MW can you expand on the last comment in Darkrains post
Can you give some more info on the "reasoning faculties" or say where you got the info from.
I gave up alcohol in the blink of an eye cause it was just so easy for me to realize i dont enjoy it that much and it was hindering areas of my life. It was easy to rationalize not drinking. I sometimes get drunk once a month and have a blast but its like how Julien spoke about when he drinks. He just does it once in a while to reminde himself how shitty the feeling is the next day and im kinda the same way when in comes to drinking.
Smoking is another story however. First time I smoked was in 7th grade and smoked occasionally throughout highschool but would take a year or two off from smoking expecially when i got caught by cops sophmore year lol. Senior year smoked a little more and freshman year of college i barely smoked first semester and started again second semester. This sophmore however i have been smoking a fuckload! LIke almost every day except when i would take a break for a week every once in a while.
Its funny cause i look at people who smoke cigarettes and chew and i think their so stupid and irrational but i know im not that far off lol.
My grades have gotten alot better since freshman year. Ive been getting all B's and nothing lower so its hard for me to rationalize not smoking. It also doesnt affect my motivation for the majority of the times that i've smoke. Actually one of my favorite things to do is smoke a blunt and go play basketball right after (im actually better when im high lol), or smoke and go to the gym and lift. Also music just sounds so fucking amazing when im high lol. I remember i wanted to quite really badly because when i smoked on the weekends i would get antisocial and my game would be shit. Then i said fuckit and tried gaming when i was high and i got laid so now it makes no difference to weather i smoke or not so there goes another rationality to help me quit.
Weed hasn't really hindered any areas of my life so far except for when i take the first day off after a week of smoking i occasionally get depressed or over obsessive thinking. But that goes away by the second day of soberness.
My behavioral neuroscience TA is currently doing a study on the negative effects of marijuana use and he said there definately are negatives but hasn't finished the study yet.
I can't really find any info on long term effects other then the obvious memory loss or paranoia.
I know if i get some clear cut info on what negatives to expect from long term use it will help me rationalize not smoking untill im older or at least cut it down alot.
Any info or personal experience from y'all is appreciated.
I forgto to mention the obvious lung damage
Not really sure what MW meant either, but I think he was also trying to say that smoking is far more enjoyable and insightful when your a bit older. Personally I don't smoke much because it's useless to me, all it does is makes me anxious, anti-social, and dumb...I feel absolutely awful about myself when I smoke. I guess I lack the mental discipline and grounded state to manage the high properly.
drinking on the otherhand, doesn't seem productive or enlightening in any circumstance.
People often say that smoking weed does not effect their motivation, work ethic, etc. Just LOL.
I've met a handful of people in my entire life that perform at a higher level (har har) when they smoke but the majority of people are the opposite.
"Reasoning Faculties" can be interpretted as almost everything but I know I am not as sharp when I smoke. In relation to game, I am less responsive to social cues, more hesitant to approach, and my verbal game sucks donkey dick when I'm high. This is cold approach btw. If I smoke with a girl I have known, and preferably already slept with it can be VERY GOOD.
Everyone is gonna be way different. Do what works for you, just make sure it ACTUALLY WORKS and you're not just rationalizing your poor decisions because you want your food to taste better lol
I did my research, and it seems like the areas of the brain impaired by long term usage are fully developed by about 16. While development in some areas continues until 24, there's no evidence that weed affects these. Just pay attention to how your body and mind are responding. I learned to function pretty well smoking a lot, but there was a point where my body was sending me clear signals to lower my intake. Now all's good
Yes I was referring to the development of parts of the brain that deal with reasoning faculties. Durr your experience with weed sounds similar to my own. I kill it at the gym, I ride my motorcycle (awesome), and I'm very creative and can break things down emotionally/mentally in a way that's just not accessible to me otherwise, and to know one else either obviously. I can also game like a honey badger and I fuck them straight to heaven because my dick is ultra-sensitive, extremely hard, and I can hold off on cumming indefinitely. I feel the experience of fucking her unto God as David Deida says.
A lot of people find weed to be almost a scary experience, Meow is a typical example, because ALL rationalizations collapse. You're so introspective on it that you break things down minutely, and of course since most people are walking around like zombies with no sense of control over their lives or their goals or women and their social lives, they're forced to see themselves for what they truly are. And that can be very painful. I would expect that Meow has obviously already made huge leaps in this area and would be able to sort out the weed experience, but I wouldn't necessarily be pushing him into it either.
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A lot of people find weed to be almost a scary experience, Meow is a typical example, because ALL rationalizations collapse. You're so introspective on it that you break things down minutely, and of course since most people are walking around like zombies with no sense of control over their lives or their goals or women and their social lives, they're forced to see themselves for what they truly are. And that can be very painful. I would expect that Meow has obviously already made huge leaps in this area and would be able to sort out the weed experience, but I wouldn't necessarily be pushing him into it either.
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I used to smoke when i was younger and then i decided to quit so i didn't smoke anything in like 2 years. Recently i started smoking like once a week, and slowly more often and it was all good in the beginning and i thought i was handling my life well but i had a bad experience with it so i took a break from smoking.
Yesterday i had this big exam from 8 am to 5 pm and when i came home i was too exhausted to go out clubbin so i smoked with my friends instead. I didn't get paranoia but it felt lonely as shit although i was surrounded by friends and felt like i was wasting my life. Honestly now it was a shit experience but now it just motivates me to GRIND harder. And i'm not gonna smoke again until i handle my life.
My 2 cents, Ill quote Jed Mckenna saying "there's a reason they call it dope".