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Has weed helped you ?

I've found over the last ten years or so of smoking weed has helped me in a lot of ways but also held me back at times.

It helps me to think creatively (I'm an artist and musician), can help a lot with insomnia and anxiety, just generally helps me to quiet my mind sometimes.

At the times when I'm really smoking a lot I find it can make me pretty lazy and apathetic. Working on various projects while stoned is fun, but when I'm smoking all day I find that I just don't actually START anything.
 
think most of the weed ive smoked has been Indica, hardly ever get motivated on weed. need to find some Sativa
 
You need to know a grower really, most mersh is indica 'cos it grows short, fat and quick. There is a fair bit of sativa about in Devon, Power Plant and Hazes.
 
Jesusgreen said:
I disagree.

Indica = Sit around all day, eat your weight in fast wood.

Sativa = Creative insight, draw, read, do cool shit, and actually get off your ass. But comes with the downside of lots of paranoia etc.

That said I usually prefer indica, since I smoke weed to relax, not to help me get stuff done.

Weed has helped me to deal with stress during hard times, to meet some really awesome people, to calm down and appreciate that everyone's human and I don't need to overreact to people like I used to. It's generally made me a more relaxed person.
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The person that gets 'lots of paranoia etc"... is also gonna' be paranoid etc.. on C. Indica also - maybe more.
hardcheeba needs to find a hardjobba...
 
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Fire&Water said:
The person that gets 'lots of paranoia etc"... is also gonna' be paranoid etc.. on C. Indica also - maybe more.
HaerCheeba needs to get a hardjobba...
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Definitely not more, but of course there'll be some paranoia if you smoke a lot, but I have never had any paranoia on pure Indica, usually get a bit on hybrids, and Sativas leave me looking like a tweaker peering out my windows thinking the cops are coming ROFL :D
 
I find I actually get a little more anxiety/paranoia with indicas than sativas.. though I don't really get much with either. I think indicas tend to make me feel a little more confused/stoned while sativas are a little more uplifting and clearheaded.
 
Sort of a double edged sword as some have stated. It's absolutely wonderful as far as curing hangovers (and related symptoms hangovers can cause on their own I assume) and helping me sleep. It's terrible at making me excessively eat and feel terrible with myself despite not having any weight issues or anything of the likes, it just feels entirely unnecessary and disgusting human behavior (but GOT DAMNED if it ain't deliciousness in every bite). It helps me think in a different way, I can often have more creative thought processes or inspirations, however its lazy/sleepy effects often leave me unmotivated to act on them while actually high, but can help in the long run. For example, getting high and watching Sufjian Stevens play "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" may very well be my inspiration for buying a guitar (even though he uses a banjo) and developing a hobby out of it which may have been one of the best choices of my life. It's also a great way to relax and be put in a better mood, although the anxiety, especially social sometimes can get in the way of this and sometimes it can often make me more depressed if already prone to it prior to smoking. It's also addicting I've come to realize. Not in any obvious physical sense (except sleeping without it, while usually on it is significantly harder), but I find usually when people smoke a while they continue to do so. In my personal experiences, not smoking is much easier when you don't do it so frequently, but not so much when you do. Moreso in the sense of, "Well why not smoke again?" rather than feeling like I "need" it, but I don't think that undermines its more addictive qualities. I noticed similar behavior patterns in my friends. Ultimately, I find it can be a rather beautiful and creative inducing drug in small spurts that can negatively impact motivation and can lead to a bit too much usage. I'm only talking personal experience here however.
 
I have smoked pretty consistantly for the past four years of my life.

I can say that absolutely nothing good has come out of my marijuana habit.

I have wasted thousands and thousands of dollars and am chemically dependant. Today is day one of being straight edge . god help me =(
 
Props for the honesty b4rd!

Weed has helped me sleep, kept me entertained on otherwise shitty days and just generally made bad stuff good.

As for the underlying causes as to why I feel so shitty so much of the time, it's done nothing to help.
 
Destroyed me at first (Got too high using a vape first few times -underestimating the effect- it was THE SCARIEST experience I ever had), now it helps me.
 
hardcheeba said:
Sorry OP but you're fucking lying or not high.. the only thing anyone reads when high is a Taco Bell drive thru menu or an internet forum..
Weed makes people lazy... it's a fact, anyone who says otherwise is trying to defend the drug. Weed has helped me relieve stress, and cure boredom.. THAT IS IT. It's an incredibly unmotivating drug, there's a reason why the stereotyped "pothead" is a lazy bum who lives with his parents at 30 and eats doritos all day..
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Pot has so many more usages than that.

I love to jog, when not too paranoid, when high and everything about the high I cherish as an intellectual and spiritual adventure that opens up new ways of thinking and feeling. Admittedly it can be used to pig out, savoring every last bit of food, and watching shows that are now strangely funny. But it definitely has very positive usages and I find those to have literally saved some of my faith in everything. It's not a drug to get stuff done on, there are stimulants for that, it's a good drug to explore oneself on though without the full brunt of hallucinogens. If pot doesn't affect you like that you either have had way too much weed in your life or are simply not stimulated in that way by the drug. Or maybe the quality is just shit of what you have.

EDIT: Bad things are the paranoia and negative self-image. But those can be easily dealt with given some ingenuity and focus.
 
It was alot more fun when I was young then I got sick,now using it for pain relief but feel so unmotivated . Dus help but not great
 
I have had an anxiety disorder and OCD tendencies with trouble self soothing for a hell of a long time. It took me forever to learn decent coping skills and once I did I still would have occasional panic attacks or trouble sleeping due to anxiety and would have to take medication for it. But the meds seem to make me emotionally unstable for a day or 2 after, not to mention tolerant and dependent. I tried so many things to make life, well bearable for me. Weed, helped. My anxiety is usually so much under control that I can serve people in crisis and help them through it. I can counsel others and give back to my community. All it takes is a bowel or 2 to unwind after a long day or on a day off. I can manage my life so much better. Thats what weed has done for me and I think there are a lot of success stories out there like that. I think thats why America's opinion (Gallup poll) on marijuana is starting to change. I just wish the laws would follow suit so we just don't have to hide and break laws anymore...
 
EndlessSummer said:
Pot has so many more usages than that.

I love to jog, when not too paranoid, when high and everything about the high I cherish as an intellectual and spiritual adventure that opens up new ways of thinking and feeling. Admittedly it can be used to pig out, savoring every last bit of food, and watching shows that are now strangely funny. But it definitely has very positive usages and I find those to have literally saved some of my faith in everything. It's not a drug to get stuff done on, there are stimulants for that, it's a good drug to explore oneself on though without the full brunt of hallucinogens. If pot doesn't affect you like that you either have had way too much weed in your life or are simply not stimulated in that way by the drug. Or maybe the quality is just shit of what you have.

EDIT: Bad things are the paranoia and negative self-image. But those can be easily dealt with given some ingenuity and focus.
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I cannot express this enough...You just have not been in the right setting !!! That is 95% of how the smoke is going to affect you !
 
i think weed has worsened my already lazy and unmotivated personality, but i still enjoy it and its good to get to sleep aswell
 
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