Comments on: How pot makes you feel stupid

By: D.W.

D.W. — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:24:28 +0000

i assure you that in a week my view of marijuana will not have changed, and im not asking for your approval, im asking questions about marijuana, im also sick of this formal smartass attitude. why dont you stop avoiding questions, you phrase everything with complete disrespect for what everybody has to say. You didnt say anything about my opinions until i said i was a ‘minor’ im sure you realize its used by quite a few high schoolers, whos opinions also mean something. nobody is going to send you to jail for talking about marijuana with a minor. i know your going to say something like ‘again,i will not discuss marijuana with a minor’ shove it up your ass michael.lets actually take the conversation somewhere, who gives a shit about who uses it medicinally thats not what were talking about. and drug counsellor, aside from fucking up your lungs,marijuana does not have long term effects, after youve burned off enough fat or it stops circulating in your blood stream you return to normal, so if you use it occasionally i really dont think its very harmful, i mean theres no hangover,you cant overdose, its not addictive in the literal sense,but it can become habit. i dont see why a responsible person shouldnt be able to use it on occasion at a party or with friends, look at what alcohol does, it makes alot of people aberrant, it fucks up your liver, alot of people drink to the point that they get sick when they dont. marijuana doesnt do any of these things. i got a bunch of books on it once and read through what it did to the brain, each book said something different, so there must be some big misconceptions, are tests being done anymore?

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:14:05 +0000

I think you’d find out a lot more about me by reading more of this blog. I’m not really interested in having an interview here. Cannabis can be vaporized or eaten, rather than smoked, if you are concerned about smoke irritation.

By: Trained drug counsellor

Trained drug counsellor — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:34:15 +0000

k well, its my opinion that being in great shape is fine but that has nothing to do with effects of cannabis nor does your taste in music. Marijuana effects your lungs, and could i ask u michael are u using marijuana for medical reasons? id like to add i have nothing against people who smoke marijuana. I used marijuana for several years.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:39:32 +0000

I will say that stupid people and smart people both use cannabis, and smart people do not become stupid because they use cannabis, but if you are a minor you should not seek approval from me to use it.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:06:42 +0000

and michael im sorry earlier about being aggravated,after i realized you were the one that made this blog i had alot more respect for you because im exactly like that. its hard to explain but my whole life i never had friends, and i was extremely hyper,i also thought very highly of myself,i thought i was very different from others, this caused me to isolate myself in very damaging ways, i was very depressed for many years. i used to think about killing myself daily. i would see other people with their friends, being happy and talking about things that didnt feel important to me, and i looked down on them.i put up a wall to taking things in, and i never knew what real life was, because it was too painful to feel and deal with. i never had a relationship with my family, but my dad always told me that the same things happened to him, and that he didnt break out of it until he was late in high school. i didnt fully understand why, but how he described it made perfect sense. i did make friends at some point, but i was still a loser to most people, i was in my own world. i had never tried weed,but i knew alot of kids that smoked alot, and one time they got me to try it. at first i was very paranoid and it was difficult for my friends to calm me down, i was complaining that i couldnt find my heart beat and i thought i was dead.i just wanted it to be over. so i came away from smoking with the idea that it was a horrible thing and that i didnt need it in my life, i was terrified of it to be honest. but i was also angry that some of the chics i had a crush on could do it and i couldnt, this made me wonder why it did what it did to me, and not other people. eventually, after telling somebody about my experience, i was told that what i was doing was fighting the high, and that i needed to embrace it. so i tried it again. and a good friend of myne played some music i enjoyed, im sure now,looking back on it, that he saw that he needed to make me do something i liked normally, so i could see how it was intensified, as a way of forcing me to accept it. and it worked, i was baked out of my mind, i felt like a puddle on the couch, and it was hard to focus on things, but after he put the music on he told me to think about my life and myself, it was amazing, it was like i could see how other people perceived me, and suddenly i understood why i was so rejected. at the same time i realized that i wasnt so different from everybody id known, i realized that i wasnt perfect, and that all the kids had picked on me because i was dealing with something that they didnt understand, the kids that were my friends were looking through the surface.
I found that the pain in my life retracted and i floated to a horizon of reason, not illusional reason, the kindof reason that flows out of a friends mouth when your world is shaken by burdens.its something that hits you, you dont have to find it.and so everything that my father had told me made complete sense, i fully realized his intentions in things he taught me.my thought was amplified and allowed me to explore creativity in complete liberation, i was taking emotions in, and it occured to me that i hadnt really lived a day in my whole life. i hadnt felt love, i had been dead inside,and weed woke me.it was such an amazing experience, from then on, i actually accepted reality. it was a shortcut to making me the person i am and may not have become. i no longer deal with depression or isolation. it literally saved me from killing myself. i would smoke it everyday now,but i dont NEED to, and thats why i ask the questions about whether it will make you stupid. i do still smoke on occation, once a month or so. but im careful not to overdue it,because i think its wise.So this is how i decided to explain my views of it. and by the way im 17, turning 18 in about a week. just so anybody wondering knows.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:25:06 +0000

