Oh also i suggest drugs + alcohol... although not at the same time XD.

I've experienced no long term side effects from taking some form of coke, aderall, extc, etc.

homeless_guy

United States321 Posts

December 18 2007 14:18 GMT

#25

mani said it best. pot smoking will effect you mentally and physically; although many people live successful lives and still smoke everyday. just remember: you control the pot, it doesn't control you.

CTStalker

Canada9720 Posts

December 18 2007 14:27 GMT

#26

see a doctor nucca

Oxygen

Canada3581 Posts

December 18 2007 14:32 GMT

#27

I thought the whole point of smoking was to get these side-effects... ?

fanatacist

10319 Posts

December 18 2007 14:58 GMT

#28

On December 18 2007 23:32 Oxygen wrote:
I thought the whole point of smoking was to get these side-effects... ?

Not painful ones, no.

MiniRoman

Canada3953 Posts

December 18 2007 15:12 GMT

#29

On December 18 2007 23:07 BrutalMenace wrote:
Oh also i suggest drugs + alcohol... although not at the same time XD.

I've experienced no long term side effects from taking some form of coke, aderall, extc, etc.

You havn't lived that long. GL being 60.

JensOfSweden

Cameroon1767 Posts

December 18 2007 15:18 GMT

#30

On December 18 2007 20:22 Storchen wrote:

Show nested quote +

This pretty much says it all.

You guys suck.

I bet you've never been high, right? lol

nA.Inky

United States794 Posts

December 18 2007 15:30 GMT

#31

It sounds like the marijuana is causing an anxiety reaction in you. I believe this is fairly common, and would explain your cold hands. Whenever your body goes into fight or flight mode, it pulls blood into your core so that you are less likely to bleed from injuries to the extremities. It is preparing you for damage, essentially. Your increased heart rate is also likely a result of anxiety. However, it is also known that marijuana greatly increases the heart rate, and is consequently not recommended for people with heart trouble.

You might try to avoid getting so high.

Also, many smokers do not realize that long term abuse of marijuana can lead to serious mental problems. I have read much pro-marijuana material, and it is rarely mentioned that marijuana is associated with very serious anxiety and depressive disorders. Unfortunately for me, I learned how profoundly marijuana can affect the mind when my long term heavy abuse caught up to me in the form of an extreme anxiety disorder, which has taken a year or two to get over.

You might do some searches on "marijuana, anxiety" and see what you come up with. Increasingly it is recognized that some people have developed serious disorders from abusing marijuana. Like me, they were fine day after day, getting extremely high, and then one day, out of the blue, they are in "bat country" - scared out of their minds, whether sober or not.

Beware, I tell you. Do not abuse marijuana. Use it in extreme moderation. Appreciate it as a special treat. I recommend not using it at all.

nA.Inky

United States794 Posts

December 18 2007 15:35 GMT

#32

Also, people ought to consider that if they are smoking daily (not sure if this is the case with the original poster), they have a drug problem. There is no reason why you should be augmenting your brain chemistry on a daily basis. Occasionally? If you wish. But daily? This is unwise, and it WILL catch up to you one way or the other.

Remember that marijuana has some 420 compounds (lol!) and something like 60 active compounds within the smoke. 60 active compounds working in isolation and synergistically. No one knows precisely how this will affect your brain when you take the drug frequently.

IaniAniaN

Canada555 Posts

December 18 2007 16:19 GMT

#33

Yeah, they theorize that Cannabis stays in your fat (brain is made of fat). Personally, I used to smoke quite a bit, maybe not like every day, but at the minimum every 2-3 days. I gave up on it because burning out is shitty and boring, I had low body fat so I could stay that way into the next day easily. I just found some better things to do, books to read and stuff, than be that kind of useless and hungry all the time. My advice: maybe find something better to do, intellectually at least, and don't hangout with those stoner friends as much. Once you become disconnected from that scene you'll see how kind of sad they all look sitting around on a couch all day eating chips. I'm not saying it completely bad, I'll still smoke a bowl or w.e every once in a while, but its a pretty shitty life style.

dartski

United States30 Posts

December 18 2007 16:39 GMT

#34

I have to agree with everyone who says not to do it. I've seen both tobacco and MJ "ruin lives." Even in it's most simplistic use (IE - original poster) it obviously causes problems. Although as against smoking as I am, i still learned a thing or two from some people in this thread.

But yeah, final verdict from me, cut it out.

QuanticHawk

United States32049 Posts

December 18 2007 16:40 GMT

#35

You have to be a pretty big retard to let weed ruin your life. If you do, chances are, you would have done it without it anyway

Duke

United States1106 Posts

December 18 2007 16:49 GMT

#36

sometimes when i smoke REAL good stuff parts of my body go numb, like my eyebrow area and it feels really weird.. so having only smoked like 6 months i'm surprised these feelings are new to you for having smoked for so long

Rev0lution

United States1805 Posts

December 18 2007 16:57 GMT

#37

On December 18 2007 23:27 CTStalker wrote:
see a doctor nucca

AmorVincitOmnia

Kenya3846 Posts

December 18 2007 17:05 GMT

#38

stop smoking shwag iono

Flaccid

8835 Posts

December 18 2007 17:10 GMT

#39

On December 19 2007 01:40 Hawk wrote:
You have to be a pretty big retard to let weed ruin your life. If you do, chances are, you would have done it without it anyway

Dude, I'm so high right now.

And yeah, weed makes me anxious - to which the only cure is to eat a bag of doritos and pass out on the couch ;-). Sucks for the OP.

stk01001

United States786 Posts

December 18 2007 17:12 GMT

#40

you're just paranoid. weed is harmless. i was a heroin addict for 4 years and i've also smoked pot for long periods of time (before and after getting clean from heroin) and i've dealt with the side effects of both. Side effects of smoking pot, even for very extended periods, are nothing to really worry about as far as serious health risks go, just make sure you do cardio exercise once in a while and don't smoke cigarettes.... when you deal with the incresed heart rate and difficulty breathing from speedballing (which is really scary) weed is really nothing...

Of course staying off drugs completely is always the best choice.. like everyone says. But seriously if all you do is smoke weed it's really less hazardous to your health than even smoking cigarettes.