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Can Weed Change Personality?

I think evolution has painted a glossy rainbow over reality to keep us all happy, But once you have a few peeps behind the curtain and see what life really is about it can be a depressing place!
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that's interesting, i'm 100% opposite. i think evolution has painted a world of strife (we seem to shift towards pain much easier than pleasure) to keep us all motivated to survive; but once self-awareness gets to the point where you can peak behind the curtain, existence itself is beautiful, and it's sort of liberating when all emotional/moral content vanish as they are projections from within
 
everything you do changes your personality.

Factor in ritual / repetitive social environments, acts, feelings and emotions from smoking...

If you feel that it is becoming a problem, or that you are feeling restricted, then i'd support the take a break suggestion.
 
One thing that should really be considered is how other people perceive you. I know you really shouldn't care about or live for what others think, but hey we live in a society and that's what it's all about. The way people think of you because you are high all the time, or just because they hear you're high all the time will no doubt change the way they think of you. Thus your entire life experience will be augmented. If everyone thinks you're "just some pothead" or something like that, your personality will most definitely change to accommodate other people's feelings.
 
I did not read any of the posts in this topic. So, yes.


jokes aside, it has done wonders. I have found this is mostly true with people who were at least a bit strange from the start.
 
jdjack27 said:
I feel like my personality has changed since I started smoking weed regularly. And I mean my overall personality, even when I'm not high. I always used to be a little self conscience. Not in the sense that I'd be worried about my physical appearance but like I'd get embarrassed easily over small things or I'd get uncomfortable in certain social situations. Now I don't seem to care anymore. Also I don't feel like I'm "living". Each day just seems to be the same old thing. I drive to the bus stop, take the bus to the subway, and take the subway to work. You'd think on that 2 hour trip I'd at least notice something (a strange looking person, a nice car, etc). But it's as if I'm in my own world and don't care about anything happening around me.
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And this is the major problem with cannabis. ;)
 
Cannabis is insidious.

Alcoholics and heroin addicts have a far better grasp, as tenuous as it may be, on how their usage is effecting them. Cannabis enthusiasts in my experience have a great tendency to count their usage as all good while discounting anything negative to other causes.

I make the concession that overall cannabis is the most socially benign drug that is readily available to most people, but I know people who are treating anxiety and depression with cannabis when the observation of everybody else in their life is that cannabis contributes to their problems rather than helps. Many people I know are having life diminishing results from cannabis but still calling it a powerful panacea. Obviously I'm speaking from bias based on my experiences. When stuff is illegal and somewhat stigmatized accurate statistical data becomes unattainable.

Cannabis: truly great for some people but a true and essentially blind downfall for many others. When exalted as a universal panacea for everyone and everything someone please call bullshit.

Answer, yes weed often causes substantial changes in personality. Sometimes for the good, sometimes very much not for the good.
 
Bupe said:
And this is the major problem with cannabis. ;)
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I don't think that's true--It only affects some people that way. Weed changed me for the better. I was a very creative person to start, but weed brought it to a whole other level. I started seeing things in a new light, I felt more connected to the world. I felt like I could see things for how they truly were--I could see past the surface. I feel like it increased the quality of my life tenfold.

But if I smoked all day, every day, I would feel numb--because I would have no other experiences to compare it to, if that makes sense. I've gone through phases where I smoked constantly, from the second I woke up until I fell asleep at night, and I ended up just feeling horribly burnt out. You have to learn to limit yourself. Try smoking only in the evenings, before you go to bed. Go a day or two without smoking. You'll get higher when you smoke, spend less $$ on weed, and feel better.
 
re amber dawn...

yeah. people often don't, but like any drug, weed should be respected. respect it and usually it's a great drug

psychedelics enhancing life ftw
 
i wouldn't say it can change ya personality as such.. i have bashed weed since i was 14 , so 24 years so cant really remember what i was like before .. i do know im a very active person and find it hard to switch off , so weed in that aspect is perfect for me, so i would say it alters ya mood not ya personality:)

qwe said:
re amber dawn...

yeah. people often don't, but like any drug, weed should be respected. respect it and usually it's a great drug

psychedelics enhancing life ftw
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i understand where ya coming from though i bash weed and always have, i can bosh an eighth of medicinal weed in a night and i love it lol..i have worked the majority of my adult life and for most of that 7 days , many times i go to work baked. for me weed is the daddy of all drugs and unless ya prone to anxiety or ya just dont find it enjoyable i recomend bashing as much weed as ya can:)

Enki said:
Cannabis is insidious.

