When i first started smoking marijuana i used to get a buzz out of it. But now when i smoke it i dont get that, instead i think about the past alot and it makes me feel very emotional. are these one of the long term effects?
2007-09-29 08:27:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
I did it for 10 years and then got paranoid. I won't say no if someone passes me a joint but I sure don't enjoy it like I used to. It made me dumber too. It slows down your motivation big-time as well. I wonder where I'd be if I would never have touched the stuff.
I was self-medicating for an anxiety problem but I'm also an addict so I wish I had known to trust the doctors back then instead of now. So many years have gone by. Poof.
2007-09-29 08:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by I don't know 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you acquire schizophrenia or get lung cancer in that period of smoking there are no long term effects. Once you quit all the effects wear away eventually. During that time your brain will just function slower than normal, you may even find yourself moving slower than normal. Your memory won't be great and you wont remember any of your dreams also. And LOL at the people who still think it is addictive. I smoked for 4 years straight every day multiple times a day and when I quit I encountered absolutely no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever.
2016-04-06 07:07:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In only a decade the number of admissions to psychiatric hospital caused by the drug soared by 85 per cent due to the fact that those who smoke the drug regularly are more than twice as likely to suffer illnesses such as schizophrenia, hallucinations and delusions later in life.
A survey of 232 healthy students who ranged in age from 18 to 25 years found an indication that regular and past or occasional cannabis users evidenced higher schizotypal personality scores and magical ideation scores than those who had never used cannabis. These results held even after adjustments were made for potentially confounding factors like anxiety and depression.
Collectively, these findings uniformly support the notion that non-clinical, frequent cannabis users exhibit higher schizotypal personality traits than non-cannabis users. Furthermore, these findings also suggest that non-clinical cannabis users display neuropsychological dysfunction (relative frontal lobe functioning deficits, cognitive inhibition) and attentional deficits similar to those found in schizotypal or schizophrenia patients.
As well as psychotic illness cannabis can cause affective disorders such as depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
Scientists have identified that a few people carry a gene that predisposes them to these conditions.
So take care my friend it sounds as though you are certainly starting to suffer and if you do not stop now you may not be able to later!! In fact you may be in very real danger!!!!
On top of the psychological problems there are severe physical health liabilities too.
Three to four cannabis cigarettes a day cause the same amount of damage to the lungs as 20 or more tobacco cigarettes a day. Thus there are rising levels of lung diseases such as emphysema.
It can also effect the unborn child. Scientists have identified that endogenous cannabinoids, molecules naturally produced by our brains are functionally similar to THC from cannabis and play significant roles in establishing how certain nerve cells connect to each other. Maternal cannabis use allows THC to travel through the placenta and impair fetal brain development and impose life-long cognitive, social, and motor deficits in affected offspring.
Low doses of Ä-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), equivalent to that in the bloodstream of an average marijuana smoker facilitate infection of skin cells and can cause these cells to turn into malignant sarcoma.
I would suggest that you need to stop now and also discuss this with your doctor. It is covered by medical priveledge so cannot be divulged to anyone else. Don't put your future at risk - act now!!
2007-09-29 20:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its said that it kills brain cells and makes you forget things alot easier..i smoked for years and i ................wait ....what was i saying? lol yea...im only 25 and my memory is bad already......personally id say its cool to do for fun...just be reasonable in the amount you have and stay inside and start out small if you never done it..but on the other hand id tell my kids no so im gonna tell you that you probably shouldnt do it..p.s when your high...mcnuggets are really good..
2007-09-29 08:34:15 · answer #4 · answered by b.moretee24 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. You just got a different type of smoke. Each plant or type of plant has its own "personality" and type of effect on you.
2007-09-29 08:31:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The single most noticible effect is in your minimum wage paycheck, since you won't be able to get a decent career position.
2007-09-29 08:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by Stuart 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Uh, yeah. That's where the controversy comes from.
2007-09-29 08:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah- it'll pop up on a drug test when you least expect it even if you quit. Enjoy it.
2007-09-29 08:30:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
it can cause memory loss, brain damage, and quite a few other things. Try to quit, its not only illegal, but you are slowly killing yourself.
2007-09-29 08:35:59 · answer #9 · answered by shittalkie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it makes you lose your memory
2007-09-29 08:30:40 · answer #10 · answered by Betrayed and Insane 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