i enjoy it

I smoke on a daily basis and it seems to stay positive for me , i enjoy its safe stress release compared to most other options

I have another comment here, about finding a balance. From some of the posts I've read here it sounds like some of you ended up in a rut where you smoked a ton and didn't get a lot done. And it's true that this is a common trap that many fall into.

I've smoked since I was 15 (I turn 45 this year) and have always been a highly functional person who gets a lot done. I'm a business owner, family man, artist etc. and I know of a number of other high-functioning individuals (pun intended) who get a lot done every day and still enjoy their weed year after year.

Here's part of the secret: wait! Lets say you are gearing up to work on an art project. First you set up, get everything together, cue up the music, have a snack and a crap, make those final phone calls. Then, as you are sitting down to start working- and not a moment before- enjoy your buzz, then get to work. Then set a goal: finish this part, get through these various steps, accomplish a good chunk (2-3 hours' worth) before having another smoke break.

There is a little discipline involved, and it may seem that MJ and discipline exist in separate spheres of life. But that doesn't have to be the case. I love smoking weed, but not at the cost of getting nothing done. There needs to be a balance.

well said guyomech, well said indeed. I have never had any problems with getting done what I want and need done; I find as an everyday smoker I am far more productive having had a smoke.

I definitely think it is negative to flush your brain with cannabinoids every day. To think otherwise is silly imo.

It depends on the person realy.
My wife is a heavy smoker, she will take a few tokes already in the morning, but she then goes to work and takes care of things.
I don't smoke because it makes me feel uncomfortable. It just isn't for me.

The only thing I don't like is the daily use of tobacco. If you smoke joints you realy should consider getting a vaporiser, or at least smoke only weed.

I bought my wife a solo vaporizer, and now it's gathering dust because she prefers smoking joints, even when she knows it's unhealthy. That realy puzzles me.

To be Brutally honest, it depends on alot of different factors. I love smoking weed even though if i "push it" and have say 3 cones in a row my anxiety kicks in. (i think that side effect has to do with taking synthetic cannabis's. I do it in a way were i have maybe 3 or 4 cones a day and i get pretty high from each cause i don't allow my tolerance to build up like those who have 10 or more cones a day. I SAY, LET WHOEVER TAKE WHATEVER INTO THERE BODY, AND MAY THEY BE AWARE OF THE RISKS. IF THE RISKS ARE HIGH AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WOULD KEEP AWAY. IT IS NOT OUR PLACE TO JUDGE BUT TO INFORM.

STAY AWAY FROM METH KIDS

GREEN AIN'T MEAN

Are you sure that using a drug (doesn't matter which) every day to relive daily stress is a good thing?
Maybe the stress you are feeling shouldn't be numbed out with drugs but rather worked trough.

What are the other options that are less safe than cannabis?

As an example I would consider something like painting every day to be more safe than smoking cannabis
every day.

It's like Ordell Robbie says (from Jackie Brown, and I'm paraphrasing), "I smoke at night, after I get all my shit done"

But it's different for everybody, as has been said. I heard a Buddhist parable once, can't remember the source, and the metaphor was attaining enlightenment by reaching 'the other shore'. Basically, any method we use to help ourselves reach that other shore, whether it's mantras or breathing exercises or ganja or whatever, is a canoe. You use the canoe to row as far as you need to go with it, and when you get to your other shore (wherever it is you need to be) you have a choice: try to carry that canoe with you, or acknowledge that its usefulness is at an end, and leave it behind.

I've had my canoe for about a decade now, and if I'm honest I'm probably at the carrying stage. I love mj, and my equilibrium tends to be to smoke nightly, but I don't know if has many more doors to open for me. It's found a decent balance with the rest of my life, though, and I can like it without smoking my life/income away, so I'm not especially inclined to stop...

Anyway, to sum it up, I suppose neutral with definite potential for negative.

