Has marijuana ruined your life

skiskate

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flatrider, marijuana doesn't ruin your life, people do themselves. I smoked everyday in high school yet I maintained an 80-85 average in all four years. It's all how you handle it, mentally and physically.
Same with me man, and im going through college with honors grades and still smoke everyday and a couple times a day. I still go to the gym, am in shape, play sports, have a social life and do everything that any other sober person does. I just prefer to do them high. It has not affected me badly at all. Infact my marks have only raised and ive actually become healthier since ive started smoking. ( Not that I attribute that to the weed)
 

flatrider

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guys i ment more along the lines of financial troubles yes you can continue day to day life without it effecting you in certin ways, but it can have some down sides .. lets say you cant grow it, nor have the cash to afford it and you need weed to cope with every day life. but i appreciate your comments
 

gogrow

confused
Wow its great to here all your stories guys and girls! I just went and spent money on it that i needed that money for bills now im screwed!! I am so mentally addicted to the relaxation of weed it gives me, when i dont have it i feel super down, I actually felt like crying when i didnt have any, good to come to a place like this and talk with fellow stoners. thank you roll it up.

you sound like me... what i advise is to take a month break (preferably more if you can stomach it)... it really isnt that bad after about the first week or two.... you start to realize that you really dont NEED to be high all the time... it is more of a habit than a need.... some people dont have these problems; maybe its a wisdom that comes with age; i dunno... but i do know exactly where you are coming from... i just quit for 30days, after not going more than a few days without smoking for the past 11years... once i started back, it was easy to fall into the old habits, but that is when your newfound willpower and self control kick in and you moderate yourself....
 

Dfunk

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This thread has many intelligent responses & there is truth in every one of them...the financial aspect can be difficult to cope with...weed is a want not a need. Humans need only what ironically plants need...water, air, food, & light. These for 4 things are all that any living thing needs, but we have many wants don't we?
 

gogrow

confused
Marijuana hasnt ruined my life.. I did.. marijuana make's it ok...

i think that would be the main problem of weed...for me at least... makes me
okay with the problems; whereas without it i would be stressed and much more motivated to fix whatever problem it is... so im with you, i ruined my life so far, not weed; but the weed doesnt help me change anything except my mood/outlook:-?
 

tckfui

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I feel compelled to give a brief description of addictions, and how they work :)
followed by some random babbaling, its pretty boring and long so, read at your own risk!
Addictions are a cause of a physical long term relationship with the neurons in your brain. when you constantly do something, you are constantly making the same neurons fire and in the same chain, This builds a long term memory between the neurons, this is why you feel the need to do things the way you do, whether you notice it or not. and for this reason people can be adicted to doing anything at all, but just because its an adiction dosnt mean its bad for you in any monitary or social way. However all your adictions will kill you, they are the reason we all die.
now for another tangent, Its about tolerance, and how it can kill you. I'm going to talk about marijuana tollerence, but this goes for all things... tollerable :), no seriously though, it goes for everything. you build up a tollerence because your whole body has billions and billions of receptors, these respetors are responisble for the intake of everything that enters your body, even mental things, a part of your brain stem is responisble for all the emotions you feel, and all your resperatory, and bodily functions, it does this by secreting proteins that are in a sence emotions, and orders, they get picked up by the reseptors all over your body, the same thing goes for anything you intake, they all have chemicals that will be recepted in our body like, vitamins, and other good stuff, along with some not so good stuff.
this is getting really long, need to be more to the point.
okay so with pot, their are 30 some psycoactive chemicals, that means these chemicals, such as THC, CBN, CBD are recpted by your receptors, ( I failed to mention, each receptor is responsible for recving only one kind of protein) some mimic natural proteins, this is esentialy what makes you high.
however the more you smoke the more you need to smoke to achieve maximum highness, the reason for this is because your reseptors are used to being bombarded with all these cannabinoids, they make more receptors of their own kind, this leads to a tollerence.
I've seen people build up quite the tollerence to pot, anger, depression, and it can happen to you!!!
I think I'm done...
wait no! okay here we go, now I said tolerences can kill you, this is because like I said before more receptors are being made for canabinoids, anger, coffee drinking, etc. etc. and less reseptors are being made for the thing you need to survive, all the vitamins, minerals and goodness responsible for keeping your hair colored, your bones strong, your heart pumping, and your skin youthfull.
now i'm done, I cant believe you read all that!
 

