel it we've just smoked two-three blunts, by this time they're all wiggin out, asking me if my phone keeps ringing (when it isn't), i'm ready to go to the bars, they're all laid back in the couch about to pass out OR in paranoia mode OR in lets raid my freezer mode and pop an economy sized pack of fishsticks/pizza rolls/chicken fingers and ranch dippage. Leading to noone wanting to go out. Then the next day they're like "man, I shoulda just drank cus last night was a waist, we didn't do shit"...
What i'm saying is, from my experience, alot of first timers/rare users smoke wayyy too much when they do smoke. That amount of THC to the head for their first time in a long time is too much for their brain to function on it, cus when they do smoke for the first time in a long time, it's usually with people that smoke alot. And they just keep hittin the blunt that's passed around
all you need is one small hit to get a good buzz if you don't smoke and you'll be chilled. OR you can oversmoke yourself, freak out and prob not like the feeling. Leading to you = not liking weed
that's one of my theories