Why do you smoke Cannabis?

Hi there,

I'm new to this forum, but used to have the same name over on OG before it was taken offline. I have grown many crops of Cannabis both indoors and out, and used to be a regular smoker.

Recently, I have quit smoking. It has really opened my eyes. I have realized how much I abused this plant, and did not give it the respect it deserves. I was smoking at least once a day, for a quite some time. It was not causing me to be a loser, I was in school, had a job, girlfriend, my own place where I was paying all my own bills. So, my smoking was not causing me to be a waste of space. I have a crop going this year of Mango Haze X White Widow, a limited edition run from Shantibaba, my favorite breeder.

This question keeps popping up in my head now that I am not smoking anymore. Why was I smoking Cannabis? I had a couple of answers, and none of them were justified. It was making me content with doing things not to my full potential. Basically, if I had nothing in particular to do, my answer was always blaze some chronic and go from there. I have been so productive since I quit smoking that it's rather quite comical, and I still can't understand why I was smoking all the time. Like many people, I was living in a culture whose basic tenets I did not agree with, and it would seem that Cannabis was my answer for coping with myself when I was doing things that I knew better not to. If you have ever seen some of the scientific research on Cannabis use, one of the effects is termed A-Motivational Syndrome, a loss of motivation and ambition. Basically, smoking Cannabis makes you content with whatever you are doing, even if it is sitting on the couch doing nothing. I have a friend who doesn't smoke, but lately he has been asking me to get him some, and before I would have happily obliged him, but now I am very wary to do so. I tell him that there is really no use for it, except in spiritual rituals, because it will make you think that ordinary thoughts are more profound than they really are, which can be a dangerous thing, resulting in arrogance, pride, and all that those entail.

My roommates still smoke chronic every day, and when I am around them they still pass me the joint and tell me to hit it. What's the point? I'm perfectly fine the way I am, and a basic tenet of Buddhism is to look over the choice you have to make, if it is good for you, do it, if it will not help you, don't do it. The effects of Cannabis on the mind and the attitude of a smoker are so subtle that it took me a long time to realize that the way I was using it was not good for me. I really don't have any idea why I was smoking.

I'm still trying to solve this question. So my question to people who read this is:

How often do you smoke Cannabis, and why?

because i like the high

I smoke and grow because I suffer from anxiety. I began growing for my boyfriend, who also gets panic attacks, but has no health insurance (OMG we need single-payer health care in this country SOOOO bad!).
I also see a therapist and use Celexa to keep my panic attacks to a minimum, but find cannabis to be a good supplement.
I find it ironic that with my insurance, the VERY expensive pharmaceutical solution to my problem only costs me about $10, it would cost my boyfriend hundreds of dollars a month, but cannabis is so effective and growing it is so reasonable...
Just one more reason natural remedies are so awesome!

until recently i accepted the "do just enough to get by" mentality. since then i have been very concious of things when i'm stoned. i clean a lot more, i get outside and exercise and take care of business. i still smoke just as much, but i also take care of business. the main reason i smoke weed is because the way it makes my mind and body feel.

I love the taste, smell, sharing, munchies, hell all of it! (except the droughts!)

Peace

Buddy:stoned:

nothing like having a hard day at school or work and coming home to a nice big fat sack...rolling up a joint...and smoke one down.....the best feeling in the world...(next to sex of course)....

Because i know the truth.

:rasta: i have just got done reading the main post of this thread and i am totally surprised that something like this is coming from a fellow smoker first of all why in all of gods good creations why would anyone ask a question like "WHY DO YOU SMOKE CANNIBUS" now in my opinion that is something that an ex-smoker, smoker, or whatever should never be asked everyone in the whole world knows that peeps smoke the herb cause it is good for the mind and soul not only that it sooths the mentallity of peeps

:rasta: always remember to roll'em fat
PHATBOY


:rasta: normallity is the key to insanity but the last time i was there at the door of insanity there wasn't any key holes hell there wasn't even a door just a large deep black abyss:rasta:

why do people dring alcohol or smoke cigs? its just a means of relaxation for lots of people and can have other purposes to many other people. i dont understand the point of posting this thread your not going to change any of out minds and i dont see why you care so much about why we smoke and if you smoked for a while too everyday then you probably dont need to ask

because i believe that drink is a far worst drug than weed, drink brings out the bad in people - weed doesnt

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cause i like to get high SO FUCKIN HIGH>


Once a day you make me laugh.

