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Originally Posted by killa_cam
this is the realest post i have ever seen on weed. i agree 150% with this. I am taking a 1 month break after reading this, its so true
Some Guys statement about weed
"Well I am not intellectually active, actually I am really lazy in regards of intellectual matters! Like I hardly read a book and I Hate thinking since it frustrates me!"
Response
This is your problem, not the marijuana. If you don't think much or use your brain often, it's going to get sluggish and studying will seem difficult. It's definitely "use it or lose it" at play here. The good news is you don't permanently lose "it," it just gets rusty. Some get rustier than others.
There's a lot of misinformation about marijuana out there. I've analyzed both sides of the issue in depth. The reason a lot of long term "heavy smokers" have memory problems is their lifestyle involves using their minds significantly less than the average person. Marijuana makes you tired and lazy for several hours after you've smoked it, and if you're a heavy smoker then you're lazy and tired all the time because you're high all the time. Over the years, this lack of using your mind starts to take it's toll, but you're not significantly worse off than another person who was mentally lazy without smoking weed.
Worrying about smoking weed 20 times causing you any serious brain damage is like worrying about that pack of cigarettes you smoked when you were 15 years old giving you lung cancer in old age. But I do understand your concern, there's a lot of exaggerated claims in the media and in schools about the effects of marijuana.
The risks of marijuana are serious, but not in the way people are typically led to believe.
The biggest risk is that it makes you lazy and content with circumstances you'd normally not be cool with. So you don't push yourself nor do you don't participate in life as much, which you're completely content with. It's not that the substance itself is addictive it's that getting high often is cheap chemical happiness and blatant escapism, THAT is what people get hooked on. If you don't have a strong sense of purpose, or have something you're passionate about in life, this false sense of contentment can keep you from moving forward towards having the experiences you want in life. You stay stuck the same person in just about every regard but the world moves forward without you. So even though you yourself are staying the same, you're moving backwards (a lot like if you were staying still in a strong current). And you wind up with the other people who also couldn't keep pace and you share their lifestyle. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of these people are depressing losers who hate what their lives have become. It happens gradually, there's no sharp contrast to slap sense into you. It can happen to anyone if they're not careful, even if they come from a wealthy family, even if they got perfect report cards in high school; it doesn't matter.
On the flip side, if you've got yourself under control and have loads of passion in your life, it probably won't do you much harm. Smoke in your lungs, about as much from two and a half cigarettes per joint. No physiological addiction. Easier on your brain cells than a round of boxing with both gloves and headgear.
As far as the medical study cited, don't worry about that study confirming anything about the state of your brain. Those studies they do are ridiculous and the amount of data they leave out by the time into an article readable by a "layperson," it's just more misinformation. After smoking a "single marijuana cigarette," of course a person's reaction time is slowed. THEY'RE STONED.
It goes away.
There's always an exception to the rule. You'll come across heavy smokers who've got solid lives and are successful in whatever they wanted in life. But these exceptions are very rare, for every one of them, there's at least 9 depressed losers who are completely dead on the inside and hate themselves for it. And at least half of them didn't start out as losers; they had the same hopes and dreams as anyone here at the School of Phenomenal memory going the extra mile to improve themselves.
Both sides considered, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But having smoked it, 1 time, 20 times, 300 times, that's not going to determine whether or not you'll do well in school or with this course. Nor does it say anything bad about you as a person.
I hope this post has put your mind at ease. Your brain isn't injured, it doesn't need to be healed; it's out of shape, it needs to be trained.
this is NOT a good post. this is NOT true.
if you smoke 4-5times per day during few years, you will lost your memory. i do this, i have a lot of friends who do this and me and this friends have a TERRIBLE memory. ya, marijuana **** w your brain, this is true. i love marijuana, i love smoke, but i know this.
thats why i need T-breaks... last year i took 2months w/o weed after smoking for 4years everyday 4-5times per day. before i took 2months break, was hard to remember what i did on last day.. if someone asked me what i did on the weekend, was impossible to rememeber.
ask to anyone who smoke a lot, they don't have memory. thats standard. not because they are lazy and don't do a lot of things. just because mariajuana **** with your brain. I know a lot of guys who smoke everyday before work, they do a lot of things, they are smart guys, but they don't have memory.
you can smoke, its amazing, but will **** w your memory. off course, if you smoke rarely, like 1-2times per week, then marijuana won't make any damage to your brain, but if you smoke as a regular, then you will lost your memory.
and if you smoke a LOT, will become hard to read, to understand movies and things like that. if you are a stoner, you are reading something and in the middle of the read you ask yourself ''what i am reading? what happenned?''
but ya, mariajuana is amazing and very good thing.
