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Too young to smoke weed?
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theotherwoman
Bluelighter
I started when i was 14. From 15 to 17 i smoked practically every day.
Last feb i took a break till may 30, and since that day i have started smoking every day again.
And i am still 17. So i dont see anything wrong with that.
Last feb i took a break till may 30, and since that day i have started smoking every day again.
And i am still 17. So i dont see anything wrong with that.
xthxdistortion
Greenlighter
Completely true, A lot of the people I know complain that they never get as high as they used to and yet they smoke everyday. Every time they mention it to me I'm just thinking, "Then don't smoke everyday..........."
Treefa
Bluelighter
Well many adults tell me im more mature than most my age. And i didnt party alot before i started smoking eiter. You can blame it on weed if you like, but the only thing that can make me party is hard liquor, beer, AND a blunt, and some wild bitches.
And for me, weed helps me better examine myself(meditate maybe??) Ive found out alot about myself while high, but i feel like some obvious shit slipped right throuhg the cracks so idk
And for me, weed helps me better examine myself(meditate maybe??) Ive found out alot about myself while high, but i feel like some obvious shit slipped right throuhg the cracks so idk
Treefa
Bluelighter
Yea i know the type, and i sure dont cuz when they get arrested ill be liting up some ganja behind some tinted windows and sayin "i told you so" and laughing at their ass%)
Artificial Emotion
Bluelighter
^ is english not your native language?
Smoking weed everyday is never really a good idea, especially when you're young. If you're young and like to smoke weed, that's ok... just chill out with it and don't overdo it or you'll wish you had. You'll slack off in school, you'll fuck around, you won't get shit done.
Even if you're older it doesn't necessarily make it acceptable to be an everyday smoker... It all depends on the person. If you're responsible and your life is in order, then it's ok to do. You have to be able to manage it and know what you're doing, or else don't do it. Be an experienced toker first before you turn weed into an everyday habit.
Me, for example, I'm 20 years old and I know what it's like to be an everyday smoker ever since 18 years old. It can hold you back from progress, but like I said it all depends on the person.
Even if you're older it doesn't necessarily make it acceptable to be an everyday smoker... It all depends on the person. If you're responsible and your life is in order, then it's ok to do. You have to be able to manage it and know what you're doing, or else don't do it. Be an experienced toker first before you turn weed into an everyday habit.
Me, for example, I'm 20 years old and I know what it's like to be an everyday smoker ever since 18 years old. It can hold you back from progress, but like I said it all depends on the person.
lololol!!! he's a bluntsmoka dawg, he musta burnt his brains out.
it's all good, bluntsmoka, we feel you.
atara
Bluelighter
There is no age at which it becomes a good idea to take any recreational substance, with the possible exception of a few psychedelics (LSD). The "damage" thus inflicted varies considerably with regard to one's life situation; if smoking adversely affects an important test score, it could affect your life far more seriously than whatever neurological effects cannabis may possess. Later in life, smoking can adversely affect the people around you, which is far worse than brain damage. It is ultimately dependent on the judgment of the individual and the degree to which they value their continuing health and social progress w.r.t. the potentially but not necessarily damaging effects of drug use and abuse.
The primary reason kids of any age are discouraged from using recreational substances such as alcohol and cannabis -- and while I don't like the whole "it's safer than alcohol" line, alcohol deserves mention considering the audience -- is because they lack the experience and knowledge necessary to make decisions with their best long-term interests taken into consideration. Frankly, any attempt to distract from this point is problematic. A 14-year-old smoking cannabis is almost surely better off than a 32-year-old taking clonazepam, and harm reduction dictates that we have to attempt to help both individuals using whatever tools we have available. Condescension is not among them.
What I think is most important for kids here to realize is that their life is going to be very, very long, and they need to be prepared for all parts of it. Please, stay in school, do your work, study for class, and make an honest and legitimate attempt to understand the material presented to you! I'll let you in on a little secret: it's not true that nothing you do in high school matters. I still hang out with some of my high school friends. My older brother married his high school girlfriend. What matters most, though, is what you can take away from it, and the countless hours you spend smoking weed are guaranteed to be lost to history. I'm willing to bet that 90% of the kids reading this thread in high school are fully capable of getting a degree in Something That Matters from A University That Doesn't Suck. Unfortunately, I'm also willing to bet that most of you won't.
I posted this on reddit a while back.
The main problem that arises with weed (in my personal experience, i.e. not data) is that it makes you ignore any obligation that you don't understand. If you know that you have to, say, pay the electic bill, lest the power to your house be cut off, weed usually isn't going to prevent you from doing that. If you don't understand why getting a good score on the SAT is important for your future, you're going to smoke and not study, because, like, who cares, man?
The problem with weed and kids is that there are usually a lot of obligations they don't understand -- some of which are in fact bullshit (i.e. school dress codes) but they have to obey anyway. The easiest way to explain this to a kid is something along the lines of "weed can make you lazy; don't smoke when you need to do things. There are going to be some things in life that you have to do that don't make sense, and you're going to be better off if you put the pipe down and just fucking do them."
well said! aaah would it be ok if I reposted this on my facebook page? a good few of my mates could learn a lot from what you just wrote.
