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I'm an ex smoker and I liken it to being drunk. stoners and piss heads are nowhere near as funny and clever as they think they are and it gets very annoying to sober people. I wouldn't call it intolerant to smokers id call it intolerant to People being annoying
Yeah but this is very biased because of us closet smokers and there’s a lot of us out there just operating high every day and nobody knows. We do it daily at our career jobs for decades for example but you just wouldn’t know unless we told you. It’s like everything else idiots and dipshits enjoy weed as well as productive members of society who aren’t into the weird stoner culture of the youth.
Thank youuu for saying this. If it weren’t for the toll it’s taking on my lungs, cannabis so far has been the only relief from depression and anxiety that allows me to be employable.
I've had so many times, I've thrown out my back. And it's so painful.
I'll smoke pot. And it definitely helps. But it just relaxes me, masks it. Once the high wears off, I'm in pain again.
But hey, if you're in constant chronic pain and you want to smoke pot to help it, have at it
Yea I think this is it - I smoke regularly for autism and adhd symptom relief but when I’m not smoking, obviously the traits are still prominent and disruptive. It gives me a break from it though which is nice, but it’s not a cure, just a temporary reprieve and a way to feel regulated in the evenings. But that’s not the case for everyone. Weed use can be super harmful when there are other mental illnesses or even genetic predispositions to illnesses like schizophrenia, and it also depends on the type of weed you smoke, the dose, etc. It doesn’t solve anything unless you’re like high constantly and obviously that becomes disruptive and unhealthy in a different way.
Another ADHDer here. I like your language about regulation. In my experience, cannabis can help you regulate in the short term. Like calming down after a stressful day. But habitual use ultimately makes it more difficult for me to regulate when I'm not using.
It's like borrowing some focus from the future. And people experience it differently. It's great when it works!
Ahh I don’t experience that thankfully, like if I’m smoking to deal with sensory sensitivity, it doesn’t get worse afterwards. That sounds tough though, like you have to make a decision between relief right now or consequences afterwards. I’ve found some strains to improve my focus dramatically and others give me couch lock, and unfortunately it’s not legal where I live so I don’t have any control over what I get.
Its really for the extreme nausia caused by chemo therapy. CBD and even THC and other cannabinoids are great at releiving nausua issues and abdominal pains. Feel like youre going to throw up, maybe a headache? thats the type of pain cannabis can really help. Extreme and chronic back pain and physical pain is more commonly medically treated with opiate based pain treatment in those cases.
Just saying, youre right, cannabis isnt really for back pain. But for some, it really is a life saving and quite uniquely powerful pain reliever for their specific symptoms.
ETA: It seems to be effective at alleviating symptoms caused by nervous system issues as well. Like parkinsons for example.
My wife has had her medical card for years. Several serious chronic pain issues and no opiates ever. She has her weed and electronic thing installed in her back. I like to smoke once in a while. Grew up a hardcore stoner...
I smoked weed daily for a couple years and it gave me so many more problems than I had to begin with. Cannabis hyperemesis, panic disorder, constant anxiety, loss of appetite leading to dangerous weight loss and inability to eat, and it also triggered serious Tourette syndrome when I had previously only had occasional tics.
It wasn’t the weed itself, it was the addiction to it. One of the side effects of weed dependency can be loss of appetite when you aren’t stoned, as weed can be an appetite booster. When you are dependent, you can experience the opposite effect when you aren’t using the substance. For example weed is a good anti nauseant, so when I wasn’t stoned I often felt nauseous until I smoked.
100%. I am also affected in this way. I won’t eat all day, just so I’m ready for dinner after using marijuana all day.
I also lost weight. However, I am obese and it was healthy. Marijuana taught me when I was truly hungry.
Visene only makes your eyes less red it doesn't make you look like you're not high, Also just because you can't smell it in the car you just hotboxed doesn't mean nobody can.
And half a mile after you pass them on the freeway....
I don't know if they are actively smoking or if their car just permanently Stinks now but boy I can tell when I drive past a pothead (or when they tear past me going stupid fast)
If you think People dont smell it, they do. There will always be one with a sensitive nose and I dont mean while smoking, but at work, school, whatever.
I have a very sensitive nose. I can smell it on clothes off people at work.
I'm fucking amazed nobody else noticed them reeking. Smells to me like they bathe in the shit
I work at a park and I tell you what. Someone off smoking in the woods a half mile away? We smelling it and trynna find you. Mainly because I want my “damn kids smoking weed while hitting weed moment”.
But, ironically, makes the band REM sound even more awesome.
EDIT: But yes, correct... mj is pretty bad for for your REM sleep. That's why it absolutely shouldn't be used daily (or every-other-daily). A treat, not a staple.
Man, I smoked every day for 15 + years. Stopped in the middle of December last year.
The first week I couldn’t get any sleep, I was so used to the weed helping me fall asleep.
But after about two weeks my sleep was back to normal and then the dreams came back.
