Stages of Marijuana Smoking

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Originally Posted by farmgirl

buddy your smoking the wrong stuff if you have no sex drive,i fing my sex performance becomes somewhat enhanced!but then again us farm chicks smoke some wierd shit!

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Well, whatever it is you are smoking it is preventing you from correctly spelling "weird."

Just thought I'd help you out for future purposes...

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Originally Posted by FindingTim

I am slightly offended by your remarks about my "failings as a human." Truthfully, my life is so incredible and I have such a wide variety of things going well for me that I would not trade my life situation for any other.

Here's a question for you since you are "older" and "more experienced." Have you ever considered that you may have been smoking for so long, that you have completely forgotten how you once functioned. Could you be so far removed from what you once knew as reality, that you now blindly bitch out 18 year olds on message boards in defense of your drug addiction?

Listen, what I wrote about is marijuana abuse. I believe that pot can be a positive substance when used in moderation. In terms of marijuana abuse, however, my observations are actually widely agreed with. I just did the googling...

You see, your main argument is that I am blaming my own issues on marijuana, when I am truly the one to blame. Well, technically you are right, because I am to blame for smoking heavy amounts of denk marijuana. See my reasoning?

Right now, I have been sober for a long enough time that I am passed the "withdrawal symptom" timetable. Literally, every single negative thing mentioned is no longer an issue for me.

Oh, and as for goverment websites, I know they are biased pieces of shit when it comes to marijuana. I rely more on studies published at universities... and studies in general.

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Well, your not as ignorant as i thought you were - well done!

Your right, everything in moderation. I got slightly heated because alot of the things you mentioned, you were blaming directly on the cannabis, when infact, it wasnt the cannabis.

I've been smoking heavily since my teens, i smoke all day, everyday.

It doesnt effect my life is any negative ways. I also smoke medicinally.

Now, i smoke more than the normal person for a few reasons, 1 my supply is abit cheaper, 2 i smoke medicainally and 3 i can afford to. I work full time as a manager, and im stoned while i do it. I'm not lazy, i havnt lost my emotions, my sleeping is fine, and appetite is fine, my memory is fine [although i agree, short term memeory can be affected by weed]

I'm certainly not addicted though. I dont crave cannabis, i choose to roll it up and get stoned. I enjoy every aspect of it, including the pain relief.

It's very rare that i ever take a break, but when i do, i dont feel lazy, un movtivaed. I dont feel tired all the time, and i dont eat less. I dont feel jumpy, and i dont crave my weed.

I know weed isnt for everyone. But just because you have problems, doesnt mean it's the weed thats causing them.

If weed DID do all these things [be it when your stoned or sober] surely i would have had some first hand experience, concidering i smoke what most people would probably call too much.

If there are any other older smokers reading this - give us your opinions.

thanx y'all

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Originally Posted by Da1One1

thanx y'all

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Thankyou. Merry Christmas to you too. :rastasmoke:

I'm also sorry for offending you, FindingTim.

The trick with my posts is to ignore most of whats in them haha.

LIP - Not accepting other peoples opinions since 06.

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Originally Posted by LIP

The weight gain is your problem, nothing to do with the weed.
Cannabis doesnt rob you of your emotions and motivation. Your just lazy.
I dont get droopy eyes unless im stoned - i REALLY fail to see how cannabis can change the way you look when sober.
How did cannabis weaken your social ability? Cannabis didnt, you did.
Cannabis DOES NOT lower sex drive.
Learning difficulty? Thats nothing to do with cannabis, maybe your just not the bright spark you thought you were.
How did smoking cannabis make you less confident? It's YOU, not the weed.
I dont see how cannabis can completely change you, it gets you stoned, and thats it. I dont see how/why it'd change your personality. [for the worse]
And cannabis doesnt stop you dreaming, you dream everynight - you just cant always remember them.


Moving onto withdrawl symptoms:


Complete appetite loss - so your not eating ANYTHING? You havnt lost your appetite - your eating the amounts a normal person would. You just think you've lost your appetite because your not eating tons and tons of food when you have the munchies.

Loss in condience? So, you've got none when your stoned, and when you quit, you've got none? Strange....



Have you EVER thought to stop and look at yourself!? Maybe it's not the weed, but YOU.

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I agree completly.

Very insightful post. Thank you for sharing, Tim.

I find myself on the same journey it seems. I haven't yet been able to quit though. I can't decide if I'm in denial or what.

My life seems ok, I have a job I love, wife I love, and a kid on the way. I have good friends and am able to maintain a life similar to before smoking weed, if not better. I just get this feeling that maybe I'm missing out by lighting up each day? I usually smoke a bowl each day after work and a bit on the weekends.

Well Tim I'm at the exact same stage right now.

Before years of smoking ridiculous amounts every day, I was a bright, chipper, funny kid.

Pot was great in the first stages of my smoking it, but like you MANY negative effects started to surface after a while. And it only took not having a smoke for a few days to realise what these negative effects really were.

And now I have put all my bongs and pipes away, intentionally left my half-o at my buddys house, and I couldn't be happier. My mind is clearer, I have much more motivation, and I'm not a fumbling nervous wreck in social situations.

If I continued to smoke pot all-day every-day like I was, my life would continue to be shit. I don't want to work at some 9-to-5 retail shop doing stupid meaningless work so the owner of the company can make a little extra profit on top of his/her millions. I have dreams of my own, and they began to fade with chronic pot use.

Having been toking for 40 odd years, the last 4 every day use for medical reasons, I have experienced very little of what you describe! My dreams are vivid, my energy levels are high, I've lost 60 pounds, I work in special education, am very artistic and creative and the brain seems to be functioning well at age 60. Everyone thinks I'm in my mid40s or 50s, when I just turned 60.

I don't have a lot of close friends, but I have friendships going back 30 years. My lack of having many truly close friends is by choice and I am well liked by my fellow workers and "ordinary" friends. I'm not a "social butterfly". I don't go to the frequent "potlucks" my school throws, but that is due to severe food allergies (not life threatening, but very unpleasant)- I don't want to end up in the hospital again! Eating anyone else's food can be a gamble!

I use every day and I feel my life is better for it emotionally and physically. For me it is the difference between a life plagued with migraines and cluster headaches, and a normal life. When I started this job at the school, I stayed pretty well "straight" for 3 years before the constant pain drove me to get "California legal" - for me, being "straight" is hellish!

So, different strokes for different folks! The world would be dull if we were all alike (like the prohibs seem to want us to be). If you feel pot is detrimental for you at this stage of your life, by all means quit. It would be foolish not to. May you be happy :) - Granny:hippy: