Has weed had a positive or negative influence on your life?

[doesntmatter]

Just a question for all of you. To preface however I must say this is a vary broad and complicated question. I know everyone is different physically and mentally, I know everything changes, and I know that people can argue the arbitrary facts or use there own experience and viewpoint as facts i.e. specifying how long you've been smoking might be relevant, but for some people would probably be inaccurate because you're a liar.

Has weed had a positive or negative influence on your life?

Honestly, don't buff up your chest or cling to your habit as an answer.

Think about it, the answer would be different for everyone. We're all different, but you're not wrong if you're different. No wrong answers if they're honest.

Just curious and high.

 

[Remicks]

I've found that weed has had dual effects. In school, weed has definitely hurt me. My memory already suffers from the effects of a 2-month ambien binge and I find that after 2-3 weeks I become very quick-thinking, lucid, and overall more quick. The one exception to this rule is mathematics and music - I find it easy and logical to do math even while completely blazed and I can play just as well (if not more enthusicastically) on my cello.

Positively, weed is great because of its unique combinations with music. Much of the inner art of most of the music I listen to is really noticeable under the influence - and what you notice can be carried with you once you're back down again. It's a great social drug, and the funniest and most interesting conversations I remember (and some I probably don't) have been had while high.

 

[funks_hybrid]

I can definately say weed has helped me at least look at myself in a different light, and grow out of my "angry teen" stage. It helped me realize that i had no reason to hold grudges against people. this happened before i started regular use.

It has had drawbacks though. when i'm using it alot (more than once a day) i tend to get much more apathetic about my school work. this just then gets me to get my ass in gear and ease up on my use, because when i get bad grades i now realize i have to actually do something about it.

I have found that sativas are much better for me than indicas. i get very lazy off of an indica, and these atributes last more than a day. sativas, however, give me my high for about an hour or so, then afterwards i get some work done. it gives me both joy and energy. However, i sometimes tend to smoke out of boredom, so that kills any amount of work i could have done in that time. and there are maybe 2 or 3 occasions where I missed class or an assignment because of weed, which i have thankfully since learned from.

I think overall it's been a positive outcome. lots of learning involved

 

[Blowmonkey]

Has weed had a positive or negative influence on your life?

I wouldn't know. I don't know what my life would've looked like without weed. Might be better, might be worse.

 

[charlie horse]

I wouldn't know. I don't know what my life would've looked like without weed. Might be better, might be worse.

I started smoking at a young age, quit for years, and then came back to smoking. I don't get aggravated as easily as I did when I wasn't smoking, so I guess you could say weed has a positive influence on my life. I agree with Blowmonkey, though, I really don't know what I would be like if I had never quit, or never gone back, so I can't say for sure.

 

[Xorkoth]

Weed has had mostly positive effects on my life.

My schoolwork remained exactly the same. My girlfriend actually barely graduated from high school and had serious problems paying attention to anything. When she started smoking in college, she immediately started to get all As and Bs, and now, in graduate school, she's gotten straight As 3 semesters in a row. All with smoking daily. It helped her to focus, as, in a similar way that adderall helps people with ADD because it gives them the stimulation they need, so has weed done the same.

It helped me to better understand that my own viewpoint and opinions are not necessarily the only way.

It helped me to have a much better temper and sense of humor

It helped me to better understand music

And finally, it led me to psychedelics, which have helped me spiritually, mentally, and behaviorally in ways I could have never imagined possible.

Probably the only two bad effects it's had on my life are:

1 - I have spent countless amounts of money on it

2 - My overall self control for being sober is definitely less than it was before I ever altered my state of mind, and the thing I alter it with the most is weed.

 

[Tranced]

Positive in that it may have helped open me up to new ways of thinking, enhanced my perception of music and led to some quality times getting stoned.

Negative in that regular smoking led to a bit of a dark patch inwhich I developed social anxiety, temporarily losing my sense of humour, being generally more stupid and slightly paranoid. It took a lot of forced effort to gain back certain attributes, like the first two I mentioned, whilst the other two went away when I stopped smoking weed.

 

[Abignail]

I feel like it helps my bi-polar b/c I don't get really bad swings anymore. So it's definitely been good to me.

 

[doesntmatter]

A few people I know consider themselves bi-polar and say they use weed as a medication, kinda to level things out a bit.

My experience with the self control thing is of a different opinion, in my case, than those mentioned above. However I can see how for some people it could be excellent for focusing. When I'm alone or just with a few people(I can't be high in a crowded place w/o really negative effects), I may tend to be more intuitive in regards to relationships for instance or have a more easily obtainable diversity to my creative side.

