Should I start smoking marijuana regularly?

[Dis]

I'm thinking of taking up the drug. I no longer have to drive in the course of my job, so the chance of a drug test is slim. Though if I get injured in a workplace accident, I may still have to take a drug test. If I fail, I will be fired (and could jeapordize my career with my union as well).

I heard pot helps with social anxiety? Is this true? I also hear it helps with pain. Not that I have much (though my back hurts from time to time).

[Dis]

I voted for banana btw

[Jon Miller]

my freind who smokes pot regularly gets really paranoid when he smokes and doesn't like to be arround people

so don't use it expecting it to help your social anxiety (it might, I just know it doesn't always)

Jon Miller

[NeOmega]

I have no problem recommending smoking pot. So sure, take it up.

It may not help with your social anxiety... it may make you more paranoid.

It's not addictive... I drink mochas way more often than I smoke pot.

[Jon Miller]

so far you are the only one who thinks you should go gay

I am not sure what that means

Jon Miller

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dissident
I heard pot helps with social anxiety?

If by helps you mean it helps it come about, yeah. Pot makes you paranoid, you dork.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

it wont help with social anxiety - and by regular, do you mean once a day, or twice a week or what? no once a day thats for sure.

[Nubclear]

Diss, are you an idiot?!

[The Emperor Fabulous]

It really depends on what you consider "regular". If you smoke at night, its not as bad as if you smoke during the day. Me, it comes down to money...I'm a college student, thus marijuana is not as plentiful as I would like.

Still...I don't ever allow it to get in the way of work, school, or theatre. I strongly advise against smoking before work/school, only because if you smoke then you'll have nothing holding you back from being stoned 24/7.

EDIT: However, there's nothing wrong with a toke a night if there's nothing else to do...just like a six-pack a night isn't necessarily a bad thing (except for your liver).

[:) Smiley]

Pot ain't that cheap that I'd recommend using it regularly. Though if you do, bake it or use a water bong, this reduces the harmful side effects.

[Dis]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
It really depends on what you consider "regular". If you smoke at night, its not as bad as if you smoke during the day. Me, it comes down to money...I'm a college student, thus marijuana is not as plentiful as I would like.

Still...I don't ever allow it to get in the way of work, school, or theatre. I strongly advise against smoking before work/school, only because if you smoke then you'll have nothing holding you back from being stoned 24/7.

EDIT: However, there's nothing wrong with a toke a night if there's nothing else to do...just like a six-pack a night isn't necessarily a bad thing (except for your liver).

I would never smoke before work/school! That's like drinking before work/school. My work does require a decent amount of focus. I sometimes work with electricity. 110 and 266 v.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Diss, are you an idiot?!

do you really want me to answer that?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Hey man, just sayin'...there are two or three people (above the age of 30) who go to work stoned regularly...I had a sub teacher, around 50 years of age, who came to school stoned half the time. I believe he's living in Amsterdam now.

He was a huge Green supporter...

[Japher]

I hear smoking banana peals can get you high.

[Pekka]

Japher, myth.

Diss, if you ask that question seriously, I think that yes, you should start smoking on regular basis because you can't damage your brain any further .

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Smiley
Pot ain't that cheap that I'd recommend using it regularly. Though if you do, bake it or use a water bong, this reduces the harmful side effects.

I agree with this

if I used pot this it what I would do

Jon Miller

[Japher]

No it's not PEkka...

This one tiem, when I was really really baked, I smoked a banana and got so blitzed!! Of course it may have just been oxygen deprevation, it's tough to toke a banana

[Pekka]

Hey, you can get high smoking almost anything. The bottom line is, it don't make anything special, the bananas.

Diss, I find it funny that a smart guy like you is here asking for excuses to pick up a drug habit

You don't do what every other person does and buys pot because they want to get high. That's the point, if you want to get high, then smoke it.

If you want aid to back pain, go see a doctor. And pot does not help you with social anxiety, unless you're stoned in that situation to begin with. ANd then it don't help you either, you're high. Doesn't necessarily make it worse, but the point is you are high and it's no medication for social anxiety and doesn't help.

If you want to get high, smoke. If you want something else, it's not the answer.

[Nubclear]

Putting toxins in your body is usually a bad thing

[Spec]

Originally posted by Pekka
Diss, I find it funny that a smart guy like you is here asking for excuses to pick up a drug habit

He doesn't, he just wanted to start a ''border line'' thread. If he hadn't, he just would have tried it himself and decided by himself.

