The Truth About Pot

Hey Everyone-
I'm writing this cause I want everyones opinion on the truth about pot. Theres lots of facts surrounding the herb, some are true, some are bullshit. Most of all I want to know about motivation. Everyones seen the anti smoke movies in junior High of some High School kid that has enough motivation to sit in bed and watch Dcooby Doo all day. I'd always thought that was bullshit but it seems lately im having alot of trouble getting schoolwork done. I've always been a pretty lazy guy but im at the point where I'll have an important essay due the next day and yet I sit on the couch and watch a movie. I only smoke about once a week during the school year cause Ill only smoke on the weekends. But during the summer I do a lot more. I'm a little worried that if I'm already starting to feel affects a summer of drugs is gonna fuck me up. So post what you think. Anything from motivation to affect on lungs.

Peace
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As do all drugs, pot effects everyone in different ways. I've been smoking for only a few years now, and I never smoked when I was in school, so I can't tell you about how it effected me there, but I used to smoke every day before I went into work, sometimes on the clock, and so on. I was a manager and had stuff I needed to get done, I'd get it done, but depending on how much I smoked, somtimes it just got done a little later than what it should have. I can function just fine and be motivated when I'm buzzed, it's when I get really stoned I don't feel like doing anything but watching movies or playing video games.

It all depends on the individual, the particular grass being smoked, and the task you need to do.

Sometimes I will smoke in order to GET motivated to do something....

yeah totally i find myself smoking to go do something else that isnt fun...like going to class, getting gas, whatev.
smoking definitely adds another dimension onto things but you can also have that when youre sober.

Id like to smoke right now actually.... i gotta go to work....

Cannabis is a recreational drug. I do not feel it opens your mind up in, and is not beneficial for psychoactive investigation of your psyche. I do find, however that it is alot of fun to get high, too fun perhaps. Me and my friends have been smoking pot for 2 years now, and I am coming to the conclusion (screaming and kicking) that maybe not all of what they told you is bullshit.
Pot is addictive, psychologically, but still it is addictive, I know many people (myself perhaps included) that cannot function as a normal human being if they are forcibly removed from cannabis. However, as far as drugs go this is by far the easiest to give up that I have ever encountered. Pot does make me pretty damned lazy (who would want to clean there room when you could sit downstairs and zone out to scooby and the gang) but I find this does not effect you after you come down.
The side effects are pretty negligable, but not pleasant. Dry mouth and the munchies can be a bitch if you just spent your last 20$ getting high. There is no real hangover the next day, aside from thirst and a difficulty getting up.
All in all, if you are going to choose a drug to abuse, this is by far the best, but that is not to say that there is nothing wrong are harmful about it.

Pot's probably the most benign drug out there. I've smoked it off and on for a couple years without any ill consequences. It's just for having a fun time, and I've occasionally smoked it when I work on some art project. I also kick ass in video games when high, it was like my video game 'roids. It didn't affect my grades in school, I always did pretty well (graduated with a 4.89/5 GPA), so I don't believe all that stuff about pot causing brain damage. It's just a matter of how well you can control it, like with any other habit. It's a matter of willpower - whether there can be any probems depends on the person more than the drug itself.

Originally Posted by EllisDTripp

It all depends on the individual, the particular grass being smoked, and the task you need to do.

Sometimes I will smoke in order to GET motivated to do something....

I agree, sometimes I use the bud to motivate me. I will use smoke breaks as rewards when I'm pulling an allnighter studying.

If anything, pot motivates me more than I am already motivated. Like the person before me said, I will just think "hey if I do all this work now, I can go smoke afterwards and have fun"

Here's my truth about pot, and I'd say I'm the average stoner. I started toking up sophmore year, but didn't do it at school till my senior year, and I got the best GPA I ever got in high school during my pothead days (which, apparently, are still going on). The worst effect smoking bud can have on you is the smoking of it, because smoking anything is bad. But I've never heard of anyone getting ill from it, if they did you think they'd show that on the anit-pot commercials instead of shit like going through a drive-thru. Latley (but rarely) I get a little wheeze here and there, my friend's always hocking fat loogies, I think it makes some phlemy stuff in your throat. The brain effects aren't too bad, sometimes after a day of smoking I'll feel a little cloudy and slow, and like I don't want to go to work or talk to anybody, but those feelings go away if I don't smoke for a day or two. My advice is, if you can't motivate yourself, use weed as a reward, like, do your homework and treat yourself to a nice bowl. and when summer rolls around you can smoke all day everyday because it's summe. After a while of smoking daily I felt like I had to kick it down a notch and do it every other day cuz my head was getting so foggy. But there are no permanent long term effects from smoking herb; just be responsible and keep it under control and you'll be fine.

Peace

i do the whole weed as a reward this too sometimes. actually i just did today, but i wasn't planning on it. i wroted a paper all day today, and when i was done, i ended up getting high.

oh yeah lucifersam, don't gpa's only go up to 4.0? i dunno, where do you live?