I just hit 6 months of being clean from weed after being a daily smoker for over 10 years!
1 month for me. Not sure if I'll stick or just reduce, been looking for a new job so I figured I'd get it out of my system. Honestly don't feel much different, I find reading a little harder to stick to.
Good job man!! This internet stranger is proud of you keep it up!
What does it mean if I still do it medicated!? 😭
Maybe you need a higher dosage
I probably do I just got started
I personally just cannot smoke in the morning, I feel like an NPC for the next like 4 hours and just kinda disassociate 😭
Is that not the point?
No i dont think so i find weed better if i dont space out
Edibles are better
They would be if they didn't make me so freaking tired. That's the one thing I hate about them.
They just take too long, but I like edibles.
In my late 40s, hippie speed balls every morning. Bad(?) habit I picked up (again) within the past five years. Like a few other have said, it really levels me out, giving me the ability to fine tune my focus first thing in the morning. The absurdities at work nearly require marijuana consumption. Being a midday slug has been the only downside.
I'm 43 and TIL about a hippy speedball. I've been doing this shit for over half my life lol.
I was a little bummed to see so much half tobacco/half marijuana when i went to Amsterdam this spring. My lungs weren't thrilled but the nicotine was surprisingly nice especially after day drinking and walking literally all day.
I dont understand how my coworkers deal with the public without a wake and bake. Now given, not all of them are as nice to the customers as I am, but dam. Id have to kill someone if I was just rawdogging this job 5 days a week.
I'm a medicated ADHDer and I treat coffee like just yet another medication.
I was never a coffee drinker (or medicated in general) until my 40s. But now I literally prepare myself a cup of coffee in the morning and at lunch time, the same times I take my adderall. The combination is working great, even if it doesn't fix everything.
I just quit my coffee, and roughing it out, so that the psych can see me in my true state.
Used to gulp down more coffee than water.
The dose makes the poison. Weed is not a panacea but it sure as hell isn't the devil. If you are getting F'd up you need to cut back the dose or switch to edibles; you don't get as functionally high, but it's more intense and lasts longer. Also know your weed: Indicas are more of a "body high" (Sleepy, pain reduction, relaxation, "vibes") where as Sativas are more of a "mental high" (mental "buzz," creativity, giggles, anxiety reduction) get a good hybrid that focuses more on the thing you want to fix. If you are in a funk, a Sativa dominant strain is what you need, if you are burnt out, you need an indica dominant one.
Terpenes are where the health effects are, but they don't line up neatly with the indica / sativa dichotomy. I love a good hybrid with limonene and pinene but it's kind of hard to find both in the same flower out here
we really need to properly decriminalize so we can study these compounds. There was a study using some naturally derived psychotropics done in Brazil some years ago that showed promising benefits in reducing the mechanisms that activate PTSD triggers, for instance, but nothing ever really came of it, because of stigma surrounding the "recreational" uses.
Basically the study found that if you take a psychotropic shortly after the traumatizing event, it disrupts the amygdala's ability to parse and store the memory in a way that becomes malignant. This makes it FAR easier to process the event through therapy, and outcomes were greatly improved.
Ah yes, the good ol' hippie speedball. Was fun while it lasted but I'm glad I quit. Looking back, it didn't really make my ADD any easyier to handle, tbh. Just gave me a reward to focus on to do the mundane shit...
It's me, I'm in this meme. Those are still technically medications, just self-prescribed.
Remember, it's society that is dysfunctional. We're accommodating it's dysfunction for our own safety and security.
So glad I grew out of this. I still drink copious amounts of tea but any amount of weed is destructive.
I'll share something I posted a good decade ago on Reddit.
I used to smoke at least a joint a day sometimes multiple. I was consistently wake and bake outside of work. You know what weed does that no one wants to discuss? It makes you complacent. It sucks your drive to do anything. As a young person that's a horrible place to be. You are young, you should be taking risks and you should be striving for better.
The weed years are a blur.
To be fair I miss it compared to experiencing the rise of fascism real time.
Unfortunately, weed only sends my anxiety over the top these days.
Gotta power through the anxiety lol. I did it so much I became functional even when on it the problem was it sucked away my drive to do anything that amounted to anything I just wanted to smoke more weed and mountain bike with a shitty do nothing job.
I now have 3 kids I adore immensely and a job that I love that pays insanely well. I still keep weed around but I can never bring myself to do it because there's too much to enjoy in life why dull my senses?
To your experiencing fascism real time. I hear you. For me it's putting things into perspective. When you look at the world objectively it's a shit show regardless. Make sure you and those around you are safe and you are capable to survive the coming storm and you're good. If you find yourself or someone you love on one of their hit lists you take as many of those degenerate fuckers as you can by any means possible.
It makes you complacent.
Sometimes that’s good.
I quit for a while to try to get a government job. My dream job. They offered, then rescinded because of trans/Trump’s EO.
Now I don’t give a fuck. I’m sober for work, but otherwise when I’m home I’m high.
Like I can’t do anything about climate change/the fact that the president is a rapist, but I can get stoned, enjoy food that feels like it’s making love to my taste buds, make art that my fucked up brain tells me is a masterpiece and have mind blowing sex that means I don’t have to engage with conscious thought at all.
I agree with you, and I think weed really helped me even though I'm not using any right now.
Sometimes it's extremely beneficial to be chemically pushed into a good mood and satisfied with just existing, when otherwise existence just seems to be misery and pain.
But it is not a permanent fix. It's a band-aid while you find more permanent ways to improve your life. But band-aids can hurt to take off when you're done with them.
It's the opposite for me. Weed gives me the motivation to do things.
Same. If I'm in too much pain, the only motivation I have is to fix the pain. You'll never guess what does that.
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