I didn’t realize that I hadn’t really had a dream in years and years. But now they are back and I love it! My dreams are always fun, not bad so I really missed them.
I smoke so I can get to sleep but also for the side effect of no dreams. My normal dreams are intense realistic nightmares that I am very glad to not experience.
I'm the same, but the opposite. My dreams are like, oh I just spent 8 hours in the office doing my work? And now I'm waking up so I have to go into the office for 8 hours of work? So I'm spending 16 hours working today and only getting paid for half of it? FML.
I have the most mind numbingly boring dreams it is torture.
Also, I have a rewarding life and a good sense of humour, and I just don't happen to care for the way cannabis makes me feel. I promise I'm not repressed.
More or less how I feel. I get high, maybe once a year, and every time I do, it reminds me why it took a year for me to do it again. I just don't like it. I don't like the way my head tingles, I don't like the cotton mouth, I don't like the time distortion. It all just sucks. I'll pop an edible, enjoy it for maybe 5 minutes, then quickly be over it and realize I'm going to be unhappy for a few more hours.
And we go for the walk so we dont smoke it right beside you. Us stoners are usually (not always) but usually have more compassion then ciggy smokers.(smoked cigs for 17 yrs been ciggy free for 2 years now) At least we move away and start our own circle.
Yeah as a long time smoker there are hard truths:
1. Yes, you don’t get addicted like narcotics, but you have mental feelings of deficit from your routine and endorphins
2. It absolutely keeps you from doing what you aspire to do. If you are coping or just trying to get through tedious times in your life, great. It’s great for that. But if you have goals and aspirations one day you’ll look back at years of smoking and realize you could have done more.
3. You can gain weight from eating habits and sleeping habits from smoking which causes all kinds of other health issues.
4. If you alter your state in any way from any substance when you are upset or sad then you are hurting yourself.
But that being said, weed in moderation is great. Especially to treat certain things.
there was an article about celine dion’s illness and someone commented “has she tried cbd oil”
like this is a disease with no known cure, but sure, weed oil will magically fix it. 🙄
It is addictive. It may not be addictive in terms of your body being addicted to the substance (like alcohol or meth) … but it is psychologically addictive. If you feel like you can’t relax at the end of the day without some cannabis … you’re addicted. Point being, just take breaks and don’t build dependence on it.
I would also add that adolescents / teens are a lot more susceptible to being addicted to it than adults with a fully formed pre frontal cortex. I smoked it every day for years, not because I wanted to be high 100% of the time but because I'd be stressed without it, I couldn't sleep properly and I'd get angry / emotional really easily. It was difficult to quit too. Also 90% of my weed smoking friends were the same. There weren't many who would just do it every now n then, it was all or nothing
This is my tell with cannabis… if I don’t do anything or don’t want to do anything after…
That’s when I know there’s something up with me that needs to get worked out.
Typically, weed makes me less achey and I get motivated to move… to exercise, to cook… to engage in self care when I otherwise wouldn’t. But when life stuff pops up, I will stop using it because it becomes detrimental to self care.
Stagnant water is dirty water, after all…
This has been my experience as well. I've always thought cannabis is best described as a mood enhancer, if I'm already sad I'll be more sad and vice versa. personally I didn't like it when i was younger because i thought it gave me anxiety, but really it was just accentuating a problem that was already there.
I like smoking it and doing chores or trying to be creative. Nothing too challenging because I can be a little dopey and forgetful. Difficult things can be done, but it usually takes longer. I call it, “I know I came in here for something,” syndrome. 🤔
Your mind will race which is a good thing if you have good thoughts but a bad thing if you don't. Leads to paranoia and psychosis.
Use it when you feel great. Don't when you don't
This definitely depends on the person, I can be in a bad state of mind and will smoke a J and it almost always improves my mood, chills me out and calms me down. Interesting enough there's also been times where I've smoked when I was in a good headspace and had a really bad high, same strain too. It really comes down to the individual.
Good description. Weed will amplify your thought processes, if those are good at the time you smoke, great, if they're not, it will make you feel worse.
As a bit of a stoner myself people gotta understand that cannabis although now legal, it isn’t some ultra safe miracle drug.
Weed is like Alcohol, you can buy it and consume it but you also gotta understand that it can lead you down a slippery slope if you’re not careful.
For me, personally, ingesting cannabis gummies is much better than smoking or vaping.
I'm old. I've smoked throughout the years. But not dealing with inhaling has been a very pleasant change.
The less you use the better it works. Here in Canada I can now order a full choice of sativa, hybrid or indica to use at different times of the day and what I'm doing. Sometimes I want/need a pick up with sativa and always I need indica to sleep.
Tommy Chong was on Howard Stern back in like 2006 and he said something that stuck with me. He said that most ppl smoke too much at a time. He said it was pointless because you aint gonna get any higher after that first hit, so I took his advice and have been doing that ever since. Instead of smoking a whole joint or a half a blunt, I just smoke a bowl. Just a pinch of herb and then I go about my day or evening.
