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Weed really screws with your head

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The physical feeling I get while on weed is just great. I figure that's the reason I keep coming back. It's so good, it's like the weed just numbs your mind and relaxes every muscle in your body. A cool weed effect is the "photographic effect." Whenever you get the right high, everything looks like a movie almost, it's pretty sweet. One time I was in a car when I was high, and the fact that every streetlight was spaced out exactly the same as we were driving looked so cool, just like an arty shot in a movie or something. It doesn't even have to be something moving, sometimes ordinary thing just look cool for some reason. Like my Powerbook is a pretty sweet looking laptop even sober, but when you are high, something about OS X and the aluminum case of the Powerbook just looks so DAMN slick.

Negatives... every once in a while I'll smoke and I won't get all sketchy in my head, so I'll think that next time will be the same (and it usually isn't). The worst is quitting for 4 days or so and feeling pretty refreshed, and at that point weed sounds like such a good idea. Also, whenever I am so atrociously high, I honestly can't understand what people are saying. It's like the words they say are just a jumble and I can't figure out what they say.

As for doing cocaine in moderation, yes, it can definitely be done. I know a few people who do it once every few months or so. So that's like 3 or 4 times a year. I'd say that's easily pretty safe. I've done cocaine once. It was a so-so experience. The environment I was in wasn't too great and we didn't have enough.

As for shrooms, I've done them twice. First time, it was pretty mild. Very little hallucinations, just felt like I was high (but more of a body high). Second time was pretty intense. Hallucinations were there, but only if I sat and stared at something for a few seconds. The main thing was the laughing. I've never laughed so hard as I did on shrooms that night. The weird thing was though, I would be laughing until my eyes were watering, and then just like that nothing seemed funny and I just felt "out of it." It felt like I'd never be laughing again like I was, but then a minute later we'd all be rolling on the floor.

I wish all drugs would just disappear though. I think overall, they are a huge negative impact on our society. Sure I enjoy them from time to time, but if every drug would disappear tomorrow, I would be totally happy.
 
rs7k said:
Yeah, to the person who said cocaine can be done in moderation, have you ever done it? It's almost impossible.

No of course I haven't done it :)

I didn't belive it at first either, but after talking to a couple of people IRL who've done it only a few times a year, and from various drug communities online I've realised that cocain can be done in moderation. This topic came up on a livejournal community today, and heres an interesting quote-

""you know, i can do that with coke (use it on occasion) so i'm sure you can too. i know a lot of people who are addicted to it (psychologically) but i know a ton more people who do it just sometimes. people give coke too much credit for ruining people. pills and opiates and meth and such are another story.""

It can be done...not that I'm stupid enough to fuck with something that you can overdose on.

Polari said:
3kuSaS will most likely get over it and tone down. He's only been smoking for two years. How old are you anyway?

Actually, I only say that I've been smoking for 2 years because thats how long I've been a weed enthusiast..which oddly enough is the around the time I started school. I'm 23 and I had my first smoke when I was 19. up until 2 years ago, I had only done it maybe 3 or 4 times in my life.

I can't ever see myself stopping completely..but you're right about toning down. Hell, I have toned down a LOT already...I can go days without touching my stash. I do see myself doing it less in the future, but I'm in love with Mary Jane. What can I say, its a part of my life.
 
I've done coke in moderation. Sure, when you're on it you want to do more, but I never had a problem fiending for it the next day or whenever. A lack of money certainly helps, too.
 
When you take a drug, there's many factors that influence the sort of high (if any) that you'll feel. Smoking alone is much different than smoking with friends for example. Your expectations of how you'll feel and past experiences are just as important as the actual drug you're taking.

Get high at a party when you're already happy etc., you'll most likely have a good time.

Anyway I think you're getting addicted and you don't like it, maybe you should quit for a while, find some alternate activities or something.
 
darscot said:
Bad movies is the other thing I miss, I can not sit through a bad movie anymore, but get high and bad movies are great!

I keep hearing this sort of thing, that one thing Weed and other drugs can do is basically lower your activity and movie "quality control". Like, you'll watch a movie or do something that without it would be boring or bad.

Why not just watch or do something interesting instead? Why watch a bad movie when you can watch a good movie?
 
Tommie Hu$tle said:
Seeing shit on weed? Man all of you failed rule number one of weed smokers.

Roll your own shit. I've never seen shit on weed. Of course I've been off the weed since 97 or 98 but that said I've never seen anything beside what was already there. Stay away from the Primo.

Nah, it’s not just that. Some people just before harvest inject their plants with shit like horse tranquillisers (K) and the like. And some hydro-grown strains are pretty potent on their own these days anyway.

That being said, I can’t say I have seen anything personally either, and I used to be a big time daily smoker (although only in the evenings).

No less, I don’t recommend regular pot smoking, it’s very addictive. And stopping after a long period of regular smoking is the pits… you get the sweats at night and it is simply awful. But you can’t believe how much time you have on your hands once you stop… you can waste a lot of time stoned. Waste a lot of your life.
 
Weed doesn't cause visuals unless its laced and/or top level shit that basically isn't weed anymore.

Real natural herb, the type you should be smoking, gives a mild body high (nothing like 'shrooms or acid) and will typically make a person much more relaxed and content with whatever the hell they're currently doing. You don't see shit, you shouldn't hear shit, but you might mistake a noise for something other than what it really was. I know a lot of people who get paranoia attacks from it, but they're a significant minority, everyone else can avoid that by smoking in safe, relaxed environments.

I first smoked when I was 14, since then I've been everything from a hardcore 4 or 5 times a day smoker to quitting entirely for two years, typically I just smoke casually. Nowadays I almost never get a body high, but I also never get side effects and I'm in complete control while high. I do graduate level geophysics while high, and personally I think it helps me (helps me zone in on it and get focused).

I'd say there's basically a tolerance wall. For me and the other people I know with my tolerance level we've smoked enough so any harm weed is going to do is pretty much done, as far as I'm concerned. However, keep in mind that weed is a drug, its not something your body actually needs so when you put THC into your bloodstream the results aren't something your body actually wants. What's actually happening when you smoke is the THC squeezes its way into nerve contacts between brain cells, effectively blocking those cells from use. After a cell has been inactive for a prolonged period it'll die, and that'll be one less brain cell you have to play with for the rest of your days. Its not a whole lot worse than getting drunk, but then, getting drunk isn't that great for you either.

I don't recommend anyone smoke weed until you get to a point where its only a mild relaxing high with little side effects, I went from being something of a child prodigy who played competative chess at 5 to an above average intelligence underachieving 5 year undergrad. Smoke every now and then if you enjoy the feeling of being high, but don't make a life style of it, that just fucks most people up.
 
Rlan said:
I keep hearing this sort of thing, that one thing Weed and other drugs can do is basically lower your activity and movie "quality control". Like, you'll watch a movie or do something that without it would be boring or bad.

Why not just watch or do something interesting instead? Why watch a bad movie when you can watch a good movie?

my quality control doesn't go down at all when I get high... maybe it just depends on the person. I'm highly aware if something sucks when I'm high and I won't settle for it anymore than I would sober.
 
Weed is one of the last things one should try and over-intellectualize. It is what it is... It's not for everybody.

Frankly, some people need every brain cell they've got.

Why not just watch or do something interesting instead? Why watch a bad movie when you can watch a good movie?

A movie, like may things, is the sum of its parts. There's so much involved from a technical end, let alone the nuances of the acting etc., that one can find something enjoyable in just about every movie, high or not.
 
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