How long have you been using cannabis?

[squidhead]

Only started recently (2 weeks ago) but have been smoking regularly ever since.

I envy you. You're just starting on the best years of your life. I remember when I 1st started tokin 39 yrs ago....wait a sec, I rescind that statement. I can't remember what I had for dinner, let alone 4 decades ago. 8( 8)

 

[chizzorock]

7 years with a couple week or month long breaks in between, the only reason i do take breaks is money BUT NOT LATELY !

 

[effingcustie]

7 years since i tried it, about 5 1/2 since i started doing it regularly. go through periods where i'm smoking several times a day, and other times where i'm smoking maybe once a week. i try to keep my use down enough that it doesn't interfere with functioning according to what my responsibilities are and how much money i have at any given time

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

5years

 

[kadaj]

5 years (16-21) with my heaviest years being 17-20. even with the cut downs only headies really does it for me in terms of actually being blazed.

 

[AtlBOY]

on and off for almost ten years now...wow.

 

[Student]

i think 5 years now? Hard to say really, i'v never found too much use in keeping track of time. Daily with only a couple very short breaks and i feel fine! Although i have been tempted to take a month break just to see what its like again, but it really doesnt seem like that great of tradeoff

So when i meet old heads, and i love older stoners, great stories and experience, I always am curious about how long term use has effected them. So for all you who've smoked for 10+ years, how are you holding up? Would you say it has effected your mental/physical health positively or negatively? How are your lungs? (especially interesting if you dont smoke anything but ganj/hash) And anything else you have observed would be really cool to learn about.

But i probably should start another thread eh?

 

[MyDoorsAreOpen]

The effect on the lungs is definitely non-negligible, and something to consider. I suffer frequent mild bronchitis, especially in cold weather. I don't feel like my lung capacity has diminished, and I have no difficulty with aerobic exercise like biking, abut my lungs do feel a bit sore from time to time.

When I quit for a year, I was hacking up marijuana-flavored phlegm for a good month and a half afterwards.

 

[squidhead]

So when i meet old heads, and i love older stoners, great stories and experience, I always am curious about how long term use has effected them. So for all you who've smoked for 10+ years, how are you holding up? Would you say it has effected your mental/physical health positively or negatively? How are your lungs? (especially interesting if you dont smoke anything but ganj/hash) And anything else you have observed would be really cool to learn about.

It's been 39 years of weed-tokin & 41 years of cig-smoking. I just quit cigs about a month ago, so I wouldn't be a good example of 'how weed-smoking has affected my lungs'.
I never have had any kind of cough or shortness of breath...been very lucky in that aspect. As far as how it's affected my life [career, motivation, ambition, outlook, etc]...it hasn't had any negative effects at all. I worked at a newspaper for 20 years & then got into rental property.
I sold my 1/2 of the rental property business & was retired by age 50 [I'm now 54]. If anything has an adverse effect on a person's life, it's alcohol. I've been so hungover before that I couldn't even get outta bed. I've NEVER had to call into work because of weed, but have had to many a time for booze hangovers.
I think some people get sucked into that old wive's tale about marijuana making 1 unmotivated & left ambitionless [is that a word?]. Untrue!! Now you could let it get that way, but a person can get that way from anything...not just weed.
I'll take a stoner anyday over a drunk!!

 

[gorgoroth]

I'd say 3 or 4 years take care...

 

[ghburns]

i think 3 years...maybe 4...yea probaly 4 years but only one year of heavy use (currently in heavy usee year lol) im guessing im gunna have at least 35 years in before i even think of quitting weed...does nothing bad to me and when i take breaks i really dont feel that much better than when i am stil smoking

~GH~

 

[chris_159]

since I was 13, although was only once a week for the 1st year. Only really became habitual in the last year, especially once I started uni. IT's the first environment I've lived in where there's no reason not to get high in my room at 12am when I've got nothing on. Although it's getting a little expensive now, mind.

 

[U4ic]

I first smoked herb when I was 15 and now I am 37..Been smoking ever since....

 

[hey_papi]

8 years, about half of them with daily (multiple times a day) usage. This past year I'm trying to stop; I only enjoy weed now by myself as it tends to give me ego crushing paranoia.

Sometimes I still smoke when its not a good idea and get paranoid as fuck (i.e. meetings with my PhD supervisor, wake and bakes before important things like teaching, etc...). Don't let people tell you pot isn't addictive :/

 

[S.M.F.G]

14 yrs ago started occasionaly, 10 yrs ago was smokin every day longest iv been without was about two weeks, that was nearly 2 yrs ago. its nearly time 4 me to move somewhere i can grow and cook with it... too much smoking is bad m'kay.

 

[nukka]

Bout 5 years... 4 of them being more or less daily

 

[Thanatos]

I've been smoking since i turned 13. I think thats about the proper time to introduce yourself to psychoactives, that is if you are able to keep your cool and be responsible.

 

[squidhead]

Out of any substance used for recreational purposes, I'd say weed is the least dangerous. Way less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco.
So I ask, why can people purchase cigs & booze, but not pot?

POLITICIANS AGAINST LEGALIZATION SUPPORT ORGANIZED CRIME

 

[Canis aureus]

I've smoked cannabis 25 years ! And I will smoke it...

I like cannabis the best, when smoked not too often. The THC content of mine should not grown too high in Percentage. And it would, if I smoke every day. I know that from experience: I smoked a large amount in total when I was younger, and I have to admit that I smoked way too much.

It was just the same, sanity through insanity, with pot like it was/is/ will be regarding every drug I could get my hands on! I have to search at least two extremities, and only after these, I could find my way to do it reasonably enough. Firstly I use a piggy way, then I have a monky refrainment! Afterwards, I could study the uncontrolled and the over-controlled; and after studies, I could possibly live the balance: controlled agreement, after searching

And:

I did search, oh boy, didn't I search!

"Those who search, will find"


Cannabis I'm a long timer, soon the longtimer; never thought about quitting. But after too much, there was period of too little. And now, I just don't smoke from daily basis! If Cannabis will be smoked often, its effects will loose quality; there will appear some unwanted side-effets: super-sensitivity to stress factors and unwanted lethargy...

When younger and in the beginning of my career I smoked mostly hashish and way too much, but novadays I smoke only marijuana and not too often.

 

[Rexeh]

6 Years now, of which 5 daily... Luckily I'm back to smoking on weekends only since two months now \o/ was pretty easy to do, except the change in lifestyle, but as long as I have something to do Cannabis isn't even on my mind during weekdays

One big advantage is that I have a lot more money to buy better weed, most of which is some sort of Haze lately