THC improves social skills?

[Euphoric7]

Whenever, I hit up a sativa strain and decide to talk to some friends (who don't know I'm high) I always seem to say the "right thing" and can reduce a group to tears of laughter over and over :D. It seems effortless to me; almost as if I'm watching myself do this from the 3rd person and I can only be amazed. Same goes with other more meaningful conversation.

THC improves conversational skills with others?
Am I alone on this one?


-I'll be checking in tomorrow ;)

[rebgirl420]

I agree completely.

I believe that weed lowers my anxiety and conversations with people who I would normally be intimidated to joke around with, just flow effortlessly.

[jimmy8778]

i would say that if im high, i dont talk to people as much, there are a select few who i talk to normally, and then the few who i talk to when high. Though if i were to be engaged in conversation while high, i am a bit more open to discussion of the strangest things. But overall it activates my shiness gene, and already being much of a wallflower it just increases the effects. But as i said, once i get going while high, its harder to stop than continue.

[Coelho]

I always seem to say the "right thing" and can reduce a group to tears of laughter over and over :D. It seems effortless to me; almost as if I'm watching myself do this from the 3rd person and I can only be amazed.

Yes, it also happens with me... exaclty like if i were watching myself from "outside", like if i were outside myself controlling it, like if my body were a remote-controlled "robot"... and as my self is not immersed, into my body, it can think clearly about anything without being involved by it... and so its very easy to find the "right" thing to say... instead talking anything that comes to the mind, which is what almost everybody does, and what leads them to talking many things they wouldnt like to if they had any choice.

And i try to live in this "detached" state as much as i can... even when sober... i try to keep my "self" apart from my body, and so to keep it always cool and always be apt to think clearly, without being involved by anything.

[thcbongman]

Eh, the more I smoke bud, the more I want to withdraw from people. I think it's just the way I am more than the pot.

Although I find Asperger bit interesting. What you described fit me to a tee. I'm NEVER there, I get distracted easily and intensely singulary focused whether it's a task or worry. When people are going up, I'm going down, you know what I mean?

[Euphoric7]

Eh, the more I smoke bud, the more I want to withdraw from people. I think it's just the way I am more than the pot.

Although I find Asperger bit interesting. What you described fit me to a tee. I'm NEVER there, I get distracted easily and intensely singulary focused whether it's a task or worry. When people are going up, I'm going down, you know what I mean?

Are you sure that's not just because of the 'negative connotation' associated with being high?

[Born To Stone]

If I smoke a little my social skills are about the same, sometimes a little better. If I'm really baked though, especially on a strong indica my social skills get worse. Sometimes get a bit lost in my thoughts and zone out for awhile instead of chatting or I'm too tired to make much of an effort. Depends though, if I'm with close friends we have good baked discussions about 'deep' stuff :rastasmoke:

[Reefer Rogue]

It depends on the person and the strain, yeah with sativa it's easy to get creative and goofy and just blabber and philosophize. But with indica you could easily get monged out and jus not talk a lot but think loads. Cannabis can be highly introspective, it really depends.

[Breukelen advocaat]

In general:
Indica = Introversion
Sativa = Extraversion

[Forwhat420]

Well whenever my girl and I are having problems, I roll up a nice j of some aussie blues, smoke it with her, and we manage to solve all are problems by the end of the conversatoin. So yea... I agree with you :pimp:

[stinkyattic]

I've got wicked anxiety and I find that I can speak more flowingly when I'm a bit lifted.
CannabaCharlie, my good friend's little brother (he's now 26) has Aspergers and I recently had a conversation with him about cannabis, and he SWEARS by it as a tool to make his interactions easier and less stressful.

[thcbongman]

Are you sure that's not just because of the 'negative connotation' associated with being high?

I'm sure it has some effect. I can't reveal the fact I toke. Also I tend to go a bit overboard on the toking on my not so many commitments day. I'll smoke like a chimney the entire day.

[Dutch Pimp]

I'll smoke like a chimney the entire day.

