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Does cannabis use affect a woman's ability to get pregnant??

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stardust10

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Me and my partner are trying for a baby. He told me I should quit smoking weed to improve our chances as am a heavy smoker for over a decade. Note: I only vape/smoke via a glass pipe or bong without tobacco. After a quick Google search it's quite confusing as don't know what to believe and just wondering if anyone here has any knowledge, info etc regarding this.
I was smoking around an ounce of high-grade sativa every 3-4 weeks. I'm now on day 8 of nothing and I'm not doing too good emotionally as I've been self-medicating to numb or soothe myself after lots of trauma, stress etc. I plan on sticking it out untill the four week mark as I've heard that's how long it can take for your brain to even itself out - but tbh if my quality of life suffers and it doesn't actually have an impact on getting pregnant I'm starting to wonder if it's worth it. I really love weed e.g. especially when training (kickboxing, boxing) and playing piano - will I enjoy these things better in long run again? Not sure as always suffered with anxiety and depression. Any input would be much appreciated thanks 💛
 
Birth defects may happen.
I would be fine with my baby mama using cannabis during pregnancy and nursing.
Your spirit guide could lead you down the path as to how and when to use.
Ideally you wanna be sober for that time.
Because we really don't know exactly what it's like for a fetus to develop on stuff.
Opies are hard for newborns to wean off. And alcohol and hard stuff is worse.
It very well could make them smarter. or schizo. depending.
I've been yelled at here for saying that pregnant women can use cannabis.
But I also don't have kids and have not been through that.
All the best @stardust10
 
ions said:
Birth defects may happen.
I would be fine with my baby mama using cannabis during pregnancy and nursing.
Your spirit guide could lead you down the path as to how and when to use.
Ideally you wanna be sober for that time.
Because we really don't know exactly what it's like for a fetus to develop on stuff.
Opies are hard for newborns to wean off. And alcohol and hard stuff is worse.
It very well could make them smarter. or schizo. depending.
I've been yelled at here for saying that pregnant women can use cannabis.
But I also don't have kids and have not been through that.
All the best @stardust10
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Cheers @ions 😊 all the best to you too
I really meant actually GETTING pregnant rather than whilst pregnant ( as I would probably try not to go back to smoking as much as I was and either stop like I have done recently or cut down and stop - if I found out I was pregnant)
I read somewhere that woman who consume cannabis are less likely to get pregnant or something along those lines in fact I'll try link to it now... https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/does-cannabis-use-impede-conception#:~:text=Only 42% of the cannabis,between users and non-users.
It's confusing 😕 as I said I really love my weed but wish there was more data to understand
 
yeah, I realized what you said after I posted and was going to comment on that.
I don't think it affects fertility.
There are reports it affects sperm count.
So long as you're having fun trying. That's what counts. maybe.
 
ions said:
yeah, I realized what you said after I posted and was going to comment on that.
I don't think it affects fertility.
There are reports it affects sperm count.
So long as you're having fun trying. That's what counts. maybe.
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😀😀😀haha thanks!! And yeh my partner actually smokes a lot of cigarettes (the fucking cheek of him eh 😀 loool)
 
According to the 1980's JUST SAY NOT propaganda it was said 'marijuana" lowers a male's sperm count. I think further studies found that to be complete BS.

Never heard anything about conceiving but I sincerely doubt it affects it much. Conceiving is a big industry so I do hope the old fashion method works out for you. Keep the faith.
 
Darksidesam said:
if you do stop, make sure he only smokes outside from now on
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I have stopped on day 9 and still having sleeping issues waking up sweating (although don't feel ill or anything just sweaty lol - compared with dihydrocodeine WD though where I was sweating through three towels/clothes per night it's nothing, albeit annoying). He smokes with the window open and a towel against the bottom of the spare room door, can still smell it though so pretty annoying since I'm doing my best - without really knowing if it's actually helping any.
 
stardust10 said:
I have stopped on day 9 and still having sleeping issues waking up sweating (although don't feel ill or anything just sweaty lol - compared with dihydrocodeine WD though where I was sweating through three towels/clothes per night it's nothing, albeit annoying). He smokes with the window open and a towel against the bottom of the spare room door, can still smell it though so pretty annoying since I'm doing my best - without really knowing if it's actually helping any.
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he cannot ask you to stop smoking without smoking outside himself!
Cigarettes are especially nasty. My mum smoked through pregnancy (cigs 20 a day) and i did end up with a minor birth defect
 
stardust10 said:
...quit smoking weed...
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There's some saddening confusion in these 3 words alone. It's one thing to quit smoking, another to stop using cannabis and yet still a different deal to suggest giving up TWO habits all at once... Not to forget variations on those themes!

