i like it ;)

i love it ;)

The best features about cannabis are,

What you mention, brief reality escape and alternate reality experience that won't lead to physical addiction and death like alcohol, and opioids.

Non addictive pain medication.

You can have physical weed withdrawals. It's addicting, but unlike any other drug.

Helps me deal with PTSD symptoms and Qanon drops;)

In a free country, why should my government tell me what I can smoke? They "allow" me to smoke cancer causing cigarettes and drink liver corroding alcohol. Why can't I choose my own poison? Or medicine?

Because they know it might make you a smarter person, or possibly counteract/slow the effects of all the poisons they’re pumping into you. And they can easily lock you up for it since more than half the world smokes weed, or at least should be.

I've used cannabis for about 20 years now. However i dont drink alcohol.

Like any drug, the only trick is to quickly ascertain if it suits your lifestyle, or not.

In my work, i can smoke all day if i choose. I work in a creative job and most of my clients are stoners too.

Cannabis also agrees with me mentally. I dont suffer paranoia or psychosis from it.

I also dont use it to get wasted (well, not all the time anyway!). I like average strength and i'll smoke 1 spliff over an hour or two.

In conclusion: Cannabis is great, for my needs but everyone is different.

Well put :)

I'm going to hang out with you. I'm a medical user, so it's everyday for me. Oddly, not only does it address all the symptoms from my chronic pain... but I'm off ALL prescription drugs. I'm off my antidepressants and the ADHD meth they were feeding me, on top of the various opiates I've been promised will "help".

I'm not sure it's for everyone... but it's a powerful natural medicine, no denying that fact.

No adderall was such a huge change for me. Took it for years, started to smoke on it and hated it. Now I just smoke and it’s amazing how easily I can focus and get work done now. I have chronic migraines as well so weed is an absolute life saver.

What strain of medical weed do you smoke?

Various... currently an indica called One Love.

Be careful. Today's marijuana has the strength of ten regular marijuanas.

Oh sure i know, wasnt I only mad out of it on the hash joints last night. I thought the sofa was going to eat me.

Hash and weed joints or hash and tobaccer joints?

Has and tobacco. Some nice diesel soaked crap and john player blue tobacco.

Actually i cant even keep a straight face as i type that.. it sounds like hell!

Smoke weed ery day

Ganja 4 all free the bud

Life would be unbearable without it.

I don't drink or do anything else.

Escapism can become psychological dependence.

Cannabis can also lend a soothing and potentially healing affect on many common maladies. This can also create a dependence.

You can mask problems over time but problems never stop being problems.

Used mindfully and respectfully Cannabis can be the same highly regarded medicinal buried with Egyptian and Odd Caucasian and other mummies found around the world.

People have known the plant through the ages but I don't know if it has ever entered such a psychologically deformed consumer market like the McWorld we see now.

Abuse of all things is rampant and so it will be with the Herb.

I think weed is anti escapism as it has introspective nature that allows helps ypu look at problems you normaly jus block out.

Until it isn't.

Don't forget who we lie to the most every single day.

Reality is already pretty fake so a a clean objective baseline must be established before we indulge ourselves.

Agreed. Best thing about it: nothing bothers you. Worst thing about it: nothing bothers you.

Moderation is key. Otherwise cannabis is a wonderful tool for spiritual exploration and analysis of the universe. It allows you to see through love instead of hate. That's why they don't like it. Alcohol, cigarettes, heroin, meth, pharmaceuticals all make you irritable, grumpy, sleep poorly, poor digestion, cancer etc. Cannabis is the cure to all those symptoms! Especially if not smoked as burned carbon is never good for you. But thankful cannabis contains many anti cancer compounds, making it less bad for you than smoking other things.

An alcohol binge leaves me anxious and depressed the next day. It feels like it just washes out all the "feel good" chemicals. I'm in my mid twenties and it took me several years of binge drinking every weekend and dealing with episodes of anxiety and depression to finally realize that. A lot can be said for the power of mindfulness meditations to help you get in tune with your body and brain. When I smoke weed, albeit I've been goin for super low THC/high CBD strains, I don't experience any sort of hangover. I love these type of strains because there's not so much THC that I get dysfunctional and the cbd gives some good relaxation and I nice body feeling. The small amount of THC that is there is enough to allow me to have different kinds of thoughts than what I normally experience when sober. It's just a nice thing to do once or twice a week for me on the weekends usually. I love this little weekend habit way more than the drinking I used to engage in.