I smoke like a steam locomotive going uphill.

[KingsBlend420]

Last year at college my friends and I would always rip a fat blunt before heading off to a party. It really helps you interact and converse with people more. Even though sometimes I just got way too butted to even make sense, but it's all good. It seems like it's also much easier to make people laugh when your high so I'd have to agree with ya.

[Euphoric7]

And making good conversation and making people laugh gives another high in addition: dopamine release (the reward chemical) If I'm not mistaken.

[stinkybudz]

are you sure its them laughing and not you just laughin your ass off like a fool lmao, ive done that before!

[Euphoric7]

Nah, definitely sure :D. I never make a joke out of myself while high; I always seem to think of clever things to say :P

[thclevel5]

Yes. I become an outgoing speaker, and I can chat with about anything.

Even in the vicinity of square people, I'm engaging.

[anbesol]

No, Long term side effects have made me more of a home body

[Hollywierdtoker]

Not how you describe it, well maybe. Just less anxiety, along with being much more focused allows me to follow and add to conversations very well.

[Breukelen advocaat]

It would be valuable to know the the ratio of sativa vs. indica in the old imported types of weed that were popular in the 1960's through 70's - i.e. Mexican, Jamaican, Columbian, etc. There were cultural changes in the pot-smoking communities and I've long suspected that as the drugs changed, so did the music, social trends, politics, psychology, etc.

[Chuddy]

Honestly, I avoid smoking with large groups of people, or with people I don't know. I find I get really quiet, and tend to over-think too much. Like, I'll start thinking into things too much, wondering if what I said was stupid or made sense, then I worry about what everyone else is thinking.

For this reason, I enjoy smoking by myself or with close friends/family rather than in public.

I get too scared to go out in public places when I'm blazed. My close friend who means well asks me, "Why are you scared? As long as you don't smell, no one will know." But that's not the issue. If I get really stoned, and feel really stoned, I feel I look really stoned, and I get paranoid.

My ability to make quick decisions without second thought is gone.

[Hollywierdtoker]

Honestly, I avoid smoking with large groups of people, or with people I don't know. I find I get really quiet, and tend to over-think too much. Like, I'll start thinking into things too much, wondering if what I said was stupid or made sense, then I worry about what everyone else is thinking.

For this reason, I enjoy smoking by myself or with close friends/family rather than in public.

I get too scared to go out in public places when I'm blazed. My close friend who means well asks me, "Why are you scared? As long as you don't smell, no one will know." But that's not the issue. If I get really stoned, and feel really stoned, I feel I look really stoned, and I get paranoid.

My ability to make quick decisions without second thought is gone.That paranoia comes from it's illegality. I personally couldn't care less but keep it low key. My panic attacks and anxiety have been so bad I can't leave my house without smoking a lot first. Going to work is the only time I leave my house.

[psychocat]

I don't believe that THC improves me in anyway , it just makes me more tolerant of people.
This song about sums up my views... :D YouTube - The Cramps - People Ain't No Good (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ExELkCBiE) :thumbsup:

[MIDNIGHTspecial]

it definitely helps me converse. When i'm :stoned:, I feel like I'm "on," witty observations and clever remarks effortlessly roll off my tongue, and i just feel like the best version of myself.

[Euphoric7]

it definitely helps me converse. When i'm :stoned:, I feel like I'm "on," witty observations and clever remarks effortlessly roll off my tongue, and i just feel like the best version of myself.

Quoted for truth!:thumbsup:

[JD1stTimer]

I'm really not sure if it does or not... I usually smoke alone. Although, the people I've been high with the most have become my very best friends, so maybe it does help me make friends... speaking of which, there's one I broke off friendship to and I want to try to make it right again during my weekend off. If I wasn't high I would never go to the effort to try to repair a neglected relationship. :rasta::1baa::sorry1:

[cjwiggy]

:thumbsup:
yes i agree i feel that alot of userers are self med and that it helps with add, anxiety, depression, and pain. i live in mt and am going to go into politics.


