If you smoke Marijuana, why do you do it?

Question

Also, if you do not smoke marijuana, do you want to and why haven't you?

Answer 1

I smoke it, though on rare occassions,.. I'm one of those who can live with,. and without it with ease,.. I see it as a nice, soft, gentle high,... as opposed to using it to get wasted etc,..
The high for ME is like a way to temporarily forget reality,.. to put it to one-side while I think about other things,.. to day-dream maybe or other times to have a giggle,..
All good things in moderation, not to be overdone or relied on,.. it's a good thing if it's done this way,. abuse it,. and it'll often 'bite-back', (metaphorically speaking).

Answer 2

i do not smake pot, although I have smoked pot in the past. I did it because I was being experimental. I was curious as to the effects. I did not like it. First, I do not smoke anything and it burned my throat and my lungs. Second, the "high" was almost immediate and I did not like the instantaneous lose of normal abilities. I thought however, that the high was quite mild as compared to being intoxicated with alcohol and the effects where shorter term. The "high" went away relatively quick.

The feeling I had was kind of dreamy. I felt light headed and giggled uncontrolably and I did in fact get the munchies. Luckily, Taco Bell was a 5 minute walk from my house.

Answer 3

Miz_Kassandra: Marijuana does NOT kill brain cells. That myth is based on a faulty study done in the early 70s.

The original basis of this claim was a report that, upon postmortem examinations, structural changes in several brain regions were found in two rhesus monkeys exposed to THC. Because these changes primarily involved the hippocampus, a cortical brain region known to play an important role in learning and memory, this finding suggested possible negative consequences for human marijuana users.

Additional studies, employing rodents, reported similar brain changes.

However, to achieve these results, massive doses of THC—up to 200 times the psychoactive dose in humans—had to be given. In fact, studies employing 100 times the human dose have failed to reveal any damage.

In the most recently published study, rhesus monkeys were exposed through face-mask inhalation to the smoke equivalent of four to five joints per day for one year. When sacrificed seven months later, there was no observed alteration of hippocampal architecture, cell size, cell number, or synaptic configuration. The authors conclude:

"While behavioral and neuroendocrinal effects are observed during marijuana smoke exposure in the monkey, residual neuropathological and neurochemical effects of marijuana exposure were not observed seven months after the year-long marijuana smoke regimen."

Thus, 20 years after the first report of brain damage in two marijuana-exposed monkeys, the claim of damage to brain cells has been effectively disproven.

No postmortem examinations of the brains of human marijuana users have ever been conducted. However, numerous studies have explored marijuana effect on brain-related cognitive functions. Many employ an experimental design—in which subjects are given marijuana in a laboratory setting, and then compared to controls on a variety of measures involving attention, learning and memory.

In a number of studies, no significant differences were detected. In fact, there is substantial research demonstrating that that marijuana intoxication does not impair the retrieval of information learned previously. However, there is evidence that marijuana, particularly in high doses, may interfere with users' ability to transfer new information into longterm memory.

While there is general agreement that, while under the influence of marijuana, learning is less efficient, there is no evidence that marijuana users—even longterm users—suffer permanent impairment. Indeed, numerous studies comparing chronic marijuana users with non-user controls have found no significant differences in learning, memory recall or other cognitive functions.

Answer 4

I do occasionally. I use it in my magical practice for chemognosis, which is essentially the practice of altering the states of consciousness through chemicals in order to make various aspects of magic easier by removing many of the mental censors and allowing the mind to take a less-rational viewpoint for a bit.

Answer 5

I once smoked more reefer than Willie Nelson. Yes I liked it but it is like scaffolding ,, it is helpful up to a point but it must then be removed in order to complete the project.

Answer 6

I will smoke cigerettes but I won't smoke marijuana because that is not available in my city as I know....

Answer 7

Why don't I anymore? Because it's a waste of money, a waste of braincells. It's illegal. I would lose my job. I would be a worthless mommy if I was always high.

Why did I do it before? I was 15 young, stupid and hanging with the wrong crowd. Thank GOD I had a decent head and stopped after a year of wasting my life.

Answer 8

Dudet its a very uplifting spiritual experience did u know that pink elephants really can fly and god is really a spaced out hippie with a wicked sens of humour. but seriously I think she is a bit pissed of with her last batch man it was nearly all stalk and not much head.

Answer 9

I smoke marijuana because it isn't half as bad as people make it out to be. It relaxes me and relieves menstrual cramps better than any over the counter medication I know. I don't think I could make it through my period without at least a few hits of pot lol. Its nice after a long day at work to come home sit back relax and and smoke a joint.
marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 10

I use to, for the depression & the pain, until my Doc. give me better pills, then I had to quit them too cause they make thing worst. so now I live with the pain drug free, but I am the meanest person around & will rip ur head off I hate every one & thing on earth, but I'm drug free,F*ck*n **** #### *(*&^&^^%........!!**