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Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by beenBoutIT »

dangerface wrote: post #36
posterboy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think some people are mistaken here what weed consumnption is about. It's the oxygen deficiency, the sleepiness that makes some people feel irrationally happy, or otherwise a placebo effect triggered by very strong stimuli like the taste/smell and the heat and a lot of positive marketing. The anxiety is, by definition, the problem that you should be most anxious about. Live is random and you need to stay alert, and…

Chiropractors are quacks https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-evidence-shows-that-chiro... Sleeping pills are extremely dangerous https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/risks-taking-sleeping-pi... You have no medical knowledge, please stop trying to give people medical advice.

If you're having headaches you need to see a neurologist. Anything having to do with your brain or head is generally going to be neurology. Rule out aneurysm, tumor and other potential 'game changers'.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by seattle_spring »

Torgo wrote: post #17

Used to enjoy it recreationally a decade ago at age ~30. Now it makes me paranoid, more depressed, lethargic, and definitely dumber if I partake. So I don't anymore.

Captures how it makes me feel now as well, unfortunately. It also surprisingly exacerbates my chronic pain. I wish it helped.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by irb3 »

dangerface wrote: post #38

I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome and I find that a good Sativa will really help with it and calm my stomach, Indica not so much. Some times when I want to work on something I find my self depressed and apathetic. A nice bowl of Girl Scout Cookies will fix that, once I'm started I will be less critical of myself and more pleased with my progress, allowing me to get into it and enjoy my work. If I have something more In…

I find that eating canned tuna will significantly reduce the impact of irb. Instead of 6 trips to the bathroom, I get down to 3-4.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by neveradmitmyid »

I use it for focus when writing software. I'm a fairly heavy user, and it allows me to block out anything that would take me out of flow. I write scientific security software, often under deadline, and my typical day is an integrated coding, working out, and smoking bongs. I prefer indica, and tend to smoke about an 1 oz. per week - these days about $120. Each day I do a hard cardio, which seems to balance out the smoking and coding from (seriously) 6am till 10pm with a few 1 hour breaks to eat or do that cardio workout.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by creep »

Torgo wrote: post #17

Used to enjoy it recreationally a decade ago at age ~30. Now it makes me paranoid, more depressed, lethargic, and definitely dumber if I partake. So I don't anymore.

I used to smoke every night to enhance my dreams and enjoy some music. One day, a "switch" just flipped and now I can't smoke without intense social anxiety (I think my friends are trying to kill me or that I'm morphing into an alien freak), almost paralysis (can't move my body without extreme effort), and sometime uncontrollable crying. I have tried the oils, I have tried high this and low that, I've tried certified stuff, I've tried the backyard bullshit-- everything. I no longer partake because to me, it is a nightmare drug.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by creep »

cylinder wrote: post #37
sfoblowsjose wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Makes you feel dumber. It can't actually make you dumber lol. Now alcohol can actually make you dumber. Stay away from the booze.

You guys are always so confident about these marijuana harnlessness claims. You love acting like logic driven scientists so show us the science.

I have a friend who used to smoke like an ounce/week. He was always high. He has scoliosis and is often in extreme pain, so the weed helped-- but apart from that, I have never seen a lazier, more depressing person than he was when he smoked that much. He wouldn't move, his appetite wasn't increased with marijuana so he was so skinny, and he'd just sit there and lazily preach about its benefits. All he did was talk about weed and smoke weed. He'd wake up, smoke a bowl, smoke another bowl, sleep, wake up and smoke a bowl, stay up all night listening to music and smoking bowls, and then fall asleep again. It scares me to think that people don't take marijuana seriously. It's a mind-altering substance that needs to be respected and monitored in one's own body just like anything else. It may not kill you, but it can fuck you up nonetheless.

I know there are so many positive stories about it, which is great, but I wish people would be more responsible and reasonable about what they take, how much they take, when, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by posterboy »

beenBoutIT wrote: post #41
dangerface wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chiropractors are quacks https://health.spectator.co.uk/the-evidence-shows-that-chiro... Sleeping pills are extremely dangerous https://www.everydayhealth.com/news/risks-taking-sleeping-pi... You have no medical knowledge, please stop trying to give people medical advice.

If you're having headaches you need to see a neurologist. Anything having to do with your brain or head is generally going to be neurology. Rule out aneurysm, tumor and other potential 'game changers'.

I said it, because I believe nerves and vessels can become lodged in between the spine, and block them somehow.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by acct1771 »

creep wrote: post #45
Torgo wrote: post #17

Used to enjoy it recreationally a decade ago at age ~30. Now it makes me paranoid, more depressed, lethargic, and definitely dumber if I partake. So I don't anymore.

I used to smoke every night to enhance my dreams and enjoy some music. One day, a "switch" just flipped and now I can't smoke without intense social anxiety (I think my friends are trying to kill me or that I'm morphing into an alien freak), almost paralysis (can't move my body without extreme effort), and sometime uncontrollable crying. I have tried the oils, I have tried high this and low that, I've tried certified…

Mushrooms.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by acct1771 »

posterboy wrote: post #23
tazard wrote: post #22

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rec·re·a·tion·al/ˌrekrēˈāSH(ə)n(ə)l/ adjective relating to or denoting activity done for enjoyment when one is not working. The opposite of that doesn't necessarily sound "destructive" to me. I mean sure, that's one possibility, but not the only one. "medicinal" could be another one. I'm sure there's more.

As I was trying to say, I didn't grow up using this term to mean a big break or yard time or whatever it is. Neither do I find relaxing an apt description of the literally mind numbing activity.

Smoking is dumb and deadening.

Vaporizing is for the gods.

Level up, friend.

Re: Ask HN: Do you use marijuana non-recreationally?

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Post by posterboy »

acct1771 wrote: post #49
posterboy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I was trying to say, I didn't grow up using this term to mean a big break or yard time or whatever it is. Neither do I find relaxing an apt description of the literally mind numbing activity.

Smoking is dumb and deadening. Vaporizing is for the gods. Level up, friend.

numbs the senses all the same, maybe less or differently, but it's certainly ... well, uncertain. Point in case, nobody in this thread was talking about the method of intake.
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