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Teens smoking weed..Is it a good idea ?

Is it a good idea?

Fuck yes

Some of my best memories from my teenage years center around me and my friends first discovering weed, smoking out of cans on the railroad tracks, sneaking around our parents, and generally getting into sketchy/hilarious situations due to our desperation to score a couple grams of schwag. No doubt you can have a fulfilling and entirely satisfactory life without carnal knowledge of mary j but it is a damn nice spice.

I started smoking when I was 16. Mostly due to practical reasons I didn't start smoking heavily until I was 18. However, for my 18th birthday I bought myself a vape and have made good use of one since. If you're going to smoke 3-4 times a day then switching to mainly vaping will do a great deal to limit any damage to your health. Trust me, you'll learn to love vaping soon enough.

You're young and I'm relatively sure you haven't done any permanent damage to your health yet no matter how much you smoke. I have asthma so my lungs are quite sensitive to smoke but if anything I have less issues with breathing than I did at 16, despite smoking more blunts than a little bit. I have not declined intellectually and do well in school and am still a good boy. I personally know many adults who smoked heavily in their teens (and often still do) who are very much mentally stable.
 
I'd say no, my ex deeply, deeply regretted smoking - it triggered a drug induced psychosis from which he never fully recovered. He had a tendancy to be affected by drugs this way - but never knew it until a psychotic episode- and so many like him wouldn't know either. This also happened to my cousin who suffers severe schizophrenia (triggered from heavy pot use) - both m ex and cousin started smoking at 14, as a teen your brain is still developing - that's my understanding.

My ex smoked pot for a couple of years before his episode. My Cousin a couple of months. Not everyone will be affected his way = obvisously, but how do u know if you will or won't? - in both my ex and cousin's case they didn't know, know signs nothing.
 
coopie said:
I'd say no, my ex deeply, deeply regretted smoking - it triggered a drug induced psychosis from which he never fully recovered. He had a tendancy to be affected by drugs this way - but never knew it until a psychotic episode- and so many like him wouldn't know either. This also happened to my cousin who suffers severe schizophrenia (triggered from heavy pot use) - both m ex and cousin started smoking at 14, as a teen your brain is still developing - that's my understanding.

My ex smoked pot for a couple of years before his episode. My Cousin a couple of months. Not everyone will be affected his way = obvisously, but how do u know if you will or won't? - in both my ex and cousin's case they didn't know, know signs nothing.
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If it is, as you've said, a drug induced psychosis and a triggering of latent schizophrenia; I don't believe age had much to do with it. Maybe if you take the perspective of for whatever reason(s), say peer pressure, they decided to use these drugs at that age may not have been present, or yielded the same response to smoke marijuana, in their latter years. But, I don't know...
 
youre correct. and as a matter of fact, you could argue the brain never stops developing..growing, however, your brain stops roughly at age 18. Not 22 or 23 like some seem to believe.
 
Idk i feel fcken smart when i smoke. I read physical stress on the body kills alot more brain cells than smoking weed, so if anything dont play sports at a young age while your brain developing (hence jocks)
 
To the OP: I'm not going to tell you that smoking weed will kill you or is super bad for you or anything, but it's certainly not good for you. The main problem with smoking weed daily (other than the effects on your lungs and memory) is that it makes you OK with doing NOTHING.

Think of all the time you spend high daily. That adds up to a lot of hours that you could spend learning a new talent or perfecting a hobby of yours. Just keep that in mind. I've made countless days of my life dedicated to getting inebriated, and I just wish I had realized this sooner.

I'm a daily pot smoker too, so I'm not exactly the best model for this. But don't let weed hold you back from accomplishing things you want to do in life. Go outside. Be active. Learn to play guitar. I'm all for getting high and doing something you love.

Just make sure that you aren't just in love with being high.
 
Mr_Fluffykins said:
smoking anythign doesnt kill brain cells, it kills lung cells
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Smoking anything CAN kill braincells man .

When you smoke your depriving the alveoli in your lungs from picking up oxygen.

Your alveoli is what makes your blood oxygenated so it can be sent around the body .

If you have no oxygen (or very little) due to the smoke, you are depriving your brain from oxygen/healthy bloodcells .
^ in theroy , this could damage the brain.
 
I think that's a theory you made up James. If youre not getting oxygen to the brain, you will know. heavy smoking does not even do this. your brian has endocannabinoids that act as receptors on the primary constituents of marijuana (THC and other cannabinoids). The human race has evolved so that we can get high.
 
Well I'm sure SMOKING anything will have some sort of negative impact on the smoker .

Smoking isn't exactly good for you
 
While weed may or may not exacerbate certain mental illnesses, I have to ask, which came first, the mental instability or the weed? For most people I'm pretty sure it's the first one.

I don't think weed by itself does much damage aside from being able to make a teen entirely amotivational if they blaze constantly. The bigger problem is that (I think) the younger you start with weed the more likely you are to go on to harder drugs.
 
The bigger problem is that (I think) the younger you start with weed the more likely you are to go on to harder drugs.
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Couldn't your first point, that correlation =/= causation, also have an application here? I mean, is it not more likely that people who are predisposed to use hard drugs are also predisposed to smoke cannabis at a young age?
 
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