I haven't noticed any BIG changes but I think I've begun to forget the smaller things that I would have remembered sometime ago. It's not the pot completely, I'm sure. I feel like I just don't retain quite as much information as I did before. I don't know how much of it I can blame on natural biological factors(such as natural memory loss, etc - not that I'm old, I'm only 24 haha) and how much I can attribute to heavy pot use.

I started noticing this semester at school that when I would use pot during the schoolweek to get stoned then I felt more forgetful or less likely to retain what I was being taught or reading(over the next day or two). However, if I just used pot to de-stress at the end of the night, just one or two hits I was much better.

It was just a matter of finding out how to balance it with my schoolwork/job and use it appropriately at those times. As far as zapping my motivation there have been times when I would let it get me and I wouldn't want to do a damn thing and I wouldn't. I quickly corrected myself, though. I take school seriously so I had to correct that quick especially since I've decided to press on for my doctorate degree ... and I intend to smoke the entire way through (assuming I feel like it, things may change and I'll quit smoking). I just have to be respectful of what it can do.

Physically the only change I can really tell is the effect smoking has had on my lungs. They feel a little more constricted. It isn't horrible and isn't really causing any problems. I do plan to fix this in the new year and invest in a nice vaporizer so that I may hopefully save my lungs. Other than the effect on my lungs I think I'm just paranoid that I've been putting on weight due to munchies. I let that get out of control when I was in school so I'm assuming it was a combination of the pot and stress that was making me want to eat more.

I say that stress from school(and work) played a big, big role in my overeating while I was high because now that school is out I don't really have the munchies and I'm smoking the same pot I was just a couple of weeks ago. They seem to nearly have disappeared. I do still want a little something now and then but I don't overdo it like I was. As far as the weight gain I think it is all paranoia because, well the scale didn't change haha and my metabolism is pretty quick.

Sorry didn't mean to type a novel - I haven't even been smoking yet. About to do that right now. :jointsmile: