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Can Weed Change Personality?

hcjhayley said:
Before I started smoking, I thought my boyfriend at the time was kind of an asshole. I'd tell him about my day, tell him silly stories, and just try to strike casual conversation with him. He never seemed interested in any of it. Also, all of his friends kind of seemed like snobs to me.

But now I get it. Since I've started blazing, I just don't CARE about what a lot of people have to say because I've realized how meaningless and pointless so many conversations are . And when people get all hyphy... like just in their every day lives... I don't understand them. I want to tell everybody to just chill... and take a hit. lol. But I do actively engage in conversations that I think ARE worth my time. But I am much more selective. It's changed me most definately. Though, I wouldn't say negatively. But it may appear negative to people who don't understand - the way I didn't.
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Hayley that is exactly how I feel sometimes, although I think this is a major negative. However even if I stopped smoking I would feel the same way and basically have my entire life....
 
hcjhayley said:
Before I started smoking, I thought my boyfriend at the time was kind of an asshole. I'd tell him about my day, tell him silly stories, and just try to strike casual conversation with him. He never seemed interested in any of it. Also, all of his friends kind of seemed like snobs to me.

But now I get it. Since I've started blazing, I just don't CARE about what a lot of people have to say because I've realized how meaningless and pointless so many conversations are . And when people get all hyphy... like just in their every day lives... I don't understand them. I want to tell everybody to just chill... and take a hit. lol. But I do actively engage in conversations that I think ARE worth my time. But I am much more selective. It's changed me most definately. Though, I wouldn't say negatively. But it may appear negative to people who don't understand - the way I didn't.
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lmao even now after im sober for 5 months i've still stayed like this. i know exactly what u mean, i kinda see it as a negative cause i feel almost like i've become hella shy and an introvert. maybe i always have been. i never talk about useless things and thus why im so glad im going back to school instead of dropping out, i have interesting subjects to debate on with my teachers and all the kids gimme the crazy eye but i still have the stoner mentality of idgaf what you think cause in the end it's all just pointless drama and judgements that will get you nowhere. i really wish i could still smoke, weed destroyed my lungs and i cant smoke anymore, weed or cigs. its fucking gay. i actally thought i was anti-social or a psycho for a minute because after i quit, i became isolated which just made my social skills bad + my new found shyness, i just didnt care for any social interaction for a while
 
Keif' Richards said:
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.
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I agree with this. But it's ridiculous. Whether it's my good-friend's girlfriend thinking I'm an idiot SIMPLY because me and him smoke when she's no prodigy herself. Or my uncle kind of disregarding anything I say whenever he thinks I'm the least bit stoned. Most of the time, I'm not even high at all and he just has this preconceived notion because I'm playing video games or something.

I say fuck em'. I have more sense than all of them to know that it's mind over matter. Unless a person is baked out of their mind or is obviously mumbling incoherently, I pay attention and consider everything people tell me.

Does weed change your personality? It can make you somewhat lazy. But everyone's different.
I have a theory that we don't ever COMPLETELY change. We are more or less the same person, since we are born. The way we think. Our outlook. It's who we are. Weed cannot change that.

If you like Heavy metal, weed won't change your taste in music. Or your political beliefs and so on.

Have some confidence in yourself. Don't let some plant change who you are.
 
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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. Weed does have this special place in the drug world. I think it stems from how natural it is. It is simply just a plant so people have a hard time believing it has negative side effects. It does. I'd be a fool to think that marijuana is harmless. Even my hardcore weed-smoking friends admit they'd like to take a break..but we keep coming to it.
Are we addicted? Not physically, which is the only addiction I consider.
We're definitely mentally addicted. But we can overcome that.

Everyone, every body is different. People react to pot in all sorts of ways, like you said. And maybe I see cannabis differently because I've been smoking for so long. At first, I remember the drug being very powerful.

But I have to say, I think marijuana's positive aspects far out-weigh the bad. Should everyone smoke? Of course not. But one can smoke cannabis regularly and still live a fulfilling, noteworthy life. Not every smoker is a lazy loser without ambition living life in a haze.

My response to the OP's question relates to that. I do NOT think marijuana can change your fundamentals, so to speak. I think we're all the same person throughout our lives. Sure, we can change our hairstyle or style of clothing but the way we think stays the same.

lovechild89 said:
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.
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I don't know about that. This 'killing of their personalities' might be a lingering effect of past use or the person might just be stoned. Sometimes when I smoke I become introverted and talk less, other times I engage conversation and become extrovert.
If someone feels their personality has died because of pot, maybe they should quit for a while.

It all comes down to balance. Every weed-smoker should keep in mind that we ARE drugging ourselves. Drugs have side-effects. So balance it. Ride a bike. Take a swim. Hike up a mountain, surf, make music.

In all aspects of life, one should never become complacent.

Mind over matter, folks.


Peace
 
Of course weed can change your personality. You can become lethargic, not want to get out of bed in the morning, anxiety. Those are things that can happen periodically when using pot.
 
I absolutely think weed can change someones personality, my old girlfriend is the one who convinced me. When I was dating her she did NOTHING, she drank once in a while but literally once in like 3-4 months or so.

She could be an absolute bitch due to you saying the slightest thing, not just to me but even to her best friends and everyone else. I stopped talking to her for a bit of time, when we started talking again she was smoking everyday and drinking two or three times a month if not more and had just become a stoner in general.

She ended up being a hell of a lot better of a person when we started talking again, she went from total bitch to completely chill stoner girl haha. The weed had a HUGE impact on how she acts / acted, it was a really positive and good transformation.

TL;DR Ex went from bitch to chill stoner girl quite fast because of weed, convinced me.
 
are u high morning to night?

but yes it does change personality...

u could not be self concoiuse cuz maybe ur fitting in with everyone, since u smoke (possibility)

and drugs make u not care, all u care about it getting high...

boy ill tell u, dont get into opiates if this is how it is for weed lol
 
i totally agree i stopped smoking completely for a long time and now i do it maybe once or twice a month (but if its twice its just on the same day) never more than one day a month cuz it was making me super apathetic and taking away my motivation and changed me into a totally different person really. plus its so much more fun to smoke only a couple times a month maybe cuz then you enjoy it so much more and if feels so much better. i used to smoke all day errday from awakening to right before brushing my teeth before bed and im SO GLAD I STOPPED


but honestly the main reason i stopped smoking is because i have so many more amazing dreams and i just cant live without dreaming anymore. its one of my favorite things in the world
 
chronic bubonic said:
When i was 18 I split up with a girl and i was so distraught I decided to commit suicide. I read somewhere that the lethal dose of cannabis was 30 kilos so i decided that would be my method

well i'm 45 now and i've still got 10kilos to go, tbh I realised after the first 5 it was just a cry for help but I just kept going...

(Joke from the fantastic Rory Motion)

Me dad's always got a bit of a black in, except he smokes coal... but as he says "It doesn't crumble very well, and you've got to put loads in...but it only costs £70 a tonne!!!"

(another RM joke)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cLLAInPSs - please watch this class video of Rory motion


Actually a variation of one of the above jokes is in the below link.... aint t'internet great?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gNxfeVmno&feature=related - more Rory Motion
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dont ya just love suicide jokes
 
Pot has been described as a "value changing" drug (which can be positive or negative, depending on which values one changes), and this seems more accurate than to say it changes one's personality. Difficult to say what is in one's personality to begin with, and what has been caused by drug use. For some, chronic long-term use is destructive to their personality; for others, it's nothing a little drying out can't fix.

The older I get, the less of everything I need. Except peace and love.
 
Absolutely. In some ways for the better, in some ways for worse. If you think it is effecting you negatively then it's probably a good idea to at least slow down your consumption.

I myself have really cut back (at home I was smoking more than an eighth a day for 3 years) but I now live out of the country and don't have access to the same huge supply. I do still smoke a good amount, but nothing compared to how much I used to. I can definitely tell you I feel a difference. I think I'm am about as psychologically addicted to weed as a person can be. So breaking the habit has worn on me pretty hard. At first I was smoking very conservatively over here but now I've been smoking each day again. Part of the problem is I find there are negatives in both quitting smoking and smoking. And because I like getting high, I think there are less negatives in not quitting.
 
marijuana does indeed change personality, for me it made me curious about most drugs.
made me more responsible. more opened minded....
 
It fucks some people up, without a doubt.

I smoked it for 6 years, anxiety and paranoia was upon me all time.

Then i decided i didnt want to be like that anymore and quit for the better. I will enjoy a spliff every now and then. But thats how it stays.

Feel alot better for doing it.
 
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Thats a hard question for sure. I feel like it defiantly changed my life, but not exactly my personality, I feel like it takes my good qualities and amplifies them. Stoned or sober since I've started using marijuana, I'm more artistic, friendly, and overall happier.However I can say that I've seen some people who start smoking turn into assholes, so I guess it really just depends on the person.
 
Keif' Richards said:
Oh yes my friend. Weed will alter your personality. You seem like you're describing some vaguely dissociative experiences here which is kind of fucked. The biggest change is in motivation, and when you lack motivation and ambition is will bleed through to every other aspect of your life, which arguably will change your entire personality, or at least how other people view you. If you are smoking enough weed to the point where you can no longer relate to the real world and the people in it, might be time to take a break. Or you might have accomplished exactly what you set out to do when you first started smoking haha :)
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hey Keif give me a call. lots of shit to talk about.
 
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