Every Halloween i end up providing a savvy reference just to shake up the foundations, this time it comes late but i continue to believe this serves a reasonable purpose:

Egzoset said:
Nature: Prenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool children (2016-Nov-9)
[ http://www.nature.com/articles/srep16921 ]

« ...global motion perception was improved by marijuana exposure... »

« ...marijuana reduced the negative effect of alcohol exposure... »

Chakraborty, A. et al. Prenatal exposure to recreational drugs affects global motion perception in preschool children. Sci. Rep. 5, 16921; doi: 10.1038/srep16921 (2015).
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By the way, do you consume alcohol as well??

Anyway i'm confident if anyone cares to submit such article for evaluation to the $¢ientology $e¢t then they'll return a carbon-copy image with its magnitude multiplied. 🫣

stardust10 said:
...without tobacco.
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Thanks for making it clear. Now we have a possibility of cannabis contamination by the multitude of secondary/tertiary (thermal reaction) by-products generated by smoking, but in absence of tobacco, which is another element of further confusion since it contains nicotine - and we all know that nicotine has been proven to be highly addictive in the real sense of such label. In other words, you've eliminated nicotine's co-mobidity by choice and that's a rational choice to make. Congratulations...

stardust10 said:
I was smoking around an ounce of high-grade sativa every 3-4 weeks.
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When smoking you're actually sacrificing nearly half the goodies to fire so to vaporize/contaminate the other half. Quit smoking and your monthly bills should eventually reflect a reduction by 2 or so, and if your consumption method gives a real chance to avoid the typical spiral of dosing abuse then this might even result in a tri-fold economy, hopefully.

stardust10 said:
...I've been self-medicating to numb or soothe myself after lots of trauma, stress etc. ...always suffered with anxiety and depression.
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Taming down financial stress may seem quite worthy but there remains some compound risk in piling up all those sudden changes. At least stay away from on-line « coaches » and other gurus as this may add one more layer of adversity to that increasingly complex cake... Quite frankly i believe that some individuals will just fail it all when the stakes are set too high, while for others there can be no mixed solution, which was my case when i quit tobacco smoking in the mid-nineties. As for cannabis, it was a slow conversion process to learn how to unlearn the old ways but the benefit proved being most durable. Perhaps you should want to consider delaying the family project just by a few months so to quit piling up challenges like there's no tomorrow, for example until Saint-Valentin which is in 3 months only. Then re-evaluate your performance at decomplexing this onion, peeling off one layer at a time...

YMMV! 🧅
 
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"Overall, our results demonstrate that the development of global motion perception is affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol or marijuana but not nicotine or methamphetamine.

Our finding that global motion perception was improved by marijuana exposure and that marijuana reduced the negative effect of alcohol exposure may provide a foundation for further studies investigating new ways to prevent or ameliorate the negative developmental effects of prenatal drug exposure."

As atm you know druguse seems unadvisable.
That paper does offer some suprises mainly about Weed.
Does seems risk wouldn t advocate it druguse during.

i have no clue even what Valproic Acid might do.
Which was prescribed to me un-needed for bi-polar [wrong diagnose].
Had an indirect effect via my sperm on,
conceiving/ impregnating. the egg that became my son.

My ex was real strong quit smoking/ everything as soon as she knew. 👑 imo in the way she just stopped everything at once [no Cannabis user btw]. To me she was mean, but my kids she nourished as best as she could.

Colostrum, breastfed and all in one bed.
Can t not love her for that what she did,
she did better then her parents who smoked and doped,
100 x better 🤙
 
emkee_reinvented said:
...you know druguse seems unadvisable.
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What we know about cannabis $¢ien¢e in our present anonymous forum should only be regarded as an opinion and here's a perfect example of how tricky it is to manage with the necessary nuances when a real-life situation also requires oneself to project a credible impression while exposed to the public eye:

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US Rep. to Deputy Director of Drug Policy: You're 'part of the problem' @ 0:18 (2014-Feb-4)​
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« ...how many marihuana overdose deaths were there in the most recent year... »​

That day i became most admirative of Earl Blumenauer confronting Michael Botticelli using a language which the average citizen could understand, too bad « My Hero from USA » planned to quit his post in Portland/Oregon next month!!

