Has Weed effected your Intellengence,Memory,Concerntration ect. ? (Be Honest)

i feel like its messed with my perseption of life, i always heard people say it changes your view on reality which i guess has happend to me, opend my eyes a bit. it given me a lot of anxiety that i never had before.. my intellect is better than it was before i smoked and my memory, well, we all know weed wont help that. i cant smoke mid day or im in a fog the rest of the day and it sucks..

 

No permanent effects at all. I've taken long breaks, and came completely back to normal after regularly smoking for three months or so. People think it ruins your mind but it doesn't. It takes over a month for it to get out of your body completely if you are a regular smoker, so people instantly think that it permanently destroys your memory and such.

All changes in my life since starting have been for the better. My grades are going up (it actually helps more than my adderall with my add, a LOT more, it just hurts my memory when stoned, but the day after my memory is almost perfect and I am a lot more relaxed and focused) my social life is better, my guitar playing is improving a shitload, and my depression is basically gone.

The only negative effect is memory, which is entirely temporary for me.

 

My memory and concentration; only while I'm high.

The only long term effects I've seen from it is learning what sorta things are logical to worry about, and being a lot more open and easy going around people.
Possibly some undetected lung damage as well, but I live in Pittsburgh and am surrounded by smokers, my lungs are fucked.

 

I have been using marijuana since July 4th 1976, a story I go into great detail about in another thread. In some ways I think it has caused me a number of problems. It shut my motivation down in high school till I took an electronics elective and people realized I was just bored! The Navy stationed me at Pearl Harbor. GOOD weed folks. Then they started drug testing, so I got out.

I should have gone to college, but I decided to party instead. By the time I finally did get to college, a decade later, I had a criminal record and a long line of addictive issues involving anything that would keep we up. I loved the way speed made my mind shift into overdrive. So I made lots of money during those years, but I developed problems from the drugs.

So I went back to using pot. Pot kept the demon happy so I could lead a normal life. Only now everybody was drug testing and pot is the easiest thing to detect for the longest period of time. So I gave it up for a while to jump start my career. In honesty, it worked. In 3 years I doubled my income and took on all kinds of outside corporate training, even 6-Sigma certification!

Then my job became amazingly tedious. I had learned all I could about the tools, the subject matter was dull corporate or commercial crap. The people I was working with were all high strung corporate dorks who were slaving 50 to 70 hours a week so they could keep the huge rolling steel mountain and the McMansion with the 6000 square foot deck.

To top things off I was having back trouble, knee trouble, kidney stones and sinus infections. So I was on a LOT of drugs. The pain drugs were the worst because the dosages were far too high for me. I never liked narcotics, so I had almost no tolerance to them. I also hated the way they made me feel and I was unable to do even the most mundane work tasks without fookin them up in some way.

So I scored some pot. Within a week my symptoms were under control. Nausea was history and I was able to take far less of any pain drugs to keep my spine from crippling me or my kidney from making me scream in public. But the best part was that I was aable to get back into my work with a vengeance. I took more and more contract jobs, fast money, few questions about "habits".

Which brings me to the point. I just finished a major project for a huge, industrialized agricultural corporation well into America's middle snow belt. I had to produce dozens of corporate documents from marketing collateral to departmental speeches, presentations and examinations. Most of the factual information was already researched, so I was only there to spin it into a pile of corporaate crap that was to make them look like they had their shiite together for a LONG time.

The project took 7 weeks, 2 ink jet cartridges, 4 packs of paper, 2 cases of Diet Pepsi, 40 grams of pot, 11 Weight Watcher's Paninis, 2 Zatarain's Blackened Chicken Alfredos, 9 Vicodins, 4 bottles of Merlot, 2 bottles of Shiraz 1 bottle of scotch (Balvenie Doublewood), 2 cases of bottled water, 40 Dan-Active immunity boost yogurt shots, 2 ribeye steaks, 12 servings of salmon, a box of granola cereal, 12 eggs and I tried salvia twice before I finally got it right!

The job paid me almost $12K, so I'm hoping to take the summer off when my kids get out of school. I'm probably not going to toke much this summer as I need to get into shape. Smoking is smoking. I also hired an assistant, so about a grand goes to her.

In hindsight I probably would have done better if I had never taken thaat first toke. I'll say that to my grave. Not because pot is bad. But because I am prone to addiction and I should never have started. Now that I have, I'm happy my demon is cool with something as benign as pot!.......

CF

 

I like your attitude towards it all.
A lot of people shift all the blame onto the substances because it's easier that way.

I'm glad you were able to get your shit into gear for the most part, and your story gives me hope for my own life