Marijuana?

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I've been looking for tools to relieve stress and anxiety, and it's legal where I live. I could literally walk into a store and buy some edibles (smoking stuff is just... ugh). I wouldn't have thought of this before, but I had a coworker mention how he does this and my mom's boyfriend does the same thing to good results.

If it makes me less anxious after a long week? I could see myself doing this as a semi-regular thing. If it doesn't help? No big deal.

What I'm curious about is if any other aspies here have tried this, or known someone on the spectrum who has... and what sort of results they got. Some things do seem to affect us in weird ways. What's your experience been like with cannabis?

I just know if I started doing drugs I'd never pull myself back out. Normal life sucks too much. That's why I stay away, otherwise I'd be a goner.

You should read up on the long-term effects. Not sure you want that.

It's good to know your limits, yes. As for long-term effects, it's hard to say but you're right that I ought to do research and I do intend to.

I mean I would enjoy it too much and will escape into it, and that would be the end of me.

Right, so in this case your limit is "none". That's useful knowledge!

Start small and be patient, edibles can seem really subtle at first, then before you know it you're gripping the sheets holding onto the bed and waiting for the spinning to stop. That being said, I've found very small amounts to work pretty well for sleep and relaxation, knocks me right out. Working in food, everyone around me smokes the stuff constantly and seems to do fine, so I imagine there must be a significant tolerance effect if you use it frequently.

That's actually really useful information, Dox47. Sounds like exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, but I can see how it would be easy to overdo it.

Glad to help, I got cocky with the edibles when they first came out and ate more than the recommended dose, and it wasn't the best...

I've looked into research on Marijuana for anxiety and the research is conflicting. They say for some it can help, for others, the paranoia actually makes anxiety worse.

For me personally, it helps a great deal. It slows my thoughts down, it's like a little vacation from the crap going on in my head. As far as sleep, I haven't figured out if it helps me get to sleep, or if I just don't mind laying in bed for hours trying to sleep as much when I'm high, but either way, it's better. I've tried a few other drugs when I was much younger and didn't care for them, but weed has really helped me. I've never felt the need to move up to other drugs.

Hope that helps. Take care.

It's different from person to person. But For me it helps quite bit. I would suggest giving it a try. Just take it slow. It's easy to get too high if you're not used to it. It's not sold in dispensaries where I live but from what I heard the people who work at these places can walk you through everything.

Yea, start small since you wont have any tolerance. It is a good stress and anxiety reliever, makes me less down when I am most down. Very effective medication for all types of things, I have had a hard time eating and have lost a lot of weight recently but cannabis makes me do a 180 on it.

In the past, I've used marijuana to treat my depression. The great thing about it was I didn't need to use it indefinitely. Sometimes just a couple of weeks of smoking it once a day lifted me out of a deep depression.

I think vaporizing is the best way to go -- minimal impact on your lungs. Dox47 makes an excellent point about edibles. It's very hard to gauge the dosage.

It works for me. And vaping with hash oil cartridges is the way to go.

This is what happened to my brother. 17 months younger than me, and with no AS, he was my parent's "great white hope" but to no avail. One step-after-the-other took him to a life of crime, eventually to drugs and more, worse crimes then prison, the Mexican Mafia and eventually suicide, while leaving two families and children without support.

He was mostly just goofy old "Ron" until he started the path from weed to heroin and crack. He turned to heavy duty armed crime and armed robbery thanks to "friends" found along the way. This was a 30 year journey that began when he was about 20.

Long term physical effects of weed are generally minor and making weed legal takes it out of the hands of people who want to sell you crack. My hat's off to WA and other states who will do this for their citizens.

But be aware of the dangers. Please.

Works for me, been a regular and sometimes heavy smoker for all my adult life, no long terms problems to speak of and I haven't degenerated into a life of crime either . I like to smoke a joint with a glass of cider after a stressful day, cheers my right up and often prevents a meltdown.

The only time it can cause problems is in particularly stressful environments where I can a little paranoid but I usually smoke by myself or with close friends so that's rarely an issue.

It's important not to spend all day everyday high otherwise you will never be able to perform to you maximum potential and regular breaks will prevent you from developing too much of a tolerance ( a little tolerance improves the experience for me but too much just gets expensive) and it's nice to know that you're not actually addicted to it.

edit: forgot to put the not in the last sentence.

Last edited by milksnake on 14 Jun 2016, 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

In my younger years I used Kava(not the coffee)
I started back with the tea(actually a Tisanes)

Any body else try this calmer?