Eh, I like coffee and tea better than alcohol or pot. Alcohol just isn't that great, I don't see the attraction, and messes with my blood sugar levels (can give me hypoglycmia, which is low blood sugar).
Weed seems to trigger my visual thinking mode with a vengeance (I'm on the autism range, am more of a visual thinker than a verbal one, as erudite as I might be at times). Plus, if anyone were to get caught for smoking weed, it'd probably be me so I'm not comfortable breaking the law.
I don't think weed should be illegal. Or DMT (the spirit molecule). Or shrooms. Drugs like these can be used for religious shamanic, artistic and other reasons and no government should be able to take a population's right to use such drugs. Whether it's legal to do so or not, it's unconstitutional to legislate with intent to criminalize these, in my opinion.
That doesn't mean I don't think some harder drugs should be legal. It means I'm in favor of more sensible drug policies. I'm in favor of guided use. In many older cultures, use was was often overseen, guided by those with incredible knowledge...rather than only recreational.
Do you smoke weed? Why or why not?
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I'm not gonna lie... I have started smoking, and I do it because it makes me feel like myself. I have actually feelings and I'm not just numb all the time.
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KarenInKenoshaWisconsin 2012/06/20 15:14:40
I understand perfectly where you're coming from. When I first started using alcohol, after a couple of drinks, I felt able to be myself and to express myself as I never could when sober. Weed worked pretty similarly for me, as did most forms of depressants. There's no denying that this is often the case, so I'm not going to try. Alcohol and drugs work - that is true.
The problem is that, for me at least, eventually I became dependent upon them. And that's not a way to live your life. Once I got clean, I realized that what I had been doing was self-medicating for anxiety and depression. My recommendation for you is that you limit or cut out the weed and get yourself into a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment program. for anxiety. The reason you can't be yourself without the weed is not that you don't have weed - plenty of people are able to be themselves without it. The reason is that you're too anxious to be yourself and feel yourself when you're not medicated. You can learn to correct your thinking, which will correct your feelings, through CBT. It will be cheaper and less destructive, and it's legal.
Best of luck to you.
But it acts on cannabinoid receptors in the brain, and similarly-acting compouonds show great promise for PTSD and other conditions. But those medications aren't available outside of research trials. Until comparable alternatives are available, medical marijuana should be fairly freely available.
Having weed be illegal makes no more sense than tying to outlaw caffeine.