Marijuana not only makes me happier, but it makes me smarter.

[dillpickel]

I've loved and hated weed. Don't get me wrong, it can be abused and can negatively affect a person's life. However, I believe that if managed properly, it can actually be used to an extremely large benefit.

I've smoked weed for about a year now, on and off. I recently started one of the longest breaks I've had since a year ago (about a month). During my break, I was feeling pretty depressed and started using lots of kratom and alcohol (each every other day). I've now realized that this occurred due to my lack of spirituality. I now realized that the weed had always provided me with a sense of positive belief in the world and society (what I call good spirituality). I started to view everything in an increasingly negative way and lost my sense of love for myself. This is hard to explain. I felt more confident, but also had far less meaning set to my life. I lived in the moment a lot more and didn't really think of a deeper purpose to life.

Today I took a bit of an edible and immediately my entire outlook on my life and reality as a whole changed. At first I just relaxed and suddenly become a genius at chess. Then I began to gain more motivation on life as a whole. All my previously fleeting goals and ideals began to come back to me. I became more positive, and my goals all seemed to become closer and far more reachable than they were before. Lastly, I became far more interested in studying or playing chess/league of legends. I began to think more deeply and critically about more things with ease.

This rapid and radical change shows how there could very possibly be a benefit to moderate marijuana use. What do y'all think?

Now I've tried living a THC-free life to no avail. So now I'm not only discovering the benefits of marijuana use, but also wondering whether I can be happy without it :D

Do you guys think that perhaps the weed is just my required spirituality and that if I begin meditation I would be able to live without it?

What do y'all think.

 

[KneelB4Doom]

That's awesome you it helps you in that way.

For me cannabis doesn't help as far as studying/reading and retaining the information. It helps with creative thinking though. Like thinking outside of the box to problem solve.

 

[DoctorMolecule]

I agree with a lot of what you said. My only difference in opinion is I don't believe a 'negative' spirituality exists only a lack of one. Take the laws of thermodynamics for example. There is no such thing as 'cold' only an absence of heat. Spirituality (to me at least) is a realization that there really is no 'hate' but an absence of love. Pot is really neither good nor bad, it's a tool. It may not inspire progress in life but may prevent regression. Fire can burn your house down but can also keep you warm in the wilderness. There is a time and place to get high but there are also times and places a clear head is important. Pot is some pretty fantastic medicine, but it's not an end all cure-all for all of life's various ills and woes.