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love the taste, smell, sharing, munchies, hell all of it!

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I think that about covers it.
Spiritually aswell, allows me to look deeper inside myself and look in deeper at the world.
Helps me sleep too. :D

it puts me in touch with the living earth, and the lives that share this planet with me. I dig the fact that i share a commonality with those humans who used cannabis tens thousands of years ago.
I give all thanks to the women out there. If it werent for the endless search for foods in the forests and fields, and their discovery of the cannabis hemp plant during those searches for edible seeds, and useful stalks, for their familes, then who knows how much longer the discovery would of took.
Good job Ladies.:thumbsup:
Playing music before smoking cannabis seems very natural. Plants and humans go together. We discover them, and they help us discover ourselves. Cant beat that. Mother Nature knows exactly what the fuck she is doing.
It would be, IMO, abnormal, not to use it.

dai*ma:stoned: sfca

Marijuana allows me to think and focus better. Making the right choices is much easier when your head is in its right place.
Forgetting problems sometimes is wonderful to your mind and spirit.
Try to concentrate in one thing only when your high and you'll see...

i remember i first started smoking daily halfway thru junior year of high school. I started because i had smoked a few times thuought the previous year and i started becoming interested and fascinated by cannabis. at first i smoked a bowl a day, usually at night to help me go to sleep. that was almost 4 years ago. now i smoke soley for the joy of being high. i don't need marijuana but i certainly do indulge in it. i suffer from a horrible fuckin' depression so deep that it even affects me phsyically(loss of appetite, hypothyroidism, insomnia, all sorts of bullshit). now i don't bury myself in smoke and believe that cannabis will be myh miracle cure, it certainly does help. and as DAIMA said, smoking cannabis and playiing music is awesome. it gives me something to be proud about(my music).

Bottom line it gets me high and then all of the other things that people have mentioned that go along with being high. Being high just feels so good and you can always have a good time.

as most of everything was metioned before why i do, here's another main reason:

i get bad anxiety and tend to get really stressed over stupid shit, so smoking can relax me and i can think better while high. plus, if you have nothing to do why not? most people can still focus and maintain, and in your head it just makes everything not as boring as it might be... so in other words it just makes the day more fun, and that's all that needs to be said. :D

Because it's fun.

It lets me interact with the strange people that live on my roof. They only talk to stoners hell knows why?

I suffer from depression and it helps get me through life... but i dont use it as an escape, only as an enhancer.

who dosnt want to be high.

Not trying to offend anyone, this is complete opinion.
I find that smoking all the time, or even once a day, everyday, really doesn't suit My ideal version of life. It dumbs me down, slows me down, and the high isn't really so spectacular (a.k.a. cherished). If I smoke a lot, in a small period of time, I get to the point of really really desiring complete sobriety. I dislike the lingering effects, I want high, not high. Not High, semi high, dumb, slow, fazed, Normal.
However, if you take all of that into account, cannabis is one of life's greatest gifts. It can turn Any Good day, into a Romantic, Dream-like, absolute-fucking-incredible day. If I'm stressed out or in pain or suffering the blues, A few puffs and all of that is turned around. And the strange thing, when I go back to being sober, just the lingering Memory of being high is enough to end any stress, or blues.
I found that I don't really like smoking with other people so much, it takes a very special relationship to find myself comfortably enjoying the high with other people.
If you do it right, with the right supplies and the right settings, a session can become therapeutic, relaxing, exhilirating, extremely entertaining, or simply fun. Sadness, Evil, Darkness, they have no place in a good stone. It
reminds me of flying. The airport was stormy, frosty with rain. But once we took off, and got above the clouds, it was a sunny, beautiful day. If it's already a sunny beautiful day... Then it's one of the best days of your life.
We only live once. I want this one chance to be one of the best expiriences my soul will ever have, at least in human-expirience respect.
It's sad that cannabis-users have been so closely tied to hard drug users, evil criminals, the dregs of society.
Most of us are the coolest, chillest people you'll ever hang with.