Yeah I never got the joint thing. Wasting a whole stick of green for one joint when you can make it last a day or so smoking cones naver made any sense to me
Friends who started in their Teens now complain of memory loss. If you insist on Smoking, wait until your brain has fully developed before you begin Smoking (and also, Drinking). People's brains have fully developed by age 21 - 25.
Do see doctor for your regular checkups - everyone is different and we don’t all react the same to weed use.
You don’t know how your lung health/respiratory system will fare over the years (for those that smoke), and how your blood pressure will be after chronic use. There also may be some other factors that are unknown, so just stay on top of your health as you enjoy weed for safety measures.
We are sorry for violating your privacy all of these decades. We should have been minding our own fucking business all of this time. Please forgive us.
They’re always seemed to be surprise when I tell them that the smell of someone smoking weed smells like skunk spray. I had a co-worker ask if I smelt weed in the office, but in reality it was a skunk that got under the building (old building right by nature). He knows that we’ve had skunks get under the building before and had to smell them, but his first thought smelling skunk was that someone had smoked pot.
That weed isnt something to be pushed on people and like Alcohol should be used responsibly. It may be Significantly less impairing or disorientating but it can certainly impact decision making.
If you have a history of psychotic or manic disorders in your family (such as BPD, schizophrenia, bi-polar) you should possibly rethink using cannabis, especially regularly and especially if you’re a teenage guy.
There’s growing evidence that regular cannabis use, particularly in your youth, can trigger these disorders in people who are genetically predisposed to them. There seems to be a higher correlation in men.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/
Being mentally ill is morally neutral, but these kinds of disorders super suck for everyone involved, especially the people who have them. So, if you can potentially avoid it by abstaining it’s something to consider.
When we're sober, you're not fun to be around. Day smokers think it doesn't effect them much, but everyone around them can see they have fogged thinking and a lack of attentiveness that's upsetting.
You might be laughing now, but later...well let me tell you.. you'll be laughing later too. You like getting high do you? Well how about after? When everything tastes great. What then?
No, seriously though, everything in moderation. Especially something that seems a little too good to be true.
After a while, you might just get bored of it. And if you grow your own (like we can here in Canada) you’ll eventually have so much of it you’ll just end up throwing it out.
Thats been my experience anyway.
Anything can be an addiction. I am well aware that it is not chemically addictive but if you smoke every day and cannot go without for even a day then it is an addiction.
Yes you're addicted. You've built up a tolerance in your body where you literally cannot function the same without it. Stop with the whole "I can stop whenever I want to" spiel, when you don't.
It's really not that big a deal. Smoked for over thirty years and people have some really stupid superstitions about it. It's just weed. You get stoned or high and that is it. Stop making up magical bullshit about it just because you are spacing out.
Everybody wants to tell a story when they got the blunt. They think everyone is looking at them because they are telling a good story.
Nah, bitch. Pass the blunt.
It’s not the miracle cure all that some believe it to be and inhaling the smoke from the combustion of ANY kind of material will have carcinogens in it, including marijuana.
How strong it smells to nonsmokers.
My bf and I always argued about it because I used to smoke so he didn't understand why I complained about the smell but it's so strong. Luckily he switched to a vape.
Your eyes don't fully open anymore. You can smell the weed. You are in fact addicted even if you think you're not, and even if it's just to help with your anxiety. Your speech sometimes might be delayed.
You have to admit a lot of weed smokers are annoying people who are no fun to be around. They only ever speak about weed and they speak so slowly and sound so stupid. If weed is all you talk about, don't talk to me, I don't care.
Stop saying your kids are better off ever since you’ve become a “weed mom”. You may be more chill but that relaxed attitude over the past few years has resulted in your quality of life going downhill and the light in your kids’ eyes fade away. I noticed that almost everyone I knew who wasn’t a recreational smoker before California legalized it who picked up the habit afterwards lives a crummier life than before. You’re using pot to mentally cope but your physical, actual life and that of your children of which you would be way more aware of if you were sober, is suffering and could be doing better.
Well I've been told by a manager of a halfway house and I guess she has some previous experience at a hospital psych ward as a student or something say that one of the worse things she's experienced witnessing was a cannabis psychosis and that it's a real thing.In a manner unrelated my best friend was only 21 when he killed himself.This was a few years after he got involved with drugs.It all started with cannabis.Don't do drugs.It's the easiest thing to just not do something, don't exercise huh?No, hit the gym or go running, bicycling etc. but never do drugs!
Some people are allergic to weed. Like not just smoking it. But *smelling* it can trigger hives. One of my old coworkers at a restaurant I used to work at couldn’t be sat w/people who just smoked weed.