For me though, weed has been an attributer to a slight rut i've been in for a year or two. I find sometimes that it is an escape tactic rather than recreation.

What percentage of people that...

A) You know personally
B) You know indirectly
C) Your educated guess as to the people you have never met

...would you say have been either negatively or positively affected by weed.

Me (Just my opinion and experience, and I know it leans a certain way. I'm not very outgoing or sociable, so take that into account. I do.)

A) N45 / P55
B) N65/ P35
C) N68/ P32

sp?

 

[Truth]

It's had both for me. I'm happy to be the person I am today because of it, and I think it played a big part in how my morality developed. And I wouldn't have all the friends I do today if I didn't smoke.

But on the other hand its fucking up school big time.

 

[sociacide]

the short, intense highs have offset the long, monotonous lows.
its a package deal..

 

[Diacetylus]

Weed, when I was smoking it, had completely fucked my life over (actually, it was me smoking too much weed that did this, not the weed, that is poor)
I would lock myself in my house/garage and smoke myself to oblivion all day, every day and I wasn't a very sociable person. It also fucked with my motivation and turned me into a selfish person.
Before, when I first started smoking weed, I would only do it once every day after work, it was not problematic and I stuck by the hard rule that I would never smoke during sunlight.
It all pretty much ended when I did my first "wake and bake" session.

 

[ice-9]

It's impossible to say as i'm still living my life and smoking. There's no hindsight or context with which to answer.

 

[DoubleTrouble]

Weed itself has had a pretty neutral impact on my life -- some good, some bad.

The consequences of getting caught smoking weed, on the other hand, .... ugh.

 

[QuiteAlmighty]

I had a problem with weed for a little while, but because I could see it, recognize it for what it was, and put a stop to it, I feel i'm better for it. I suppose this would be a positive impact.

I've also met some of the coolest people I know through weed - that's not to say ALL the cool people I know smoke pot, quite the contrary, but the freed minds you can find through pot connections are worth noting.

 

[Nise]

Im gonna be perfectly honest. Definintly negative effects. Im a daily pothead and thats gotten me nowhere except being anti-social, getting made fun of, bad grades, paranoid, and being depressed. and im damn close to quitting. I wish I never started smoking. I used to be a popluar and cool kid and now im a fuckin loser and get hit by kids I hang out with everyday. weed made my life so much worse.

 

[canaanspn]

I have to agree big time with QuiteAlmighty on this one. My best friends today have been people i met either smoking, buying, or through those I smoke and buy with. I currently live with two of my best friends who are not potheads, however. This helps me stay clean and gives me a motivation to get off of the couch and see the rest of the (non-smoking) world.

Its definately true that you have to respect it as a drug. Two years ago (my junior year....I'm an engineering student) I lived with all potheads, and my best friend lived with all potheads in a place not too far away. Although the people were great, everyone's attitudes just magnified each other's, and I fell into the lazy/stupid pothead act. Now, I smoke regularly but not every day and it keeps my general anxiety/depression in check.

Overall, I think weed is one of the few drugs where recreational use has positive side effects, at least for me. Just have respect for it and, like a good friend, it will treat you well.

 

[Kilgore]

I sorta pissed at the world, mad, yada yada, plus I was a C average student. Started smoking at 15, I graduated with a 3.9 gpa from a college prep school and I don't pay a dime for state university. I'd say weed had a very positive impact on my life.

I don't think I'd be alive right now if it wasn't for the weed.

 

[ezbakeoven]

Just have respect for it and, like a good friend, it will treat you well.

well said man.

ive been smoking for a little over two years now and weed has been a huge factor in my life. i knew and respected its uses from the start, and consequently only let myself smoke on weekends. i knew that if i smoked it everyday id just be abusing it and the negative effects would start to emerge. it has helped me focus a lot in school and really hasnt effected me gradewise. i was still able to be captain of two varsity sports even while smoking, so it didnt effect my athletecism or overall well-being. its also helped a lot to open my mind and be less judgemental, and it did a lot to help develop my morals. i feel that if i smoke and put myself up to something i can be much more motivated to do it, like losing 30 pounds when i got my mind totally focused on it.

not to mention all the GREAT times with friends and music that ive had with the magical herb.

smoke on, and peace out

 

[drug_wench]

ive had both a positive and a negative experience as a pothead
the positives for me are it made me start being sociable and not so constantly wrapped up in my head, helps wiv my anxiety and epilepsy and the high is always nice
the negative things it does - turns me into a lazy lump of shit, sumtimes it makes me irritable, and i abuse it too easily