Alcoholics and heroin addicts have a far better grasp, as tenuous as it may be, on how their usage is effecting them. Cannabis enthusiasts in my experience have a great tendency to count their usage as all good while discounting anything negative to other causes.

I make the concession that overall cannabis is the most socially benign drug that is readily available to most people, but I know people who are treating anxiety and depression with cannabis when the observation of everybody else in their life is that cannabis contributes to their problems rather than helps. Many people I know are having life diminishing results from cannabis but still calling it a powerful panacea. Obviously I'm speaking from bias based on my experiences. When stuff is illegal and somewhat stigmatized accurate statistical data becomes unattainable.

Cannabis: truly great for some people but a true and essentially blind downfall for many others. When exalted as a universal panacea for everyone and everything someone please call bullshit.

Answer, yes weed often causes substantial changes in personality. Sometimes for the good, sometimes very much not for the good.
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I think why us weed conieusers are blinkered where weed is concerned is because out of all the drugs it the one we know we getting high safely(ish) and have the ability to lead normal(ish) lives, but the main thing with weed it is so transparent and compared to hard drugs has a feeling of goodness where ya have no need to hide ya weed habit, what im trying to say is it a shameless drug and ya don't beat yaself up over it.

i have caned em all, im a functioning alcoholic who only stopped as my wife threatened me with divorce, had a massive amphetamine addiction in my teens,both these addictuions made me hate myself and they shame i felt was awful, for years i ducked and dived, lied and cheated over my powders and alochol and the shit addiction brings, i have an addictive personailty and used to cane everything to excess. Weed is the only drug i could happily co exist with on a regular basis and for that reason i embrace it unconditionaly:D
 
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Enki said:
Cannabis is insidious.

Alcoholics and heroin addicts have a far better grasp, as tenuous as it may be, on how their usage is effecting them. Cannabis enthusiasts in my experience have a great tendency to count their usage as all good while discounting anything negative to other causes.

I make the concession that overall cannabis is the most socially benign drug that is readily available to most people, but I know people who are treating anxiety and depression with cannabis when the observation of everybody else in their life is that cannabis contributes to their problems rather than helps. Many people I know are having life diminishing results from cannabis but still calling it a powerful panacea. Obviously I'm speaking from bias based on my experiences. When stuff is illegal and somewhat stigmatized accurate statistical data becomes unattainable.

Cannabis: truly great for some people but a true and essentially blind downfall for many others. When exalted as a universal panacea for everyone and everything someone please call bullshit.

Answer, yes weed often causes substantial changes in personality. Sometimes for the good, sometimes very much not for the good.
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Good post. Though i have realized weed/jwh do give me anxiety, they also make me more motivated to do things like even just leaving my house in the morning, or working labor intensive jobs.

It's kinda in the middle for me. The anxiety sucks, but it still makes me feel good.
 
Everyone is different. Some people experience only minor or positive effects as far as chronic use it concerned. Others have changed drastically as a result. There is a whole grey are of experiences in between. The short answer is yes.
 
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Weed expands your mind, makes you realize things about the world, your personality, etc. that you otherwise wouldn't without the shift in perception. More often than not, you'll incorporate these realizations into your subconscious and they will eventually manifest them in your personality...

Most of the time, for me, this has always been positive. Coming up with amazing ideas, taking in beautiful, lifechanging sensory experiences... it all made me really positive and I felt uplifted.

