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What is heavy use to you?
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psychomimetic
Bluelighter
I consider myself a heavy user most of the time, meaning I smoke 2-4 grams of schwag daily on most days. I smoke every day, but sometimes I smoke as little as 3 or 4 bubbler bowls of schwag in a day. I consider my use to be heavy but not harmful.
I don't think my use gets in the way of my other activities really, but I do think I use cannabis as a crutch. More specifically, I use cannabis to maintain a semi-healthy mental state. If I didn't smoke I would have to get on pharmaceutical medicine for my mental health. I much prefer pot to taking an SSRI daily, which I refuse to do. I might try an MAOI one of these days but I love weed so I'd still smoke it if I was on an MAOI, but I'd smoke it less and it probably wouldn't be such a crutch because my mental health would be regulated by the MAOI.
I don't think my use gets in the way of my other activities really, but I do think I use cannabis as a crutch. More specifically, I use cannabis to maintain a semi-healthy mental state. If I didn't smoke I would have to get on pharmaceutical medicine for my mental health. I much prefer pot to taking an SSRI daily, which I refuse to do. I might try an MAOI one of these days but I love weed so I'd still smoke it if I was on an MAOI, but I'd smoke it less and it probably wouldn't be such a crutch because my mental health would be regulated by the MAOI.
Tillianne
Bluelighter
I disagree. I use cannabis as medicine, and I vaporize all day long. I don't vaporize enough to impair me. That way I can still get things done when I need to. I will vap more at night, before bedtime, so I can sleep relatively pain free.
Currently, I am not vaping more than a gram per week, but I can still vap all day long for pain relief.
SDforever420
Bluelighter
^^Is a vap reall that good of an investment? If i could stay on the level i want to be at wit a gram a week i would defiantly buy one.
Tillianne
Bluelighter
It was a good investment for me. If you get a good vaporizer, with a great warranty, it will be a good investment for you as well. Vapor Brothers and Vapor Warez are good starter vaporizers. Both are whip/box style, but Vapor Warez has a better warranty. I'm using a Magic Flight Launch Box vaporizer now, and it conserves herb more than anything I have ever used.
cssss
Bluelighter
I'd consider heavy use to be when you are high 24-7. Like, when it just becomes part of your day to day life being stoned all the time (regardless if you "don't get high anymore" or whatever). If you have THC in you 90% of the day I'd consider that heavy
AmbientSoul
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Heavy use to me depends on the person, if they are constantly getting high to a point that they are about to green, then i'd consider it as heavy usage.
thesethingshappen
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Outta Pocket said:
I agree with this to an extent but this leans more towards the description of dependency. If you have to smoke before you handle your business, you're dependent. Heavy use doesn't necessarily have to mean dependency.
So what if you're smoking several times a day on the days you don't work but still living an ordinary life? I enjoy a lot of things, especially being outside while under the influence of weed. Days I work (5 of the 7 days a week) I smoke after work and probably once a week I will smoke before work. (I usually do one W&B a week, especially if I have to work until 11PM the night before then work again @ 7AM the next day)
I consider myself a 'heavy user' but not an abuser. I really don't feel they're one in the same.
"If you are smoking more than 2 grams a day of B-A grade cannabis, you are not only wasting your money/time and effort, but you are abusing cannabis. You will start to see negative side effects if you smoke this much."
This I will agree with. When I started smoking ~2-4 grams a day when I wasn't high I often lost focus and just felt tired and irritated. I cut back down to ~1g a night because of how fast my stashes were depleting and ~2.5 on my days off and my focus slowly came back when I wasn't high. Kind of weird, I thought it was just me..
im not saying youre not functional. its still heavy use though. hell ive seen people bangin heroin all day get shit done, doesnt mean theyre not heavy using. hell im functional as hell no matter the amount of weed in my system, that doesnt mean im not a heavy ass user though. i used to only use weed as a nighttime thing... panic attacks needed to sleep. but now like 4 yrs later youlll never see me without a bong in my hand or B in my lips.
Wizzle
Bluelighter
It really depends on the person.. Smoking every morning would make me so lethargic that I would considerer it a real drug problem. If you are smoking 2 grams (a grade) a day, to me, you are severely addicted.. The dangers of weeds are underestimated by most smokers especially when compared to other drugs. I truly believe E is less harmful because it isn't as habit forming.
As said, it depends on the person. But I think daily smoking of any amount is usually a bad thing.
As said, it depends on the person. But I think daily smoking of any amount is usually a bad thing.