Prosecute Actions Not Addictions
Treat Addictions
Be Responcible For Actions

get in touch have a doc in mt :)

[generalchaos]

depends on the strain, some weed will just straight up blaze me to the moon and all I can do is sit there like a red-eyed zombie lol, but thats the type I usually smoke after work or other times when im all pissed at people or whatever else, calms me down really quick.

and as said the more sativa leaning strains can make me more social, motivated to do things, etc.

[TheSmokingMonkey]

I get the stupids. I also tend to stare and zone out a lot. It takes a lot of effort for me to be normal. I'm more of the type to get lost in my own thoughts. I find that alcohol is a much better social drug for me. But I do pretty well sober, too. If I want to tune everybody else out I smoke up.

[MedicineIsGood]

man I love this thread! You're getting high....of course you might think you're the life of the party. Its like alcohol, it helps people think they're having a great time but you're just really drunk and people who aren't drunk yet are watching you for entertainment. Nobody ever really says anything to you about it because they want to see you making an ass of you again because its funny!

Its like when you're really stoned and sitting in a circle with your friends. At some point you look at your friends and they look like zombies...but that doesn't concern you, its actually pretty damp funny in that moment and you might even mention it to them, but you all start cracking up and then forget about it when you're normal again.

Occassionally I'll be responding to a post (like I am right now), while I'm higher than God (like I am right now), and thinking that I'm such a genius and so articulate, and damn it to heck if everyone right now isn't just imagining how ridicuously good looking I am (like I am right now), but then I'll read it again later when I'm not medicated and see all the typos, missing words, bad punctuation, etc. Yeah thats right, I just typed out a sentence that was really a paragraph. :rastasmoke:

[Specialxtina]

definitely lowers anxiety of talking to someone, but sometimes gets your words mixed up and embarrass yourself even more ;p
aha

but weed definitely improves all (at least a tad!) :hippy:

[flyingimam]

i didnt vote on this cuz i really have had mixed results.

i think alot of it is variable on your situation, mood, body, and environment

I for one have never been able to meet new people when high, no f'n way, no matter how much i can act str8

however I have talked a couple of police in the eyes high as a mothafucka! and been into zillion social situations on thc, @ work, even in class and lab

i cant say it improves my skills, no way
on the other hand i cant say it has a negative effect all the time either

its a mix, sometimes it makes u the man of the party, n cool
sometimes it will work in different ways

[SnoopDoggyDog]

It really helps me out actually. A lot of times I won't know these people and not say anything and they think I'm a quiet person and then we smoke a blunt and I just whatever's on my mind and I feel more comfortable.

[TurnyBright]

Total opposite for me, smoking destroys my social skills. I feel like I have no reason to be talking to anyone, that I should just leave and read a book or walk in the woods and think. I think it's because being high really makes me realize where I am and what I'm doing for what it IS, and allows me to make a more basic emotional response to it, instead of just going with the flow.

If I'm with a group larger than 3 people I'll usually try to avoid smoking, because I know I'll just realize that I actually am not enjoying myself by being with them.

[SFGurrilla]

I could see that.

It allows you to look around and see how the conversation and the people around you communicate.

In theroy would allow you to communicate better within your group.

[Coelho]

Total opposite for me, smoking destroys my social skills. I feel like I have no reason to be talking to anyone, that I should just leave and read a book or walk in the woods and think. I think it's because being high really makes me realize where I am and what I'm doing for what it IS, and allows me to make a more basic emotional response to it, instead of just going with the flow.

If I'm with a group larger than 3 people I'll usually try to avoid smoking, because I know I'll just realize that I actually am not enjoying myself by being with them.

Man... i agree completly! Exactly the same happens with me!
But as for me talking with people is never too much enjoyable, being stoned or sober, i prefer to do this stoned, as it becames at least more bearable. Also, when im stoned i become detached, and so its easier to fake sympathy and that im actually enjoying the talk.

