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Potheads: are you a social smoker?
#8041306 - 02/19/08 01:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm just wondering what everyone's take is on this. I've been smoking pot, pretty much every day (with week or three breaks here and there) for about 12 years now. I used to smoke almost exclusively with my friends, very rarely did I ever smoke alone.. it was good times and I was pretty much with my friends all the time anyway. For the first couple years I was really social and creative whenever I got high no matter who I was around.
Nowadays, I prefer to smoke alone most of the time. Maybe I've just turned into a hermit.. most of my close friends moved across the country long ago. But I tend to feel more socially awkward when I get stoned around groups of people. I'm pretty introverted by nature, but pot seems to magnify that.. whereas in years past it used to diminish it. This isn't really an issue around close friends, or people I know well or am very close to. Seems to be more so with strangers/people I don't know very well, which happens a lot. Especially at social gatherings and festivals and whatnot.
Now don't get me wrong.. nothing quite like passing around a bowl of some sticky icky and shooting the shit with people.. and I'm of the opinion that pot is for sharing. But I think I smoke alone far more often than with others nowadays.. seems whenever I get baked around people I'm not very familiar with, I just shut down and my brain goes into zombie mode. Which is weird. Because when I toke alone, or with good friends... I'm usually very open and happy and just plain.. well joyful.
Or maybe I've just smoked way too much. Which is a possibility. But it hasn't lost its magic for me. When it does, I just take a break for a while. I've never had the desire to quit pot altogether, we are homeboys.. we go way back. I will most likely smoke it until I am an old old man.. it has been my drug of choice for over 10 years now.
Or maybe I've just turned into a social retard and pot magnifies that. Since most of my friends moved, I've stuck pretty much to myself.. work.. home.. read.. play music.. play video games, whatever. Unless a girlfriend is in the equation somewhere.. where the majority of my free time is spent. And maybe I've just gotten so used to getting high alone that it seems weird when its around other people now. And smoking with a significant other is basically the same thing in my opinion.
But it's not like I'm a complete hermit either. I meet new people all the time. And smoking is like, a ritual. Just when I'm at home I'm usually by myself. I thought travelling around the country and meeting new people all the time would help me develop some better social skills, but it didn't.
I don't know. Just felt like making a thread. Long ass tangent over now.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041319 - 02/19/08 01:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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when i did smoke (smoked for 10 years, haven't smoked since april) i mostly liked to smoke alone or with my close friends. but i preferred to smoke alone mostly. although it was always fun to smoke with my dad, he's quite hilarious.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041323 - 02/19/08 01:09 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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i prefered alone i kind of shut down after smoking too
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: alphabeatu]
#8041339 - 02/19/08 01:13 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041348 - 02/19/08 01:15 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I smoke alone due to my social retardness which is further enhanced when I smoke.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#8041366 - 02/19/08 01:21 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well at least I'm not alone.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Tangerines]
#8041369 - 02/19/08 01:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I smoke alone but once I'm feeling uplifted I'll be around people (and maybe smoke some more with those people, who knows)
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Coaster]
#8041371 - 02/19/08 01:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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well depends on what im smoking. indica/sativa
id much rather prefer smoking bud that gets you up, high, rather than stoned slower.
but i usually end up smoking bud that gets you fucking stoned/slow and im usually the most laidback quiet one. i just can't help it i guess, im naturally introverted.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Astral_JL]
#8041375 - 02/19/08 01:24 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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indica is the uplifting variety is it not?
I dont really know the difference, if its green and sticky I'll smoke it
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Robo]
#8041387 - 02/19/08 01:29 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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yes, it is not
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Robo]
#8041399 - 02/19/08 01:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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if i can remember correctly, i think its the sativa strains that are more uplifting.
"if its green and sticky I'll smoke it" i follow that same philosphy, but id just rather it be more of a cerebral high, and less of sleepy high.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041409 - 02/19/08 01:36 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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In social situations with a bunch of people I don't know, I do best if I'm with someone I can bounce off of well to make everyone laugh.
Cannabis makes me think better for the most part, and recently I've learned to use this to my advantage in social situations by thinking of better group comments to make and such, rather than just thinking about my own things.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041415 - 02/19/08 01:40 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've been a hardcore introvert for most of my life, so smoking alone is a given, but I'll hang out with my brother on occasion and smoke a few bowls, catch up with each other's thoughts/ideas.
Anyways, just got home from work and it's time for a smoke methinks
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041427 - 02/19/08 01:47 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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course you're not alone, babe!