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One persisting issue with "studies" ain't just about their typically-biased sources, like when in Canada 1 study on 120 studies got financed by Pfizer, also making the news 1 decade ago. The fact is that a vast majority of cannabis consumers who participated to those data-gathering projects been actually providing contaminated information, mainly as a result of multi-factorial vilification resulting from the severe "side-effects" of chronic self-poisoning by combustion (that includes wood fiber & glue!), strongly addictive intoxication (by nicotine if european-style smoking), cumulative exposure to risk-multiplying agents (pesticides) and more, like today's "$anitory additive$", then the lack of combinatorial C(n, r ) restrictions compounded with a NON-DETECTION concept plus the perpetuation of extreme THC-centric genetics assorted with plain buzz-denial ultimatums, mainly so-called "balanced" 1:1 THC:CBD and/or even Full-CBD...

Well, nobody here has to be a Nobel prize simply to gather that no such studies ever relied on normal/natural (BIO) dry flowers only consumed by hand-picked subjects living their whole existance on some remote virgin island with no rolling paper, no tobacco, no alcohol, etc. E.G. not even poluting indu$tries besides the exhaust gases of a bus passing nearby while riding the sidewalk. Etc., etc.

So, personally i'm much more inclined to insist over a duty of reserve observing a blatant lack of objectivity & moderation in the mouths of high-profile official "elites" like Botticelli in USA, much less total freaks as Andrew Huberman claiming to talk for medecine (as a disciple of Hyppocrate!...), or before him Kevin Sabet who came to sabotage our « légaleezation » in company of Nora Volkow at Hotel Marriott, Mtl/Qc.

To be honest it's quite a bit annoying to hear there's "insufficient data" and yet beeing preached about unsupported $¢ientifi¢ "certainties", nonetheless i'd still avoid to go as far as Joy Davies in South Surrey/White Rock (British Columbia) on this very same issue of true public interest, keeping in mind that the next step will be systematic screening of future mothers seeking medical assistance, at the risk of getting submitted to some forms of ultimate punishment - which may soon happen to be what's going to to become the harsh reality for pregnant women in the MAGA country of Donald Trump, especially the "non-whites" - YMMV!

In conclusion, everything "seems" connected and the general idea that « absolutes corrupt absolutely » surely verifies all too often. At the very least we've realized long ago that this has got repeatedly demonstrated in the « marihuana » arena since the victorian age, including Nixon's paraquat era for those who can remember.

All In The Name Of Children... 😔
 
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=>Agent Orange [stopped 1983 officiallly,
my mother was standing aside while a friend was mixing it,
to spray on/ or around Apple trees] Wasn t that stuff super toxic ?

=> Paraquat [2004/2007] > Parkinson !

=> GlyFosaat [available since 2002 is still EU allowed/
despite causing Parkinson and its toxicity Monsanto rules].

Wow, why do our kids mutate and develope Parkinson at eight.
In France its now called a job disease
If you have a Grapeyard and get Parkinson disease.

And why do woman pregnant have to take Folic Acid [un-natural form of Folate].
Is it because GlyFosaat interupts the Crops/ plants synthesis cycle to form Folate ?

Though not in Belgium, they defy EU. And its plain illegal there.
My plans for migrating are based ao on that.

Don t think THC or CBD are the biggest worries.
What could be more worrysome, is what they might have sprayed on it.
And all your food s, your water and the air you breath.

Real doom scenario i know, and i got two kids. But its real.
 
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i didn't read this whole thread so i don't know if i'm being redundant.

i've never heard about females having problems with getting pregnant and using weed, other than when using during pregnancy... i usually read that males have lower sperm count when using and their sperm swims in different patterns. i don't think this really makes males semen unusable though, but i'd think in certain people maybe with lower sperm counts that it might cause some problems. they don't really know if the semen swimming in odd directions is actually bad or not from the articles i read..

about females too, i thought i read it was common in jamaica for women to smoke weed while pregnant, but there's definitely research that women smoking is bad for babies during pregnancy, and it's also bad to breast feed while using weed.

as a male the way smoking weed affects my sex drive, and the amount of semen i get when ejaculating, i also can't really see it being that bad, when drugs like anti-depressants or anti-psychotics completely destroy my sex drive and some men can still use their semen on these drugs... the same thing with women, a lot of psychiatric drugs will stop a women's period. they can still get pregnant with out a normal cycle or how ever you'd put it, but it's not really normal, and there's a far greater risk of running into problems or birthdefects with some drugs from doctors than there is with weed. like i was in the psychward with a woman that was far into pregnancy and i'm pretty sure they were talking about her risperdal dose. as far as i know that totally messes with a women's egg cycle. i don't think that's healthy at all. i don't think weed is nearly as bad.

