Do you like marijuana?

Well, I've never used it and disliked it before, so yeah, you could say that I like it just fine.

 

I like it on occasion. I dont like getting baked out of my skull, but just a nice high will do just fine everyone once in a while. I get too paranoid these days.. So I have decided to wait untill I can get my life situated more and work some personal issues out before I start tokin up again, which I will =-)

 

sometimes I love weed other times I hate it because it makes me feel so drained and tired

I thing I like is you can let your tolerance drop then take bong rips of good bud and it'll be like a mild mushroom trip or you can just smoke all the time and relax

 

I don't think marijuana actually causes anyone to feel bad, I think it forces you to confront your hidden negative feelings face to face.

It wasn't until I started smoking pot that I realized just how down on myself I was. I would constantly tell myself things like "you suck, you're a failure at everything" without realizing it. It had been so ingrained in me to beat myself up psychologically that it became second nature to silently tell myself these things. When I first smoked pot I realized just how poorly I thought of myself and this enabled me to do something about it.

Pot basically did for me and continues to do for me what the next person may pay thousands of dollars to do. It's therapy, if you realize what you're doing with it.

If everyone smoked it a few times a week I honestly believe we would be a much saner society because we'd realize just how awful we treat ourselves and each other.

The thing straightedges don't realize is that we are all so far from nature, living in this society, that it honestly takes a drug to allow us to drop the bullshit and re-connect with the living universe around us.

I think many people who hate pot just try it once, feel negative, and mistakenly believe that it's the pot causing these feelings when it's really just revealing what already exists in their mind.

I honestly recommend pot for anyone, but especially those who've had negative experiences with it. They are the ones who need it the most. They should smoke up and confront their own dark thoughts and deal with them. When you can get to the point where you're happy and calm stoned, you will be much more balanced and comfortable in your own skin sober.

I think there's even potential in marijuana for treating fears, phobias, and many many other disorders and limitations.

 

Been around it, never really got into it.

 

I dont need it so I dont love nor hate it.

I got what I need inside me so I never need to smoke marihuana.
It doesnt elevate my consciousness nor wider my imagination nor makes me feel better.
I do that without it. I think its just a way to look at it, you have it or you need to get it artificialy.
i got the real stuff, all the time.

 

i love the effects, unless i smoke it alot, then i just get bored of the effects. but i dont smoke anymore, so i'm gonna try to make those pot pills explained the pharmies forum and hope for the best

 

I think the secret to smoking pot is having the self control to not do it more than a few times a week max, and to take breaks from it completely from time to time. A lot of people I know get off balance with it.

 

You know that sounds kind of arrogant but there is some truth to it. Though I think if you grew up as I did, with all the chaos and confusion and misinformation and the need for layers and layers of defense mechanism (and a rampant imagination that disabled me from forcing myself to conform to the social norms of my peers), you would see how helpful marijuana can be.

For some of us, childhood was such a confusing disaster that something foreign is needed to rip down all those distracting schemas.

I guess meditation would also suffice, but who the hell has time for that?

 

i love marijuana. i usually smoke everyday, but i dont necessarily get stoned every day. its just ncie to wake up and light a spliff to get the day going and take the edge off of everything.

 

lorna, few of us here need it. just like we don't need a good book to learn something, but we still curl up under a tree to read. we don't need music to feel the way it makes us feel, but we still enjoy a good concert. I'm sorry you think your better than that, but maybe you should try a chemical key sometimes.

 

Leaves have effect, it's just more mild. A lot of hash is made from leaves.

 

I have try and yes you need a book to get the effect the book gives you, and need to swim in the sea to get the effect the waves gives you and you need that stuff to get the effect that stuff gives you.

You are being judgemental of me and i wasnt of you.
I never wrote i was better or feel or thougth i was better than that.
But thats what you read into it so i guess that must also be why you need some more trips to get you at another level of consciousness where you dont need to differentiate between low and high and black and white, in order to accept what is being said.
I ma made that way.
I dont think you understood what i said, btw.
And i need music to feel the way music makes me feel.
Or to think of music.
You are forgetting here that the mind is ressourcefull and htat we got lots of power in us and some can access it some dont want to even try soem can access it by mean of being in contact and some by mean of stuff, mushrooms or chemicals or weed.
I ddint go the mushrooms way, i got there my own way.
All has a price and i didnt said mine was lower than the one oyu got to pay for it. One way or another.

If i describe the effect it has on me it must be because i have tried it, dont you think?
No chemical has any effect on me.
acid, extasy, ... it makes me fall asleep..
I just react differently to it. Since you are not inside my mind oyu cant know it nor understand what I mean really with that, but rest reassure that you might not enjoy being there..
at least not all of the time...
I am not tripping, I am living there.

