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23 years of marijuana smoking - sharing my perspective

beta1 said:
being a (now clean) long time opiate addict, smoking a little too much weed doesn't exactly haunt my dreams ;)
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I definitely understand what you're saying.
But for me, I don't want to give up control of my own will to anything.
Even something as light as weed.
As much as I love marijuana, I also love to be in control of myself.
I believe that sacrificing control of my own will can have serious consequences.
Still, I struggle... with caffeine and weed both.
 
I think that your moderation is what has let you smoke for so long without experiencing the negative effects a lot of long-term heavy smokers get victor. Congratulations.
 
^this.

good job man. you should look into a vaporizer, so as not to damage your lungs. they get you blazed too (my friend who's 18 and smokes EVERY DAY uses a vaporizer. he says it's great. he's cutting back on his smoking though, because it's causing short term memory problems)
 
Gratz to the op, I'm @ 25 years since my first toke. All good info.

I wish I'd become a pot snob earlier though. Too many years of smoking schwag with all kinds of chems and fertilizers in it I think did take somewhat of a toll. Because of where I lived good bud was very rare to come by and I didn't know any better early on. Now I do.

These days it's all about the quality and I'll only get it from one of three connects (or sometimes all three lol). I know where they get it, how it's grown, and they are my friends who give a shit about me rather than random people.

Also, cooking pot is wonderful. My fave is stir fry made with ghee. yum.

My circle of friends doesn't revolve around who smokes pot now either. Once upon a time I sought out people who smoked, now it might be a pleasant surprise after other interests like music/art.

Legalization is needed globally. If we could all grow our own plants we'd put the mobs out of buisiness or at least put decent people in buisiness. From expereience, growing your own def helps with moderation. It's more personal and the tendency is not to smoke it up so quick after the work put into it.
 
great post Huy...i totally agree with the swag comment. i can get swag/mids horribly cheap, but no way in hell am i going to smoke it lmao. ive done so before along time ago....and it gives me headaches now. yaaay for pesticides.
go dank or go home!
 
I can relate a lot man. Marijuana is truly the only thing I have ever had 'addiction' troubles with. Because it is so "tame", and easily incorporated into daily life. It's easy to get caught up in smoking all the time before realizing just how much you are smoking and how much of an indirect affect it is having on you. I have to force myself to take break too....in the past 5 years i don't think I've gone longer than 2 weeks without bud. I decided to take a month break last month, so far so good. I've got about 1 week left.

How long does it take you to stop craving? I find that the first week is shit. All I can think about is getting high and I don't have the motivation or interest to do anything. After that I pretty much forget about it.

That's shitty about the drug penalties there. It's a shame so many countries in Asia have such harsh drug laws. It makes me appreciate what it is like over here, even though we have far from a perfect system.
 
^ I usually can't stop thinking about smoking for a week or so, then it goes onto a back burner, and only pops up in my mind once or twice a day. However, I invariably have dreams of smoking pot then, which last for another week or two. I always need more sleep when I quit, and it takes me a month to start feeling good - really good. Then I don't really want to start again, but I always do, after some time... (and of course love smoking weed again).
 
Fantastic thread slimvictor! I can relate 100%. I've been smoking for about 4 years, and still struggle to keep my usage down to a reasonable, responsible level. It just always seems that when I get some, despite my best intentions, I smoke way too much in the first day or two and then don't stop until its all gone. I have to struggle through 4 or 5 days of withdrawal, then sobriety starts to feel wonderful again and I wonder why I couldn't have just smoked it once every few days and had the best of both worlds instead of wasting money and weed by becoming addicted and smoking virtually all day every day for weeks on end, which isn't really fun anyway.
 
slimvictor said:
This is my 420th post. :)

I have been smoking marijuana for 23 years.
I love the effects of marijuana.
It enhances my creativity, opens my emotional being, and stimulates my intellect.

It gives me energy to engage very fully in my research, my hobbies, romantic times with my wife, and fun playing with my children. (I can do all of these things, and enjoy them, when not high, but being high can make them extra special.)

I love marijuana. =D

But I have fought an addiction with marijuana for the entire time as well.
Because it is so fun, it soon becomes easy to forget that life without marijuana can be beautiful as well.
It is very easy to smoke every day, especially since I am usually productive when high.
But I need to force myself to take breaks, just to remember that the sober life is beautiful. And also to clean my body.
When I smoke only occasionally, the pot adds a wonderful element to my already happy life.
When I smoke all the time, it becomes normal to be high, and to not be high is a drag.

I hope to use marijuana for the rest of my life, but with a good balance.
Balance is the key. I have almost never met someone who has used marijuana with what I consider good balance. Not even myself, for at least half of these 2+ decades. But I plan to continue striving to achieve balance, so that I can enjoy this fabulous plant for another 3 or 4 decades.

Thanks for reading.
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Great post my friend. I have been toking for 40 years. No way do I have good balance with it. I have to get high everyday or I'm stone cold miserable and could never sleep.
 
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