I smoke pretty regularly (pretty much every day) and I do it for the same reason I do my other hobbies. I enjoy it. Just like I enjoy fishing, golfing, shooting, long drives. It's a fun way to pass the time. Which all life is. I enjoy myself.

Thanks to everyone who responded, I really appreciate it.

Inferius, that was well said.

I think that at the beginning, the way I used Cannabis was not abusive. That was so long ago that I'm not even sure when it became something different to me. I have genuinely enjoyed this break from smoking, and it has really made me think about what were my reasons for blazing. I would not like to admit it, but Cannabis was owning me in one way or another. A nasty perpetuation that I was caught in the middle of.

I have a great respect for this plant, much more so now that I've stepped back off of it. I feel much more grateful for what it really is, and the things that it can do to help people, if used correctly. I think William Blake said something like, 'the road to enlightenment is through excess.' I wouldn't recognize Cannabis for what it really is unless I had gone too far with it, and now that I have, I feel much more humbled. Being blazed all the time is not as glorious as I used to believe, haha. I look forward to the day when I will be able to smoke with genuinely good intentions. Harvest time is about five weeks away......................

Thanks again to everyone for responding, it has helped me sort this out with myself. Much love and respect.

It gets me high.

I'm actually trying to commit suicide but no joy yet just stoned everyday

I heard it was a gateway drug and my ambition is to be a heroin addict and a convicted psychopathic killer so naturally the best way to start my career was to smoke pot.
Its not working. Maybe Im smoking it wrong.

I used to abuse it quite a bit.
I was stuck in a rut, in the middle of a seemingly constant identity crisis. I was trying to analyze who I was and why I acted, thought, perceived, and felt the way I did. When I first started smoking weed, it allowed me to explore states of consciousness and types of thought I had never experienced before. It enabled me to think geometrically and spatially, for the first time. So I'd get high then start analyzing my life from these multiple new perspectives. I also because obsessed with psychological profiling, and different aspects of neuroscience. But I got so caught up in it that I wound up socially alienating myself, and suffering extreme depression and anxiety from waay too much research and analysis. After a few months I knew who I was on paper, but had no clue how to actually be that person.
It caused me to turn an apathetic shoulder on the other aspects of life, and after awhile I was taking in way less information then I was analyzing. It caused me to fall into a deep rut of pointlessness and apathy. And since I couldnt move my brain out of hyper reasoning mode, I wound up being rather pedantic when I communicated with the outside world.
Consequently, through quitting weed and focusing on school, I went through a notable personality shift. I've since stopped being so obsessive with the sciences, and although I still understand myself quite well, I dont obsessively read into it.
I recently started smoking again, but now I force myself to limit analysis. When I smoke, I have these awesome geometric hallucinations, that trancendentally connect whatever I'm thinking about in an absolutely beautiful and fascinating way. These days, when I smoke, I do it to relax, enjoy changes in perceptions, and get in touch with things. Sometimes I'll sit with a notebook and write down whatever is coming to mind.
I also have ADD. When I smoke, it lets me switch from the frantic, changing, associating radial thought processes that can often plague an ADDer, to a more pleasant, linear fashion.
For example, instead hearing someone say "That's intense" and thinking "Haha, camping, 'in tents'" or something similiarly irrelevant, I'll be able to think "Hmm, yeah that really is pretty intense", and carry out the conversation from there.