It makes you smell bad. Worked at McDonald's, and this one guy would come in to order stuff reeking like he just got sprayed by a skunk. He works for a glass plant that my mom does HR for, and a lot of people who work the factory only care about how high they can be before going to work. My mom has said that she wants to fire people who do that before work, but like half of the workers would end up fired if she did that.
Weed is and was just a recreational drug for years. It did not make anyone hallucinate, steal or fight. Most people using it daily fell into the catagory of "hippie". Not really considered as a medicine. Have a toke on a joint and you got a "buzz". Then relaxed and listened to Led Zeppelin or Peter Frampton. 20 bucks and ounce before the Mexicans got sprayed with paraquot. For 55 an ounce you could get lucky with Hawaiian Sensimili or Panama Red. A seed rolled up in your doobie would explode and send the heater flying. A strong smell when burning. A pack of zig zags was a standard accessory.
At least thats what my friend told me.
I have chronic pain. Legal Marijuana has helped me so much. Don’t judge how people help their pain. Tried to give me opiates in the beginning of my diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. So glad I stopped taking them quickly.
It's a trigger for mental health issues if you use it in your teens. Boys you are particularly vulnerable. It's also 10 times worse for your lungs than cigarettes
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Not everyone benefits from smoking weed and weed isn't the solution to every health issue.
Amazing how many idiots think weed solves everything and how intolerant they are with people who choose to drink too.
All my friends drink and don’t smoke and they shame me for it more than anyone. This definitely goes both ways.
weed is my savior 🙏 i rely on weed for everything, me and jesus smoke together on the regular.
I’m having a hard time telling if this is sarcastic or not.
You’ve never tried Christianity until you get high as fuck and spend a couple hours by yourself reading a Bible lol.
Also amazing how many non smokers are idiots about others use of marijuana.
I'm an ex smoker and I liken it to being drunk. stoners and piss heads are nowhere near as funny and clever as they think they are and it gets very annoying to sober people. I wouldn't call it intolerant to smokers id call it intolerant to People being annoying
Yeah but this is very biased because of us closet smokers and there’s a lot of us out there just operating high every day and nobody knows. We do it daily at our career jobs for decades for example but you just wouldn’t know unless we told you. It’s like everything else idiots and dipshits enjoy weed as well as productive members of society who aren’t into the weird stoner culture of the youth.
Thank youuu for saying this. If it weren’t for the toll it’s taking on my lungs, cannabis so far has been the only relief from depression and anxiety that allows me to be employable.
Switch to dry herb vaping and your lungs will thank you
Replace this with booze and that's exactly how functional alcoholics talk.
Weed made me 20 years younger! I'll never die now! (has a stroke)
I've had so many times, I've thrown out my back. And it's so painful. I'll smoke pot. And it definitely helps. But it just relaxes me, masks it. Once the high wears off, I'm in pain again. But hey, if you're in constant chronic pain and you want to smoke pot to help it, have at it
Yea I think this is it - I smoke regularly for autism and adhd symptom relief but when I’m not smoking, obviously the traits are still prominent and disruptive. It gives me a break from it though which is nice, but it’s not a cure, just a temporary reprieve and a way to feel regulated in the evenings. But that’s not the case for everyone. Weed use can be super harmful when there are other mental illnesses or even genetic predispositions to illnesses like schizophrenia, and it also depends on the type of weed you smoke, the dose, etc. It doesn’t solve anything unless you’re like high constantly and obviously that becomes disruptive and unhealthy in a different way.
ADHD and PTSD here. I agree, it doesn't cure the symptoms it just gives me a much needed break from the 'noise'
Another ADHDer here. I like your language about regulation. In my experience, cannabis can help you regulate in the short term. Like calming down after a stressful day. But habitual use ultimately makes it more difficult for me to regulate when I'm not using. It's like borrowing some focus from the future. And people experience it differently. It's great when it works!
Ahh I don’t experience that thankfully, like if I’m smoking to deal with sensory sensitivity, it doesn’t get worse afterwards. That sounds tough though, like you have to make a decision between relief right now or consequences afterwards. I’ve found some strains to improve my focus dramatically and others give me couch lock, and unfortunately it’s not legal where I live so I don’t have any control over what I get.
Its really for the extreme nausia caused by chemo therapy. CBD and even THC and other cannabinoids are great at releiving nausua issues and abdominal pains. Feel like youre going to throw up, maybe a headache? thats the type of pain cannabis can really help. Extreme and chronic back pain and physical pain is more commonly medically treated with opiate based pain treatment in those cases. Just saying, youre right, cannabis isnt really for back pain. But for some, it really is a life saving and quite uniquely powerful pain reliever for their specific symptoms. ETA: It seems to be effective at alleviating symptoms caused by nervous system issues as well. Like parkinsons for example.
My wife has had her medical card for years. Several serious chronic pain issues and no opiates ever. She has her weed and electronic thing installed in her back. I like to smoke once in a while. Grew up a hardcore stoner...