Cannabox

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only a fool would blame some inatimate object for their own failure.
YOU smoke weed, YOU lose your job, YOU lose your family and YOU blame weed for YOUr failure? you don't see the flawed logic in that? that's like saying pens kill people. your a fuckin fool. your responisble for all actions you take. if anything has ruined your life, it's you and you alone. every single person has the power to succeed.
 

flatrider

Well-Known Member
I feel compelled to give a brief description of addictions, and how they work :)
followed by some random babbaling, its pretty boring and long so, read at your own risk!
Addictions are a cause of a physical long term relationship with the neurons in your brain. when you constantly do something, you are constantly making the same neurons fire and in the same chain, This builds a long term memory between the neurons, this is why you feel the need to do things the way you do, whether you notice it or not. and for this reason people can be adicted to doing anything at all, but just because its an adiction dosnt mean its bad for you in any monitary or social way. However all your adictions will kill you, they are the reason we all die.
now for another tangent, Its about tolerance, and how it can kill you. I'm going to talk about marijuana tollerence, but this goes for all things... tollerable :), no seriously though, it goes for everything. you build up a tollerence because your whole body has billions and billions of receptors, these respetors are responisble for the intake of everything that enters your body, even mental things, a part of your brain stem is responisble for all the emotions you feel, and all your resperatory, and bodily functions, it does this by secreting proteins that are in a sence emotions, and orders, they get picked up by the reseptors all over your body, the same thing goes for anything you intake, they all have chemicals that will be recepted in our body like, vitamins, and other good stuff, along with some not so good stuff.
this is getting really long, need to be more to the point.
okay so with pot, their are 30 some psycoactive chemicals, that means these chemicals, such as THC, CBN, CBD are recpted by your receptors, ( I failed to mention, each receptor is responsible for recving only one kind of protein) some mimic natural proteins, this is esentialy what makes you high.
however the more you smoke the more you need to smoke to achieve maximum highness, the reason for this is because your reseptors are used to being bombarded with all these cannabinoids, they make more receptors of their own kind, this leads to a tollerence.
I've seen people build up quite the tollerence to pot, anger, depression, and it can happen to you!!!
I think I'm done...
wait no! okay here we go, now I said tolerences can kill you, this is because like I said before more receptors are being made for canabinoids, anger, coffee drinking, etc. etc. and less reseptors are being made for the thing you need to survive, all the vitamins, minerals and goodness responsible for keeping your hair colored, your bones strong, your heart pumping, and your skin youthfull.
now i'm done, I cant believe you read all that!
I agree with the firist paragrpah man, it Explains habbits very well, a lost girl friend.. a lost addicting past time... nearons man those neurons that fire. props
 

wildfire97936

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guys i ment more along the lines of financial troubles yes you can continue day to day life without it effecting you in certin ways, but it can have some down sides .. lets say you cant grow it, nor have the cash to afford it and you need weed to cope with every day life. but i appreciate your comments
I go into panic mode when i realize i have no weed and no money, that in itself drives me to do things of illegal or legal means to get that money and ganja. its mostly a cause of the system, if i wasnt haveing to risk getting my ganja from someone other than my normal guy/gal, and sometimes losing that money with a risky sitiuation or pay more due to the inflation of dry periods i would be cruisin smooth. on another note if you just get those friends you know that smoke together on a grow or buy it makes it slightly cheaper for all
 

Cannabox

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I go into panic mode when i realize i have no weed and no money, that in itself drives me to do things of illegal or legal means to get that money and ganja. its mostly a cause of the system, if i wasnt haveing to risk getting my ganja from someone other than my normal guy/gal, and sometimes losing that money with a risky sitiuation or pay more due to the inflation of dry periods i would be cruisin smooth. on another note if you just get those friends you know that smoke together on a grow or buy it makes it slightly cheaper for all
and how does the system do that to alcoholics? that's legal.

it's all the person. the person has the power to control their lives but choose otherwise. it's that simple. stop making up excuses.
 

wildfire97936

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and how does the system do that to alcoholics? that's legal.

