Geez, what a noisy thread. Tiring to sift through all the rubbish. Anyhow...
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Torkie said: It ain't good for everyone. Naive thread.
QFT.
Personally, I think weed is a lot more powerful than it's often given credit for - that's across the whole positive/negative spectrum. It's also a complex drug, with much variation in the psychoactive profile across the various strains and growing practices. Then, if you start experimenting with the way you take it, like eating it or making hash etc., it can become a different beast for each scenario. Then there’s a swathe of personal factors which come into play which influence how it affects the user. So I think there's a huge scope for variation in intensity and character/content of weed trips, and it can be a big deal.
(Perhaps only by the uninitiated, but) I get the feeling it's often thought of lightly, in the sense that people take a few tokes, get the giggles and have funny ideas, and that's weed. Just a bit of fun. But weed goes way beyond that.
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OZA said: To you weed isn't a big deal. For 4 years in which I smoked every day, weed wasn't a big deal. Since I've slowed my usage greatly while keeping up with psychedelics though, weed has taken a completely new form.. I learned weed has plasticity and can do many different things to you. I've had to give bud a 2 week break after it launched me back into the middle of a LSD trip I was on the day before. I can no longer smoke and study, smoke and socialize, smoke and then drink. So many things.. So I'm wary, as should everybody else who doesn't smoke daily anymore.
I don't care if people smoke daily, but it's just not for me anymore. I know this quote is usually attributed to harder psychedelics than weed but I think the quote "When you get the message, hang up the phone" is appropriate with bud. There's no point of me being high everyday anymore and so I smoke a couple times a week.. Don't try to make your subjective opinions applicable to everybody here
Agreed. I really love weed - it's one of my favourite things - but I find it really interferes with things that are more important to me so I take it pretty lightly these days. To mention a few major negative impacts for me: weed tends to make me over-think things, it makes me very passive, and it makes me (socially) anxious and damages my ability to socialise. I usually vapourise these days but when I smoked weed, it also fucked with my lungs and my breathing. I also think weed promotes thoughts and feelings of paranoia.
Obviously weed has some beautiful effects too, and the negative impacts I feel aren’t felt by everyone – I have friends who can smoke lots and function extremely well – but these bad effects are significant enough to have a major impact on someone’s life. So weed can definitely be a big deal.
I'm not even sure what the OP is trying to say other than he smokes a lot of weed and wants others to accept it or do the same, or basically just share his perception of weed...? But to say weed is not a big deal is simply not true. It’s like saying alcohol isn’t a big deal, whereas it’s obviously been a major factor in the ruining of many people’s lives.
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