Let's put its effects on the mind aside, and talk about your life standpoints being the reasoning behind why you should or shouldn't be smoking weed. If you're mentally right, smoking weed even at ages as low as 13 isn't too bad of an idea. It can actually make a smart person smarter... It can also make a stupid person stupider. lol.
All depends on the person... But anyways, don't let weed control your life.
Control your life well by managing it effectively, and you can incorporate marijuana use into it.
All depends on the person... But anyways, don't let weed control your life.
Control your life well by managing it effectively, and you can incorporate marijuana use into it.
Chainer
Bluelighter
I didn't even need to look at your forum title
Cannabis is a psychedelic, fyi.I don't quiet understand the rest of your post - it seems to jump back and forth from cannabis having an individualistic (YMMV) effect depending on outlook, mindset, environment, or nurture - to cannabis promoting laziness or effecting test scores regardless.
v.s
While I agree that college, a good education, and a solid drive to, you know, *do things* are important, I don't think that college is for everyone. It's really just a fact. I might be misunderstanding your point, but I don't think so. The last sentence is a little confusing, though.
Err. What? I'm not sure exactly how the two are even comparable, or how a grown adult taking klonopin is recreational... whereas a pre-pubescent kid smoking cannabis is most certainly recreational. In either case, the two are entirely different drugs. It's a lot like comparing LSD to china white, it dun' make no sense.
I don't think the 90% statistic works well here. I'd be fairly confident in saying I know over 10% of regular CD posters who DO have a degree or are currently going for one. In either case, that doesn't have much to do with what im discussing so I digress.
Here we agree, well on the basis anyway.
Not knocking your post, I just don't follow the logic completely. Drugs interact with everyone differently. For instance, I know several people who smoke to control psychosis, schizophrenia, and bipolar type 1 and 2. On the other hand, I know people who cannot smoke because it exaggerates their symptoms. Same token - I study and write more clearly while high - not the case for my housemate, who can smoke a bowl and then get sucked into playing world of warcraft for 5 hours without studying for a final. Flip side, I can't think of any other drug, besides d/l-amps, that help my concentration in the same way that cannabis can.
That is not to say I smoke before studying/writing religiously, because I personally like to limit my consumption. If I can, I prefer to smoke when my responsibilities are done, but as a neuroscience/philosophy dual-major with two federal work studies, sometimes the responsibilities do not end. Not everyone is alike.
Regardless, smoking at 14 is too young. I started smoking when I was 13 I believe, and it truly did not impact me until I started paying bills. A horrendously large amount of factors influence how an individual will behave with most drugs. I agree with your non-cannabis related thoughts though - that teenagers (hell, even a lot of adults) are less likely to know what is really important and what isn't. The world isn't so black and white, though.
purple_cloud
Bluelight Crew
This is an interesting question. I started smoking pot daily when I was 17 (I'm 24 now) and had smoked from 14-17 anywhere from 1-4x a week, depending..as I got older in high school it got more frequent. I know I don't exercise myself to my full potential and sometimes I feel like pot is something to blame for it. I'd like to say 18 just because that seems to be a good point to be given responsibility, but I've seen people who started in their 20s get out of control and just become lazy couch locked stoners. YMMV and it's hard to pick an age where it's "not too young for cannabis," honestly.
xstayfadedx
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I started smoking weed at age fifteen and I'm only seventeen now but honestly I had no bad effects from it. It just opened my eyes and kind of helped me understand things more. Also caused me to be more chill and laid back I think as well. I know many who have smoked weed starting at the age of 11 or 12....I kind of think that's too young but really it depends if you're in the right mind frame...and realize you still have to live and you still have to remember you're a kid... Smoking weed shouldn't be everything to you or an everyday thing when you're young. Really I don't think there is much to worry about though. Just be smart about things and make the right choices.
headfuck123
Bluelighter
i wouldnt say there is a certain age someone reaches when it is ok to start because drugs effect people in different ways. yes age is a factor but there are soo many other factors involved.
i started smoking weed when i was about 9 or 10 but didnt fall in love with it till i was about 12. Im not going to say it hasnt effected me in any way because it probably has. But i still function "normally" and do reletively well in school even with smoking everyday.
i started smoking weed when i was about 9 or 10 but didnt fall in love with it till i was about 12. Im not going to say it hasnt effected me in any way because it probably has. But i still function "normally" and do reletively well in school even with smoking everyday.
Drogan
Greenlighter
Many have said it better than I in this thread but if you are mature enough to handle smoking everyday and getting/keeping grades up then there's no real problem. There's a concern about it harming your brain development but hell, I've been smoking almost every day since I was 15 and I'm 19 now. It's probably effecting me somewhat but I'm going to be a fully contributing member to society in a couple years. Just stay on top of your responsibilities (even if you end up not smoking).