Mr_Fluffykins
Bluelighter
when it gets int eh way with life, when you smoke a Q a day
i only smoke .5 of a day, and it doesnt get in the way,im a light user, but somedays i spend the whole day high on no more then a gram
i only smoke .5 of a day, and it doesnt get in the way,im a light user, but somedays i spend the whole day high on no more then a gram
i don't really think smoking a gram in a week is considered heavy use. a little over a tenth of a gram per day is hardly enough to impair you, and like he said he doesn't smoke enough to get fucked up. it doesn't really make sense to say someone is a "heavy" smoker when they burn less bud in a week than most burn in a sitting.
k.kat
Bluelighter
when you start to arouse in the morning and before you even open your eyes the first thought on your mind is joint and you reach for it smoke it then smoke another 4 or 5 joints rapid just to get your head together, then smoke joints all day every day and need them to get to sleep,
and if you run out your climbing the walls, very ratty and is impossible to get to sleep,
(or bowls if you smoke bowls but i like my joints)
and if you run out your climbing the walls, very ratty and is impossible to get to sleep,
(or bowls if you smoke bowls but i like my joints)
Tillianne
Bluelighter
You think 1 gram a week is heavy use?? Wow. I'm a medical cannabis user, and everyone I've talked to said that is miniscule.
.1 of A bud in a big hit can get someone fucking ripped if you do it right. if youre doing it like he said "vaping all day long"... sounds like a lot to me- vapes are efficient. well it all depends on your definition of heavy. for a pothead he may not be heavy... but compared to a normal person def. heavy use.
let me give ya an example. my friend does 8 bumps of H a day and would not get sick or messed up. just even. any one of us looking at him would say he is a heavy user.. he would not, because he would still be clearheaded at the end of the day.
Tillianne
Bluelighter
I wanted to clarify, I am female, not male.
I'm not a pothead, I am a medical user. I am the only medical user I know that only uses 1 gram per week.
my apologies tillianne i didn't know you were a lady.
red rum, your right a .1 hit would get me pretty high, but tillianne isn't taking .1 rips. she said she smokes a little over a tenth of a gram in a day. A GRAM IN A WEEK. A TENTH OF A GRAM PER DAY. how is that heavy use? for a pothead its not, but for a normal person it is? a normal person being someone who doesn't smoke pot? sorry not following your logic...
let me give you an example. my friend drinks 20 beers a day. tillianne is still not a pothead.
red rum, your right a .1 hit would get me pretty high, but tillianne isn't taking .1 rips. she said she smokes a little over a tenth of a gram in a day. A GRAM IN A WEEK. A TENTH OF A GRAM PER DAY. how is that heavy use? for a pothead its not, but for a normal person it is? a normal person being someone who doesn't smoke pot? sorry not following your logic...
let me give you an example. my friend drinks 20 beers a day. tillianne is still not a pothead.
Tillianne
Bluelighter
It's ok. It's my fault. I assumed people would know I was female with a name that included "anne." 
I use cannabis to have a better quality of life. So that I can do more to help my family. I am never stoned. I only use enough to help my pain, inflammation, and nausea. As soon as I can feel it, I stop, and may not vap again for a couple hours. Sometimes I use less than a gram per week.
I wanted to add that I only vaporize, and I only use the Magic Flight Launch Box vaporizer. It's just not possible to get big rips from it. It's a tiny little thing, but I love it. Here's a link with info about it:
http://magic-flight.com/
I use cannabis to have a better quality of life. So that I can do more to help my family. I am never stoned. I only use enough to help my pain, inflammation, and nausea. As soon as I can feel it, I stop, and may not vap again for a couple hours. Sometimes I use less than a gram per week.
I wanted to add that I only vaporize, and I only use the Magic Flight Launch Box vaporizer. It's just not possible to get big rips from it. It's a tiny little thing, but I love it. Here's a link with info about it:
http://magic-flight.com/
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Chainer
Bluelighter
Don't misunderstand - I still think that is heavy use / abuse even if you don't have priorities. When going through the day sober is "different," that's a pretty clear sign... But don't get me wrong, I did this all summer, the difference is I *know* I was abusing a *drug*.
Priorities and abuse do go hand in hand but they are not one in the same - if you have no priorities and are sitting around all day, you can still abuse a drug. I've done it throughout my life plenty of times, and apparently so have you... You can't really argue that just because you don't have priorities doesn't make you immune to becoming a heavy habitual user - else we could all just sit at home and smoke opium till we die and have it not considered heavy use.
The abuse can usually be seen when it starts impacting your priorities or decision making process (ie: go to class.... or smoke a blunt?)... but that's not where the abuse started, it's only where the abuse becomes apparent.