i have to say though, that if you are trying to get pregnant, it's probably better to quit before the baby is with you, because when you have to quit, your body might not be functioning the same.. it's probably best to be full sober and feeling good to start your pregnancy... i don't think finding out a women is pregnant is going to be a problem if they've been smoking weed though. there shouldn't be anything to worry about... i'd think havinig to quit cigarettes too would be more awkward for the body, and plenty of people have been born from mothers that drank and smoked up until the time they are pregnant... it's obviously better to be as best as you can be for your pregnancy though if you can manage to quit weed before hand imo..

also i'm not a doctor, and i'm not that educated other than reading random stuff on the net... what i read might be stuff other people said on message boards, like the thing about jamaica... please correct me if i'm wrong.
 
Good points. The dangers of today's farming sure remind me of our politi¢ian$ (and many friend$) total lack of any fair sense of proportions, while the Andrew Huberman part makes me recall that the smell of golden honey alone made my pecker real happy when i discovered vaporism in 2011, not to mention the simple sight of such noble goo riding its while teflon tube felt hypnotic too...
 
foodcrisis said:
... i usually read that males have lower sperm count when using and their sperm swims in different patterns. i don't think this really makes males semen unusable though, but i'd think in certain people maybe with lower sperm counts that it might cause some problems. they don't really know if the semen swimming in odd directions is actually bad or not from the articles i read..
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Know that but,
can t count out my specific food choice/ vegetarisme [shit a -isme]
Abandoned that but when i eat i eat what i feel like.
Not the usual weekly inbred steak. Something were i hope,
the animal/ mostly plants had a sort of acceptable life.

Was i the one hit wonder supershot sperm acount. 'I wonder oh oh i wonder,
was it the wondwerful 'erb ?' Important i was allready getting old !

Don t think Herb, unpolluted really matters, its a adaptogen stimulates homeostasis.
Wouldn t we gaven up/ stopped i would have 5 [probably].

DNA match i think plays among hormone disruptors a more important role.

Afaik it might have took 100 x times, to get pregnant. Took ammounts of THC daily .
My GF adicted to Nicotin. Stopped direct after the test ! Forever 🤙

edit: ♀️ s have a timer. Build in. Sorry to say don t start to soon nor to late, if kids is on your path.
 
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foodcrisis said:
...i usually read that males have lower sperm count when using and their sperm swims in different patterns. ...please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Such juxtaposition between cannabis vs the human reproductive system ain't new. If you ask me that's a legacy of emotional manipulation rooted in p$eudo-$¢ien¢e dating back to the early seventies, when rats and mice were considered valid models just because these are mammalians too (though with 5 pairs of tits instead of a single one and knees which bend backwards)... In Québec/Canada we've heard about it from pediatrician Richard Bélanger who's been on my radar since 10 years ago after he got dispatched on our national french-speaking TV network « A Mari Usque Ad Mare »:

Egzoset said:
[ http:// ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/science/2014/11/07/001-cannabis-marijuana-effets-cerveau-adolescents-decouverte.shtml ]
SRC: Quels sont les effets du cannabis sur le cerveau des adolescents? (2014-Nov-10)
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Egzoset said:
« J'les vois allumer quand j'parle, euh... de... d'augmentation d'la masse mammaire chez les garçons, de savoir ça, qu'y a une suppression donc qu'ça peut amener une... une poussée des seins chez les garçons - ce qu'on appelle la gynécomastie - ou à la limite une diminution d'la quantité de spermatozoïdes qu'y produisent... C'est quelque chose d'intéressant à savoir, p'is chez les filles ça augmente la prolactine, donc ça peut amener des montées laiteuses mais surtout ça diminue, euh... la fertilité et l'ovulation. »
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Egzoset said:
Tuesday, room 307AB "Le vapotage chez les jeunes: les solutions pour renverser la tendance"
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He relayed the "teachings" of esthetic surgeon Anthony Youn, a CNN contributor who came to USA in hope to get rich:

Does smoking pot cause man boobs? (2013-Dec-5)​

The man is still at it on YouTube (since 2007), with plenty of followers...

