well i haven't smoked in a month + so right now i'm completely clean and have returned to what i felt like before i smoked and i just wanted to highlight some of my personal benefits from marijuana. to start off i smoke about 5 times per week, for the first like 2 months it was only on weekends but i started smoking a lot for about 4ish+ months before getting caught but i was depressed last year up until i started smoking it slowly faded over about a month and smoking occasionally and then truly was gone when i started smoking a lot and everything just seemed happy and normal and i was reenergized it felt great, i tried in school i started caring about school again and all that. i also have chronic ankle pain because of something or another it really hurts and is very uncomfortable and after smoking just a few times i noticed a change, mainly just while high and a few days after, but again when i started smoking a lot WA LA the pain was gone my ankles felt loose and painfree they felt different but painfree before smoking i also worried about a lot of stuff and again once i started smoking a lot i never worried about anything trivial i figured just enjoy life i also had anger problems i slammed doors and threw stuff at my wall over just the littlest things and would be upset for a long time over what seemed like nothing again started smoking and i wasn't as angry anymore i never once slammed a door or got real upset about anything when i smoked there may have been other minor benefits from smoking but these were the main ones the ones that really impacted my life and it wasn't just when i was high it was even when i was sober but still could smoke and now that i have become completely clean (i'm now on probation) again i have returned to my old self. i am depressed, anxious, angry and have the chronic pain again. i got in legal troubles which resulted in all types of problems which i think really set on the depression but even now after the problems are over and im just on probation im still depressed, its not like im going to kill myself depressed, its just nothing matters im not energized and i don't want to do anything. i have again started worrying about stuff again that may be caused by all the problems associated with getting caught but i think it is also because i can't smoke anymore and i am really angry again today i threw open my door and the doorknob slammed into the wall which created a hole and my mom got mad which made me madder, it wasn't anything good i am also getting angrier at my friends over the smallest things usually people joke with me and im cool with it im easy going and never really cared too much even when i didn't smoke but the other day i sat down at school to eat breakfast (our cafeteria serves optional b-fast before school) and my best friend goes "OH, good bye" as i sat down just playing a joke but for some reason it really bugged me and i just got super pissed didnt say anything just kind of glared and he knew i was mad again it wasn't good what really made me think of all these benefits though is the ankle pain all of a sudden about a week ago my ankles started killing me again they hadnt been this bad in forever and the pain wont stop when it started before i smoked i took advil every day and it never did anything and now it is back and worse than ever which made me think wow the pot must've helped some of these problems may be amplified right now because im still mad and sad about getting busted but i can definitely tell pot had a very positive effect on my life really the whole point of this post is to seek some help for my problems and also to learn about your first hand benefits from the sweet mary jane thanks everyone EDIT:sorry for the long post
I agree with you on the anger part. When I was smoking I was never angry really just more laid back and care free. Now because of the break I had to take and only being able to smoke once in a while Im way more of an angry person. Maybe weed is also a good anger management drug or somethin.
same thing happend to me pot ruined my life but it wasnt the weed it was how people saw the weed that actually ruined it you know?
i definitely think it is...maybe more of just changing your attitude to not get worked up i have a few holes on my wall all from before i smoked and then from this month i never once threw anything in anger and punched anything in anger or slammed anything in anger while i was able to smoke alot i definitely think it helped alot and even while smoking there were things to be pissed at i never got that pissed though
This is the same thing that has happened to me, except my life hasnt been "ruined" its just been made very shitty.
YES! i hate how people are like "oh you smoke pot? you must be stupid and gross." not the case at all i hate stereotypical people...
yeah. people outside of my potsmoking friends, have no idea i'm a stoner. sometimes i tell people and they don't believe me. honestly, i think if you're responsible, it's about as harmful as iced cream. i am what i would consider a functional pothead. and it's not rare, i know many. (also judging by other people's posts, many hip forumers are too) i've been smoking since 14-15, regularly since 17-18. i always tell people, i'd love to go in for some testing for the side effects of weed to help get rid of this awful stereotype. anything. the only thing i'd probably do badly on is short term memory. if i dont' focus, it often surprises me. but i think this also has to do with me in general. i can be a scatter brain at times. i.e. if i'm watching tv and go to the fridge, more times than none i forget the remote in the fridge. takes fuckin forever to find it.
i agree, weed helps me alot. naturally most of the time im a really depressed,lazy,easily irritated exc exc person. but times when im smoking im just so easy going and relaxed and am such a nicer person and put so much more effort into my life like school and things. but when not im just like blah. weed does the opposite to me of what the stereotype of a stoner is, when i dont have it i am the stereotype of what a stoner is.
I kind of get the opposite, if I'm feeling low and I smoke, I'll just feel even worse. Weed kind of amplifies my current emotions.
