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I've met so many proponents of weed who say it makes you more creative and artistic Trouble is, all these people just smoke up and watch TV instead of doing anything creative
That's not my experience; plenty of productive artists (musicians, actors and photographers) among the smokers I know.
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>Smoke too often, cut down and get sharp again. Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain. Also, let's not forget our friend lung cancer.
A family member of mine basically smoked away her future, in a sense, throughout middle and high school. She wasn't always the brightest candle in the box, but the heavy marijuana use certainly didn't help. She has the cognition and mental maturity of a 14-year old, now at 30 years. Seeing how it affected her prompted me to "take a hint" and I've avoided the stuff since. That's not to say I avoid alcohol at all, howe…
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> pot makes you feel fine with being bored. How do you define "boredom"? According to Oxford Dictionary it means: "Feeling weary and impatient because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity." [1] As far as my observations go this is particularly not fitting the perception experienced under the influence of weed. Weed makes you feel - provided one responds positive to it - not weary, not impatie…
"Weed makes you feel - provided one responds positive to it - not weary, not impatient and one finds the present activity overly interesting." - Exactly. It makes you ok with being bored rather than feeling weary and impatient and prone to go and do something instead of finding whatever banal activity you're doing overly interesting.
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Sadly there's still some prohibition on giving the patient enough to comfortably OD and voluntarily end their suffering in a lot of places. I've heard nurses say that they're instructed to try and keep the patient optimistic, even when all that life means to them anymore is continued suffering. Gotta squeeze every last dollar out of them or something I suppose.
I believe this approach is also present in the UK where the patient isn't paying for their treatment directly. So I doubt it is to do with making money.
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What difference did it make? You basically just said the equivalent of "I gave up beer and switched to liquor. Big difference for me."
Yeah, sorry about. Hashish : light high. Contemporary weed : heavy stoned.
I don't know too much about it. I've only smoked hashish once and it was offered to me.
Nothing news here. We all know kids recover quickly. Their minds are still developing and they can shake off whatever bad effects they have accumulated. Title might as well be: When Adolescents Give Up Pizza, their health quickly improves. When Adolescents Give Up bad habits, their behavior quickly improves. When Adolescents Give Up Facebook, their social circle quickly improves.
What are you talking about? That's a ridiculous overgeneralization. There are plenty of things that kids do NOT recover from and we now know that moderate marijuana use is NOT one of them. edit: emphasized the double negative to prevent further confusion. It could have been phrased better.
My brother began smoking weed in high school, he smoked so much I'd call it an addiction, eventually he developed what the doctors called substance induced psychosis, he saw and heard things no one else saw. He became really paranoid, it was scary to watch and I promised to myself I would never smoke weed.
He's fully recovered and as mentioned before I broke my promise to myself, we should do everything we can to keep weed out of kids hands until they are of legal age to buy it.
I'd also like to see the federal government allow for the FDA to research marijuana and it's byproducts, the fact that states are legalizing it without robust research from the FDA is backwards.
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That makes it sound as if we should let people that only have a few days to live take all the heroin they want, actually. Maybe we should.
Terminal patients are often given lethal doses of morphine near the end.
The evasion and mental gymnastics does have some point at least - it isn't the doctor deciding to take the life of a patient because of a judgement and well any student of the 20th century knows how /that/ can end.
Maybe this is too reductionist but I once heard someone describe it as, "there's nothing fundamentally dangerous about pot, but one of its (often intended) effects is that is slows our engines down. And some of us need to be firing on all cylinders." School was a tricky time for me. I'm thriving intellectually now, but I was a C- student pretty much 4th-12th grade. I needed those cycles that pot would have robbed me…
South Park put it quite well: "Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but… well, son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored. And it's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything."
You shouldn't be listening to music, you should be creating it. You shouldn't be playing video games, you should be designing them. You shouldn't be just eating food, you should be the one cooking it. You shouldn't be lazing around at the pool, you should be swimming laps.
It's disgustingly puritan. Really it's enough to tell people that you should spend part of your time being productive. How you spend your leisure time really doesn't matter. But I guess quoting south park is typically a prerequisite for constraining the discussion to the point of nothingness.
>If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.
I understand the audience on this forum will not like this sentiment, but with the empirical evidence we have on hand, video games are a bigger problem for our youth than pot will most likely ever be.