Anonymous wrote:I'm against the weed today not the weed of 40 years ago. It's a different product
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.
I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.
I've been against it since I was 16 and saw the ill effects on people I knew. This definitely is not a case of everyone who doesn't like it is an old fogy and everyone your age thinks it's great.
Maybe you need more life experience. Maybe you need to observe the effects over a longer period of time so that they are more visible. Maybe you need to experience your teens finding your stash. Who knows. But it's not really about your age.
Anonymous wrote:It's not your age, it's your kids' age. With little kids it feels easy to keep things separate and secure. They're pretty oblivious. But when they get older that's a lot more difficult and it doesn't feel as comfortable even if you think they'll never know. And there's always the risk that they start snooping or find out by accident. And if they did decide to try something, they might not dose correctly, or might give it to a friend, or get sick, who knows, all kinds of bad stuff can happen.
I was a child of divorce and as a teen, I knew a lot more about my parents' private lives than they thought I did. Not necessarily bad stuff, but they weren't anywhere near as discreet as they thought they were. And their weed was nowhere near as secure as they thought it was.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm 45 and don't consider myself anti but I don't use any of it. I also don't drink. I smoked a little weed pre-kids and I used to drink alcohol but as I've gotten older I just stopped. Now I do yoga, meditate, eat better, and get solid sleep instead.
I think what I've realized is that most drugs (and alcohol) are bandaids for problems, and when abused of course they make them worse. It's an escape. I don't judge people who use that escape (like I said, I've done it too) but I am highly skeptical of claims that weed or psychedelics are actually helping people. Even my dad and my best friend, who have take weed to help with pain and nausea from cancer, didn't really report back impressive results.
I think at the end of the day the only way to deal with the pain of life is to confront it and learn to release it without pharmaceutical assistance. That's what my meditation and mindfulness practices are for.
So you don't think depression is real? Or you think it can be cured with yoga and some kale? I'm not talking situational depression, I'm talking chemically imbalanced depression.
Anonymous wrote:It's not your age, it's your kids' age. With little kids it feels easy to keep things separate and secure. They're pretty oblivious. But when they get older that's a lot more difficult and it doesn't feel as comfortable even if you think they'll never know. And there's always the risk that they start snooping or find out by accident. And if they did decide to try something, they might not dose correctly, or might give it to a friend, or get sick, who knows, all kinds of bad stuff can happen.
I was a child of divorce and as a teen, I knew a lot more about my parents' private lives than they thought I did. Not necessarily bad stuff, but they weren't anywhere near as discreet as they thought they were. And their weed was nowhere near as secure as they thought it was.
Anonymous wrote:I'm 45 and don't consider myself anti but I don't use any of it. I also don't drink. I smoked a little weed pre-kids and I used to drink alcohol but as I've gotten older I just stopped. Now I do yoga, meditate, eat better, and get solid sleep instead.
I think what I've realized is that most drugs (and alcohol) are bandaids for problems, and when abused of course they make them worse. It's an escape. I don't judge people who use that escape (like I said, I've done it too) but I am highly skeptical of claims that weed or psychedelics are actually helping people. Even my dad and my best friend, who have take weed to help with pain and nausea from cancer, didn't really report back impressive results.
I think at the end of the day the only way to deal with the pain of life is to confront it and learn to release it without pharmaceutical assistance. That's what my meditation and mindfulness practices are for.
Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.
I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.
Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.
I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the feedback. Looks like nobody who disagrees with it is my age.
I am not addicted. Psilocybin is not an addictive drug, and I am able to control the amount of cannabis I ingest, often times going weeks without thinking about it then picking it up again.
Part of the age thing is that by this time (45) I've seen my weed smoking friends suffer consequences. They become more paranoid, and more anxious, and then need more weed to relieve them from that. It's easy to see from the outside and hard to see from the inside.
Anonymous wrote:You may feel differently when your kids are old enough to steal yours.
The main thing that scares me is someone inadvertently taking something that wasn't what they thought it was.