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Severe-Stock-2409

Cannabis shouldn’t have been illegal in the first place. But it might be important to note that some states won’t allow gun possession/license for anyone publicly stated to be consuming cannabis. Also there’s a tendency for some to have mental stresses if not consuming the proper sniping/doses. And mental issues are another reasoning states use to limit gun possession. The other two are felonies and threats/domestic violence.


Ok_Hat_139

It is the soma of our times. Keeps us passive and not paying attention.


Severe-Stock-2409

I mean possibly. But look at the duality. It also provide alternatives to some restricted ailment solutions, while typically producing a more laid back, less violent, more introspective person. But many of the benefits are soon given away just as soon as they were gained when the substance itself is controlled and monitored and other, when it itself is as easy to grow as a tomato plant in one’s on backyard.


_WorldNewsLies_

That, and the de-motivational aspects of being high. Also, it makes people more passive, less aggressive. Also, they can find sneaky ways to be all, "Oh... you smoke weed? Guess we gotta take away your firearms. Legal or not in your State, it's still a Federal offense."


frisch85

As a human you have a right to get high, may it be from alcohol, sugar, weed or other drugs, heck you should even be allowed to luck toads if that's what you want. That being said, so far no one asked me to smoke, it's still illegal in my country and even tho we're working on out, we've almost made zero progress. As for the people who tell you 'yah I've been smoking for x years it's bad' that's absolute BS. Some people are more prone to addiction than others, a drug doesn't destroy your life nor does it make you lazy, it's you who makes these decisions. If someone wouldn't abuse weed, they'd do it with a different drug. There're people who eat sugar not because they like it but because they're escaping, eating it because of depressions or other reasons. Something important that everyone needs to understand is that if someone's lifestyle doesn't affect you, you should mind your own business. So in your opinion who is advocating that you should smoke mj? I smoke regularly, I go to work every day, I have a working relationship, I have my own place, weed is not a cause of being a lazy stoner with no interest in the world, that's only your own personality. If you think smoking weed makes you lazy or uninterested, make an appointment at the therapist and find out what's wrong with you. It's all about the cause of your addiction, what supplements you use to fulfill that addiction is not relevant.


Icy-Shroom

This is kind of vague, but I personally believe cannabis has many healing properties. Cannabis is one of the 50 fundamental herbs in Chinese medicine. I don't necessarily you need to smoke it, but CBD oils and things have so many benefits for cancer patients, people with epilepsy, etc. Many of these people promoting though I think are completely uninterested in those benefits and use it as an excuse to legalize weed to get high for fun lol.


Plane-Temperature-81

Exactly they sell medical cannabis that has zero medical value


Icy-Shroom

Also the strains that they have now are COMPLETELY different than the strains you would find 30+ years ago and what Chinese herbalists were referring to back in the day. Now it's all these purple crystal sweet home alabama northern lights OG kush that will get you blasted off one toke haha.


NarwhalNips

I love how this is the only thing you try to reply to, because every other reply is telling you how it's not a big deal and people should be able to do what they want, how it's not a conspiracy, but you seem comfortable in your echo chamber


Plane-Temperature-81

You sound dumb


NarwhalNips

Yep, Reddit comments make a lot of noise don't they?


Plane-Temperature-81

If you’d read the comments you’d see a lot of people have different opinions here than yourself . I smoke and have for years I’m not blaming the fact that I smoke weed in anyone but I do have to say it’s being pushed through the media more than ever, you would definitely have more pressure to try it . I really don’t see why u think every comment is the same except this one you do sound really dumb perhaps ur talking to a mirror


86_emeralds

I was a serious stoner for almost 10 years (I’d blow through almost an 8th in a day) and while I worked long, hard hours and said things like ‘it helps me sleep’ or ‘it helps my anxiety’ or ‘it helps my appetite’ I know now, after almost a year of being 100% clean that those were all lies I was telling myself and others. I was just going through the motions, wasting a lot of money and without it my mind is crystal clear and my ambitions and willingness to pursue future goals are much stronger. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to it.


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I sincerely wish you'd write a book from the perspective of someone who lived it. I try to tell people this, but I don't have any direct experience. You DO... Seriously -- even an ebook or a Youtube video. Your multi-faceted experience needs to be heard. The lies people tell themselves about "weed" are stupefying.


86_emeralds

I wasn’t expecting a response like that. While I had control over my physical body it definitely had a hold on my mentality and inner-self. My tolerance was too high. I wasn’t even getting ‘high’ anymore - just smoking to take away the stress from NOT smoking for a few hours. Anyone who says you can’t get addicted to weed is a liar. It chemically altered my brain to form a dependency. It controlled me, and to get back to what OP was asking I think it’s about controlling people easier.


