Weed has made me broke. Its also made me gain a good 5lbs. Its made me into an OCD glass collector (my fav part of smoking is the pipes). Its made me paranoid everytime I'm driving and i see a cop. Weed has also made me some of the closest friends I've had in my life. Its taught me to relax and chill and not worry so much. Its made getting through a day at work SO SO SO much easier (try doing internet tech support not stoned...it sucks...my supervisor and i have even smoked together at lunch lol). When i feel myself getting stressed and losing control i smoke a bowl and suddenly everything seems so much more manageable.
Weed has made me love redhead310 But on a more serious note, it has made me expand my horizons more. I am into all kinds of music, to get a good feel of how people feel and what they think is good music. I have also dropped my OCD habit. I would count things 4 or 5 times before actually believing that that was the real amount. Or I would pick every piece of dog hair on my sweatshirts off. Now, I don't, and I like it a lot more because I can spend my time on more valuable things than counting things over and over, or worrying about things being clean. Overall, weed has made me a better and more rounded person then I could have ever imagined.
I'm glad you found something great out of it. It's cool that you told your mom too. I still wonder if my parents would be cool with me smoking (even though they already know) if I told them it helped me out. It changed me into what I am now. I used to be close-minded, somewhat angry at everything, hateful. Now I love things. Nature is great. Also I wouldn't put the blame solely on weed, the biggest change happened from what I was reading and what my friends and I were talking about. Dharma bums by kerouac had a little bit to do with it to be honest.
I've met some really cool people, I've been turned on to some really good music that I would not have been otherwise, I've lost some friends too, it helped me find my identity, it helped me form a deeper connection with the people I hang out with, it turned me on to a universe of love
Weed has transformed my personality from a virtual sociopath, to someone who can sort of empathize. It's not much but it's a start. According to a psychologist my mental age is 25, while my emotional age is infantile. Since I started smoking occasionally I have begun to emotionally mature. It's also one hell of a way to relax