why is pot good for you?

ive seen a few anti pot threads in the marijuana forums and i just want to hear some good things about herb.i know that it helps me on a daily basis. i have b.p.d. and it helps in so many ways with my disorder...better than any perscription i could put in my body. it helps me be more creative with my art and lets me focus much better at work. weed is a blessing in my life, i just wanna know why everyone else smokes(besides to get high).

 

I think abuse of weed can definitely hurt you - it is addictive and can make one lazy and lethargic. However, I think moderate weed use can be greatly beneficial. I truly believe that I am a much more open-minded person, a person much more in tune with his own thoughts and senses, and a generally more sensitive, intelligent human being thanks to smoking weed. I know people who weren't really into music or the arts until they started smoking weed, and now they are huge music-heads. Why? Because weed, like acid, can break through some of those boundaries in our heads... "Holy SHIT... music is SOOOOO GOOD!" These can be life-changing realizations.

 

weed is a mental addiction not a physical one. and i don't mean to argue but it doesn't make everyone lazy. im much more motivated when im stoned. thats just me though.

 

If you want to see what I'm talking about, just keep smoking

And by the way, mental addictions are just as bad as or even worse than physical ones. Smoking is mostly a mental addiction. Think gambling, eating addiction, sex addiction. It always bothers me when people downplay the addictiveness of pot by saying that it isn't physical, as if that really means anything.

 

oh no, i don't mean it that way, its definitely addictive no matter what kind of addiction it is. but i could put pot down before i could put down a cigarette which is not something im happy about. i have been smoking herb heavily for about 3 years now. and im still just as energetic as ever...if not more.

 

You should look up the all of the medical uses for marijuana, there are quite a few. Without all the political baggage, etc.... that weed carries it would be considered a wonder drug. The latest research is showing that using marijuana helps fight and prevent alzheimers disease.

Check this out...http://www.livescience.com/health/061005_alzheimers_marijuana.html

 

I find that pot helps me keep a sense of perspective in life, kind of makes me appreciate the little things. I don't smoke all that much--maybe once or twice a week. But being able to get baked and just sit on the couch eating twinkies and blasting tunes every now and then makes the "bigger" things in life (school, work, relationships, etc) seem less daunting and stressful, and I find it helps me stay grounded and improves the quality of life all around.

 

i've been smoking pot longer than i've been drinking or smoking tobacco, but its easier for me to not use than either. i have had maybe 3 or 4 nights tops in the past year and a half where i havent had at least two drinks, and i've been trying to quit smoking tobacco for a long time.

in fact, i'm considering growing marijuana for a number of reasons. the biggest reason i drink (usually) is as a marijuana substitute when i can't find pot. the other times its just out of habit at this point. but while i dont feel i'm an alcoholic quite yet, i know my drinking is getting out of control and i want to slow WAY down while i still can. i think a good way of doing this is by smoking more, personally.

smoking has had both very beneficial and some negative effects in my life.

for one, i've got joint problems (no pun intended!) i have not been diagnosed, but suspect early onset of arthritis (common in my mothers family). hip, knee, elbow, and even knuckle pain are becoming increasingly more and more common with me, not to mention lower back pain (which is unrelated, i suspect). it can strike suddenly and without warning, often with long stretches of time in between, but sometimes very frequently. i find smoking pot often will help with easing the pain to a significant degree, and i feel better about smoking a bowl than popping some pills. it not only reduces the severity of the pain, which is sometimes sharp enough to cause me to limp for a day or two, it makes what pain remains far more tolerable and calms my nerves, making me accepting of my physical condition.

i am prone to overthinking, overanalyzing, and stressing out about the Little Stuff. when entirely sober and alert, my mind often races, and i have a lot of trouble with stress, anxiety, and insomnia as a result. smoking a bowl usually calms me down, and if its a potent, highquality quasinarcotic type pot or low grade pot it will help me get to sleep far more easily. my insomnia is bad enough when sober that i once went a full week with roughly 16 hours of sleep back in highschool. of course the adderall they prescribed me for ADD (racing mind) didnt help, either. i find that in addition to using alcohol as a marijuana substitute, i tend to drink to help myself sleep as well, which is quite unhealthy behavior. anxiety pot can either help with or complicate, and it seems to be highly dependent on WHAT pot i'm smoking, the same with sleeping. i wouldnt smoke a heavy indica or low quality pot at a party where i wanted to be social and outgoing, and i wouldnt smoke an energetic, stimulating sativa right before bed.

at times cannabis use HAS caused me to be lazy, lethargic, and fail to accomplish what i need to get done. at other times smoking pot has helped me accomplish more, more creatively, and more effectively than i otherwise would have. again, it has a lot to do with WHAT i'm smoking. a nice sativa or one of the more cerebral indica/sativa hybrids would be far better suited for daytime smoking than other pot, and i've learned over the past couple years that sometimes i just need to NOT SMOKE if i need to get stuff done. smoking can be a pleasant reward for a job well done. it can get the better of you if you aren't careful for sure though.

cannabis use has also had some negative physical side effects, as well. while it certainly is NOT linked to lung cancer, at times when i smoked large quantities of low grade cannabis every day it only furthered the discomfort and chest congestion caused by my previously HEAVY cigarette addiction. smoking an eighth a day along with more than a pack of pall malls catches up with you FAST. and smoking blunts regularly complicated things way worse.


all in all, i love pot and i will continue to smoke, even if at the moment i've been having terrible difficulty with obtaining any grass. i am going to try my hand at gardening once this option becomes practical, and am going to try to cut WAY back on my drinking for health reasons. part of my plan includes smoking to relax at night instead.

smoking has had a lot of benefits. it's good medicine, which i'm learning to appreciate more and more due to my pain issues (arthritis-like pain at 22 years old is no fun...i'm far too young for joint pain, but i have to live with it). it helps me to relax and not worry about what i can't control. it CAN help to motivate me, even if it can also have the opposite effect. it helps me to sleep when i could not otherwise sleep.

i definitely recognize the negative aspects of cannabis use, but at the same time i absolutely adore pot and will continue to smoke. while i think it has its downsides, i think of the three most commonly used recreational drugs (tobacco, alcohol, cannabis) it is the least damaging and the most beneficial.

 

Excellent, excellent post ^

 

it's good for hangovers

 

For me smoking pot is therapy, Its like a therapy session I go to once a week and when I get high it teaches me about myself, about life, about problems and solutions and I get to experience new perspective. From this I can take the good knoledge and apply it to everyday life.

 

weed is great!!!

 

1.)Makes me happy, i can be in a shitty mood, then go smoke, come back and completely forget what i was in a bad mood about, then just have a good time for 3 hours.
2.)It broadens my horizons, im not a big music person but if im high, i end up finding out about all sorts of good music and then i listen to it, and remember about it the next day when im sober and think "hey this shit is good".
3.) Because i get hungry, and eat, alot.

so the 3 basic things, Happyness, Music, Food