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[quote=Anonymous]I’m 53 and have been smoking cannabis on and off since I was 14. In my youth it was very occasionally, mostly in the summer because I was a choir geek and didn’t want anything messing with my air power.

For most of my college, graduate school and law school years it was also fairly occasional - usually didn’t have money to get it or a source if I did. Same was true in the years after graduating and beginning my legal career, with the added complication of being worried I’d get caught and be ruined for a little weed.

In 2016 my commonwealth legalized cannabis and shortly thereafter I began having regular access to high quality cannabis and using fairly regularly - most days of the week. Yes, it is high potency cannabis.

Most days I just smoke a few hits after work and enjoy the buzz like some of you would from a glass or two of wine or a beer or two or neat scotch etc.

Weekends and days off I like to wake and bake - I did that this last weekend, and managed to get my house cleaned, all my laundry done, a bunch of batch cooking to fill my fridge with healthy plant foods for the week, and a weekly shop at the grocery store. Also watched several hours of Ridley on PBS and a couple of movies. Very productive, not paranoid, a little deep thinking while chopping garlic and mashing beans etc.

I think it’s all about how you consume. Some people are addictive personality by nature and will overconsume - we all know these people and some of them do the same with alcohol, pills, food even - or cannabis.

I smoke a couple of hits and let it hit me and then ride that for a few hours and a few hours later maybe a couple more hits. Every now and then I take a sabbatical of a few weeks or months and then when I go back the high is more intense so I accommodate that reality.

EVERYTHING can be dangerous - even exercise - if we overdo it. Definitely younger people should be careful and not be consuming chronically because it may trigger latent mental illness - I’m certainly glad my cannabis use in my teens was occasional and not chronic.

But I’m also very glad cannabis is legal and regulated where I live, because I work a stressful career (hospice caregiving) and have the usual load of pain that a midlife person carries - probably more because I had childhood trauma that I only recently grappled with in extensive therapy. It’s nice to have something that takes the edge off but isn’t as devastating to my health as alcohol would be. I also really enjoy a great movie or show under the mind opening influence of cannabis.

I think there are reasons to be concerned about people who overuse cannabis just like everything else - but I don’t see it as being much different than it’s always been. [/quote]

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