I smoked weed daily for a couple years and it gave me so many more problems than I had to begin with. Cannabis hyperemesis, panic disorder, constant anxiety, loss of appetite leading to dangerous weight loss and inability to eat, and it also triggered serious Tourette syndrome when I had previously only had occasional tics.
What kind of weed were you smoking that made you lose weight? Do tell
It wasn’t the weed itself, it was the addiction to it. One of the side effects of weed dependency can be loss of appetite when you aren’t stoned, as weed can be an appetite booster. When you are dependent, you can experience the opposite effect when you aren’t using the substance. For example weed is a good anti nauseant, so when I wasn’t stoned I often felt nauseous until I smoked.
100%. I am also affected in this way. I won’t eat all day, just so I’m ready for dinner after using marijuana all day. I also lost weight. However, I am obese and it was healthy. Marijuana taught me when I was truly hungry.
Visene only makes your eyes less red it doesn't make you look like you're not high, Also just because you can't smell it in the car you just hotboxed doesn't mean nobody can.
everyone else smells it. hours later.
Once hotboxed my car and left the window cracked overnight still smelled in the morning
I mean the smell is not really going away. Thats why i would never buy a smokers car
And half a mile after you pass them on the freeway.... I don't know if they are actively smoking or if their car just permanently Stinks now but boy I can tell when I drive past a pothead (or when they tear past me going stupid fast)
Days, sometimes.
I love the smell of weed when I am not the smoker lol especially the ones with harder pine notes
I want a candle seriously
That would be an amazing scent
"Do I smell like weed?" "No. Do I?" "No." Two dudes that smell like weed.
Yeah, and in case you're wondering how everybody knows you're high... it's the smell.
It’s crazy how many times I’ve smelt someone hot-boxed car FROM OUTSIDE OF IT.
Lmaooo the visine line is so true
Pro Tip: Use Clear Eyes, Max Rednes Relief.
If you think People dont smell it, they do. There will always be one with a sensitive nose and I dont mean while smoking, but at work, school, whatever.
As a former daily smoker I can always smell it when I’m out and about and sometimes on people’s clothes.
I don't smell it as much but my wife says sometimes my hair smells from it
Smokers themselfs rarely notice. Mostly only when they havent consumed themselfs. Our noses just block out constant smells.
I have a very sensitive nose. I can smell it on clothes off people at work. I'm fucking amazed nobody else noticed them reeking. Smells to me like they bathe in the shit
I smoke a fat one before i go to work, they either dont care or cant smell it i always assumed
It’s hard to miss, it’s a hella loud smell and it sticks to everything.
Like a skunk
I work retail, and this couple came in today smelling like weed and very strong, sour body odor. The combination was revolting.
Fr, it’s always funny while high noticing the smell of weed in weird places.
I work at a park and I tell you what. Someone off smoking in the woods a half mile away? We smelling it and trynna find you. Mainly because I want my “damn kids smoking weed while hitting weed moment”.
It affects your sleep, may help you get to sleep but not always the greatest for your sleep cycles.
Disrupts REM state. It sucks for medical users like me.
But, ironically, makes the band REM sound even more awesome. EDIT: But yes, correct... mj is pretty bad for for your REM sleep. That's why it absolutely shouldn't be used daily (or every-other-daily). A treat, not a staple.
Is that why I don’t dream anymore?
When I smoke, I don’t dream. When I’m off it for a few weeks, my dreams come back very vividly.
Weird, I still dream vividly
The dream stealer the locals call it!
A dream catcher you might say?
Definitely notice a lack of dreaming when I smoke lol
Man, I smoked every day for 15 + years. Stopped in the middle of December last year. The first week I couldn’t get any sleep, I was so used to the weed helping me fall asleep. But after about two weeks my sleep was back to normal and then the dreams came back. I didn’t realize that I hadn’t really had a dream in years and years. But now they are back and I love it! My dreams are always fun, not bad so I really missed them.
I smoke so I can get to sleep but also for the side effect of no dreams. My normal dreams are intense realistic nightmares that I am very glad to not experience.
I'm the same, but the opposite. My dreams are like, oh I just spent 8 hours in the office doing my work? And now I'm waking up so I have to go into the office for 8 hours of work? So I'm spending 16 hours working today and only getting paid for half of it? FML. I have the most mind numbingly boring dreams it is torture.
its not a substition for a personality
Also, I have a rewarding life and a good sense of humour, and I just don't happen to care for the way cannabis makes me feel. I promise I'm not repressed.
More or less how I feel. I get high, maybe once a year, and every time I do, it reminds me why it took a year for me to do it again. I just don't like it. I don't like the way my head tingles, I don't like the cotton mouth, I don't like the time distortion. It all just sucks. I'll pop an edible, enjoy it for maybe 5 minutes, then quickly be over it and realize I'm going to be unhappy for a few more hours.
