Stoner intelligence.

yep i never smoke until the evening when i dont have anything to do. i usually dont even smoke by myself at my house if im not going out to a friends house. ive just never found it appealing to smoke alone its always much more enjoyable when someone else is smoking to.

as for smoking marijuana have a risk or sending you to the phych ward i dont think so. as jadesmom said mental illness usually runs in the family or is noticed before they smoke pot or do other drugs. i know this guy thats one of my good friends cousins was dignosed bi-polar and he smoked weed and did all kinds of other drugs (heroin among other bad crap). after he was told he was bi-polar he stopped doing all drugs because he couldnt tell how he would react to any drug. hes doing good now staying clean from everything. when he just smoked pot he was always happy and normal it was when he started heroin that really fucked his personality up. i think marijuana really relaxes and helps people even if they are at a higher risk for a mental illness.

 

Not reading all of the replies (just so that you don't bash me for repeating what somebody else said), I'd just like to add that,
if somebody uses the drug it is because they wan't to. All the fuzz on the media about MJ being bad would make most people skeptical and wouldn't want to try it.

And what is that but lack of will to learn?

My point was a bit lost there but I hope you get the idea.

 

wobbly, nervy, the descriptive words are great on this thread!
in defense of the spelling errors, a lot of people cant spell worth a damn, and most could care less about grammar. I admit to slacking on apostrophes, but it is the internet after all, who has time?
My memory is odd anyway, and I remember almost everything, I would have to say that my memory is mostly not effected. affected? crap! I can't remember!
every body is different, and we cant expect one assembled blob of cells to behave as every other blob does.
If anyone is worried about memory loss, I say read a big book. or a lot of them. Sudoku, but not to the point of pain.

 

^^^I do a sudoku everyday

I agree in that everyone is different.

And that these are FORUMS everyone, theres no spell checker here, and I trust no one can spell every single word they want to use while "talking" on the forums. As for grammar? I'm talking to stoners, and I'm writing whatever because I'm stoned so theres gonna be run on sentences and alot of commas. But no overly so.

I have an almost too good memory, short term is bad on occasion. I always forget which pocket something is in, or where I put my pen unless I really make a point of remembering.

But I also work in the property department of a law firm, and I am working on anywhere from 60-150 files at a time for either reports or releases. If someone needs a file, I ask them the name/address, and I can usually tell them if I've already done it in the past month or am working on it now.

 

when i smoke alot of pot my short term memory is like gone. it seems like it happens all the time ill be talking to my friend about a topic or a tv show then we start talkin about something else for a second and completely forget what we were dicussing like a minute before. i also hate it when im watch a tv show all baked and then its commercials and i forgot what i was watching. other then at the time that im actually all baked i think i have a pretty decent memory.

 

I smoke about 3-4 times a week or just on the weekends (lately).. I guess like in the summer its about every night just cuz I'm with my friends so it varies. I feel that I'm smart, and the a lot of the people I know that smoke are really intelligent intellectual people. I notice I have some short term memory problems but yeah I've heard loss of short term memory is not a permanent effect. I think I write pretty well, I guess I've noticed it has decreased for whatever reason - maybe its weed, maybe its other drugs, maybe its just cuz I don't practice vocabulary often or don't write as much as I used to. Sometimes I feel like I've gotten dumber hah but its not a permanent thing or anything.
Oh and before I started smoking a lot people always thought I looked and sounded stoned so I know my facial expression and voice isn't because of pot... unless my parents smoked pot when I was in the womb which is possible I guess haha.

So yeah its not cool to totally generalize man, there are some really smart stoners!

 

being a stoner doesnt mean your stupid, its just a majority of the stoners come from low income family's with poor education so they are exposed to it more

as a result more "poor/low intelligence" people smoke pot then the highly educated rich people

 

Or could it be that the rich and highly educated people can just hide it better and pay the cops?

 

This thread is just a straight up insult, that's all.

 

/endofthread

 

I defenatly know alot of people who don't smoke and are some of the dumbest bitches on the planet, and I know alot of "stoner's" who are smart as hell.

there isn't this line you can just draw.

 

Isn't this obvious? We are always percieving the world... when we smoke weed it effects us.. our state of mind changes.. so we percieve the world differently. Ever laughed at something that you woudln't laugh at when sober?.... thats a change in perception.

