It’s the opposite for me. Weed gives me the motivation to do things.
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whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So glad I grew out of this. I still drink copious amounts of tea but any amount of weed is destructive.
I’ll share something I posted a good decade ago on Reddit.
I used to smoke at least a joint a day sometimes multiple. I was consistently wake and bake outside of work. You know what weed does that no one wants to discuss? It makes you complacent. It sucks your drive to do anything. As a young person that’s a horrible place to be. You are young, you should be taking risks and you should be striving for better.
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same. If I’m in too much pain, the only motivation I have is to fix the pain. You’ll never guess what does that.
architect@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
My people right here. Weed would NOT want me to go to some corporate drone job but, thankfully, that’s not my life.
btsax@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I smoke two joints in the morning
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I smoke two joints in the morning,
And I smoke two joints at night.
I smoke two joints, before I smoke two joints,
And then I smoke two more!”
TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you missed a few lines. “I smoke two joints in the afternoon and it makes me feel alright. I smoke two joint in times of peace, and two in times of war”
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I smoked too much and forgot
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And?
btsax@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I smoke two joints at night
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The weed years are a blur.
To be fair I miss it compared to experiencing the rise of fascism real time.
Unfortunately, weed only sends my anxiety over the top these days.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Gotta power through the anxiety lol. I did it so much I became functional even when on it the problem was it sucked away my drive to do anything that amounted to anything I just wanted to smoke more weed and mountain bike with a shitty do nothing job.
I now have 3 kids I adore immensely and a job that I love that pays insanely well. I still keep weed around but I can never bring myself to do it because there’s too much to enjoy in life why dull my senses?
To your experiencing fascism real time. I hear you. For me it’s putting things into perspective. When you look at the world objectively it’s a shit show regardless. Make sure you and those around you are safe and you are capable to survive the coming storm and you’re good. If you find yourself or someone you love on one of their hit lists you take as many of those degenerate fuckers as you can by any means possible.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I find weed is like alcohol, if it’s a sometimes thing it’s perfectly fine, but if it’s something you’re doing daily or every time you have a night to relax it’s a problem.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Exactly. The danger is using it to escape your life. Life shouldn’t need an escape. If you feel it does you have a larger more difficult conversation you need to have with yourself.
architect@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Weed is not strong enough to escape any life.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean I get you, but if I don’t smoke my weed my gut shits out everything. Like, things it shouldn’t be shitting out. Five different doctors argued with me to start smoking weed before I started (three of them doctors I was paying, two that I am just friends with), and now I ain’t stopping.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s fair and I should have clarified medicinal is also valuable
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It makes you complacent.
Sometimes that’s good.
I quit for a while to try to get a government job. My dream job. They offered, then rescinded because of trans/Trump’s EO.
Now I don’t give a fuck. I’m sober for work, but otherwise when I’m home I’m high.
Like I can’t do anything about climate change/the fact that the president is a rapist, but I can get stoned, enjoy food that feels like it’s making love to my taste buds, make art that my fucked up brain tells me is a masterpiece and have mind blowing sex that means I don’t have to engage with conscious thought at all.
Zink@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I agree with you, and I think weed really helped me even though I’m not using any right now.
Sometimes it’s extremely beneficial to be chemically pushed into a good mood and satisfied with just existing, when otherwise existence just seems to be misery and pain.
But it is not a permanent fix. It’s a band-aid while you find more permanent ways to improve your life. But band-aids can hurt to take off when you’re done with them.