Asperger's and Marijuana

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Back when I got my card, I used Anxiety and Depression as my only excuse, and it worked fine.
It was 100 dollars back then for the card, but now it is like 35 dollars.

Well what state do you live in?

I tried that stuff at a New Year's Eve party once. I was sick for a week afterwards. I've never tried it again.

I never smoked pot; I'm straight-edge & have bad sinus problems. I was close to a girl 8 years ago who had some issues with pot & other things. Lots think I'm a pot-head because of the way I act & because I'm very easily confused sometimes. I tend to get along very well with pot-heads but I am very uncomfortable with em doing that stuff around me. I would be interested in trying the pill form of medical marijuana if it would be legal here because I have a tremor disorder that it's sometimes used to treat. The meds I tried for it made me very sick & I think the side-effects from pot are a lot safer. I doubt many people ever felt like they were having a stroke while getting high. f#*cking conservatives refuse to allow it here because they believe people will lie about illnesses so they can get on it. Lots already lie & abuse prescription meds so I don't see what the big freaking deal about pot is

Well as far as I know the pill form is just synthetic THC.......but there are other ways of marijuana consumption then smoking there are edible things, tinctures and stuff like that, probably better then the synthetic crap. But yeah cannabis is quite safe compared to other drugs that are prescribed and even some over the counter things.

Is there a high with the synthetic THC I'm not really interested in getting high

There isn't a "high" with cannabis anyway, unless it is impure. There is a "low".

I am not sure, but THC is one of the most psychologically active chemicals in cannabis....so I would think a strain with a lesser amount of THC would be better then a THC pill if you don't want a noticable high. But I am not an expert on it, and as far as I know there is no way to totally eliminate the high but its possible to take enough just to help with whatever problem your having but not enough for the high I am pretty sure.

Well the euphoria is the reason people refer to it as a high....but it is a relaxed euphoria so I tend to prefer the term stoned.

California... yeah, I guess I didn't consider that it might be different where ever it is you might live.

Damn it, this whole topic and everyone's messages is almost making wish I could do pot again, but only on rare occasions probably. And, I think I would not smoke it, but eat it instead, never tried that.
My psychiatrist was always trying to get me to stop smoking pot as medication because he says it's bad for people with anxiety and depression...

But, that doesn't make sense, since it seemed to make me less depressed and calmed me down a bit... but, I did use it WAY too much, and got crazy paranoid delusions that my neighbors could hear my thoughts and were watching me and making fun of me 24/7... I still get paranoid that my neighbors can hear my thoughts and I get bad auditory illusions of them laughing at me and name calling me, and it has been a whole year since my last pot smoke (I never actually got high because I used it so much that my tolerance was insanely high).
But, that was from using too much everyday. I didn't realize that too much would have such an effect. I was a bit obsessed with pot actually.

Sometimes I drink several beers, like twice a month, and I know better not to overdo it from my experience from smoking too much pot.
I wonder if using weed every once in a while, like once a month, would that do any harm to my paranoid delusions you think?

Well anything in excess can be harmfull......I cant say if occasional use would effect that, because the effects vary so much depending on the individual. As for it being bad for people with anxiety and depression, it is for some people......but then anti-depressants are very bad for some people with depression like me. That was something I never want to experiance again.

I have stopped for now, for various reasons. It turns out I don't have much more motivation, and come to think of it, I never did when I was a kid, either. Every little bit helps, though, right now.

I sure enjoy life more when I smoke some, though. I have smoked way too much strong stuff on occasion and gotten a bit paranoid and freaked out. A good meal with dessert and a couple of cups of strong coffee set me right every time, though.

I have not smoked cannabis for about a month now. Previously I had smoked for years. I struggle to make friends, as I believe do many who frequent this site. Sometimes people with social problems tend to gravitate towards each other, and the acquaintances I made at school generally did cannabis or are doing the same still. In my opinion cannabis became, or is, something I did to avoid having to address my problems directly. Smoking the cannabis seems to make my human problems melt away, but the problems remain as they are. I am then just unaware of my problems, not mindful of them.

I also perceive that myself and those acquaintances I have known for many years, some who face similar problems to myself, and others who share, or shared, similar problems to the spectrum of people who post on this forum, showed increased thought disorder(Wikipedia - Thought Disorder) and delusion( Wikipedia - Delusion) with cannabis use.

I am all for being Mindful( Wikipedia - Mindfulness), but it is something I struggle to achieve. I have read buddhist texts and attended meditation sessions run by Kadampa, yet meditation is difficult for me. I will persevere.

I take some comfort in my being mindful enough to at least not condone drug abuse, and try to practice respect for others.

Hey Teknique,
First of all if you don't identify yourself with AS then that's up to you as long as your symptoms are not so clear that you venture into the area of straight out denial. But who you are today and who you will be tomorrow is mostly up to you
As for pot I am only curious now at 27, I find that I've been a "late bloomer" with a lot of things. One good reason I had not to smoke and do drugs was watching older brothers and sisters who got addicted and started acting like idiots, stealing from their own family and getting in trouble with the cops (they were on other stuff too obviously but mainly pot).
I'm one of those people that probably doesn't need it though. In my last job I used to get picked on and called names in regards to being a pot head just because of the way I am and a friend who smokes used to tell me I'm a pothead without the pot. So I might as well now right? Lol.

Eating pot is much better for you but you need a lot more to get the same effect, which is difficult when it is in most cases illegal and expensive. A vapouriser can be used to minimise the damage to your lungs etc., it generally costs a few hundred dollars.

I smoked for about 20 years, mostly every day. I love the feeling it gives but it does limit the processing power of my brain, especially when used every day. I've found I'm much better at my job and somewhat more sociable now that I have given up. It's been 18 months but I still think about it often, though over time I've realised that I don't need it. There was a long time when I thought I couldn't live without it.

BTW, that same psychiatrist I mentioned happen to put me on anti depressants (zoloft, and zyprexa, and xanax) earlier this year.
I have to say, that **** sucked so hard! I quit them all recently, except for the xanax, which hardly does anything at all.
I was SO angry all of the time for no reason on zoloft, and the zyprexa made me feel lethargic and depressed, and I had worsened anxiety and paranoia.
The Xanax doesn't even relieve me as much as pot did back then for anxiety! Hah!
Maybe I should say **** you psychiatrist and eat bud once a month.