Does any of this happen to you?

Yeah I know what you mean.

When I was a waiter out in Arizona I was basically HELPLESS when I was stoned or at home. I could function but it was just..spacey. I was smoking half oz's a day..mids at best sometimes dro. I was blazing everyday and my short term memory was gone. Suprisingly I could remember orders though. Just at home I would lose something, look for it, forget what I was looking for, than stop searching and be like Where's my lighter..and start looking for it again.

I smoked an average of 3 times a week over the summer, and this year I'm paying for it. I have trouble (more trouble than I used to, anyway) with dealing with the abstract concepts of calculus, and my vocabulary has suffered slightly.

However, I believe pot has done more good than harm in my life. Before I started smoking (10th grade), I was really, -really- nerdy and uptight--about everything. After I started smoking, I became a lot more relaxed. I learned to have fun and not take everything personally. I really think the pot had a lot to do with it-- it broke some of my artificial boundaries, and allowed me to loosen my standards a bit. Mind you, it's senior year now and I'm passing 4 AP classes with A's or B+'s in all of them, and doing many extracurriculars. I keep smoking to the weekend, and have never moved on to harder drugs.

I've had a lot of problems like that. I find that just smoking on the weekends or when I know I don't have anything important coming up helps though. You just need to know yourself and how much weed you can handle. And if you smoke less frequently, when you do smoke you will get higher, and you will also save money.

Yeah i guess yo would call it being a burnout i have the same problems. what website am i on again?

well i definatley dont care about school anymore.

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Originally Posted by EciRonTog

Yeah dude all that stuff happens to me also.

Iâ??ve noticed that I donâ??t care about some stuff as much as I used to. On the other hand when I go back to being sober it seems like sometimes I start to care about stuff too much. Iâ??m not just talking about school and stuff but caring about things related to your life. Sometimes when Iâ??m sober Iâ??ll think too much about stuff and because Iâ??m naturally pessimistic, I tend to think of the future in kind of a depressing way. Its much better to just not care and live life. I can see how it might be a problem with school, but then again I think there is so much to school that is just BS that maybe its better to not careâ?¦

I definitely have interesting things happen with my short term memory. Well actually I donâ??t know really what the deal is. It seems like I become really focused on one idea, at the expense of other ideasâ?¦ Like if I was walking somewhere, but got sidetracked along the way, Iâ??d become so focused on whatever I got sidetracked on that I canâ??t remember where I was walking to.


I noticed that I stutter sometimes now when I talk, which was kinda scary at first. It seems like I want to think faster than my mouth can talk, and of course it usually gets hitched up on the big words. Iâ??m not sure if itâ??s a bad thing though. I think that when you smoke, it changes the way you think in a way that perhaps makes it slightly less optimal for vocal communication. Hmmmâ?¦ how can I describe it betterâ?¦ Well like when you suck at reading, you usually read the letters in each word, word by word. When you get better at reading all you really have to do is look at each word briefly. When you get really good at reading sometimes you can just kinda look at the entire sentence or at least multiple words at a time. Reading multiple words at a time as opposed to sounding out each word is going to be a lot faster, but you are probably more likely to misread a word when you read multiple words at a time. When I think of speaking while high, I think of this kinda in reverse. When you are high thoughts flow very fast and freely, but the chance of being able to accurately reproduce those words with your mouth goes down a little. Perhaps maybe just more of a tradeoff rather than a negative? At least the problem seems to go away if I stop smoking for a while.

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I read a lot,almost all period,every period in school,i take words on a page exactly as you described in your third example,several at a time,and i sometimes do misread a word,I'll think they is this or them,or something similar to that.I also have a problem with stuttering,I'll start a word and not be able to pronounce or remember how to pronouce the rest of the word and have to settle for another,less accurate,description.But I think it is for the best really,marijuana lets ne look at things from a differnt prespective,sometimes a better one.

But it also has a lot of what i would consider negetive effects,I've noticed lately it takes a lot more will power to do my work in school and it certainly takes a lot more will power to do my extra curicular activitys,on the other hand my reading couldn't be better,I've gone though two books this week and have gotten about 100 pages into another(I meantlast week but for some reason when i go back to retype something it erases what I've writen,anyone know why?)but haven't read at all in two days because i am out of weed,I guess it's a trade off that is hard to accept for me,but one i have accepted ;)

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Originally Posted by KronicKing

But it also has a lot of what i would consider negetive effects,I've noticed lately it takes a lot more will power to do my work in school and it certainly takes a lot more will power to do my extra curicular activitys,on the other hand my reading couldn't be better,I've gone though two books this week and have gotten about 100 pages into another(I meantlast week but for some reason when i go back to retype something it erases what I've writen,anyone know why?)but haven't read at all in two days because i am out of weed,I guess it's a trade off that is hard to accept for me,but one i have accepted ;)

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Dam thats some fast reading. And its probably cause your insert key was pressed (above the arrow keys).