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Does weed get you less motivated

I dont know if it affects my motivation, but in general the time i spend stoned is chill out/social time- I rarely try to get much done while high (I dont usually smoke till late evening). But ill admit I often have the choice to make between doing something productive and getting in a £10 bag, and the £10 bag always seems to win, so in that sense im less motivated.
 
poak said:
If the same person smokes on a daily basis (multiple times a day) then I think his/her motivation will be affected.

From my point of view, motivation is affected from when the person smokes to when he goes to bed. So if a person tokes right away in the morning, he won't be as motivated for the rest of the day.

So the best thing to do in my opinion is to smoke once a day or less and smoke before bedtime (around 1-2 hours before going to bed) so you can enjoy your high and then go to bed and wake up motivated the next day.
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But then there's someone like me, starting it up in the morning... 6:30 a.m., whatever. I go to school high, learn, study, pass, chasing my high all in between the hours of the day.

Sure, it's a little abusive. Yeah, I have to cut back. But is it affecting my motivation? No, otherwise I wouldn't have done all the work I have for the past three years.

So I think it really does depend on the person and what balances you out. What works for you, works for you. Doesn't have to work for anyone else.

It's also about how stupid adults don't know or care enough to properly raise their children.

Seriously - if you don't teach values and build character, what happens when you smoke pot? Funk all. Because where else would they get that motivation? What would they aspire to, or worry about?
 
weed TO ME IMO .... does effect my motivation seems like i am less motivated to look fresh work on my car then on other days it makes me more detailed oriented its weird but yea maybe im a lil strange
 
After a few weeks of daily smoking I feel dumbed down and not exactly less motivated, but more like "Ill just do what I have to and thats it". Kind of just keeping things to a bare minimum.

More recently in the last 1-1.5 months, Ive been taking short breaks (usually 2-4 days) in between times I smoke and thats been working out nicely. I dont feel any of the negatives I mentioned above.
 
When im High im motivated, untill i start coming down..

I don't really do much besides get high thou man

Your friend sounds depressed bro
 
I don't really know about people who get terribly stuck on weed. I've never felt any surge of desperate want to smoke, it's a walk in the park compared to what I've been through many times during my morphine/various opioids addiction and benzodiazepines addiction.

It's not less motivation, it's just being lazy after smoking. But that's just the kind of high it brings. Numerous times I would walk down the street dancing and singing but I can't see myself planning anything on weed because of the way thinking goes totally abstract. And I loved the afterglow I felt on the following day, it actually gave me energy and made me happy about little things so instead of lying 2 hours in my bed after waking up, I would get up shortly and go do something, visit some places (and there are plenty of those in London). Also, it helped me cut my daily need for methadone, I could drop my second dose (I need split-dosing). When I got back to Poland and there has been no stuff worth its price, I got back to my old regimen...
 
we had two roommates, one was a cousin. She was having mid life crisis and took up with an old friend of hers who had just gotten out of jail. She never told her fiance of 20 years what she was doing or bothered to let him know if she was dead or alive for days. Finally she told him to get out. long story short, they lived with us for several months. when they weren't working, they were smoking weed. they did nothing. the guy said it was cuz he was taking online classes. Well, I have taken online classes, and I still had time to work and be with my kids. So this bs was pissing us off cuz we didn't charge them. they could have helped fix stuff around the house, but did nothing. I attribute this all to weed. in fact they wouldn't even leave after we gave them a month to get out. we turned off the hot water, and they just used boiled water to wash. we turned off his precious school internet and he went to the library. finally we had to put their shit out on the street. it was ridiculous. AMOTIVATIONAL SYNDROME IS REAL. I would have rather had tweakers, they may have gotten something done
 
"Nurseebol .. Love your Dp"

When High as .. I am motivated .. when coming down .. I am so UNmodivated till I get another cone into me ..
 
It actually gets me more motivated. I see a mental image of what I need to get done, where I fuck up and how I can fix it.
 
Smoking weed personally drains me and leaves me extremely lazy. I don't tend to get that energy back either until I quit for 2+ weeks , like I literally have to NOT smoke for 2-3 weeks for me to totally feel 100% and energized again.

That is if I smoke only on the weekends. I could never be an everyday smoker, it is making me lazy enough as it is. So much harder to wake up in the morning after a smoke session. Weed absolutely makes me a vegetable.
 
aidandogg said:
YES - no matter what pot smoking hippies will tell you (lol for stereotyping, im not serious about that tho, dont take to offense) pot DOES cause amotivational syndrome if done enough for your body and brain. for me, when i stopped smoking, my GPA raised by a whopping 2.5 points and i actually got LESS anxious.
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Yeah, lots of stoners are delusional about its effects.

I smoke and can relate to you 100%, the anxiety/laziness went away after I quit it for like 3 weeks. I felt so much better. I don't know why I still smoke....
 
Our 16 yr old teenage son starting smoking pot about 6 mos ago. We were shocked to learn this as we have discoursged it and he mever had any desire to particiate in drigs of any sort but he continues to smoke each day before and after school. He comes home after school and sleeps. We have taken his droving privliges away until he can give us a clean UA but he doesnt seem to care anymore about anything. He won state champion competition in high school swimming, he has always played.high school nasketball and Lacrosse. He regisyered to play football next fall and had a high GPA in school until he started smoking pot. Now his grades ate falling and he does npt want to play football, summer practice starts in 3 wks. How can we help him as he is quickly getting off tract? Pot has changed him so much so fast. I know hw is npt using other drugs as our UA test test for everything. They are very good test and he appears to be honest and always has been as says he only smokes pot. He doesnt leave the house much since he is not driving so there is not a lot of opportunity to engage in other drugs. Can pot diatroy a great kids life so quickly? I smoked on high school on the weekends but that was 30 yrs ago. I know it is much stronger now. I never smoked daily and once married and had kids, i gave it up. Is this just a phade.or am I losing my son?!?
 
Weed effects everyone differntly some kids don't seem to be effected much by it while other do. I started at 16 and for the most part wasn't effected by it. In highschool I had friends that used that were on sports teams, A/B students, and in all honors and AP classes and other that were D/F students that cut class all the time to get high. A majority of the people I knew that used and were screw ups were already like that before they used and starting didn't help.

I would sit down and have a real talk with your son to see why exactly he chose to start smoking weed and what is causing him to loose interest in school and football. There may be a deeper issue that is causing his problems. Using drugs to cover up emotional issues/depression will only make things worse in the long run.
 
The problem is that it stops you from being bored and you get contented with sitting around doing nothing.
 
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