How Has Weed Changed/affected Your Life?

I have a better social life


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I have a better social life, it's made me more patient, and more kind. 

 

Being sober is kinda like walking thru life with blindfolds on....and when you take your first hit, the whole world opens up!

I would list all my benefits but I'm busy at work....MJ is all around good!


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One of the best things about weed is the amount people I've met through it, as well as their relatability to my own mentality, which is something I couldn't find in people before I started blazing.


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This is a huge one for me. I'll write this as more of a story cause weed has been a journey for me.
 
I hated it when I first started. I'd get super anxious and out of it, no other drug has ever affected me as much as weed still does to this day. I got frustrated that I couldn't enjoy it like all my friends, and started toking alone. This led me to realize a lot of shit about the way I was living my life and how I had started to hate the person I'd become, and really opened up my eyes to the world around me and to the people who mattered.
 
Unfortunately, this also sunk me into deep depression (runs in my family so I don't blame this on the weed, although I'd say they worked comorbidly as depression made me wanna smoke and smoking made me depressed by causing me to get stuck in my head and think about my problems, and even lazier than depressed-me would normally be making it hard for me to do anything about it). I spent a full year of my life mostly secluding and disconnecting myself. I stayed in touch with good friends who helped me through it but it was rough.
 
Finally I had another revelation and said "Fuck this, fuck anxiety, fuck depression, fuck what other people think, I'm gonna do me and become who I WANT TO BE". I had to quit weed for awhile to get my life on track, and I honestly still don't smoke much anymore (after several years several times a day), just once or twice a week, and I'm still struggling to fully escape my depression and get my self-confidence where I want it to be.
 
But in all honesty without weed I don't know if I ever would have had this revelation, or uncovered my mental health issues (anxiety, depression, and currently awaiting an appointment with an ADHD specialist although from my history after about grade 7/8 as well as reaction to certain other things, which I never indulged in regularly, I'm about 100% sure I'll be diagnosed and it's the one prescription med I'm not hesitant to try). I'm sorting through all those now and because of that I'll always be eternally grateful for discovering and sticking with the wonderful herb, even if I'm not the type of person who can indulge in it all the time.
 
Oh, and by the way, these revelations and talking them over with my father, who I always noticed a lot of similar personality traits in, caused him to go see a doctor about the same mental issues, was diagnosed with ADHD, and is now living a far happier, more satisfying life (although he was already very successful he always struggled with emotional/mental/social satisfaction). He has toked for years about every week or two, but admitted he was always afraid to confront his mental issues and found ways to blame them on something other than himself.

 

I have serious paranoia and insomnia. When I'm sober I get jitters and anxious. Anxiety attacks aren't uncommon. But when I recently decided I would start buying bud in bulk I started smoking every time I was having a rough day whether it be because of work,school,family or people in general. And I haven't had problems with anxiety lately and I can sleep without a problem now that I have my bedtime smoke sesh. Weed is beautiful


I do the fuck out of life.

 

My story is long and I'll type it up when I have access to an actual physical keyboard.

Does have to do with an extreme case of ADD.

 

Made me more open minded.. basicly "dumbed down" life for me so i dont think much just do my shit, dont care what others say and i can block negative thoughts

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Been through many ups and downs with weed, was very anti weed growing up even though my mother and uncle have been smoking it pretty much everyday since they were young teens. I'd started when I was 18, saw those legal high shops about and being a naive teen I assumed that since it was legal it was safe. After toking up with a few friends, the so called 'gateway' was opened and I'd started toking up bud with them too. 
 
Once my mother found out she was surprised but after a couple of days she was cool with it and even toked up with me (I was 18, considered an adult - come on guys) which was a new experience - I'm guessing not many people have the chance to do this with their parents so I consider it a blessing. However, I lost self control with it smoking everyday, when I had no money, somehow I'd manage to sneak a bongs worth from my mother - even going to college wrecked out my head thinking it was cool, going for joint breaks between lessons and even when it came to my exam finals, (very stupid I know) I smoked a j before all three of them and when it came to results time, I'd failed my A levels (all of them ungradable - damn you How High for telling me that being high makes high grades) and not knowing what I was going to do with life, even my mother shouting at me in disappointment not just because I'd failed, but because she'd let me smoke with her and she thought she had failed me by doing so. 
 