I'd love to be able to pick what I get. I have to get whatever I can get my hands on :(

It makes me not bleed out of my butt, so that's pretty cool if you ask me.

Crohn's? Sucks to hear, pal.

Yarb :(

I thank my lucky stars for pot, but can't help but wonder if it's the engineered 'lesser of all evils' and will become the next big distractor from what's going on in the world. Yeah, it's awesome and fun and makes you think in different ways, but it also makes people quite complacent if gone unchecked.

Harsh :/

I have a bro-in-law that has a bag for life because of Crohn's.

Unfortunately he's a bus driver and his contract wont allow him to use Cannabis.

He stuck with some wacky medication that gave him TB and a bad back as a side-effect.

Oh no that sounds like Humira or something similar. The commercials for those drugs make me cringe.

I'm sorry your brother in law has to deal with that. I had a screaming match with my doctor because I refused both surgery as well as the 'biologic medicines' that essentially shut off your immune system.

Been a long road, and is at least a third of the reason why I browse this place.

Its been a litany of disasters for him. It was genetic, his Mother also has a bag.

Initially they told him the bag would be for 8 years but then the last biopsy was bad so they want him to keep it now.

I'm not sure why he opted out of surgery, i do remember it was an option on the table.

The bag is typically a product of surgery during which they remove part of the colon and redirect the new 'end' to your abdomen. He must have had surgery at some point to have the colostomy bag. Such a shame that this is the standard practice. Surely there must be a better option

Oh ok. I know there is surgery involved for the stoma but i assumed (perhaps wrongly) that there was another surgical option?

Not sure to be honest. They usually cut some out, temporarily redirect to a bag, then usually go back in and reattach it later after weeks or months but I'm not sure if they do things differently over there by you

I just spoke to him, and thats exactly what the plan was. Then they changed it to 8 years and now it looks like life.

Tough break for you guys.

Gotta just learn to make awesome poop related puns and jokes and laugh at it. It's pretty shitty, but you can't let it get you down in the dumps ;)

I was sat beside him at christmas dinner this year and the bag farts made for some incredibly hilarious moments!

What about CBD oil that has no THC in it. Will it trip a drug test if it has no THC? It works great for my IBS.

You should look it up, I’m not sure if a pure CBD capsule or what have you has the same metabolites that are tested for.

Unfortunately it can have anything up to 2% (or so).

The brand I use has less than .3%.

What brand is that? Is it available online?

CBD is a bit of a grey area where we live, there is no legislation covering it and subsequently its hard to find and limited in choice.

What brand is that? Is it available online?

CBD is a bit of a grey area where we live, there is no legislation covering it and subsequently its hard to find and limited in choice.

I get it online from a company called Hemp Direct.

https://hemp-direct.com/products/1-000mg-cbd-tincture

Thanks a lot, I'll pass that on to him.

Weed and conspiracys go hand in hand

Watch the very beginning of Pineapple Express.

"I feel like a slice of butter...meltin'..on top of a big ol' pile of flapjacks."

You're absolutely correct!

One of my favs

Combusting any material is going to produce some harmful chemicals, but THC itself is 100% safe (studies haven't found anuthing bad yet). What goes into your lungs can be extremely harmful though. Edibles are the safest way to go

Vape life is the way to go

Maybe

I don't like it.

I mean..I literally saw a guy in highschool that was a teetotaler and a few years after experimenting cannabis he went for increasingly stronger shit until he almost died by cocaine overdose. I also knew to persons that became addicted and got killed by drug dealers because they couldnt pay.

But for some people THC is literally the panacea...

Smoking weed might make you more likely to try harder drugs, but getting addicted to and nearly dying from hard drugs is a separate problem. As for your other point, that’s why you don’t do drugs when you’re broke. If you keep having people front you shit and you promise to pay them back, it’s going to catch up with you when you can’t. The situations you’ve described are results of addictive personalities, foolishness, and poor lifestyle choices.

I think you summed up my thoughts and experiences on cannabis perfectly.

There is a universal consciousness that humans are, for the most part, locked out of. Many, many races of beings throughout the universe can not only access it, it's their main mode of thought and consciousness.