IMHO this should prompt the reader to investigate their sources when challenged by similar types of "smart" individuals posing as gurus, including Andrew Huberman:

Andrew Huberman has supplements on the brain (2023-Apr-7)​
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Andrew Huberman spreads misinformation about influenza and flu vaccines (2024-Feb-2)​
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Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman accused of bizarre behavior (2024-Mar-5)​
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Sarah thought she was in a relationship with Andrew Huberman. Then she joined a group text. (2024-Mar-26)​
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Podcasting health guru and Stanford doc Andrew Huberman is accused of being a womanizer who had affair with five women at once and may have given one an STI - but he insisted he was just a 'love addict' (2024-Mar-26)​
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So, should you trust Andrew Huberman? (2024-Mar-27)​
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Influencer Andrew Huberman tried to build the good life without morality or virtue (2024-Mar-28)​
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The long con and dirty dong of dr. Andrew Huberman, PhD. (2024-Mar-28)​
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How ‘mr Perfect’ dr Andrew Huberman went from counselling millions to being ‘caught cheating with five lovers’ (2024-Apr-3)​
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The misleading information in one of America’s most popular podcasts (2024-May-2)​
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‘Word Salad’: Andrew Huberman’s cannabis claims slammed by experts (2024-May-8)​

Looking at the dates it's no big surprize to observe some high level of redundancy, yet sometimes the crunchy stuff happens to hide into subtle details, other times not too subtle as when he got tagged as a « skate punk ».

Personally i've classified it all as toxic pseudoscience better suited in the macho-cult category, e.g. focussing on the self-esteem and identity of others... In conclusion beware of the algorithm effect solliciting subscriber admiration! By the way, other names been mentioned here and there as well, like Jay Shetty, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman and Reese Witherspoon. Perhaps i might eventually want to try searching for those on Google, but this can wait, there's no shortage of more productive things to do!

Good day, have fun!! ☮️
 
Egzoset said:
Such juxtaposition between cannabis vs the human reproductive system ain't new. If you ask me that's a legacy of emotional manipulation rooted in p$eudo-$¢ien¢e dating back to the early seventies, when rats and mice were considered valid models just because these are mammalians too (though with 5 pairs of tits instead of a single one and knees which bend backwards)... In Québec/Canada we've heard about it from pediatrician Richard Bélanger who's been on my radar since 10 years ago after he got dispatched on our national french-speaking TV network « A Mari Usque Ad Mare »:







He relayed the "teachings" of esthetic surgeon Anthony Youn, a CNN contributor who came to USA in hope to get rich:

MAN BOOBS => no hormon disruptors do. ​

The man is still at it on YouTube (since 2007), with plenty of followers...

IMHO this should prompt the reader to investigate their sources when challenged by similar types of "smart" individuals posing as gurus, including Andrew Huberman:
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Slamming Cannabis thats the way you definetly not use, sounds good.
Egzoset said:
Looking at the dates it's no big surprize to observe some high level of redundancy, yet sometimes the crunchy stuff happens to hide into subtle details, other times not too subtle as when he got tagged as a « skate punk ».

Personally i've classified it all as toxic pseudoscience better suited in the macho-cult category, e.g. focussing on the self-esteem and identity of others... In conclusion beware of the algorithm effect solliciting subscriber admiration! By the way, other names been mentioned here and there as well, like Jay Shetty, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Lex Fridman and Reese Witherspoon. Perhaps i might eventually want to try searching for those on Google, but this can wait, there's no shortage of more productive things to do!

Good day, have fun!! ☮️
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You mentioned Rogan so, as i know you unlike him do research before you post.
I takin it as a fact, no way i watching any of that shit. My ex, didnt toke but drunk and smoke just,
before pregnancy. But we lived healthy good food wholesome vegan life styles.

So why were we then the 1 hit wonder, overaged parents, in a polluted area. Fertility at decline.
Like you know, all the shit that you ingest, drink or breath out beats all drugs effect s by long shot.
But can t count out mere coincendence right !

MEN BOOBS is that like BREWERS BREASTHS ?
 
Ok confesian watced Huberman too, might be he is missing some insight [ok a lot]
Needs a boost of ego like Rogan. At least he is schooled and in the field, right ?
'Prolonged grief'I watched and it was good. The one on cannabis lacking.

I can watch him, then again i watched Sai Guru too,
and read Sogyal Rinpoche s ghostwriter interpretation of the book of the death.
Till he praised his teacher for enlighting a other student by humiliation and fysical abuse.

1 st thought paper bin, now.
 
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