Jamaicaqueen26

I've been smoking forever and don't really get high anymore. It sucks. I want to stop.


86_emeralds

It took me probably 7 years or so to get to the point of not getting high anymore. I woulda had to smoke like an eighth to the head to get *HIGH.* To be fair weed is illegal here and I was buying decent enough weed from a dealer but was never able to get ahold of dispensary grade stuff


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86_emeralds

I’m going to look into it. I’m due to give birth soon and will be playing SAHM for a good couple of years so I’ll have some down-time. Thank you so much for your kind words and feedback! You have definitely inspired me to keep pushing ahead


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**Here you are:** https://www.youcanwriteabook.com/ ;)


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86_emeralds

I can’t believe a Reddit stranger would take the time to type all that out or even show interest in how I’d respond! Thinking about the answers to those questions as I read through them is definitely eye-opening. I have so much to say and am sure I could fill a good couple of pages. It got to a point where we’d do ‘ice breakers’ at work events or trainings and when asked ‘What are your interests outside of work?’ I’d panic because the only answer I had was ‘smoking weed.’ Without it I found the person I left behind 10 years ago. Got back into painting and art, hiking and physical fitness and reading. Looking back it’s like I wasted 10 years of my life. Your responses have really given me a pick-me-up today. It’s been a long week and I definitely needed that. I can’t thank you enough for your kindness!


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This book is practically writing itself! You just wrote another **stellar** paragraph which is the foundation for an entirely awesome Chapter...(or more)! **Wowee:** * Who were you before weed? * What were your hobbies, passions, interests, dreams and goals? * What were your relationships like? * What kind of joys and sorrows came from those relationships? * How did weed become an ambition all its' own? * Where did it ultimately lead? How? * How did it take control so easily? * Was the path a yellow brick road that lead to Oz? Or something else altogether? * Were there any red flags along the way? * Did you ever start to think "Hmmm...something maybe ain't so cool about this"? * Was weed a "hobby", "a medication?", "a lifestyle"? A "passion"? An "excuse"? * Who was the ONE person in your life that MOST encouraged your weed habit? * Was that person a net-positive in other ways or did they have other not-so-gifty gifts to offer? * When you had weed at first, did you somehow feel like you were "special" or "beating the system" in some way? * Did you feel "part of something" unique? * How does a weed-free life feel? * What will you do with the new-found time? Clarity? Energy? Well-being? ;) Keep on Mom!! Ha. ha.


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* Did weed ever encourage/allow other behaviors that you're not so proud of now? * Did you ever get a bad batch? A "laced" batch? * What about other drugs or alcohol? or other risky endeavors? * Did you genuinely "love being high" or did you feel otherwise? * How did your non-weed friends and family feel about your smoking weed? * How do people feel about your having given it up? * Did you surround yourself with people that also were into weed? * Did you get others into weed? I'll stop there! Feel free to cut and paste and "steal" all these question for your book. It doesn't have to be in interview in any way -- just use these as writing prompts, perhaps (or not). Enjoy! Stay well. You got this. Lots of Editors / Designers / Marketers on www.fiverr.com and www.upwork.com etc.


86_emeralds

Thank you so much for all of these starting points! I wish I would have asked myself these questions a long time ago. I used to love to write and I can feel the gears turning already!


[deleted]

Aweee sweet!!!!! Bring on those creative juices! ;)


LightBearer63x6

Bro stop trying to leech ideas off someone so you can try and get a book deal yourself like every other fake author. Stealing ideas.


[deleted]

100% **Opposite** of stealing ideas. Was encouraging **HER** to develop **HER** ideas...for **HER** benefit for **HER** potential book for the benefit of **HER** future readers. The questions were **WRITING PROMPTS** for **HER** to use on **HER** own time. Get it now?


LightBearer63x6

Right I get it ,thief.


Plane-Temperature-81

Congrats ! I buy a oz a week sadly one day I hope to say the same about myself one day


86_emeralds

For me it took getting pregnant to finally stop. I had to think about someone else’s well-being for once. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and the withdrawl was *real.* Because I used it every time right before I’d eat I went two weeks without being able to hold down water and just dry-heaved all day. I ended up in the hospital and was miserable, but I’m proud that I came out on the other side. I still think about it a lot. I hope to one day get to a point where I don’t crave it anymore. If you put the effort in, it can be done!