Some drugs, THC being one, alter the electro-chemical operation of the human brain and often, this allows us a glimpse of that universal consciousness. "Stronger" drugs, like LSD and DMT do a better job than THC does. There are many, many people who report that expanded consciousness, but at the same time, lack the understanding of what exactly the are accessing.

THC suppresses dreaming with longterm use. I tend to believe that weed is best used intermittently recreationally, or medicinally as prescribed.

Not to get too long winded, but for most of my life I had been a skeptic of spiritual and supernatural things. Although people experiencing drug "trips" reporting things that were profound, I was "sure" that drugs were really just interfering with the conscious mind and making the experience seem profound. The same way deja vu seems like a recalled experience when it's not.

I know people who were all into Terrence McKenna, etc., and I always just felt like they were simply justifying their enjoyment of drugs by making it something more than it was.

However, after certain events (which do not include me trying drugs), I've changed that opinion over the past year or so. Like shamans and native peoples' medicine men, I believe that drugs should be reserved for a reverent experience with the universal consciousness, and not just something to take because your bored and it makes you feel giddy, etc.

I've been toking since the late '70's. I've done very well for myself over the years...I look at least a decade to 15 years younger than my actual age. I'm healthier and more active than 95% of my peers...and happier too. Mostly just on a Friday night and Saturdays now...Also, it keeps me from getting drunk. After a couple drinks, I'll take one or two hits off the bowl and I'm done drinking for the night. I just don't need alcohol after that and I wake up feeling fine and ready to go the next morning.

I love Sativas or Frisbee weed as we used to call it. However, I think they're over doing it with the jacked up THC on a lot of strains now. I like a balanced THC/ CBD ratio for laughs and keeping the anxiety away.

Has verified medicinal uses, and therefore is not schedule 1. And yet the DEA and others conspire to keep it illegal as if it had no medicinal value.

It really is a conspiracy. It should be taxed and regulated like alcohol and tobacco if those are allowed to be legal.

Somehow cocaine is schedule 2.. if coke is schedule 2, so the fuck is weed. Coke is a very mild local anasthetic, weed has dozens, scores, possibly hundreds of medical uses.

Yeah, the DEA kind of did people a favor with their recent declaration that it has no medicinal value while something like 25+ states have legalized medical MJ.

You can't have a government body blatantly lying like that.

It the medical plant Jesus would have had to use to cure all the aliments described in the bible. Everything from blindness (glaucoma) to evil spirits (epilepsy or tremors). Its the only way possible outside of him actually being a God. So for that reason, its the medical equivalent of a time bomb. Their (opium pill factory) industry is fucked, and they know it.

As long as big pharma doesn’t get their hands on it (which they will) it shouldn’t be a problem (it will be)

Social smoker for most recent 20 years (1-2 times a week at most) - daily smoker for 25 years prior - One issue is I have numerous friends that are totally toasted NOW due to 45 years of smoking weed like cigarettes, like a pack a day and NOW their prescription weed makes them more retarded than stoned (they don't share their weed but smoke it alone as their daily fix continuously throughout the day and night) - just saying

I believe it works better than 95% of pharmaceuticals and promotes more healthy living. I'm drinker but have been happy to take breaks from alcohol to smoke a little frequently.

Daily I'll use CBD oil which i'm also continually discussing with friends and family. It's much more of an easier conversation, because not everyone is comfortable with marijuana.

When the only real attack over the last 20+ years is weed makes you "lazy". The benefits expressed are so much more, and the overstressed ADHD types need to learn how to relax and be a little "lazy" from time to time.

While I totally agree about the epiphanies and alllllll those vibes, I had to cut down from every day because I needed to stop being so relaxed and face real life lol. I Now I've cut down my dreams are more trippy than ever as well. Alcohol on the other hand, all the negative feelings I have come pouring out and always have a breakdown/horrible time.

Everyone is different, I know people who can drink and do other drugs all day 4 days a week and be "fine" (probably not fine at all lol) but the second they take a drag on a spliff they freak out and get mega paranoid/throw up.

I do wish weed was as legal as alcohol, or alcohol was as illegal as weed (either is fine for me) only because I've seen soooo many lives destroyed by alcohol and 0 by weed.

