Why do you smoke pot?

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i havent smoke in a long long time, prolly sometime in august
in general, i dont smoke a lot. i used to more in high school, i dont like it that much anymore....im sick of trying to escape reality. and after a certain experience, i dont have the same high tolerance for drugs like i used to.

 

Why not?

 

I'm a dope feind. just kidding narcs!

 

Why do you smoke pot? Is it for medical reasons, entertainment, just to get f'd up, etc...? mainly to relax, for a different kind of conversation, to increase my apetite when i'm having trouble eating that day.

How often do you smoke? Every day, several times a day, hardly ever? every day at least once

Do you feel depressed the day after or wake up with a cloudy head? i don't wake up with a cloudy head (or i'm just used to it ) so no.

Do you feel pot has helped you become more open minded and able to recieve a better joy out of your experiences in life? if by experiences you mean food...

Do you look and act like you smoke or is this something that you can do without drawing attention to it?(crazy talk, fucked up eyes, enters coma state) i kind of talk like a stoner.. but i'm fairly well kempt.

 

ditto

 

i only like the first like 15 minutes of coming up. then i get bored/depressed these days

 

every week, for entertainment

 

see my reply on the last page of the thread "Non-pot smokers!"

 

OK Man AnyWay what falls up must flY Down!!!

 

you get bored? weed i the opposite to boredom for me. i mean, i cant concieve how sitting around sober can be less boring than sitting around stoned...

 

its spinning

 

i smoke to laugh cuz when you laugh everything is all good
and i like the way it feels my tounge gets numb and i'm not responsible for my actions most of the time

 

Wow your life seems to revolve around drugs.

I'll try to be non-judgmental about it, or at least non-insulting, but...
I can't say I think that's a great lifestyle. What's real, for you? I would think that nothing is, unless you've smoked pot for it. How do you know the real deal about anything you experience? You're always (from the sound of it, anyway) experiencing it through the filter of a well-known mind-altering substance of one kind or another.

I haven't ever done drugs. (Okay, exceptions: I've done a few nitrous oxide "whipits" but not in a number of years, and never heavily. And on very very rare occasions I'll have enough alcohol to get drunk.) I don't like the idea of having my thoughts be artificially altered, even if that alteration makes them "more interesting" or profound or whatever. It's not for me.

-Jeffrey

 

All of the things you just said you love doing can be done -- and better -- if your mind is straight and unaltered by foreign substances.

Are you saying that without pot, you could not laugh, create, enjoy, or understand? Are you really arguing that pot truly makes you able to do all of those things better? Are you able to explain why that would be?

And you don't think that given enough time, you'll look back on smoking pot as "lame in retrospect" too?

Well, at least you're admitting that you're addicted.
If I were addicted to something like a drug, I'd be pissed off at that thing, and I'd do what I had to so that I could be un-addicted. I would feel crippled until I had done so, too. How is it that you don't mind being the victim of an addiction?

-Jeffrey

 

But you obviously already know that's not true, so why persist in pretending to yourself that it is? What's the point? You know that the things you're doing to yourself right now will eventually damage your very being -- your body and your mind. What's the point of continuing to do them, unless you plan to die before it can have made a difference?

-Jeffrey

 

oh yes because youd know. for your information, they cannot be done 'better', because weed is the physical amplification of these feelings and functions. its not an external effect that tricks the human brain into thinkning things it shouldnt. its amplifying the things the brain does think of, or at least, the parts of the brain that control these things.

you can remember thigns better while sober
and structure your thoughts better while sober

but the things you remember and the thoughts you structure are much more bland.

i can do them normally but its not as much of an experience.
im not going to explain the neurochemistry of cannabis in this thread, if you really desire to know, you may be privately informed.

maybe, but its not lame at the moment, and with that logic, i shouldnt do anything, since everything would be boring after youve lived long enough. Nothing is truelly learnt unless experienced. I truelly learnt how lame alchohol was. anyone who categorises it without experiencing it intensively doesnt really know why its lame, and hasnt truelly learnt that it is.

