excessive use of a mind-altering substance creates an emotional dependency on that substance? it can't be
“weed isn’t addictive i can stop when i want”
Or maybe it allows users to pierce the veil of lies The Man has created to keep us docile in our deadend jobs and decide we don't want to play his game.
Could you smoke so much weed that you lose all motivation to continue smoking weed?
This may be true in some cases but it's not been my experience.
Studies like this are important but I think even more important (from a harm reduction standpoint) is the possibility of recovery.
Is it possible to return back to "normal" -- or at least close to it -- by stopping or cutting it out? I think if the answer is "no", people who are aware they're harming themselves might choose not to stop -- after all, what's the point?
Substance that causes brain damage may result in experiencing symptoms of brain damage. What a surprise.
There's this thing called a T-break, weed gets a bit dull for most after while.
I found it quite easy to stop smoking, just depends on the type of dude I guess.
ha, you can't make me less motivated with weed because i'm already unmotivated to live!
Really it should be called withdrawal.
That's a good point too -- if you know you can stop and undo some or all of the damage, it might cement a mindset of "I'll stop when I have to", without considering that you'll never realize when you have to.
On the other hand, if the damage is irreversible, and you know weed still makes you feel good, why would you stop? You've already fucked yourself. Might as well enjoy your life, right?
Whilst regular weed use definitely blunts motivation in my experience, it doesn't cause brain damage. It has been shown that people who smoke it a lot when young tend to have lower IQs, but I think that's more to do with how chronic, young users of weed are less likely to be engaging in intellectual activity at an age when our brains are most receptive to new information. Essentially, I'm saying that people are inevitably going to have lower IQs if they're not using their time wisely at an age range when their brains are sponges.
I don't think you understand the concept of a T-Break
Whilst it's technically withdrawal, weed is only a partial agonist of the cannabinoid receptors, meaning that withdrawal is not really all that intense at all. The main symptoms of weed withdrawal are reduced appetite and mild insomnia. Full agonist drugs like many opioids are rather different. Withdrawal happens because the brain is always striving for an equilibrium defined in our genome. Agonising a receptor causes that receptor to become reflexively less sensitive, meaning that when the agonising drug is taken away, the receptor needs time to return to its default sensitivity, typically causing the opposite symptoms of the drug.
I smoke a lot of weed, and I do not feel impaired(in a long term sense), de motivated, or dis-interested in life. Quite the opposite. Before I was a "stoner" I tried suicide a lot, I hated my life, my role in everything I did, the very nature of life itself.
And you know what? When I don't have weed, I just don't have it, and everything is normal. Maybe I get bored of boring things faster.
To add to my above post from earlier and to others points, I have been smoking for about 10 years now. In that time I have worked full time in IT as a 9-5 for 8 of those years, I have self taught, and learned music production and music theory, now working on an album and I have built an immigration business from the ground up that has been profitable since year 2.
So This article is anecdotal at best and I feel like I have to pull out my own personal anecdotal evidence that no, weed doesn't make you lazy if you aren't already inherently a lazy person.
Furthermore, I'd also argue about its addictive qualities because i typically take 2-5 month breaks from weed every year. I don't ever smoke it all year around and I never crave it.
Weed makes me go from being obsessively motivated and stressing to death (I mean like working 4-6 hours a day on projects in addition to school and other responsibilities) to a regular workload and I'm much happier for it, this study makes perfect sense to me.
When you run out of weed its an inconvenience, nothing more. It doesn't even remotely compare to tobacco urges.
The motivation thing really seems to depend on the person, but ultimately too much of anything can be a bad thing.
I've heard from people with ADD that weed does quite a lot for their focus
I don't think any trials have looked at this though, so it's just some broscience and YMMV.
I've always thought that marijuana is only dangerous if you're okay with never getting anything done.
I'm a stressed out, high-strung person who's doing a bunch of shit (full time job, creative home projects that I hold myself to a weekly quota for, most of the home chores). I vape or eat edibles when it's time to chill out. I don't think I have much to worry about.
I would argue that this true for some people but not for others. I've noticed that people who already have a predisposition toward being anxious, unmotivated, and/or apathetic can end up psychologically dependent on weed. When one's already in a bad state of mind due to poor sleep schedule, anxiety over responsibilities, stress from procrastination, etc, smoking weed could seem like a quick way to put oneself in a better mood. However, since it's not exactly easy to get shit done when one is baked out of their mind, they can end up being even more unproductive.
Strong weed can also make one tired and affect one's sleep patterns if they're not careful, which has negative effects on mood. Naturally, this could make one want to keep smoking or even smoke more frequently to compensate. It's a vicious cycle, and honestly it doesn't help that a lot of people believe that weed has no downsides. It could take one a while to realize how it's been affecting them even while sober. Weed may be less physically harmful than alcohol and tobacco, and it may not cause physical addiction and withdrawal, but it's still a drug.
On the other hand, there are plenty of people who can smoke every day and stay on top of things. Several of them have posted in this thread. To some degree it's a matter of when and why one smokes and how much self control one has. Smoking after a long day of work to relieve stress is probably fine, whereas smoking due to anxiety from procrastination is likely to make the problem worse. Then of course there's differences in brain chemistry, personality, etc.
Disclaimer: This is all anecdotal evidence from people I know, I'm no expert.
tl;dr weed is a drug. It can be used in a healthy way or an unhealthy way. Anything that
All this weed science and still no confirmation of my middleschool health teachers claim that it'll make your penis smaller.
>Really it should be called withdrawal. That's what it is.
Lmao what? Do you mean withdrawal as in "to withdraw from something", or do you mean withdrawal as in "symptoms from stopping drug use"?
The study is right and wrong. I know some really motivated hard workers that end their working day with a smoke to wind down and enjoy a good smoke during the off days.
I also know a bunch of folk who smoke weed constantly and are some of the laziest wastes of resources I have met. Cant hold down a job and everything is someone elses fault.
I can tell you in my case the sleep thing is true. My eyes have more black rings under them than when I was not smoking. This is because I smoke a lot and the weed I smoke is strong; it also makes me have a staggered, almost restless sleep. Every time I take a t-break, I notice I sleep a lot better.
it's almost as if weed affects people differently
I personally found that, if anything, it made me want to get up and do shit. I like to tinker, and being motivated to actually get up and tinker again was an excellent feeling, especially after spending however long worrying too much about other things and feeling like a failure at life in general.
Coming down, on the other hand, made me sleepy as hell. Though that was also good for me, as I have trouble going to sleep.
After 14 or so years of smoking weed, I have found it's effects have varied over the time.
I used to be giddy, happy and quite energetic for the first few years, then it boiled down to a medium.
After I got a job where I had to stop smoking for one year and came back to it (stopping was not an issue at all) it has now become honestly quite depressing. I have no motivation, paranoia and suicidal thoughts are common place when I smoke weed now, I could put a movie on, light up a joint and by the time it's half way done my mind is racing about everything other than the movie, usually all negative.
It's a damn shame.
that's what y'all cowards get for not even smoking crack
I seem to find that any time I smoke, I end up cleaning my apartment till its spotless, and I barely remember doing it.
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