This is sounding so cliche in a teenagers life, but once I'd failed my exams I got a job at domino's pizza (still going to work high) and managed to get onto the second year of A levels luckily from the results I had in the year before I started smoking as long as I chose to take those subjects. Cut forward a year, left domino's due to shitty pay and hours (was working weekends only and making like £60 every 2 weeks) and I got into university (still smoking, just not so much) doing business management and have finally learned how weed can be a dark place, where it can hurt your mind and lifestyle, but also one of the best happy places, kinda like the sort of way love works. You just gotta learn to have it in moderation. I'm glad I shared this story with you all and enjoy reading other posts and it's comforting to see that its not all happiness and 'stay high all day everyday' with you guys, that some of us can be heavy sessioners but in moderation and also have a job. There's hope for stoners man!

 

It just makes me a happier person. My problems seem like they aren't a big deal, I feel better, sleep better and am overall just a nicer/better person. Why the fuck is this stuff illegal again.?! I also haven't gotten sick in over a year and a half since I started smoking. If I feel a cold coming ill smoke and im fine the next day.

 

I've been dealing with anger management issues for about 2 years now. It changed my life. I can go out in public again and actually enjoy conversations with strangers. Even my wife sees the change.

 

Weed has made me more open minded about everything and it has helped me realize that life is beautiful.

 

Weed has made me, overall a 'chill' person. What Ive noticed in life is that too many people spend time worrying about bad things instead of trying to prevent them. Weed also makes me feel grateful and content and I feel as though weed has made me smarter, in ways of imagination, logic, creativeness, math, and science. The different way of thinking that being high grants me is so wonderful, why doesn't everyone do it?

 

Its made me come to terms with a lot of decisions I've made in my past relationship. It helped me really get through and over the last relationship I was in. It has also helped me and my current boyfriend embrace the relationship we have together. We appreciate each other so much, and can communicate easier. It's definitely nothing that can FIX a relationship, but it has it's benefits. It's helped me learn that weed isn't the most important thing ever, and I don't need it every day to function. I've become a much more introspective and realistic person. I'm also calmer and more positive. I can't say weed has negatively impacted me in any way. I didn't start until I was 18 and in college, so it didn't mess me up in high school. I made some dumb decisions involving weed since I started smoking. But, I've never done anything dumb BECAUSE of it.

Basically, it's been a really positive thing for me


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It changed my girlfriend's life as I introduced her to it because she was quite the binge drinker and I was hoping this would make her stop since she Already has liver problems. It turned out beautifully because now she loves it and buys a majority of what we smoke on lol

 

It has made me very spiritual.

 

Cannabis has done an awful lot to my mentalities, views of the government and people in general, and the world that we live in. Like many many others in this thread, it has opened my mind to a level of mediums. Of course, I like using it in a recreational fashion to get high, but mainly I use it to greatly aid my Insomnia. Everynight before I sleep, smoking weed helps me immensely. I'm also more alert and focused when I awaken in the morning. Overall, I love weed. It's been there for me in an odd number of times and I can't thank our Creator enough for giving us the amazing herb. 

 

Cannabis is my all time favorite pastime. During my two year separation from my wife (and bankruptcy and foreclosure) cannabis was the only thing that kept me from doing something drastic and stupid. I'm one of those people who, when on vacation, don't mind smoking during the day. During my younger years, while being laid off from work but still collecting unemployment, I spent three months where I sparked a joint up every two hours from the moment I woke up to around 11:00 or 12:00 PM.
    It helped that I was still living with my parents and had practically no bills to worry about. I had a patio room that was attached to the side of the house that was all mine. It was a small space but still big enough for a stereo and three chairs.Cannabis smoking played a huge role in my life during my college years. I guess I could have applied myself and been a lot more successful but...I have no regrets. In a hundred years, no one is going to care whether I was a highly successful businessman or a stoner/slacker. I have my memories of spending time during my college years at a local park enjoying myself with cannabis. Those were the days...
    Others have the attitude of...he who dies with the most toys wins. I don't think that way. As long as I have a roof over my head, clothes on my body, and some food to eat (and the occasional joint to smoke) I'm happy.

 

I was 14 when I first started
That was nine years ago...
I began thinking very deeply about almost everything
I discovered who I was
Now I regret starting so early
Because I don't if weed made me feel the way I did
Or that is just part of growing up