Turned my college friends into lazy, complacent, content with sitting there in a dark room looking at a screen all day, zombies. Was so frustrating when trying to go out and to anything active with a crew. Only thing that could rally them was booze and partying. Even with that I’ve seen them pass on going out to meet chicks because of they’re high state. For that reason, I think it’s clear that it’s a tool to sedate everyone - especially if used regularly

Spot on.

"A generation of gullible fools believing they could buy enlightenment for 3 dollars a hit." - Hunter Thompson (paraphrased)

Shoulda got your shit together and grown your own. That’s the wasted opportunity.

I used to smoke because its the only thing that can really calm and relax me. My family line must produce alot of adrenaline/testosterone because there is a bit of aggression that runs there, I imagine its why I exist, and my family wasnt one of the many lines that perished trying to live on this continent hundreds of years ago. I can totally see my ancestors up all night on alert waiting for british/french/indian raids. Perhaps im crazy though ^^ I havent ruled that out.

Im torn about it, no matter how upset, or angry I get, smoking a bowl calms me right down. Its not like a violent person, but I have a tendency to do dumb things like try and join the military after staying up for 5 nights and getting kicked out by my dad lmao after I cant keep my mouth shut.

Would I have done more with my life if I hadnt smoked? Proably not, I would proably be drinking copious amounts of alcohol instead.

I hate it, its the one thing I do wish I could change about myself, but my life has just been so crappy ( whos hasnt I know), and man the poisoning, everyday I wake up and think about what happened to me. It feels like ill never get over it. I just like to change my state of mind so im not raging and stuporing in my own self pity. Helps to break those thought loops that I didnt understand were part of the low latency thing.

If it werent for the weed, there is a chance I would have joined the military or I would have graduated with my bachelors, made some games, started a small studio. I think im just a loser though, and thats ok. I lived life how I wanted, not how others wanted me too. I have no one to blame except for myself. Health problems though, are a different story...

At this point, im smoking the weed medicinally. It helps control the gout/inflammation without having to take gout medication everyday, and it helps with the nausea/sleep problems/headaches/kidney pain/fatigue/muscle and bone pain from the parathryoidism though :(. As much as I would love to quit it, I cant right now.

Fucking funny ass thing is when I worked for that shit ass company that poisoned me, before I was a freon disposal technician, I was on the truck with a driver going around the province removing old fridges and freezers. The driver hated weed so I wouldnt bring it with me when we would spend a week on the other side of the province once a month.

Not smoking was not a issue when I had something to do and was motivated. As soon as I am home alone with my thoughts, I feel a need to spark up. It is entirely a mental addiction, and again its the only thing I actually hate about myself :(.

So torn. I have no doubt about the medicinal uses for it though.

You sound like the nova scotia court system that took 6 years to process a workers death. And at the end just chalked it up to marijuana.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/foreman-cleared-criminal-negligence-dartmouth-death-1.7074375

Jeff Gooch was a supervisor and foreman for Insulated Panel Structures. He was working at the Dartmouth Crossing construction site in March 2018 when Brandon Alcorn fell from the Kent Building Supplies store that was under construction. Alcorn died from his injuries and Gooch was charged in December 2019.

In his ruling released on Thursday, Jan. 4, Justice D. Timothy Gabriel said Alcorn was likely intoxicated when he fell more than five metres to the ground. Alcorn was wearing a harness but it was not anchored to the roof, Crown prosecutor Alex Keaveny said.

At trial, toxicologist Jennifer Swatek testified both delta-carboxy THC and delta-9 THC — the latter she described as a psychoactive material deposited in the body after the ingestion of cannabis — were found in the samples of Alcorn's blood taken before his death.

"At page 2 of the report, she describes it as the active ingredient found in marijuana. She describes the drug as a 'DEA schedule one hallucinogen. Pharmacologically, it has depressant and reality distorting effects," Gabriel noted in his ruling.

Yeah, basing it off of studies done in the 1960's where they blasted rhesus monkeys with straight smoke. Made them brain dead through oxygen deprivation and this is where they classified this drug.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dea-evidence-justifying-schedule-i-classification-cannabis-dawson

The history of psychology is filled with tales of researchers pushing the boundaries of science and ethics. Dr. Heath had the background and credentials the government wanted because he was one of the first physicians to implant electrodes deep inside the brain as a psychosurgical intervention. He is best known for using electrical stimulation in an attempt to cure patients of schizophrenia and as a method of conversion therapy for homosexual males. In addition to these studies, Heath conducted and published the results of a study in which he claimed to have administered to rhesus monkeys 30 joints per day for a period of one year which conclusively demonstrated the deleterious effects of ingesting cannabis. This is known as the Heath/Tulane study and it is probably one of the most important studies in cannabis history. In reporting, Heath claimed after the year was up he killed the monkeys, counted the dead brain cells and compared that number to the number of dead brain cells in monkeys that hadn’t ingested cannabis. The result of this study demonstrated conclusively that the cannabis ingesting monkeys had significantly more dead brain cells than the monkeys that hadn’t ingested cannabis. This study is cited quite frequently as proof that cannabis use kills brain cells, and is still used as evidence by the DEA to further their agenda.

Yeah, most people dont know, that at high enough quantity's weed is indeed a psychedelic, my dad would tell me how him and his buddys in the 1960's would buy a lunchbag full of weed and roll a 100 joints with it, and then proceed to smoke them one by one. At one point they would experience lsd type effects. I myself cant get that high lmao, I would literally pass out and fall asleep. Would I want to smoke weed the night before and operate a crane the next day? Fuck NO. I wouldnt want to do that even if I was sober. I was the type of person who tripped every day in highschool and I didnt even smoke weed back then.

But come on, you expect me to believe weed was the contributing factor to this guys death?

Not the unanchored harness? That his supervisor should have been double checking. Not the temporary 2x4 guard rails which are required by law, but werent there. Not the fall arrest gear that had been used before.

No it was definitely the weed man, its evil as fuck.

Id love to fucking get in something like a charger and smoke up a bong, get hooked up to some brain diodes to monitor my reaction times and do a obstacle course.

guarantee I still drive better than half the idiots in the place im at now. Not as good as I could sober for sure, but enough to pass a drivers test.

Also, dont let anyone know that opiates are proably even worse for slowing reaction times and things. You might be scared to find out the dudes driving semis are likely high.

Legal prescribed drugs = ok though.

We can trust soldiers/warriors to get drunk as fuck on poison the night before a battle and its ok. But do it before working at a back breaking job like contrstruction. Yeah, I dont know, unless buddy was smoking on the site, and it doesnt sound like he was. Consider me a radical that the weed was not likely the contributing fator.

WCB pulled the same shit on me, the heart palpitations, and irregular heartbeat that you dont have, is likely caused by weed. Ahh yes. explains why im still smoking it today, even more because im literally dying from parathyroidism ^^, or I feel like it anyway.

Definitely wasnt the known cardiac sensitizing substance, no way. Im still cardiac fucking sensitized to this day! I play a game of counter strike, pull off a crazy shot, and my heart just goes fucking sideways. Thumping, beating out of rhythm, double pvcs as well. Feels like im going to have this the rest of my life.

I agree, but then you could argue the same for everything from a beer to a coffee to a cake. In the scale of modern sin we might need stoners on the good side and who is without fault?

A good occult book on weed roll away the stone (Israel regardie on Crowley) pretty much comes to this conclusion- it does create narcissism in the user, there are pros and cons imho