Zak Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Hello, this is my first post here on Love Shack. I'd like to tell everyone about my story and share with ya why I think weed is bad for ya. I stopped smoking weed & synthetic THC about two months ago because I knew it was affecting my social skills. I lost motivation in my life, loosing passion about everything except for music and my **** manager position at a close by pizza chain . However if it weren't for weed I wouldn't be a good funky guitar player like I am now, and I probably wouldn't have the playlist I have on my iTunes. I was 16 when I first took my hit. I've been a chronic smoker ever since (just turned 20) in till I quit two months ago. Quiting generated really good results as I'm learning how to have fun sober with crowds and people. I have ADD without medication, introverted, I'm positive, and generally attractive. I think having a horrible three year relationship with someone ruined my personality a little bit too. Link to post Share on other sites
TaraMaiden Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Hi Zak. Welcome to the forum, and thank you for the caveat. I'm certain there are many, many really top class rock, classical, and funk guitarists in this world who have achieved fame and fortune without touching drugs. I personally can't think of one, off the top of my head, right now, though.... But I do know that the 'Golden Oldies' still strumming their strings are testimony to how good things can be when you wean yourself off that crap. Link to post Share on other sites
Pyro Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 I'm certain there are many, many really top class rock, classical, and funk guitarists in this world who have achieved fame and fortune without touching drugs. I personally can't think of one, off the top of my head, right now, though.... Ted Nugent. Weed had the same effects on me as well, and getting caught by the police with it on me was the best thing ever. :p Link to post Share on other sites
Author Zak Posted June 13, 2010 Author Share Posted June 13, 2010 (edited) I think marijuana should be legalized for many reasons. However, I don't like the long term affects it has on my personality and my lungs which is why I decided to quit. Personally, I think marijuana isn't "crap", marijuana should be treated with more responsibility. If I had a strong career I wouldn't mind taking a few tokes of some legal bud instead of drinking myself retarded. It's very true that it is established scientific fact that marijuana is not toxic to humans; marijuana overdoses are nearly impossible, and marijuana is not nearly as addictive as alcohol or tobacco and could be used as a gigantic cash crop in the U.S. SCIENCE CANNOT PROVE WHAT IT DOES TO THE PERSONALITY, am I right? I mean everyone has a different personality structure, and sure it could be generalized but it still affects everyone differently. Some people can handle it and be just fine, like my very well active grandma. She smokes joints like cigarettes and has a pot plant in her back yard. I just found out last month she's been smoking weed since she was 16 too. Edited June 13, 2010 by Zak Link to post Share on other sites
LucreziaBorgia Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 It can be as bad as any substance you misuse. It is only as bad as you make it. I vaporize every once in a while if I have a particularly bad headache, or having trouble falling asleep. I don't think I would want to smoke recreationally, to be honest. I would think that regular use like that would help contribute to not getting a lot done. Depends on how baked you get, I guess. I know perfectly functional potheads, but they aren't ripping huge b-hits all day. They might do a one-hitter every couple of hours, and that's it. Link to post Share on other sites
Feelin Frisky Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 Weed creates an artificial perception of reality. As you get older you can't look back and see how you met life on life's terms. You can only at best admit that you lived inside a big bubble of drug--caused distorted perceptions. I won't call them delusions because marijuana does in effect allow the right brain to become more dominant in the waking state and thus the left brain recedes in control. That's why we lose sense of time and sometimes when high, think we've been peeing for an hour or stopped at the same traffic light for eons--people forget what road they are on and how far to the next turn because ideas and insights (some quite brilliant and insighful) from the right hemisphere are overtaking the left (the left which keeps you oriented to the real clock and the real tangible reality of where and when you are). The right brain is dominant during sleep and permits dreams because there's no interference from the waking left hemisphere to cause a reality check. Using hallucinogens and other drugs is a little or a lot like being awake and asleep at the same time. Because of this people experience an upset balance in natural brain function--they often fail to reach the kind of sleep that triggers release of natural HGH (human growth hormone). There are many implications but the one that is almost universal is the valley one experiences between highs and people procrastinate either because of the valley or because they are high again. This is why pot smokers are notorious for things judged by the uneducated on the subject as being arrested in development, docile, overdue in making life direction choices and middle age living with old mom and dad or well beneath their original potential. I know because I don't think it's possible to smoke more pot and hashish than me in my teens and early twenties. I stopped because I felt life starting to leave me behind. Make pot a rareity if at all. Link to post Share on other sites
Engadget Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 It depends on the person, but weed really isn't that bad and I've never lost motivation or anything when I was high. In fact I had much more, and wanted to go do things and not sit around. Link to post Share on other sites
jean-luc sisko Posted June 13, 2010 Share Posted June 13, 2010 All drugs should be legal, but nonetheless, I'd question the type of personality who takes them. Link to post Share on other sites
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