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#8041450 - 02/19/08 02:15 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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That sums up the way I've been feeling about it lately. Sometimes the bud I smoke and the quantity affects that but for the most part I tend to smoke alone and chill out.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Acidic_Sloth]
#8041463 - 02/19/08 02:25 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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also an ex daily smoker, took a 2 1/2 year break while on housearrest, and smoking since then isnt the same. maybe cuz i dont have the same group of friends i did back then, but when i smoke now, i feel lke the whole world is attacking me. i get really defensive about everything. not outwardly, like you wouldnt notice, but i sure do. lately even around the closest of friends and family members i get intimidated, and im never intimidated by anytihng when im sober. the only thing in life i fear is God, and its like when i smoke now, i fear so much. i get cold when its not cold. i doubt all the things i KNOW i can do very well. the other night b4 a prayer i actually asked to be allowed to pray to God in the state i was in....and going from daily smoke, to feeling this way when i smoke, i dont think its worth it to smoke. if i do it again, its going to be alone. away from everything, like out in a stream or out in the woods, where my head and heart wont steer me wrong. i dont know if this is part of getting older. part of not smoking regularly after devoting all my time as a young boy to smoking and now hardly ever. or if its somethng going on in me, where my higher power says MJ isnt part of the plan i have for you.....just kinda cool im not the only one that weed makes an anti socialite when it used to be the great social connector for most of us....
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: just me]
#8041527 - 02/19/08 03:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I have been smoking weed for the past four years on a daily basis. Only recently has it been possible for me to smoke in my own room as im still under the same roof as my parents, they dont seem to mind.
I have been smoking 1 or 2 bongs a night just to chill me out for the past couple of months and it has been great times. I feel this is mainly due to the fact ive never really done it before.
Smoking weed with my close mates is equally as good but i always seem to go through so much more weed, understandably. I do find it awkward at times smoking weed infront of someone i dont know, especially if they dont smoke it themselves as i dont feel as social when im high.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041587 - 02/19/08 04:26 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I usually like to focus on nature or some kind of art (usually music) and generally find stoner conversation tedious and distracting so alone it is.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041801 - 02/19/08 07:23 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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ive learned the hard way that smoking with groups of people is a bad idea for me
my social anxieties seep in through the back of my mind and i get really confused
too confused to know whats going on with other people
its overwhelming
i find being stoned or even tripping alone is beautiful and rarely turns bad
it lets me breath and gives me time to think
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: sirbojangles]
#8041836 - 02/19/08 07:46 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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4 years in (daily), here's my higherarchy of preference:
-closest friends -alone -random peeps
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041848 - 02/19/08 07:51 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I def. get weird when I smoke around people that aren't friends.
Or maybe I'm weird stoned anyway and I don't care in front of my friends. 
Alcohol will always be my favorite for non-familiar situations
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8041858 - 02/19/08 07:55 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'll smoke where-ever (safe), with whoever, and no limit to how much I smoke, with out ever feeling socially awkward; I atrribute this to the fact I always considered myself socially awkward to begin with.
SO since pot makes me happy and feel more creative, it is really just another feeling to tack on to the social awkwardness that is already there.
I'm a weirdo when it comes to first impressions. So I've been told.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Apollyphelion]
#8041867 - 02/19/08 08:02 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Either alone or with people I trust is fine with me.
I am paranoid about strangers though. If it's a fairly public occasion and I don't know some of the people involved, I'll abstain.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Boom]
#8041916 - 02/19/08 08:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Boom said: I def. get weird when I smoke around people that aren't friends.
Or maybe I'm weird stoned anyway and I don't care in front of my friends. 
Alcohol will always be my favorite for non-familiar situations
I get quiet alot of times that I smoke with people that I don't know, or am unfamiliar with. Otherwise, I generally like to smoke with others rather than by myself. I find that I smoke only sporatically if I am alone.
Alcohol does ease the anxiety of social situations, but it can loosen you up a little too much at times, as well. There's a fine line between cool and not cool in regards to the booze.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: memes]
#8042008 - 02/19/08 09:23 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Getting stoned is a personal mindframe imo. I don't really like dealing with other people when im stoned. Sometimes its fun, most times it's annoying. I do on the other hand love getting stoned with my dogs around. they are funny as hell.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8042038 - 02/19/08 09:35 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Meh, idc if i smoke alone or with peeps for the most part. Im fairly introverted, so i dont chat alot when im high, i mostly ramble on some odd point.
I love listening to other people, even more when im stoned. So friend or strangers are ok with me to toke with.
But more often im alone, because there is no one free to smoke with when im lighting up.
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Re: Potheads: are you a social smoker? [Re: Shroomism]
#8043148 - 02/19/08 02:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I definitely feel the same regarding smoking with complete strangers. Then again, I'm like that around complete strangers in social situations when I'm NOT stoned. It's just the way I am; I'm introverted and shy. And pot tends to enhance whatever it is you're feeling, so it makes sense that things would be awkward around people I don't know. Don't feel like that around close friends though, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood for people's company and I want to chill out and listen to music. I'm tired a lot and I'm also deaf, so if I'm worn out then conversation takes about 200% effort and isn't pleasant for me.
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