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Is it easy to over dose on it? Like if you smoke way too much, i'm talking about passed "whitey". If thats possible?
I heard from a friends, there is a chemical in weed that kicks in, which stops overdoses.
I heard from a friends, there is a chemical in weed that kicks in, which stops overdoses.
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Never put a bowl on your head when you smoke it though Made my mate flip out.
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Excellent book here ...read the chapters in any order that takes your fancy.
Written in the seventies updated 2007.
Easy to read on line.
The guy who wrote it has fought the establishment in America for over thirty years and it is mostly down to this man that cannabis is now available as medicine all over the states with the rest of the world follwing suit.
Read it and you'll never have to ask another question ever again about weed.
In fact ...you'll be a mine of knowledge.
http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html
Have to write about the lows of society, ie drugs and why they were banned and why the bans continue through to today and the effects on society...i hate this subject so much
that sounds like a challenge to me
Sounds expensive to me
Great ...theres loads in this book about the lies about prohibition.
Can you take too much and feel very ill indeed? Yes, especially if you are unused to it and you smoke a lot or if you eat it.
Basically, two months ago. My fiancee of three years, left me, because of what i had done. I was left with the guilt, of what i'd done, and the immense pain we all suffer, from the great loss of such heartbreak and a huge change in our lifes afterwards. When this happened, i felt encredibly low about myself. I had many thoughts of suicide, planned it, wrote notes to people, prepared myself for it mentally. Wasn't in a good state really.
A couple of days after, my bestfriend who i call my brother, invited me out for a good night, and we could get some doobies in to chill out with. So that night, we were chilling in his garden, and i, for the first time, got encredibly high. With this experience, it took away all the pain almost straight away, i relieved me from any worry and stress that i had before, and i could think about everything and chill out about everything, like i couldn't before.
I never experienced a come down off weed, but it helped me sleep a treat too, so comming up to the last weeks of school and the stress of exams. It helped me get a good nights rest, and everyday i was going into school happy, chilled out and had a good night. I improved greatly in school, and felt prepared for the exams to come.
At this point, i was smoking enough weed after school everyday, just to get me to that 'happy place' of high, so to speak. I wasn't getting wrecked as such, just enough. So it wasn't expensive, at the most i spent £20 in one week. Everyday i just felt good about myself. Id also cut down on smoking, to one a day on the way to school. From what used to be 20-30 a day.
It was also a very much social thing i did, i went out, got a bit high, met some great people had a great night - but i also hardly ever stayed at home, always camping/party/friends house, because just going home meant i was on my own with my thoughts, and it was never good, made me sad again, and id facebook stalk and stuff. So staying out was good.
Most people, would say id become a 'hardcore' stoner, pot head and stuff. But this is, the part of the story i quite like, in the sense, that i'm not. Id been doing weed for 2 months straight, everyday practically. Untill i quit last week, i felt ready mentally in my head, that i didn't need weed anymore to be happy and my life was generally quite good. Id sorted everything out, prepared for everything. So i thought, well lets kick, the weed and see how things go.
So even after a week or so now. My smoking is still encredibly low, i will give that up soon too, but i don't want to try too much at once. And well, the only noticeable thing, from quitting weed, is my sleep is a little disturbed - whether it's related or not. I don't have cravings as such, and i still don't see it as a cure for my problems. I just think, i tried it and had fun, with such great benifits.
The heartbreak, has almost subsided, and i feel i can move on, and be happy with whomever i choose, if i decide to go that way. I see my life, as more than barely. I'm a happy, confident out going person, and generally feeling quite good about myself. I stay at home a fair amount too these days, and i'm not affraid, or upset by the same things anymore.
Which is complete contrast to how i felt, two months ago,. Or even before that, when i was with her, i still wasn't completely happy, there was something missing. And i discovered what that was after, she left me.
Which was my friends and family, with my ex. I completely disowned most people apart from skating. And didn't really have much to do with them. But i felt, somewhat compelled, to go out and find my friends again, reconcile with the people id pushed away, and be more part of my family, which i acheived and am feeling great.
I do, think weed was the main reason, for the successs i had, with moving on from the problems, i had. I hope this kinda makes sense, on how weed changed everything for me for the good, and how i don't have to rely on it in the future, or keep using it.
Thanks for the long read btw.
It is true that it is not addictive like many other drugs but it is still a major health hazard.
It's more or less what B-A said. So 'totally wrong'? I don't think so.
I tend to agree. If you have a propensity to psychological problems, then weed won't be good. I know people that have smoked it every day for years and seem perfectly normal.
Agree'd although it does give paranoia
But is that paranoia transient? Does it go when you have stopped smoking it? I used to get a bit paranoid at first but because I recognise it as a side effect, I just push it out of my head as being irrational when I'm smoking weed these days. I certainly don't get paranoid when I'm off the stuff.
'Weed isn't harmful like some drugs' is correct - some are safer some are more dangerous. It depends on what you consider harmful
No doubt in my mind that weed can have a serious negative effect on mental health. Experienced it and seen it many times in a lot of people.
And I've taken ecstasy thousands of times without any neagtive effect on my life. Doesn't mean it's not harmful. Alot of people drink alcohol without any problems but there is no doubt that it's one of the most damaging drugs to society.
Whether weed actaully casuses people to have mental health problems or just brings out underlying problems is pretty much irrelavant. It can and has been shown to have a detrimental effect to mental health.
You assertion that paranoia is a side effect would suggest that you think it actaully causes paranoia.
I'm not saying that everyone who smokes weed will end up like this. I didn't. But there is a danger of losing touch with reality and responsibility with heavy long-term use.
There can be some definite negative psychological effects from consistently smoking. But all things in moderation, etc.
I never said it wasn't harmful or that it won't have a negative effect on some peoples' lives.
Which phrase did I use that makes it seem like it 'actually causes paranoia'?
I'm not sure what you are going with this.
You said you recognise paranoia as an effect of using weed.
I said a side-effect. Anyway, I actually totally agree with you but I obviously didn't make myself clear enough.
Well done.
No it the smoke isn't more dangerous than baccy.
All the research shows that cannabis is a lung cleaner.
If you can't quit the fags ...add some weed you'll live five years longer.
Read the boojk I linked to in this thread.
I've had a look and it appears that there have been a few studies on tobacco vs cannabis, from 2002 and 2007. The second one has a bit of information about how the research was carried out and does mention how the causes of the link aren't necessarily clear. But says this:
Another bit I found interesting from the BBC article on the British Lung Foundation's report:
Ok so none of this is definitive (although if someone could point me in the direction of some research saying the opposite i'd be quite interested to see it) but I think its important not to go around stating things as fact.