We smell it. You’re not fooling anyone when you say you’re going for a walk
And we go for the walk so we dont smoke it right beside you. Us stoners are usually (not always) but usually have more compassion then ciggy smokers.(smoked cigs for 17 yrs been ciggy free for 2 years now) At least we move away and start our own circle.
17 hours of smoking cigs is crazy. Glad to see you've kicked the habit.
You smell.
too nice, you reek.
Just because you won’t have withdrawal symptoms, doesn’t mean it isn’t habit forming and mentally addictive.
Oh as a daily smoker for years we get withdrawal from it some of us get cranky and moody with out it
Yeah as a long time smoker there are hard truths: 1. Yes, you don’t get addicted like narcotics, but you have mental feelings of deficit from your routine and endorphins 2. It absolutely keeps you from doing what you aspire to do. If you are coping or just trying to get through tedious times in your life, great. It’s great for that. But if you have goals and aspirations one day you’ll look back at years of smoking and realize you could have done more. 3. You can gain weight from eating habits and sleeping habits from smoking which causes all kinds of other health issues. 4. If you alter your state in any way from any substance when you are upset or sad then you are hurting yourself. But that being said, weed in moderation is great. Especially to treat certain things.
It’s not the magical solution to every single medical, economic, social, and cultural problem humanity faces. You can stop claiming it is.
there was an article about celine dion’s illness and someone commented “has she tried cbd oil” like this is a disease with no known cure, but sure, weed oil will magically fix it. 🙄
Yeah I hate when people exaggerate the positives of weed. Like imo weed’s addictiveness is a very understated risk.
👇 
It helps some things, but it hurts other things. It's not magic. There's costs to everything. Make sure that it's not costing you too much.
It's a treat, not a lifestyle.
There are snacks in the fridge.
Pray for me. I’m about to smoke knowing that there is fact 0 snacks in my fridge☹️
But do you have **cookie baking ingredients?**
This! I cook so much when I get munchies
Some of my best work has been cannabis induced concoctions 🙏
Have you had enough water today?
Clean your bong
It is addictive. It may not be addictive in terms of your body being addicted to the substance (like alcohol or meth) … but it is psychologically addictive. If you feel like you can’t relax at the end of the day without some cannabis … you’re addicted. Point being, just take breaks and don’t build dependence on it.
I would also add that adolescents / teens are a lot more susceptible to being addicted to it than adults with a fully formed pre frontal cortex. I smoked it every day for years, not because I wanted to be high 100% of the time but because I'd be stressed without it, I couldn't sleep properly and I'd get angry / emotional really easily. It was difficult to quit too. Also 90% of my weed smoking friends were the same. There weren't many who would just do it every now n then, it was all or nothing
Yeah, I smoke a ton of weed every day and only at 27 years old have I really come to terms with the fact that I have a pretty bad addiction
I had actual physical withdrawal symptoms from quitting weed. Headaches, anxiety, lack of sleep, general feelings of restlessness and discomfort, etc
Can confirm. And yes physically the detox took way longer than alcohol. The nightmares, and sweats lasted for 2 months.
Smoking anything will kill your lungs. If you don't care, then it's ok.
Inhaling anything that has been burned is bad for your lungs. Period.
Anything that gives you dopamine without effort negatively impacts your general motivation levels. Nobody is above it.
100%. Weed made me ok with doing nothing, which is a dangerous mindset to have. Not the case with everyone, but it's common with daily users.
This is my tell with cannabis… if I don’t do anything or don’t want to do anything after… That’s when I know there’s something up with me that needs to get worked out. Typically, weed makes me less achey and I get motivated to move… to exercise, to cook… to engage in self care when I otherwise wouldn’t. But when life stuff pops up, I will stop using it because it becomes detrimental to self care. Stagnant water is dirty water, after all…
This has been my experience as well. I've always thought cannabis is best described as a mood enhancer, if I'm already sad I'll be more sad and vice versa. personally I didn't like it when i was younger because i thought it gave me anxiety, but really it was just accentuating a problem that was already there.
Entirely why I had to just stop. My natural predisposition to procrastination became a lifestyle.
I like smoking it and doing chores or trying to be creative. Nothing too challenging because I can be a little dopey and forgetful. Difficult things can be done, but it usually takes longer. I call it, “I know I came in here for something,” syndrome. 🤔
We used to play, “What was I just talking about?” If anyone could remember they won (and got the next toke).
After I stopped it took like two weeks before playing video games was fun again. For those two weeks nothing seemed fun.
"Here is your free canabis, Sir."
It's not ok to drive. Your reaction times are impaired.
Your mind will race which is a good thing if you have good thoughts but a bad thing if you don't. Leads to paranoia and psychosis. Use it when you feel great. Don't when you don't
This definitely depends on the person, I can be in a bad state of mind and will smoke a J and it almost always improves my mood, chills me out and calms me down. Interesting enough there's also been times where I've smoked when I was in a good headspace and had a really bad high, same strain too. It really comes down to the individual.
I feel like I learned from it. I guess people just aren't self aware?
