weed side effects?

[Mafioso]

i've been smoking for about 2 year now, and almost since the beginning i've been smoking all day everyday. until recently i've been unemployed so being high all the time wasn't a problem. any changes in perception i just assumed to be because i was stoned, but now i've noticed my eyes are more sensitive to light, colors look more vivid but less defined(almost like they are glowing), alot more "floaters", "tracers" and shit like that. also its become harder to understand people. it might because my hearing is going bad, but ill hear what someone says but have trouble mentally processing what they are saying; it almost sounds like people mumble and i have to put the whole sentence together to understand it. i feel like some, if not all of it might have to do with the way weed has effected my memory. i also get side tracked and distracted easier and have trouble staying focused.

its nothing horrible or drastic, its more just like minor things i notice more and more it seems. kind of makes me want to quit smoking..i've been feeling so retarded when i blaze lately. anyone else experience these things?

 

[casper1231]

thats called being really friggin baked haha. and yea ive experienced this too. i cant remember most of my most recent semester at school. and when im sober iver noticed im more of an air head then when i didnt smoke

 

[peroxadic]

I went through the exact same thing. I started smoking heavily last year, and for a year straight I would smoke daily/nightly. First thing I do when I got home from work/class, was to fill up that bong and let it rip (sometimes even without taking my backpack off lol).

Then the symptoms you're describing started. The tracers of light, being very sensitive to light (indoor and sunlight), feeling slow and dizzy, having a woozy sensation in the head (almost mild drunkeness), etc. I started freaking out and got paranoid (thanks weed) about what the weed was doing to my body, and I even tried to quit (which I didn't/couldn't/wouldn't). My memory was shot, and reading a sentence was more difficult than ever before.

All I can say is, DON'T WORRY TOO MUCH. That was the biggest mistake I made, worrying obsessively and in a paranoid manner (again, weed). I think the stress from all the worrying made the symptoms even worse, and made my life worse.

I don't smoke quiet as often now, and have gotten much better. Make SURE you get some type of cardio exercise (run, basketball, whatevers), and take antioxidants and brain charging supplements (like gingko, ginseng, piracetam, 5-HTP, they work for me at least). And READ. READ READ READ. Read whatevers, articles, books, bluelight forums, read anything. And when you write anything and anywhere, try to be as coherent and sensible as possible. I think it helps a lot to practice this whenever you can.


Don't stress too much and keep your head up!