Bodyles wrote:
Before I left home I never smoked weed.
Like many of the younger posters here I had many negative stereotypes associated with it, none of which proved to be accurate.
My second year of college, I made a conscious decision to start smoking it on a daily basis.
Why?
Well, there were several reasons, but the two major ones were:
1. I'm much nicer and more relaxed, in general, when I have some THC in my system than when I don't, even when I'm not 'high'. This leads to better social interactions, and generally to me being happier and more relaxed being around other people.
2. Smoking weed allows me to sleep on a regular basis, something I was never able to do before.
These days I still smoke weed regularly, for the reasons stated above, but also because it has allowed me to relax and focus sufficiently to work and start becoming a productive member of society.
Those of you with negative stereotypes who have never tried it, please try to understand that like all psychoactive substances, weed will have different effects on each individual, and there is no 'typical stoner'.
If you saw me, you would never know I was stoned, even if I had just smoked.
If you talked to me, you still wouldn't be able to tell.
The only way you'd ever know I was stoned is if I told you I was.
Weed helped me become more productive, not less.
It still does.
My medical marijuana recommendation (I live in Cali) was actually issued for my AS.
I'm not saying that weed is for everyone, or that everyone will have similar experiences in terms of its positive effects.
What I am saying is that it is wrong to automatically assume that weed is necessarily a bad thing and that it will ruin your life, and that all people who smoke it are bad in some way.
For me, weed is the medicine that lets me sleep, eases my pain and discomfort, allows me to relax and focus, and makes me a nicer person in general.
I don't smoke it to feel good, I smoke it to feel better.
A subtle, yet extremely important distinction.
To all those people on here who have never smoked it and yet seem to have some awfully strong opinions on the subject: lighten up.
You don't even know what it is you're talking about, so how could you have such strong opinions about it?
You've never smoked weed, yet you look down on those who do? Really!? Please. Get over yourselves.
I have a very similar story. The day I found out the real WHY for people smoking weed was a revelation. It was like " so THIS is why people smoke weed". That sense of release that nts get from going out on a Friday night is what I get when I smoke weed. I realised what an ass I'd been all my life through this feeling of tension that I never knew I had till the morning after. I really did live my life like I had rod up my backside and weed was the long awaited cure that I'd been dismissing all my life because I KNEW BETTER and I was too busy believing the vs argument regarding weed that I'd been distracted into believing. There is nothing harmful or bad about smoking weed and I'm so glad I finally worked that one out.
28 Oct 2013, 11:13 pm