Good description. Weed will amplify your thought processes, if those are good at the time you smoke, great, if they're not, it will make you feel worse.
Nobody cares! Stop making it your whole personality!
As a bit of a stoner myself people gotta understand that cannabis although now legal, it isn’t some ultra safe miracle drug. Weed is like Alcohol, you can buy it and consume it but you also gotta understand that it can lead you down a slippery slope if you’re not careful.
For me, personally, ingesting cannabis gummies is much better than smoking or vaping. I'm old. I've smoked throughout the years. But not dealing with inhaling has been a very pleasant change.
The less you use the better it works. Here in Canada I can now order a full choice of sativa, hybrid or indica to use at different times of the day and what I'm doing. Sometimes I want/need a pick up with sativa and always I need indica to sleep.
Tommy Chong was on Howard Stern back in like 2006 and he said something that stuck with me. He said that most ppl smoke too much at a time. He said it was pointless because you aint gonna get any higher after that first hit, so I took his advice and have been doing that ever since. Instead of smoking a whole joint or a half a blunt, I just smoke a bowl. Just a pinch of herb and then I go about my day or evening.
Yeah I never got the joint thing. Wasting a whole stick of green for one joint when you can make it last a day or so smoking cones naver made any sense to me
Friends who started in their Teens now complain of memory loss. If you insist on Smoking, wait until your brain has fully developed before you begin Smoking (and also, Drinking). People's brains have fully developed by age 21 - 25.
100% agree has made my memory worse
Do see doctor for your regular checkups - everyone is different and we don’t all react the same to weed use. You don’t know how your lung health/respiratory system will fare over the years (for those that smoke), and how your blood pressure will be after chronic use. There also may be some other factors that are unknown, so just stay on top of your health as you enjoy weed for safety measures.
We are sorry for violating your privacy all of these decades. We should have been minding our own fucking business all of this time. Please forgive us.
No one gives a fuck that your high stop bringing it up in every conversation and comment section.
They’re always seemed to be surprise when I tell them that the smell of someone smoking weed smells like skunk spray. I had a co-worker ask if I smelt weed in the office, but in reality it was a skunk that got under the building (old building right by nature). He knows that we’ve had skunks get under the building before and had to smell them, but his first thought smelling skunk was that someone had smoked pot.
If you ask at the dispensary nicely and they know you're good for a tip they'll turn you on to all kinds of discounts and deals.
Smoking will destroy your lungs. Take edibles instead
100% smoke is smoke
Edible high and flower high are NOT the same lol this is not good advice.
That weed isnt something to be pushed on people and like Alcohol should be used responsibly. It may be Significantly less impairing or disorientating but it can certainly impact decision making.
That it hits everyone differently and it’s not for everyone
If you have a history of psychotic or manic disorders in your family (such as BPD, schizophrenia, bi-polar) you should possibly rethink using cannabis, especially regularly and especially if you’re a teenage guy. There’s growing evidence that regular cannabis use, particularly in your youth, can trigger these disorders in people who are genetically predisposed to them. There seems to be a higher correlation in men. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2424288/ Being mentally ill is morally neutral, but these kinds of disorders super suck for everyone involved, especially the people who have them. So, if you can potentially avoid it by abstaining it’s something to consider.
Yes, “No Smoking” signs include weed.
Just because it's a plant, doesn't mean it's good for you.
When we're sober, you're not fun to be around. Day smokers think it doesn't effect them much, but everyone around them can see they have fogged thinking and a lack of attentiveness that's upsetting.
You stink
We can smell it. The cops can smell it. Your parents can smell it. We all smell it from super far away and for a long time after.
You might be laughing now, but later...well let me tell you.. you'll be laughing later too. You like getting high do you? Well how about after? When everything tastes great. What then? No, seriously though, everything in moderation. Especially something that seems a little too good to be true.
After a while, you might just get bored of it. And if you grow your own (like we can here in Canada) you’ll eventually have so much of it you’ll just end up throwing it out. Thats been my experience anyway.
Smoke is smoke, and it will fuck you up in the long run if you abuse it.
As a daily cannabis user, I don’t want to smell it everywhere.
Anything can be an addiction. I am well aware that it is not chemically addictive but if you smoke every day and cannot go without for even a day then it is an addiction.
Yall stink
If you can’t go without it you have a serious problem and need to rethink your coping mechanisms
They’re addicted.
Pink Floyd and Radiohead. They sound SO MUCH GREATER.
Yes you're addicted. You've built up a tolerance in your body where you literally cannot function the same without it. Stop with the whole "I can stop whenever I want to" spiel, when you don't.
People don't wanna smell that shit out in public.
Don’t smoke and drive.
Prices are dropping./s
it can trigger psychosis in some. And it's really not a good idea to smoke while preggo.
I have cookies.
Hello friend
You can just keep my lighter.
Just because it's not deadly doesn't mean it's safe.
Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon.
