Getting into marijuana

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Anonymous wrote:OP must be the dumbest person on the planet.

If she's not yet she soon will be once she loses those few remaining brain cells to her new habit.

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It is additive and to say other wise is not true.

Stop lying

It is not uncommon knowledge that some people get addicted to marijuana. You must have fried the few brain cells you had from getting high.

This. Stop trying to brand a gross habit that makes you stupid as a healthy lifestyle choice.

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I had a bad anxiety attack once while traveling, and when we got to our destination, my cousin gave me a gummy. It calmed me down and it didn’t disrupt my sleep the way alcohol or even some anxiety medications do.

It will be legal soon in Maryland, right? I hope I’ll be able to buy gummies for very occasional use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m thinking with it being legalized in more and more places, more adults must be embracing weed like I am.
I’m 41, tried smoking pot in high school but had very bad experiences with it (way too harsh and made me paranoid and sick). Buying weed from a dealer was gross, unreliable, etc.

Over the last few months I’ve enjoyed shopping online for lower THC percentages, and have even discovered I enjoy having half a gummy and falling asleep at night. I sleep great and no hangover! There’s a whole new world of possibilities out there, lol.

No, I don’t think this is particularly widespread and I am sort of disgusted by the attempts to normalize this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know who these last couple of ladies are. I know a lot of my friends and acquaintances, late 40s to about 60, take a THC/melatonin gummy at night. There are shops all over Virginia, and they’re doing business. The “you do you” snark is just childish when we are talking about something that is so mainstream and freely discussed among normal people. Women on this site enjoy being clueless mombots rather than normal people.

Your desperation to have this fringe behavior considered “mainstream” is rather telling.

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Anonymous wrote:We get weed from our neighbor. I started smoking about a year ago. At night in the garage. Two reasons. Anxiety that aggravates my invisible disease. When the hurt starts and anxiety kicks in and the pain in my chest becomes horrific. It starts in my back and radiates to the front.
The pain is unbearable especially at night. I didn't/don't want to be a pharmaceutical junkie. I am 15 years into this disease.
I'm in my 60s. I only smoke weed at night. Maybe once a week. Only when I am in severe pain. I use a half tobacco half weed mix and use a cigarette machine to put it in a filtered cigarette tube.
I quit driving 3 years ago so I am not out being stupid. I'm in my garage late at night so no one knows. I never actually get high just buzzed. I'm not interested in getting high. I just want relief. The effects last long because I'm not a regular user. It's the best most natural drug I can use without getting addicted.

I wonder what my family would think if they knew. Grandma's on the chronic for chronic pain.

Oh my heavens, our neighbor gave DH and I some marijuana and showed us how to smoke using a chillum. I felt like a hippie smoking with my neighbor, husband and neighbor. We enjoyed this in the privacy of our yard. Honestly after our neighbor left, I was hornier than I ever was, and husband said the same thing. We enjoyed fantastic sex that night, we did things with each other we’d never done with no regrets. We woke feeling refreshed and no hangover.
Now, we routinely smoke a joint before we head to the bedroom for high bedroom antics. I’ll admit, high sex is awesome.

Same. Ever since it became legal in VA I’ve been driving to MD to buy it. Sex is amazing and no hangover is a definite plus. I can’t believe it was illegal.

Get with the program, VA. I’ll easily give you my tax revenue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP must be the dumbest person on the planet.

If she's not yet she soon will be once she loses those few remaining brain cells to her new habit.

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Weed makes you stupid.

A little weed makes you a little stupid. A lot of weed makes you really stupid.

It might be ok to smoke a little weed if you’re a genius- because it will knock you down to just “smart” or maybe even down to just “average”.

But most people are already at average to begin with. Where do they have to go to from there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weed makes you stupid.

A little weed makes you a little stupid. A lot of weed makes you really stupid.

It might be ok to smoke a little weed if you’re a genius- because it will knock you down to just “smart” or maybe even down to just “average”.

But most people are already at average to begin with. Where do they have to go to from there?

+ 1 million

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A lot of people here are super scared of marijuana gummy bear but probably don't have a concern with a three martini lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for you! Fun fact: the human body is equipped with an endocannabinoid system, indicating that humans have been ingesting cannabis in one form or another for a long time.

I use cannabis (edibles) to relax/sleep several times a week. I present as very preppy, and am a professional in a conservative industry.

I believe that in 10-20 years we’ll look back at the stigmatization of cannabis and laugh. It’s so helpful for so many conditions. And sometimes it’s just fun!

WTF are you talking about? If you like pot, just smoke it, eat it, whatever and be happy. But don't spout some nonsense to make it seem normalized to everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weed makes you stupid.

A little weed makes you a little stupid. A lot of weed makes you really stupid.

It might be ok to smoke a little weed if you’re a genius- because it will knock you down to just “smart” or maybe even down to just “average”.

But most people are already at average to begin with. Where do they have to go to from there?

This is so true and I've got nothing against it. I hot it once in a great while but, aside from enjoying a pleasant high, there are no real benefits. It does make you a bit stupid.

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I believe that in 10-20 years we’ll look back at the stigmatization of cannabis and laugh. It’s so helpful for so many conditions. And sometimes it’s just fun!

Laugh? Millions of lives were destroyed over puritanical legislation leading to marijuana convictions with terrible collateral consequences. Nothing to laugh about.

This.

The thing I hated most about my time as a prosecutor was the requirement to participate in ruining young lives over possession and bartering of a drug far less dangerous and destructive than alcohol.

We should feel shame over the way we took so much from the treasury to fight a war on marijuana rather than spending those funds on something valuable, like education or healthcare. We should feel shame for ruining lives going forward generations, as occurs when criminal records are made, and education made inaccessible by student loan bars and homelessness created by public housing bars as consequences for smoking or sharing marijuana.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good for you! Fun fact: the human body is equipped with an endocannabinoid system, indicating that humans have been ingesting cannabis in one form or another for a long time.

I use cannabis (edibles) to relax/sleep several times a week. I present as very preppy, and am a professional in a conservative industry.

I believe that in 10-20 years we’ll look back at the stigmatization of cannabis and laugh. It’s so helpful for so many conditions. And sometimes it’s just fun!

WTF are you talking about? If you like pot, just smoke it, eat it, whatever and be happy. But don't spout some nonsense to make it seem normalized to everyone else.

This is actually 100% true. Are you anti-science?
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-endocannabinoid-system-essential-and-mysterious-202108112569

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And no, cannabis doesn’t make you stupid. The disruptions to memory are to short term memory and retreat with abstinence - no permanent damage occurs.

“The ECS's role in learning and memory

We know that the ECS plays a critical role in learning and memory due to several lines of research. The most obvious observation is that one of the main side effects of high dosages of recreational cannabis use is the temporary disruption of short-term memory. Memory returns to normal with abstinence. There have also been some sophisticated studies of how humans acutely respond to the administration of THC (the active ingredient in cannabis) and the ways in which this alters both their ability to memorize things in the short term and the patterns observed on their functional brain imaging.“