Hello. As this is my first post to the forums, I will keep it brief and see if I can incite a discussion (or if what I have to say is at all interesting). So I am a moderate user of marijuana. I tend to smoke at least once a day but sometimes ranging up to 3 or 4 times. I am having difficulty determining whether this is effecting my life in a positive or negative way. The Positives: Weed has not shown any mental or physical debilitating effects. I am a high school student and am the captain of the football team and within the top 20 kids (out of around 150) academically ranked in my grade. I am the VP of student council and am involved in numerous extracurricular activities. My GPA is 3.93 out of 4.0 and my SAT scores are above average. My social life has been pretty good throughout my 4 years of high school (I began using weed a lot in my junior year). I also view weed as a creative bridge that brings your mind to new depths that would be impossible to reach without it. These new perspectives and viewpoints allow for different, innovative ideas. The Negatives: Well, first let me begin with the financial hit from weed. I'm sure every member of this site can relate to this, as smoking anything tends to be a particularly expensive habit. Secondly, I feel my use of weed has made me.... emotionally distant. Before I started using, I was already an introvert. Weed only made it easier for me to keep everything locked up inside. I've been through some pretty tough obstacles in my life, and talking about them with anyone is one of the hardest challenges I have to face. Weed makes it easy for me to avoid this. Finally, there is the ever daunting risk of run ins with the police. One situation of this nature could render all of the prerequisites I worked so hard to earn completely useless. Clearly, weed doesn't effect one's tangible qualities of identity (i.e intelligence, athleticism, social skills, etc). Is there anyone out there who was effected by weed in a different way, either positive or negative, and do you think the positives or negatives should prevail in moderate to heavy usage of marijuana? I only welcome intelligent, rational thinkers to reply to this forum. I am trying to eliminate the stereotype that all potheads are lazy and unproductive with their daily lives.
I think that weed can either be a hindrance or a help to your productivity. If you're naturally a lazy person, smoking weed is not going to make you more productive. However if you're a naturally productive person anyway, it's totally possible to use weed as a tool to help in a lot of areas of life. I think it has a lot to do with your individually specific day to day activities. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I didn't read the whole op. Sorry. I'd like to just add my.input on how weed effected my life as a whole. As many say, I feel It opened my.mind up. It caused an ego death and sense of worthlessness as well motivating me. But there are dark sides too. If I smoke every day, especially if I smoke a lot every day, I get lazy, endulgent and depressed Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Honestly I have no negative affects I been smoking for 19 years. I can tell u that everything is in your head. And don't let everyone know u smoke they will give problems. And weed will not solve all your problems. If u need money get a job. If your lazy go to the gym. If u need friends go out. Don't make weed the reason your life is messed up. Stop smoking figure it out. While your still in high school. Then enjoy a toke and chill. Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH Fierce using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I don't see why some people are being rude. I don't see anything wrong with this post. Like it or not, there are negatives with weed. But, I feel the negatives aren't really the weed, it's more what society wants people to think of it as. I mean, I was raised in a family that was torn apart by drugs, so I grew up believing that marijuana was nothing good. Here I am though. The plant is everything good; it's personally helped me more than any therapist or prescription ever could with my anxiety and depression. It has helped me become my own person and believe my own things... it makes me happy. In the end, if it makes you happy, if you can function and live a proper life with it, and it does not put anybody in physical danger I say smoke away. Every negative you've described seems to be in your own head. You need to forget the world criminalizing weed, and decriminalize it for your own self. (Shit if any of this made sense, I'm exhausted.)
I hate when people try to say tthere are zero negative effects of weed They are just naive fan boys who.make us look bad We are able to admit the truth about weed, that it is overall a good thing. That's all that really matters Sent from my LG-E739 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
I truly believe marijuana affects me the most in a spiritual way, and the biggest perk is my spirituality isn't hindered when I don't smoke.
Depending on how much weed you smoke and how much you prioritise weed over everything else. if weed isnt your main priority it i dont think it effects you that much. Nice work propaganda bot
Fuck! I was going to say something stupid but op only wants intelligent, rational thinkers to respond.
My very first hit of marijuana forever changed the being I was to become. For this reason alone I can reject those free will doesn't exist threads. I don't know where to begin with all the changes in my perception, my physical and psychological health, all my values, how I determine love or characterize anything. Maybe when I can think some more I can reply with more if you're actually interested. The bottom-line is I know who I am and why I am not trying to be other people because of this drug. Just imagine all the splits in culture society and individual identity over this drug. Incredible. Smoking marijuana, I call that communing with the divine. Not in front of others though, makes it come off... a certain way.
Just a question maybe to add here. I smoked heavy for years and took a break for a few months yesterday I got stoned out of my mind and just freaked out I was really really paranoid I was with some people that I didn't know but they all smoked I thought they were talking about me or something I just couldn't bring myself to use words I was just out of my head or something. Has this happened to anyone if so how did you over come it? Sent from my SM-N900V using Grasscity Forum mobile app