When weed starting making me anxious, paranoid and giving me panic attacks... those things were tapped into by my subconscious and for about 6 months I was an anxiety ridden, panicked mess... but you eventually deal with it and come to terms with all of these things you're experiencing and eventually I learned to manage the anxiety, panic and depression...

Recently I've started smoking again and weed has gone back to influencing me in a positive way... it's just all about your mindset and what's on your mind to begin with.

Marijuana is a great facilitator, it's just sometimes it exacerbates conditions and thought processes you'd like left alone...
 
when i started weed i felt like it changed me for the better. i became interested in new kinds of music, healthier food and spirituality. i got the notion into my head that marijuana was good for me and because of that, i refused to take responsibility for my addiction to it. afterall, it was "nonaddictive" lol. the truth is, i was extremely addicted to it, could not imagine life without it. i smoked it all day every day for years despite the fact that it eventually began inducing horrific panic attacks, paranoia, racing heart and stomach problems. now it has been nearly 5 years since i quit and i feel like i have only recently gotten over the anxiety problems and paranoia that it caused me.
 
It totally does dull some people and kind of 'kill' their personalities. And I can totally see where people would get defensive about that. I myself stopped caring about my grades in school and became okay with being 'average.'

However weed is still fantastic in my books because it makes music amazing, social interactions much easier and smoother, and makes me feel so godamn good.
 
i've smoked pot for prob 2/3 of my life and i remember at one point i thought i was addicted and i probably was. but i got a job which would occasionally take me away for a couple of weeks at a time and often abroad, so i'd find myself in places with no chance of scoring so i'd just accept it and happily get on with it.... so although the addiction can be there, its very much on a psychological level because physical withdrawal is virtually non-existant i believe.

regarding changing personality, well a study i have been trying to track down over the last 30 mins but cant find but i believe it was performed during the 70s or 80s at a university in mexico, is intersting from a biological perspective... If my memory serves me right (!) they fed 2 groups of people ( 1 group long term dope smokers, 1 group novice or non dope smokers) either hash or placebo cake (equal amount from each group), and then tested them on a variety of mental tasks. the main significant statistic was unsuprisingly that the novice hash cake eaters performed worst in the tests, but the long term users who had the placebos tended towards the higher end of the results. this enabled the researchers to hypothesise that the long term users brains had developed cognitive pathways that enabled them to divert around areas of brain that were otherwise engaged in being stoned, so in actual fact they were opening up more areas of the brain and therefore increasing a potential for lateral thinking.

(a bit like music in fact - did you know that performing music improvisation lights up more parts of the brain in a eeg/mri/cat or whatever scan then anything else other than an epileptic fit, and its been shown that teaching young children music from an improvisatory perspective improves their educational performance because they're opening new pathways/connections in their brains...)

I've seen at first hand evidence that heavy cannabis use can cause heavy mental problems in teenagers, without a shadow of a doubt their personalities have been affected. However i firmly believe cannabis is natures greatest remedy....Perhaps millions of us are self-medicating ourselves in effect modifying our behaviour therefore our personalities

So can cannabis change your personality - Yes!! but only if you let it!! (let the good times roll!!!)
 
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its not really a question of whether or not it will change your personality, its a matter of how your going to change.
 
I've had nothing but what I think are positive changes, as in I'm more outgoing and I act more like myself. I have seen from a 3rd person view, a bad change in one of my friends. He claimed weed has changed him for the better, but everyone thought he became more... I don't know.. Dependent on weed to have fun. And I'm not saying weed is this super addictive drug, but he can't have fun without it, and that's put a strain on our friendship. I'm just saying sometimes what you think is for the better might be for the worse in the eyes of others.

EDIT: I agree with Enki full-heartedly about this. My buddy thinks that weed is the best thing that ever happened to him. Literally, he has said that. He is blind to how weed is affecting him badly, but only looks at the positive aspects, which I have to say, there aren't a huge number of them.

You have to smoke weed and let IT revolve around your life, not let your life revolve around IT.
 
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