I've been smoking on and off for sometime... roughly 10 years.. I recently been smoking for the past year, before that, I had quit for 7years before toking up for the first time. I just try to normalize smoking because of it becoming legal, medically, and recreational, but to be honest, it seems like this "medical/recreationally" bullshit is a ploy to separate the wolves from the sheep, the weak from the strong. This past year that I returned to smoking, was nothing but cloudiness, laziness, ups and downs emotionally, and just annoying. Thought I would get more creative with music making, all it left me was clouded and tired. Smoked before and after the gym... before.. i thought it would help me focus, it made feel drained and a 1hr workout felt like a year, and thought I was working hard, when in reality, all I did was 3 sets of 8... smh. And for those people say munchies aren't real and can be controlled..lmfao.. if your trying to.bulk,sure, but it had me gorging on cookies and cakes just to shit all day the next day. Not to mention it wrecks testosterone production and semen quality.
Im 35. My weed days are done good... maybe when I'm old..
Who knows...
Thoughts?
I stopped smoking a couple years ago. Weed started giving me seizures at too high of doses and even at lower doses it would give me bad anxiety and side effects. I used to smoke a TON of weed when I was younger. Me and my crew were some of the first people in our state doing dabs/wax (we were making it on our own) and we were fucking BLOWN all day errday. It was bad.
I'm so glad I am done with that shit. My mental health has improved, my diet has improved, motivation has gone up. Overall life is just a lot better without weed. I think a lot of people can benefit from weed, but I think weed nowadays is WAY too fucking strong. For everyone to be running around smoking fat joints with 20% THC bud or doing dabs/vape pens with fucking 90%+ THC wax; I personally am just confident that doing that is NOT good for the vast majority of people out there.
A lot of people use weed like they use anti-depressants: to mask their pain. They use it as a way to make life be more bearable, less painful, and thus a little more comfortable. HOWEVER, just like with anti-depressants. This is demotivating. When something about your life sucks and you are unhappy about it, that is MOTIVATION to make a fucking change!! I see people on antidepressants or benzos the same as I see on weed, they are just coasting through life, not very happy with things, but not really unhappy enough to make a change for the better.
Weed has it's place. I think that place should be carefully prescribed and monitored by a medical professional that specializes in weed and psychedelics--whether the person is using it for mental support or for physical pain.
There are a lot of good things too, in places where weed is legalized, opioid prescriptions dropped significantly. That is a HUGE benefit during the fucking opioid epidemic that big pharma PURPOSEFULLY CAUSED in America!
Then I also definitely think it has a place as a recreational substance. I think smoking a little bit and going for a hike or bike ride is amazing! Or taking a small hit and watching a funny show/movie. But I don't think people should wake and bake or be high all the time--weed is addictive and people become physically dependent on it. When they stop they get restless, their appetite goes away, they get anxious and can't sleep.
Okay, I'm done blabbering now. Weed can be good, but like most things, we have seriously fucked it up. We've made it into this grotesque plant that is way more potent than it ever should have been, just to cater to the top .01% of potheads out there, while normal people need bud that is high in terpenes and CBD and maybe like 4-7% THC. People are misusing and abusing it just like everything else they get their hands on. A lot of people are perfectly find with this, but a lot of people fool themselves into thinking it is benefitting their life when really it is
holding them back.