some thigns you dont need to learn truelly, like you dont need to learn that shooting yourself is bad by shooting yourself, because thats not only dangerous * a million, its not something that we often judge people for every day, its not productive in any way, and its not a lesson you can understand much from.
or maybe it is? i, at ths point in life would rather keep that lesson for another time..
some lessons are not worth teh pain they cause. however alchohol didnt give me any pain, i never get hangovers and when i get sick, i throw up and feel better.

because what im addicted to is good. the whole point of a psychological addiction is that you like something so much that you dont like not having it. i like cannabis so much that im addicted. if i needed to, id be sad, but i could quit. but i dont need to, and i try my best to keep myself from needing to go without. The detrimental affects of the addiction are not of the type that make me want to quit.


on the other hand, i have a caffiene addiction to an extent. its physical. i dont like it that much. i dont intend to continue drinkning so much coffee after i leave school, unless i have a lifestyle that it benefits. caffiene benefits me when im on it, and im on it when its beneficial. i can put up with tiredness and a bit of a headache every now and then for the ability to stay perked or at least awake when i need to. however i can go without caffiene if i want to. the detrimental effects of this could make me want to quit, and have, but at the moment i can live with the suffering as sacrifice to the benefits i get (though from caffiene theyre not that great, its sorta like you are tired so you drink coffee but your tired BECAUSe you drink coffee)

You can be as witty and as sensible as you want, but your view on drug addiction is of a young teenager. Its not a good thing but its a different thing to what you percieve it to be. you cant understand it till you experience it, but for msot drug addictions, as the case of shooting yourself, the lesson isnt worth the detriment it gives you.

you just need to be aware that you judge things you havnt heard the case of.

 

Nobody under the age of 17 should smoke pot, IMO.
Especially if your still at school.
Leave it all until you pass your exams gain entry to
college and do it all then.

Young stoners and underage drinkers piss me off.

 

thanks nemisis, would you care to ask me how i go in school and waht university entry i desire, first?

though i agree that it would be better to start a bit later.

 

I know this should be in the MJ Forum but I decided to put it here instead. Mainly because this is the forum I spend much of my time in.

Why do you smoke pot? Is it for medical reasons, entertainment, just to get f'd up, etc...?

I use it as an aid to meditation. I use it to, literally, get high. I consciously spend my time looking for, and experiencing those things that nurture a higher consciousness. I use it as an aid to achieve a relatively safe alternative to my habitual, day-to-day perception of reality. It is, of course, the same reality.

When high, I realize how fictional my ego actually is and I gain a type of instant feedback in my perception of, and relationship to reality. Good things, things that are good for one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, inspire delight and wonder, while ignorant, hateful, destructive things just reveal themselves as an obvious waste of time, effort and resources (not to mention a waste of good pot).

How often do you smoke? Every day, several times a day, hardly ever?

I rarely, if ever, smoke it any more. It's really bad for the lungs, you know.

I almost always have a batch of brownies in my freezer, however. I go through a batch in about 3 to 6 months. So, what is that, something like once a week, once every two weeks, two or three times a month.

Do you feel depressed the day after or wake up with a cloudy head?

Nope. I used to get depressed after coming down. But that was before I learned how to pay attention to what the plant was trying to communicate to me. Like I said in answer to your first question, if you spend your time looking for things that expand your consciousness, you end up with good experiences which remain inspiring and uplifting long after the "high" has passed.

Do you feel pot has helped you become more open minded and able to recieve a better joy out of your experiences in life?

Yes. I am sure I sense reality much more directly and openly due to all I have experienced and learned. I think cannibis allows one to suspend habitual patterns of thought long enough to sincerely consider the alternatives and really "see" them as if for the first time.

It is important to be careful about getting too exclusively attached to any one form of quality. A weekend of "Leave It To Beaver" reruns is not necessarily time well spent.

Do you look and act like you smoke or is this something that you can do without drawing attention to it? (crazy talk, fucked up eyes, enters coma state)

My wife, who knows me quite well, says she can't ever tell whether or not I have "had a brownie." Of course, she says it doesn't seem to matter as I am equally unusual either way.