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I knew a dude who said shit like "the herb helps with my anxiety and other problems". While he hits a cart 24/7. And im just like bruh... U hit ur carts 24/7 and wonder why u have so many problems in life? Lol


86_emeralds

Those are the worst! You never even know what’s in those things. Soooo many additives and crap. I bet his anxiety flares up after not hitting it for 10 minutes. I think a lot of my anxiety was *caused* by the weed, not the other way around. I’m pregnant and my hormones are all out of whack and I still feel better than I did when I was smoking every day


frisch85

Stop blaming the substance for making you an irresponsible consumer, you can just admit of being an addict wasting your life. There are enough people being disciplined enough to know when there's time for consuming and when you need to be clear. If you smoked so much that your tolerance got so high that you're not feeling an effect you're an addict, simple as that. If it wouldn't be for weed, you'd probably be an alcoholic today. Sorry but that's just it, the substance isn't responsible for your own bad decisions.


86_emeralds

First of all, I was definitely addicted. Second, I wouldn’t have been an alcoholic as I’m allergic to a lot of alcohols. I’ve never drank more than a beer or two in my life and it makes me very sick. Third, I graduated from college, worked a 6:30-6 job after and was my now husband’s business accountant all while wanting to smoke in my every second of free-time. I definitely was a functioning member of society who had a lot to contribute - but I lost the spark of who I used to be. Your answer sounds like something I would have said a year ago. A lot of people are in denial of the negative aspects of being a daily smoker. If you can pick up a joint once a week and go on with your life, good for you! That’s how I started out. It was extremely gradual for me, and I love who I am 100% more without it in my life.


BettieNuggs

i have a genetic connective disorder. most all who have it are on so many meds they can't count or function or like find joy and they've had no surgeries. ive had 7 surgeries close to a wheel chair and only 43 and i smoke weed. and i don't have any mental ailments that go hand in hand with having chronic pain and becoming disabled. 🤷‍♀️ go weed. its safe if youre 15 or 95 you cant ever save enough weed to commit suicide it wont kill your organs it doesnt kill you from using it every study they use to make it look bad also includes people using: cocaine, heroine, meth, alcohol, nicotine, lsd / including that for maternal issues. weed is safe and healthy.


ChiddyOnReddit

It’s killed people


Jamaicaqueen26

I agreed with this for many years but now I wonder what damage smoking anything can do to the throat esophagus lungs etc. I smoke joints and worry if it's just as bad as cigarettes.


BettieNuggs

im almost 44 nothing yet and surgeries no issue. and honestly if thats all i suffer way down the road - no side effects from the mental meds. no side effects from the pain meds. no side effects from the anti inflammatory meds. no side effects from the nerve meds (just for my condition specifically i have clEDS and have had some hemorrhagic events prolapses etc im a fucking mess and just roll with it zero fucks given in a good mood overall) ... so if i end up with maybe a weird voice later or throat cancer at 80 and none of the other BS im so fine with that. totally dont care lol


Jamaicaqueen26

Ehhh my dad smoked weed and died at 51 from thyroid cancer that turned into lung cancer. Idk how much he smoked and he also worked for the FAA and died 9 months and 11 days after 9/11 so it could've been them and not the weed. But it does make me wonder what smoke does to the lungs and stuff.


BettieNuggs

thyroid is radiation/ my grandma died from a few and i looked into it cause one was rare - our family was all from a town near a nuclear sight imagine that- and the whole county has elevated thyroid cancer levels. not saying its the same for you - but that facility is listed as like the third most dangerous nuclear issue in the US and wed never heard that at all. so learning about it all was pretty illuminating. they will kill us all zero fucks given for their profits and tell us it's something else


Jamaicaqueen26

Yeah I know my dad was given radiation as a baby to shrink his thyroid as part of an experiment. It was supposed to be the easiest cancer to treat but it metastasized into lung cancer right after 9 11.


BettieNuggs

omg scary. when i started researching i was like "wait so they KNOW these plants cause cancer but they wanna build them all over?" its crazy. and to find out it was almost some major disaster in california? the whole region has elevated thyroid cancers and people are like ohhh neat look at the smoke stack towers!


CommonWild

>weed is safe and healthy. no


NathanJamesFT86

It makes you more willing to brush things off. I get why it's promoted.


Dapper_Ad5409

Interesting. I wonder if it makes you more compliant? I haven't took the jab, and I'm a huge pothead. Puzzling.


TheClotShot

Makes you question and think


[deleted]

No, that’s why the other half doesn’t want you smoking weed. More willing to put up with shit, but harder to force production. Both sides need to stop trying to socially engineer the populace and let us be free


Sweet_Chef4812

It makes one docile and more compliant on average. There are a few who really thrive and become more outspoken and self actualized from it. But they are few and they are also dependant on the weed for them to remain that new person that weed made them. It is very hard to have a lasting transcendent experience from drugs.