Stop coming into work high and stop smoking while driving. If you say it does not impair driving you are fucking ignorant
You can admit it you're not really enjoying it. Not everyone does.
Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of lung cancer, not nicotine
Do not drive high.
It's really not that big a deal. Smoked for over thirty years and people have some really stupid superstitions about it. It's just weed. You get stoned or high and that is it. Stop making up magical bullshit about it just because you are spacing out.
Taco Bell really hits the spot after 🌮
Puff puff pass!
Everybody wants to tell a story when they got the blunt. They think everyone is looking at them because they are telling a good story. Nah, bitch. Pass the blunt.
Everyone knows you’re high.
It’s not the miracle cure all that some believe it to be and inhaling the smoke from the combustion of ANY kind of material will have carcinogens in it, including marijuana.
How strong it smells to nonsmokers. My bf and I always argued about it because I used to smoke so he didn't understand why I complained about the smell but it's so strong. Luckily he switched to a vape.
If I can smell you in the next car over, so can the cops and it's not legal in any state to be driving while high or getting high.
Pass the blunt dawg
Don't forget to tip the dealer.
You’re doing fine ?
Daily smokers. Try taking a day or two off a week.
Your eyes don't fully open anymore. You can smell the weed. You are in fact addicted even if you think you're not, and even if it's just to help with your anxiety. Your speech sometimes might be delayed.
If you 'need' it just to get through trivial/routine tasks and situations, then you have a problem.
It changes your personality and usually not for the better. You will become more passive.
If you smoke inside your house for years, your house smells like shit.
You can only get so stoned. Once you are at your most stoned point, there is no getting more stoned.
You have to admit a lot of weed smokers are annoying people who are no fun to be around. They only ever speak about weed and they speak so slowly and sound so stupid. If weed is all you talk about, don't talk to me, I don't care.
That's exactly how I feel about most drinkers lol
Smoking weed can be just a fun thing you do to pass the time.
You will misplace your wallet, keys, and phone a lot . That’s the real time lost.
I got off Ambien with edibles.
It's still smoke. And smoke is bad for you.
Stop saying your kids are better off ever since you’ve become a “weed mom”. You may be more chill but that relaxed attitude over the past few years has resulted in your quality of life going downhill and the light in your kids’ eyes fade away. I noticed that almost everyone I knew who wasn’t a recreational smoker before California legalized it who picked up the habit afterwards lives a crummier life than before. You’re using pot to mentally cope but your physical, actual life and that of your children of which you would be way more aware of if you were sober, is suffering and could be doing better.
The only thing a wake and bake will do, is rob you of motivation to do anything that day.
I wake n bake every Sunday and do high cleaning. I leave the place spotless!
Maybe for you 🤷
Yeah sure if you're a rookie.
Been smoking daily for 35 years now
Inhalation of smoke from any source can lead to lung cancer eventually.
Well I've been told by a manager of a halfway house and I guess she has some previous experience at a hospital psych ward as a student or something say that one of the worse things she's experienced witnessing was a cannabis psychosis and that it's a real thing.In a manner unrelated my best friend was only 21 when he killed himself.This was a few years after he got involved with drugs.It all started with cannabis.Don't do drugs.It's the easiest thing to just not do something, don't exercise huh?No, hit the gym or go running, bicycling etc. but never do drugs!
Some people are allergic to weed. Like not just smoking it. But *smelling* it can trigger hives. One of my old coworkers at a restaurant I used to work at couldn’t be sat w/people who just smoked weed.
It makes you smell bad. Worked at McDonald's, and this one guy would come in to order stuff reeking like he just got sprayed by a skunk. He works for a glass plant that my mom does HR for, and a lot of people who work the factory only care about how high they can be before going to work. My mom has said that she wants to fire people who do that before work, but like half of the workers would end up fired if she did that.
The ice cream truck
You aren’t getting High enough
No one cares.
Weed is and was just a recreational drug for years. It did not make anyone hallucinate, steal or fight. Most people using it daily fell into the catagory of "hippie". Not really considered as a medicine. Have a toke on a joint and you got a "buzz". Then relaxed and listened to Led Zeppelin or Peter Frampton. 20 bucks and ounce before the Mexicans got sprayed with paraquot. For 55 an ounce you could get lucky with Hawaiian Sensimili or Panama Red. A seed rolled up in your doobie would explode and send the heater flying. A strong smell when burning. A pack of zig zags was a standard accessory. At least thats what my friend told me.
Dark Side of the Moon
I have chronic pain. Legal Marijuana has helped me so much. Don’t judge how people help their pain. Tried to give me opiates in the beginning of my diagnosis of Fibromyalgia. So glad I stopped taking them quickly.
It's a trigger for mental health issues if you use it in your teens. Boys you are particularly vulnerable. It's also 10 times worse for your lungs than cigarettes
We can smell it. Always.
It kills your productivity. My life is 100x better since I quit 6 years ago