[Trip06]

everything I got to say has already been said Imagine that:sorry1::sorry1::sorry1::sorry1::sorry1::sorry 1:

[Coelho]

^^^^ That also happens with me... and it shows how we humans are far less different than we think...

[Euphoric7]

Just a little idea I'm throwing out there... when I'm high and speak with girls in teasey-funny way, and they start hitting on me, I get this IMMEDIATE image of two paths:
1. Feel weirded out; they seem way too needy.
2. YES, they like you, :D

I can almost understand how beautiful girls feel when they relentlessly get hit on; hahaha. :D

[Jerry Garcia 2007]

HMMM

I find it actually increases my anxiety when around people I don't know so I don't smoke when I am in that situation. Also I am more a listener when stoned and only give input when I feel it is needed. I like absorbing everything that is going on around me when stoned, like listening to music, nature, etc.

JG

[Coelho]

Just a little idea I'm throwing out there... when I'm high and speak with girls in teasey-funny way, and they start hitting on me, I get this IMMEDIATE image of two paths:
1. Feel weirded out; they seem way too needy.
2. YES, they like you, :D

I can almost understand how beautiful girls feel when they relentlessly get hit on; hahaha. :D

Man... thanks for making me remember this! When im high and talk with people, most of time i can percieve very well how theyre feeling and sometimes even what theyre thinking... which has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the occasion and the person im talking with.

[Junket]

Man... thanks for making me remember this! When im high and talk with people, most of time i can percieve very well how theyre feeling and sometimes even what theyre thinking... which has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the occasion and the person im talking with.

Haha I do this sober all the time, try to look through other peoples eyes.. When I'm high it definately makes it crazier.

As for the actual question at hand..

If I'm with my friends we all can have some funny ass conversations and we all tell stories and just have a good time..

When I'm with ...acquaintances.. or just people I don't know, then it sucks..

If its a big group with random people, I always find that everybody will stop talking and there will be long akward silences.. Then somebody will be like "...damn...I'm pretty fucking high..." then everybody will be like "seriously...fuck im ripped" and this is the point where I try to dip out...

[flyingimam]

If its a big group with random people, I always find that everybody will stop talking and there will be long akward silences.. Then somebody will be like "...damn...I'm pretty fucking high..." then everybody will be like "seriously...fuck im ripped" and this is the point where I try to dip out...

feel ya on this last one mayn! :S2:

I cant stand this type of situation.

goes to the car and rolls another joint, smokes curbside in solitude lol:jointsmile:

[Elote20]

It depends what i smoke out of...if i blaze a blunt im cool and i can talk or whater, but when i smoke bud out of a bong it gets me ripped and i dont really wanna talk anymore. I'd rather do something than talk.

[mrandmrspoot]

I don't talk to anyone much. period. talk is cheap. plus I have about 0 empathy for most people.

[Breukelen advocaat]

I don't talk to anyone much. period. talk is cheap. plus I have about 0 empathy for most people.
That should take you far on this board.:thumbsup:

[mrandmrspoot]

the flames lick my ragged cloth
deeper
deeper still
sick euphoria
my endless struggle for this dying light
how will we know the to rise?
when we are kept down by societies shackles?
I shall cry
save us from this desolate repugnance
and sweep us into sweet cheeba bliss



idk man. j/k lewl


im the most social person I know. I'm the kind of person who likes hear himself flap his gums.

[NevelsHaze]

most of the time i like social places more when im high then when im not . im not rlly shy, but even in places where i might get caught, i always visin it up if needed, 1 spay of axe. and i fit right in and enjoy doin whatever stupid high shit come to mind at the time.

[psychocat]

im the most social person I know. I'm the kind of person who likes hear himself flap his gums.

Nothing wrong with that.
I am often called opinionated , I prefer to think of myself as a ....
A loud mouthed Brit who doesn't give a damn what others think of me.

That's with or without ganja. :thumbsup:

[Silent Wolf]

Well, i'm proof that it does. Before i smoked weed i was a nervous wreak who was afraid of his own shadow. But the herb set me free, and now i just can't seem to ever shut the hell up, haha.