The human body is built to flush itself out over time, and it's the chemical that causes you to be high.
Actually, there is at least one exception to this.
Now, I can't recall if PCP stays in your system permanently or just for a very very long time. But it is the only drug known to cause flashbacks not because of the psychological impact it has had, like LSD. Rather it causes flashbacks because it can be released back into the bloodstream even months later at levels high enough to cause psychoactive effects.
But as for LSD causing flashbacks, like I said, it's purely psychological. And I believe that the majority of people who claim to have flashbacks likely only get them because people are told that LSD causes flashbacks. Like a placebo. You believe it will happen, so it does. Although LSD can cause very intense and profound experiences, so can other drugs. There's no reason why LSD would cause a person to have flashbacks anymore than other drugs.
And infact, the term "flashback" itself is not appropriate. An LSD flashback is not reliving a past experience, which is what a flashback in psychiatric terms is. Rather, it's experiencing some of the same hallucinogenic effects again. Which would really make it more of a minor psychotic episode triggered from an intense experience, overusing drugs and becoming detached from reality or from the experience being traumatic.
As well, I've used LSD alone nearly 175 seperate times. Not to mention having used other psychedelic drugs several hundred times. I have NEVER experienced a flashback.
I have so much as seen people look at venetian blinds saying they're moving and calling it an LSD flashback. Really, that would happen to anyone looking at a bunch of parallel lines close together. And people also claim they see water-like ripples staring at blank white walls saying it's caused by LSD flashbacks. Again, ANYONE will see that, especially if they're in florescent lights like those used in schools, office buildings and restaurants.
And this goes back to what I was saying earlier about flashbacks likely being placebo for most people. People believe they will happen, and they are likely to notice things like the examples I gave above which they never payed attention to before.
A: Yes. Once you kill all your brain cells, even if you quit smoking pot you're still brain-dead (stoned).
This isn't true at all.
You could smoke marijuana daily for 50 years and not ever kill any significant amount of braincells.
Not to mention it's not conclusively proven that marijuna destroys braincells to begin with. As so many people are able to heavily smoke pot and then quit and regain all their mental capacities, it seems unlikely that marijuana does much as far as killing braincells. This includes memory. And marijuana is primarily only speculated to destroy memory cells because of the effects it has on memory. The only thing that is certain is that it interferes with the brains ability to function.
As well, the human brain regenerates and has the capability to find new ways of functioning if something is abnormal.
Almost entirely of what could be considered permanent after-affects of marijuana are psychologically related.
Unfortunantly, the psychological impact of drugs is largely overlooked. In my opinion, the War on Drugs is the biggest reason for this. People who are against recreational drug use focus on other issues as being the biggest dangers of drugs. And people who support recreational drug use are preoccupied arguing against those attacks.
However, some people can live normal and healthy lives using drugs, and some can't. And what has the most negative effect on people who become dysfunctional because of drug use are not the direct effects of the drugs themselves, but rather the psychological effects from being in an altered state in the first place.
where as people who dont like it, because of whatever reason besides trial and dislike, dont so because when they are affected they really dont want to feel more introverted. for some people the mind is a horrible place to try and visit.
I don't think that it's venturing into the mind which causes some people to dislike marijuana.
I found it very unpleasant for a long time, but I was heavily interested in psychedelic drugs like LSD, DOM, mushrooms, MDMA, ketamine, etc.
Marijuana not only made me feel introverted and paranoid, but made me feel as if I had no control over myself and had negative effects on my emotions.
Even now, while I don't have a negative opinion on marijuana anymore, I rarely touch it and if I do, I only consume a minimal amount. Just enough so that it changes the way I hear things so I can REALLY get into the music I'm listening to or making.
i suppose then it is possible to be perma-stoned the rest of your life, but only because you dont have long enough to sober up. damn that would be a lot of smokin
Unless you were to die within 2 years of quitting marijuana, that's simply impossible. Your body will flush THC and all other cannabinoids from your system without exception within a year.
But it's perhaps possible that if you were smoking for decades, that your brain may never get completely used to functioning sober again.