Cause I love the taste and the way it makes me chill when Im stressed .Theres nothin betta than gettin home from work and relaxin with afew bongs of wicked bud,its more than a habit its a lifestyle for me.

I smoke to clear my mind sometimes...from all the stress in life, sometimes, I have a hard time not worrying about shit. It also makes any movies I watch even better.

To be honest, I try to limit my smoking. I rarely smoke alone, because I do not like it. I always end up being alone, doing nothing. If I am with friends, then we entertain eachother, and then usually end up with a funny story to tell for another occasion. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with marijuana. It helps me to enjoy the moment, makes me laugh, makes me wonder. Being productive in life is a great thing, but if you never take a moment to relax and enjoy something, then your life wouldn't be worth living. Sure, I enjoy other things, such as drawing, but every now and then, I like to sit around with my closest friends, and just fucking toke up. Hell, even with somebody I don't know, I'll make a new friend that night. Long story short, LEGALIZE IT.

When I know that at the end of the day theres a bowl of greens, a cig, and chill music waiting for me I can get through anything.

being high makes me feel really good. im high right now. whenever i get high with friends its even better. it makes all of you talk more and feel more comfortable around eachother. i smoke almost every day. only been smoking for about six months though.

I SMOKE CUZ IT GIVES ME KNOWLEDGE!!! haha nah, i guess i smoke because i can think alot straighter when stoned, it helps me to see the bigger picture know wot i mean? and i grow because i love my plants, and i can be sure they love me back, my plants are my friends, they dont work for me and i dont work for them, we work for each other, its gotta be like that or i have nothing to keep me going in life, plus they are friends u can count on not to stitch you up, just give them wot they want and theyll give you what you want, thats what i love about Ganja

well sed couch potato

I used to smoke for all those reasons above. but none of them apply anymore. I used to smoke everyday. Some people take SSRI's everyday. same diff to me. i can't smoke everyday now because there is only dirt here, and i've drawn the line. i also quit caffeine to help sleeping. doesn't work. only one thing works. that plant. that silly little plant.
i haven't been high in months. i also haven't had a clear thought in months.
i smoke to prevent killing myself or starting shit on fire. or drinking too much too often. or hyperventilating when a news anchor tells a bald faced lie. and right now, i'm growing for all those reasons too. i think some of us are just way too high strung to go about mundane reality without a little help.

my pops offed himself, and luckily i have a "soul mate". she's what i live for. cannabis just makes everything else easier to forget, like baby rape and stuff. If that's escapism, then i'm harry fking houdini.

oh yeah, and herb is conducive to communal convergence. i never saw stoner friends fight...but booze on the other hand...Smoke A J for me! For Dizzoh!!! Since my friends have turned to booze and pills!!!

just smoke it and dont say your going to stop when you go back to smoking cause grower or no grower you'll still get popped for bud you dig

i agree that weed causes a lack of motivation, and thats precisely why i smoke. why is necessary for everyone to work so hard, why must we all "accomplish" something. weed makes me content with everything. it takes away stresses that come with being motivated. just cause i say i like being unmotivated doesnt mean i just smoke on my couch and sit there all day. before i started smoking weed i was a 4.0 student in school, and worked so hard to do good. i was ridiculusly stressed out, and for what? then i started smoking weed, a lot of weed, and i still managed like a 3.8, but with less work, and way, way less stress. the only reason i am living on this planet is to be happy and content in that moment in time, and thats why i smoke weed.

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Originally Posted by legalizeit1234

the only reason i am living on this planet is to be happy and content in that moment in time, and thats why i smoke weed.

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Exactly! I had this same "epiphany" (never thought like that before) about a month ago during a robo trip. I've never felt the same, I feel like THAT now.

That's why I smoke weed. To be happy and content, and cannabis does that for me.

Plus it gets rid of a lot of the stomach ailments I suffer from, as well as sometimes can help me get to sleep without me having to use those sleeping pills.

Cause I can and cause I want to.