My personal experience with it over decades is it suppresses lucid dreaming - for me. Can't speak for others, but on some level, that is evidence of it affecting my subconscious. I know if I abstain from it after using it for awhile, my dreams come back full force. To each their own.

It makes my PTSD completely manageable. I smoke a little before bed each night to help me sleep, and sleep soundly because of it (normally I would wake up 14 times a night having the same awful dream over and over again). The worst thing about Cannabis, in my opinion, is that it is illegal. The second worst thing is that it reduces productivity.

Don’t consume it while driving and we’re golden, that’s the only point I give a fuck about.

I'll just leave this here.

It’s nowhere near as dangerous as driving drunk or while you’re on pills though.

True, but it still impairs most people.

I gotta be careful and not smoke too much of the military grade indicas. Otherwise I’m borderline retarded the following day even when I’m sober. That’s my only complaint with cannabis and it’s easily avoidable.

Other than that I love it. A nice sativa or a lighter indica is my sweet spot that allows me to relax, take a mental break, and dive into thoughts that I otherwise wouldn’t come back to. I actually started a clothing line that is all about spreading the good news of cannabis and every waking second that I spent designing anything, I was toasted. The creativity and abstract thoughts really flow so if one wanted to harness and expand on those 2 things and more I would absolutely recommend cannabis.

What strains you like?

Some of my favorite herbs are Strawberry Nightmare, Platinum OG, Blue Dream, anything from the Diesel family, AK47, and Bubba Kush.

Really like this vape oil called Alien Nightmare and there’s a wax called Death Star I remember being particularly badass.

Any strains I should keep an eye out for?

Oh, man, I dunno. I feel the US has better strains compared to the Netherlands these days. Not saying there isn't good weed in Holland, but no one is allowed to really push the limits with dabs or edibles over here. It's a bit disappointing. Right now I've got lemon bubble and LA cannalope. Both are definitely nice.

My opinion is that it is good. And I like it. I like it a lot.

Did I mention that I like it?

Without it there would be massacres going down in my kitchens. For me it helps me step back, take in the bigger picture. It also helps me stay calm and relate to my crews more humanely. Most of the time. It works for me.

Weed is one of the most valuable, fun, and important drugs for personal growth- if you use it consciously. I use weed at night and zero alcohol, and I've found incredible happiness and life inspiration. I'm lucky to live in Colorado, and use mostly edibles.

In my view weed is also a clue that there's someone out in the spirit world there looking out for us. It's too perfect to be random, especially when you consider CBD.

Weed also opens people's minds enough to consider psychedelics. Psychedelics are the real big tool for personal and collective growth. Check out /r/psychonaut sometime.

You can order some straight CBD you are not going to fail a drug test, You are allowed to consume CBD. Thecbdistillery.com

Jobs only test for THC.

“Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country"- Thomas Jefferson

I totally agree with your perception.

When I was young, my mother trained me to meditate, so I could work out my ADHD without drugs. She instilled in me the Eastern belief that, anywhere the mind can get on drugs, it can get there without.

I've had many inspiring experiences with cannabis and psilocybin, but I've always done it with much respect and care.

But honestly, cannabis is a depressants, useful at times, but ultimately limiting your perception to a slower vibration. You want to cleanse yourself of the slower vibrations, and look to light, love, and the pure power of higher vibrations. Which is VERY dangerous to do, when medicated.

Yes it takes longer to get there, but when you do learn how, you have so much more awareness and ability to learn more sacred knowledge(things you can't really explain, but can only learn through experience, and guidance)

Always start from a place of love, and grounding yourself to the earth, so you have an infinite protector.

I prefer it to alcohol.

pro. lol. at both "for" and "at".

When I started it removed anxiety and relaxed me. After 20 years of (too) regular use it started to cause anxiety. I suspect some of the downsides are the result of your body overcompensating in some respects. Not dreaming seemed like a blessing but now I think dreaming is probably a healthy thing, even though sometimes they are nightmares.

I do agree it helps more creative thought.

As you say OP, it's a bit too easy to do regularly.

It helps me escape the matrix... I can’t enjoy anything most of the time because I see through all the plots and bullshit behind everything smoking just let’s me relax and let’s me enjoy most things I cannot when I’m sober

Various... currently an indica called One Love.