ill add that the jamaican friend is in great shape physically, and exercises alot. i know that a great amount of thc is stored in body fat, but if hes always burning it,maybe that has something to do with it? just an idea.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:14:36 +0000

if somebody wants to become stupid thats their problem. but it just makes me want to do it when i see that one of my best friends has been dealing since he was 11 and now hes 22 working 2 jobs and smoking all the time, he also plays drums and has in my opinion a great taste in music.he just doesnt seem stupid too me,whereas if i compared him to alot of other people i know they are just fucking retarded. so i guess what im trying to discern is what specifically causes the person to be stupid, it must just be the nature of that person.i also know an 18 yr old from jamaica that smokes everyday, hes going to graduate this year and hes smart as hell, it doesnt matter whether youd say thats opinionated, im talking about the difference between your typical slow stoner and your very bright friend who always has something good to say.shortly after he moved here he said ‘you guys smoke for weird reasons.’ the fact that theres a culture out there with those beliefs just makes me rethink what the possibilties for it actually are. because in a culture where people perceive it as a positive thing its obviously turned out differently.I guess im neutral but a little angry that there are facts missing because people want it that way.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:05:56 +0000

I don’t think it is off the point at all. You referred to “all my stoner friends” and most of my friends who use cannabis use it medicinally and spiritually.

By: Trained drug counsellor

Trained drug counsellor — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:15:36 +0000

i think that was very off the point

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:51:15 +0000

Some people use cannabis medicinally, and for them removal of cannabis is very painful. It is not withdrawal in this case, it is the lack of relief which cannabis provides.

There are many ways to treat pain, some of them are more effective than others, and some of them have harmful side effects.

Many pain relievers are dangerous in the doses necessary to be effective for serious pain. Tylenol and aspirin kill many people every year, as do opiates. These drugs either cause damage to bodily organs, or suppress the central nervous system so far that breathing ceases and death results.

Cannabis cannot be overdosed to death, it does no harm to the body, and it costs nothing if people were only allowed to grow it for themselves. There’s a lot of money in patent pharmaceutical medicines, and a lot of profit motive to keep cannabis illicit.

Cannabis should be classified as an adaptogenic herb. The seeds are food, and the leaves and flowers are for the healing of people and nations.

By: Trained drug counsellor

Trained drug counsellor — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:13:07 +0000

withdrawl effects extremelly mild

By: Trained drug counsellor

Trained drug counsellor — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:12:27 +0000

i know all your stoner friends tell you its totally harmless and blahblahblah, but it truely can have long-term negative side effects.
thc binds to the cannabinoid receptors in your brain, and just like with mdma, excessive use will cause the receptors to downregulate or shut down or whatever. the inactivity of the receptors is the cause of the negative effects. a lot of the cannabinoid receptors are located in the area of your brain that regulates memory, which is the reason for poor memory and memory loss (your brain uses cannabinoid-related chemicals to help regulate memory, introducing artificial cannabinoids in repeated/high doses can totally fuck things up)
another thing your stoner friends fail to tell you is that marijuana is addicting, but that seems pretty obvious to anyone who actually takes a step back and observes. if you smoke it every day for months even years on end, how could you not be addicted? your brain expects to have all its neurochemicals and such in a certain balance and when this balance is thrown off, say by a loss of a certain chemical (the drug you’ve been doing and suddenly quit), you go into withdrawl.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:16:16 +0000

Have I ever felt stupid? Yes. Read the post. Not because I used too much cannabis but because I was too inexperienced.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:14:37 +0000

The short answer is No. Cannabis changes how I think and remember things but does not cause a reduction of my intelligence or memory. Short term recall is temporarily affected but with some experience it doesn't cause significant impairment.

By: D.W.

D.W. — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:29:56 +0000

my point is that i wasnt asking for alternative stimulants while high, i was asking if youve ever felt dumb because you smoke so much. and do you forget things?