it's all the person. the person has the power to control their lives but choose otherwise. it's that simple. stop making up excuses.
i thought this was about weed, not alcohol...i mean i drink too and i admit i like it a little to much
 

NewGrowth

Well-Known Member
I feel compelled to give a brief description of addictions, and how they work :)
followed by some random babbaling, its pretty boring and long so, read at your own risk!
Addictions are a cause of a physical long term relationship with the neurons in your brain. when you constantly do something, you are constantly making the same neurons fire and in the same chain, This builds a long term memory between the neurons, this is why you feel the need to do things the way you do, whether you notice it or not. and for this reason people can be adicted to doing anything at all, but just because its an adiction dosnt mean its bad for you in any monitary or social way. However all your adictions will kill you, they are the reason we all die.
now for another tangent, Its about tolerance, and how it can kill you. I'm going to talk about marijuana tollerence, but this goes for all things... tollerable :), no seriously though, it goes for everything. you build up a tollerence because your whole body has billions and billions of receptors, these respetors are responisble for the intake of everything that enters your body, even mental things, a part of your brain stem is responisble for all the emotions you feel, and all your resperatory, and bodily functions, it does this by secreting proteins that are in a sence emotions, and orders, they get picked up by the reseptors all over your body, the same thing goes for anything you intake, they all have chemicals that will be recepted in our body like, vitamins, and other good stuff, along with some not so good stuff.
this is getting really long, need to be more to the point.
okay so with pot, their are 30 some psycoactive chemicals, that means these chemicals, such as THC, CBN, CBD are recpted by your receptors, ( I failed to mention, each receptor is responsible for recving only one kind of protein) some mimic natural proteins, this is esentialy what makes you high.
however the more you smoke the more you need to smoke to achieve maximum highness, the reason for this is because your reseptors are used to being bombarded with all these cannabinoids, they make more receptors of their own kind, this leads to a tollerence.
I've seen people build up quite the tollerence to pot, anger, depression, and it can happen to you!!!
I think I'm done...
wait no! okay here we go, now I said tolerences can kill you, this is because like I said before more receptors are being made for canabinoids, anger, coffee drinking, etc. etc. and less reseptors are being made for the thing you need to survive, all the vitamins, minerals and goodness responsible for keeping your hair colored, your bones strong, your heart pumping, and your skin youthfull.
now i'm done, I cant believe you read all that!
Kind of a simplified explanation don't you think? Our brains and brain chemistry is still a rather unknown subject in the medical community. Addiction goes deeper than brain chemistry. Tolerance will not kill you but put enough poison in your body for long enough and that will kill you. Cannabis is not a poison like other drugs however. No negative physical effects have been noted from long term cannabis use. Eat a bottle of Tylenol and you might not feel so well, smoke two ounces of cannabis and you just fall asleep. . .

The effect of cannabis on the brain is also mostly unknown, cannabis research is difficult to do because it is a Schedule I substance . .
 

NomadicSky

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It looks like I might, I ate half an ounce last weekend and smoked the rest.

I learned today that I have a drug test next wednesday. And I don't know what time it will be or anything that will help me that really truly works.
 

tckfui

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extremely simplified, and yes, we are far from completly understanding addictions, our brains, and how "things" effect us in a physical, mental or social way.
as for addictions killing you, it was the best explanation for growing old and dieing I ever read, I of course, fucked it up. It seems to be a fairly accepted theory on aging and death, but we probably will find that it is all untrue, like so much we know, we as a culture or species don't understand very much, this is just my opinion, but it seems were quick to say we know something, that we clearly know nothing about, yet at other times we do the exact opposite, before I start going off on something I know nothing about and I'll shut up :) and I will try and find a few articles that can better explain what I was trying to say.
 

KiloBit

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Ok Ok, what the feck doesn't ruin your life? Come on now, let's be fecking happy. Unless your fecking up big time, let it go. Addictive, not physically, but mentaly, just like everything the feck else we do.:eyesmoke:
 

NewGrowth

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Ok Ok, what the feck doesn't ruin your life? Come on now, let's be fecking happy. Unless your fecking up big time, let it go. Addictive, not physically, but mentaly, just like everything the feck else we do.:eyesmoke:
Ruining our lives . . . . the new American pastime. :mrgreen:
 
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