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>>260770

>Yes.
Started when I was 14.

>Yes, but not a stoner anymore.
I went through phases of smoking constantly and not smoking at all. Weed isn't conducive to my well-being.

>I started smoking because my teachers went on strike in the 8th grade so they banned extracurricular activities.

My family was dysfunctional as fuck at the time and school had been my escape. Eventually curiosity got the better of me so I tried a weed brownie and grew to love the feeling of altering my brain chemistry.

I smoked to escape from life and feel comfortable being bored, inactive and complacent in my life.

>Yes, I quit.
It's been about 6 months since I quit absolute stonerism again. I want to be a writer and weed makes me retarded. As relaxing as weed is, I can't smoke it without sabotaging my ambitions.

I now smoke only on very special occasions, and I'll only take one puff or two at most.

Being pro-legalization without ever smoking weed outside of a few social situations has really warped my perception of it.
Made me assume it's safe, "better than alcohol" (since people on weed don't rage or cry on it), not addictive and so on.
I also knew a couple of people who claimed it helps them work and stuff like that.

It was all bullshit. Doing it sometimes is perfectly fine, great even, but the moment you start doing it regularly, it fucks you up, even if you don't do a lot, only smoke before sleep etc.

There absolutely are weed comedowns and hangovers.
There's a large incentive to develop a psychological addiction too, since it makes you feel comfy and sleep better.
Doing it regularly affects your psychology, makes you apathetic even when you're sober.

Oh, and the person who could work while hight? They turned out to be a nepotistic hack who gets paid to sit at home and work 3 hours a week while pretending they are full-timing, because their daddy invested into the company they work at.

>>260774

Not only are there comedowns and hangovers, but there's also withdrawal.

Withdrawing from a life of smoking a joint every 2 hours was absolute hell. I was nauseated all the time, it took me up to four hours to fall asleep, I was a bundle of nerves and got pissed off at everything. It took weeks to return to some kind of normal.

Also a myth that you "can't smoke too much weed" like you can drink too much alcohol. Best cases I've just fallen asleep in my chair, at worst I have thrown up from smoking/eating too much weed on several occasions.

I never want to go back to being a stoner. Cramming food down my throat until I feel sick, not being able to have a coherent thought, no reflexes, not able to hold a conversation because life feels like it's restarting every 5 seconds… For me it's like choosing to replace your brain with that of a goldfish

>>260774
Also, weed culture in US sounds fucking insane. Some states seem to barely treat it as a vice that needs to be regulated. Americans consume INSANE amounts of THC through all those fancy concentrates, gimmick strains, every type of edible under the sun and so on.

The concept of medical marijuana was a mistake. For every person who gets to experience it's benefits there's now 20 stoners who genuinely feel this stuff is good for them, just because it got accepted into medical fields.

>>260781

I think the culture is the problem, not legislation. We let people ruin themselves with extremely high % alcohol, for example.

In the 70s weed had MUCH lower levels of THC. Nowadays weed has levels of THC up to 40% when it used to be around 10% at most, yet people are regurgitating the same "ITS PEACE, LOVE AND MEDICINE" rhetoric from back then. Different dosage, different effects

I'm a stoner it doesn't make me retarded but then again I don't have an addictive personality at all and try to only smoke during the evening- i use the oil for cramps and as a balm for injuries it works great. I don't think I'd quit but I'd stop smoking and use other methods.

YEAH buddy
>Smoke almost daily
>"Stoner" no, I don't "identify" as a stoner, I think I would be considered one at different points of my life, depending on how you look at it.
>Feels good man.
>Sometimes I'll quit when it starts to be not fun or I can't afford it, like when I keep having panic attacks. Gotta take a break once and a while or else it sucks.

I only enjoy "flower" and edibles. I don't fuck around with dabs because that's a popcorn lung panic attack waiting to happen

my dab pen lasts me 4 months regularly
helps me quell anxiety and go about my day alongside helping me recover from sports

stoner personalities are unbearable and usually gross people

>>260770
>complete friendless prude in all of childhood and teen years
>would get dopamine from music and daydreaming which helped me cope with isolation but distracted me enough to not do well in school
>had anger issues from being ugly
>parents praised me for being a 'good girl' and not getting into trouble
>had a superiority complex about having never drank or tried drugs by 20. was an outcast but "at least im not a stoner"
>get a somewhat decent amount of plastic surgery in early 20s after dropping out of CC
>start obtaining entry level normie life; got myself a live-in druggie femcel friend and situationship with middle aged moid who led me on
>offered an edible by druggie friend
>was hesitant because being straight edge was part of my personality, but finally gave in
The first time i couldnt tell if i was high but the second time it was a full on psychaedlic experience and i thought i was dying.
>becomes a weekend thing and would really use it to intensify daydreams + music
>turn 23
>offered coke so i tried it to be cool andended up microdosing snow for 6 months to get through work but its ok because "at least im not a smoker'
>briefly use benzos to deal with awful comedowns but never really felt the affects since they just sobered me up from coke
>Get my first boyfriend amidst coke addiction who gets me hooked on adderall instead but also smokes weed
>find that adderall comedowns are also awful and make me suicidal, start smoking weed to deal with that
>realized that stimulants dont react well with me because the crashes are so unbearable and quit cold turkey
>start smoking weed regularly to cope with the boredom of living with a moid and help with personal art projects
>dispensaries are popping up left and right, making it more convenient and feel more normal and justifiable
>Go to visit parents realizing i hadnt seen them in months since moving in with bf
>notice my moms vape looks different
>find out my parents started vaping thc vapes
>they arent thrilled to find that i do them at first, but like that it makes me more chill and lessens anger
>regularly get stoned around parents without much thought and even trade disposables sometimes
>weed tolerance is so high i need to buy the highest % of thc available everytime i go to the dispensary

I definately feel like i was born with autism or something that makes it harder to process information and that would explain why it takes 'a lot' for things to click with me for things that after i realize it seems like common sense. It makes me feel like stimulants and weed literally cured my autism. Looking back at high school, i didnt have friends because i didnt understand heirarchys or other people at all. I wasnt fully a person. And if i could go back, or if i was more of a person back then i definately would have befriended the stoners. But I also feel 'different' since doing it regularly, sometimes as if im a different person. I somehow have more empathy and feel it abnormally instensely to where it will make me very emotional at inappropriate times, despite somehow feeling more numb and apathetic nowadays.

Edibles were definately the peak of my stoner arch. When I was on edibles I didnt understand what people meant when they would talk about how weed makes them more relaxed around people or more dumb, because i felt like it made me smarter and more creative and able to figure things out better and like i was time travelling. Now that its a regular thing and i vape instead out of convenience, its more of something i do to get through the day. My intent with weed in general is usually to use it towards my creative projects and i dont see myself quitting until i reach a creative goal i want.

I do find it kinda funny and awesome that weed is becoming the new alchohol. 10 years ago boomers acted like it was heroin but now i can walk into the local bath and body works and theres probably at least one 40 year old weed aunt with a disposable

I smoke every

>>272621
Whoops
I smoke every day and have no trouble being at the top of all my classes.
I do always have a nagging feeling that I’m stunting my potential by numbing myself with it every day.