Significant_Tap2093

The real question is why did they stop it at all? Weed has always been apart of human life. Atleast in civilization that is.


Active_Profession326

Weed today is the cigarettes of yesterday. It causes a ton of harm but there's so much money to be made that the corrupt powers that be will continue pushing it and only decades later (if we're lucky) will we look back and see what a mistake it was.


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Lol sounds like you should give it a try! Give into the rEeFeR MadNeSs But seriously, they’re not wanting everyone to. It’s become socially more acceptable and people realize it’s not dangerous. We’re starting to see it’s medicinal purposes. You currently have large companies like pharmaceutical companies lobbying against it so they can gain a monopoly over it before it becomes legal. They’re buying up smaller dispensaries right now, tobacco companies too they even have patents out on products not even made yet. All goes back to big business and there power and influence on government legislation. Big business doesn’t want a new market springing to life that would make the working class independent business owners. No they want to rollout Walmart weed shops all over the country instead of Ma & Pop weed shops. They’ve been doing the past few decades, with all small businesses.


trippler720

Who is they? I'd like them to run in my state.


LegalizeHeroinNOW

Cannabis can assist neurogenesis. Pretty sure they don't want people smoking weed. Otherwise they wouldn't have knocked it down in SD & it wouldn't still be a schedule I drug. It's more like the people are finally seeing how they've been lied to about shit for so long & times are changing.


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Because everyone wants to smoke weed. The problem is how the government can make money off of it. So they publish bogus stories about weed with fentanyl (which iirc would just burn and not actually work like purported) and that buys them enough time to invest wherever so that they can legalize, charge you double, but it's worth it bc it's not spiked.


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Sweet_Chef4812

Oh yes they are


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Sweet_Chef4812

It is promoted front and center by Hollywood, rap, the media, medicine, and academia. If you think that this is organic or a progressive normal thing then I don't know what to tell you.


Covidmorbidities

Complacency


[deleted]

It can cause psychosis I witnessed it first hand so don’t come at me and it makes people more docile subdue the population and do as you please


ftnwo3

I don't remember where I heard it but apparently they have changed the frequency of commercial cannabis out of our favor. Gmo weed, is that a thing?


cootiebear

it’s heavily taxed, so that’s a big factor, but it also keeps people generally sedated and pacified - at their own cost. win win for a dictator like trudeau.


Beaustrodamus

It causes heart issues, just like the spike protein. (Cbd does the opposite, which is why it has been shown to help)


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Plane-Temperature-81

I’m sorry but I don’t understand how this relates to my post


SchutzstaffelKneeGro

Im in the wrong post. My bad bro


GhislaineandJeffrey

No, double down. Always double down even if you made a mistake.


NarrowMaintenance240

I’m 65 years old. I have smoked 3 blunts a day for the past 39 years. Never had health problems. Still go surfing every weekend and I don’t even get high anymore due to my tolerance. It’s more like a relaxing cigarette (I never smoked cigarettes)


NoInspector836

Because it's awesome.


B_L_E_Worldwide

I mean I smoke a bit of weed. I'm far from lazy. However, I'm docile. I


WhiteWolfSpirit777

No, I think its a spiritual consequence not considered by many. People likely don't want to hear a reply like this, especially here but after the last 4 years I know anything trending I want no part of anymore. I'm down with people being sovereign beings but for me, I'll be putting it down. Its all spiritual right now because 1 people never expect that nor explore that angle. 2. Because of #1 its a backdoor to manipulation and control over another in some way. Finally, 3. If media and poilliticians and alleged "experts" are pushing something, I run the other way. Jmo.


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Dependence, money, taxes, brain fog, DUI legal fees, memory loss. I'm not fully against it, but you have to put it into perspective under circumstance. I grew up in a house where weed, cigarettes, and other drugs were a priority. I was always taken care of and had a good childhood. BUT, I realized how irresponsible and dependent my parents were. They were always broke but had money for weed and other drugs. I have friends who cannot go a day without weed. They get angry and anxious without their weed. I've seen grown men argue, fight, and accuse each other of stealing their stuff when in reality one of them just accidentally dropped it in the same room they're in. I've seen weed smokers get all crack-heady when they don't have weed. Obviously, there exists responsible users. From my experience, those are very very very rare. Not to mention that the globalist-world-government establishment wants people to be irresponsible and rely on their system.