And, if, I doubt it, but if you were serious, I say yea, if you never tried it. Of course when someone says '' I heard pot helps with social anxiety?'' you know they never tried it. Pot makes you, in the long run, paranoid.
Used often, by that I mean 3, 4 times a day, it's fun at first. Then it becomes normal, then it becomes dull, and that's about when the paranoya starts to kick in. Then you get sick of smokin all the time....but only when you are high, because that's when your paranoid. But when the buzz goes away, you just want to smoke again, cuz the paranoya left with the buzz....

That's why I only smoke on occasions. I know that feeling and dont want to live like that again. I wasted enough time rotting in a dirty appartment, sitting in the same freakin sofa all the time playin PC and console games.

Once you did it, either you learn or you stay put and live like that for ever. What would happen to you if you smoked it all the time?

Spec.

[Ted Striker]

DISSIDENT WHA THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU

WHY THE **** ARE YOU EVEN CONSIDERING THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF.

YOU ****ING START THIS **** AND I WILL PERSONALLY DRIVE TO YOUR HOUSE AND BEAT YOU DOWN

SO NO ****ING DUMBASS DON'T START SMOKING IT REGULARLY

[Spec]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
DISSIDENT WHA THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU

WHY THE **** ARE YOU EVEN CONSIDERING THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF.

YOU ****ING START THIS **** AND I WILL PERSONALLY DRIVE TO YOUR HOUSE AND BEAT YOU DOWN

SO NO ****ING DUMBASS DON'T START SMOKING IT REGULARLY

That's exactly why he started this thread.

Sort of a troll but not.

Spec.

[Nubclear]

Well, in the chance that he is seriously considering it: Don't.
One thing my hypochondria has done for me thats good is made me deathly afraid of any sort of substance abuse. Unlike most of my nationality, I stayed away from smoking, drugs, etc....And I know I've lived a better life because of it

[-Jrabbit]

This is one funny thread. Diss, we gotta get together next time I'm in vegas.

[Nubclear]

I've always avoided Las Vegas, and I know I've lived a better life because of it

[Dis]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Putting toxins in your body is usually a bad thing

just living in the city I live in puts toxins in my body . Marijuana is definately better than all this cigarrette smoke I'm forced to inahle in my city. Yes I know I can move, but this is what I call home. So I'll stay.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
...I stayed away from smoking, drugs, etc....And I know I've lived a better life because of it

You dont know that. I bet your way of thinking is

By never havin taken drugs in my life, I'm well placed to tell you that I have a better life that I would have.....



Ask the beattles the same question, or Dali, or any music band, artist, painter, poet, NOSTRADAMUS for christ sake.
Before you say your life is better because you never taken any, try some, then you might know something about drugs and not what you see on TV or in panflets.

I can tell you that MY life is better without them, but not necesarly yours or his.
Drugs made me realize many many things about life, situations, and mostly myself. It made me realize that I wasn't here on earth to waste my freakin life workin at a useless lousy job and that I wanted more for myself.

If I haden't tried drugs, I might not have realized that and I probably would'nt be where I am now.

Diss, decide on your own.

Spec.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Spec


He doesn't, he just wanted to start a ''border line'' thread. If he hadn't, he just would have tried it himself and decided by himself.

And, if, I doubt it, but if you were serious, I say yea, if you never tried it. Of course when someone says '' I heard pot helps with social anxiety?'' you know they never tried it. Pot makes you, in the long run, paranoid.
Used often, by that I mean 3, 4 times a day, it's fun at first. Then it becomes normal, then it becomes dull, and that's about when the paranoya starts to kick in. Then you get sick of smokin all the time....but only when you are high, because that's when your paranoid. But when the buzz goes away, you just want to smoke again, cuz the paranoya left with the buzz....

That's why I only smoke on occasions. I know that feeling and dont want to live like that again. I wasted enough time rotting in a dirty appartment, sitting in the same freakin sofa all the time playin PC and console games.

Once you did it, either you learn or you stay put and live like that for ever. What would happen to you if you smoked it all the time?

Spec.

not really. I am thinking about it. My brother smokes it, and sometimes the smell makes me want it. Sometimes I smell it at work (guests smoke it in the hotel rooms). And I crave it. But I am trying to resist. I also gave up drinking. Maybe I'm looking for something to replace my drinking buzz.

and I have smoked it before. The last time I smoked it was when I was in the navy (I only smoked it once there- military and drugs do not mix- we get regular drug tests). And before that I smoked it in high school occasionally.

[Whoha]

Don't start smoking.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
DISSIDENT WHA THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU

WHY THE **** ARE YOU EVEN CONSIDERING THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD OF.

YOU ****ING START THIS **** AND I WILL PERSONALLY DRIVE TO YOUR HOUSE AND BEAT YOU DOWN

SO NO ****ING DUMBASS DON'T START SMOKING IT REGULARLY

it's better than drinking right? I recently gave up drinking.