It's only ignorant if i havent thought about it... It's bullshit to say that weed doesn't land people in physc wards and that its only because they already had a problem... Sometimes that may be the case.. but i can easily see how it could send some people on there way... weed makes you think differently.. it could get someone thinking more in depth about things/life. It could lead to depression or confusion.

Someone who doesn't smoke is less likely to have such different/varied thoughts and it would reduce the chance of them developing some kind of problem...

Well for a start you said that if you smoked weed all day you would never get anything done... does this not indicate that weed makes you lazy? which could be seen as negative.

Not at all... How can any one think that weed doesn't change your perception of the world? Do you not get any effect from smoking weed? Do you realise that being high means that your perception is different? Ever wonder why a trip to the food store suddenly seems so much more important? Looks like weed may have effected you more than you realise..

I realise that alcohol also alters our perception.. and i know that it kills people were as weed doesn't.. but whats your point? I didn't say anything about the legality of weed... i believe people should be able to take all the dugs they want..

 

Cannibus and all psychedelics are only for the strong. Some people can't take it, and they shouldn't. I have a friend who says after he smoked his memory has gone to shit and I think mine has got better.

 

that has got to be one of the stupidest, most ignorant statements i have heard all week...

 

Not trying to start any argument or anything but I am being completely truthfull. I smoke weed everyday and I also work full-time and go to school full-time. But I think that once you get past the audience that tends to follow weed then it's a different story. I smoke mostly by myself. I get high after work then go to school. I've been to class high just about everyday. I just zone in and do my work and actually enjoy it when i'm high. I've made A's my entire life. I just think that if you never stop doing it then you won't ever have any mental problems and things of that sort. Getting high makes me think more logically and focus on things that I normally wouldn't. I honestly see weed having no bad side effects for me.

 

I have been a pot head /stoner for well over 20 yrs ..I am slow and laid back,,, because i choose to be, Why must everyone do everything in such a damned rush is my motto. Why be all excited and shit when there is no need to be, i prefer my laid back status in life, it keeps me balanced n helps me with the patience i need to put up with idiots on a day to day basis. I feel no need to be hasty n frantic n in a rush in any part of my life,,, why is that wrong???

Lazy,,, we choose to be lazy. Pot doesnt make you that way.If you let something control your actions and behaviors besides yourself , you are freely allowing it to do as such.I smoked from the time i woke until the time i went to bed daily and lived on perma-high for 14 years. In that time i accomplished a whole hell of a lot, just because others choose not to dont group everyone together..

pot changes my perception?? perhaps it allows me to see things in a differnt sort of way, but there are loads of things that do that anyway , if you are closed minded then perhaps you believe it alters it while high,,, these thoughts n ideas dont just simply manifest outta some sort of magic hole in your brain ,,, nothing new is being added to your brain while smoking... its just allowed to be seen as in any mind altering substance,,, yes even alcohol

i have seen the memory thing happen over time. perhaps its pot,,, perhaps just part of aging,, i dont know,, , maybe it is just transformed into something bigger and better in another process, since other areas of the old brain seem to function a whole lot better with thc in them ,,,,

as far as grammar and typing skills etc,,, the comp is my down time, not school or work . aint gonna be all proper n shit for a buncha folks that dont pay me to be all proper n shit

 

The only thing I notice for me personally, is that when I'm smoking consistently my short term memory is terrible. Being high heightens my creative intelligence. I guess it's all relative. Maybe formal book-smarts are effected, but not long term.

 

name one person that weed alone has sent to the psych ward and I will begin to take your argument seriously...

 

Many stoners just don't care to act intelligent all the time. If a stoner is gonna worry, it's usually gonna be about something important and not what you think of him or her.

 

Hahahahaha

That's the funniest thing I've read all day!!!


And to the OP- I'm not even going to respond to you anymore. You just cut up my post and take things out of context to respond with your uneducated justifications. Just drop the thread man. Forget about what you said because YOU'RE WRONG. And move on. You should also stop saying that mj sends folks to the psych ward cause that's just hilarious to me.

Wait, where are you from? Whales or something? Maybe this happens to you british freaks, but not to Americans. So fuck off for good with this idea.