 

what an arrogant statement to make!

you are assuming that i had a cool life on the top of the himmalaya, i suppose?
i dont think you will have survive my childwood, to begin with soemthing.
Meditaion is not the way where i got there, nor books nor gurou.
I got there on my own.
Its just that you never heard of being able to get there on your own, without any external stuff to help you there.
Its call being connected.
Thats all it takes.
Some connect by mean of drugs, some try that way but cant anyway, some compleetely disconnect by using drugs, the same way as other disconnect by getting a life as dull as hell can be.
Anyway, i dont really expect anybody being able to admit that it si possible and fantastic to reach that state and higher without any other mean but yourself.
you can travel in space and not be on somehting.
you can widden yourself and not be tripping.
Sorry if it cut short on your vision of the universe and how the world is suppose to be like, but htats the way it really is.
You can get there on your own.
Theoretically it should be good news for all, but i can see that in practice it isnt at all..
Sorry, I wont be disturbing you any more.

 

I admit that you can reach places without chemical keys, I just think that chemical keys make it easier.

 

Not necessaraly. If you are supposed to get there you will get there, if not you will remain at the gate with the key in your hand.

All is a mtter of preparation, if you are not ready, no matter how much you try to open your mind artificially you wont go there as not being able to grab it anyway. You will overshadow it with your own viws, prejudices, limitations, unconscious limitations, evn when feling you odnt have them.
It is therefor better to have liberated oneself consciously, and to have leave all beleives and preconcieved ideas behind and to be completely open as a constant state, in order to can pass the gate, without keys, as htey will be open for you, if using that way.
And when it happen, you dont need for it to be repeated as the opening is total, and stay with you always.
It is nothing like meditaions and ascese, nothing like being in transe and all that.
Thats after it.
I dont recall having read about it nor heard about it anywhere.
I just have lived it.
And it doesnt matter anyway.
I am just telling you that anyone and everyone of you can get there and that al you have to do is to listen, to be in contact, with yourself, and with the sound of the universe before the big bang occured.
Ok, I promised barinstew that thread about it, so I will put the info in it in due time. Got to repair my laptop first, will be easier unless i use a USB key.
We are still talking about key..lol!
I still dont think its going to reach much nor be understood much.
So that thread or board will be ment for people to can ask about it so i can clarify, and to make it accessible to all by changing the way it is told, without changing the message it contain.
It is as hyper simple as as it si complicated, but there is no point in discussing it here and now as long as i dont have make that thread with all elements in it.
If people dont get it, at least they can have a trip in it, and maybe even understanding it better.

 

^fnord^

 

You are the one making the arrogant statements. Obviously if you grew up as I did you would not be yourself, as we are shaped first and foremost by our environment. What you are suggesting is that you are somehow superior to me because you did not require any help to reach your supposed state of enlightenment. There has not been a more arrogant statement made in this thread.

What I am saying is that if you lived the life I did, here in suburban America, you would not be the individual that you are today. Can we agree on that? I am not saying I had a rougher childhood than you (though you did just suggest that), just that my childhood and upbringing was confusing and alienating enough to force me in a direction that was pretty far removed from reality. I can't state with any clarity or confidence the effect such a childhood would have on another, such as yourself, but I can promise that you'd be completely different than you are today.

For most Americans, or at least those living in the area I grew up in, marijuana and other psychedelics would be extremely beneficial. People are just so out of touch with themselves here in small town America, so lost, that something is needed to jar them out of themselves.

I have a question for you. Have you personally spent time in America? Don't think for a second that you would be the same person you are today if you were born and raised in a small town in New England.

I will freely admit that I wouldn't be the same person I am today if I were born in Copenhagen, or Bosnia, or Detroit or Compton or anywhere.

The whole point of this post of mine is to get this point across: at least entertain the notion that you might be far less "connected" as you say, if you grew up in a different part of the world, and *shock* you may even require some outside help yourself.

 

i really like your tone share the warmth.

personally i enjoy the effects, and seldom does a day go by when i don't have at least one session. i think the best results can be attained with careful timing. i find myself being productive in a non-linear way. music is a key ingredient.

in the right circumstances, weed produces psychedelic visuals with a mellow intensity. i experienced this after being clean for 4 months, then having a massive session with a buddy. ok, that's it.

peace friends.

 

I like the effect it has on my "mind" (that is not the word I want) It heightens my awareness, especially of music, but other things also. It opens up a creative flow that I find harder to enter when I am straight. For the last decade or more I have limited myself to 2X a month. This is because as I get older it takes a heavier toll on my body. (although friends of mine the same age and older don't have this problem.) I wouldn't smoke more than that now even if it weren't for the physical effects because I really like being straight and I appreciate the high much more when it is the exception instead of the rule.