I meant more safe than most other substances, I used to have a cocaine problem and can't really drink or do things of that nature as much because it brings me to a bad place. and I know what you mean by painting I use music personally but good suggestion much appreciated

This says it all really, good practical advice.

That describes my relationship with it for the most part.

I use it now almost purely from a recreational/social standpoint. The only times I really glean anything useful from it's use is when I combine it with other psychedelics.

Thanks for posting

One thing that I wish to see is for people who advocate cannabis use, legality etc to stop downplaying every negative aspect. I have heard everything from it doesnt impair driving at all to it cant be physically addictive. For someone who doesnt have a chronic habit it can def impair driving to some degree and there is enough scientific evidence already to say that yes with heavy cannabis use for long periods of time a phyisical dependence can develope complete with withdrawl symptoms when a person suddenly quits.

It not nothing like alcohol, tobacco, opiates or amphetamines though..I think for any reasonable discussion on cannabis to ever actaully take place people must concider all angles. Infrequent use of cannabis is likely a very healthy thing..it is a healing herb. Smoking once a day might be healthy for some people also..smoking all day long every day probly not so much..unless you have cancer etc and then oral is probly better anyway and there is more effective medicinal routes like non psychoactive cannabis juice etc.

I just find that often cannabis discussion can be very biased and one sided..from both sides of the arguement.

Negative, leads to apathy and acceptance of ones life, rather than the continual pursuit of self improvement.

^you can accept your life while still moving foreward.

Jamie, I essentially agree with you here, but understand this: Until Cannabis is legalized I will support any and all arugments in it's favor. I mean the DEA and anti cannabis crowd have had zero problem making up God only knows what kind of utter bullshit to keep it illegal.

But you are indeed correct. When I used to smoke heavy and then up and quite I went through pretty severe withdrawal symptoms. Cold sweats at night, radical mood swings and about 7 day's of living on 2-4 hours of "sleep".

Also the driving thing is just a foolish argument that people make. Sure I can drive after having a little cannabis to, is it safer? Hell no. Some say it 'makes' then drive slower... right. And when you are sober you don't have enough self control to just drive slower...

So I totally get were you are coming from, but cannabis users have been persecuated for SO LONG now that it's unrealistic to expect them to only espouse perfect valid truth when the opposition can and does make up all sorts of this. Pot makes black men rape white women...ala reefer madness

BTW if one drink a day is beneficial then I don't see why a LITTLE cannabis would be very bad for a person.

The fact of the matter is, cannabis like all drugs, interacts uniquely with each person's biochemistry. I see two groups of people posting here. 1 group crossed the line and found out exactly how bad cannabis addiction can be. They then got themselves free of it never to look back. Then I see a group of people that have by and large learned to live by controlling how frequently they consume it.

Alas I think I also see a third category of people that think because it ruined their lives that it will ruin the lives of all others that use it and that is just simply not true. I know far to many people with advanced degrees working in high level jobs to ever believe that. Me being one of them. Though I do smoke FAR less now than I used to and no I could never wake and bake and do my job like I did when I was younger...no way in hell.

These day's it's nothing to go without it. But it turns out at the end of the night I haven't found any reason to not relax with it. Sure I can meditate and get a WHOLE different kind of relaxation and I do that as well. But sometimes it just plain kicks ass to sit down with the wife, have a smoke and talk about our day's. Works for us. to each their own for sure.

Personally I dont think there are any negative effects of cannabis if taken properly in a tincture. Inhaling any type of smoke isn't good. Regardless if it has anticancer properties it will still gunk up your lungs.

Prove it.

Along with first hand experience of coughing up tar, being a daily smoker of nothing but cannabis. I have inhaled other things but not much.

"Several reviews on the respiratory effects of smoking marijuana have been published in the last decade.6-12 The most recent and systematic review concluded that long-term marijuana smoking is associated with an increased risk of respiratory complications, including an increase in cough, sputum production, airway inflammation, and wheeze - even at a young age and persisting after adjusting for tobacco smoking.12 However, no consistent association was found between long-term marijuana smoking and measures of airway response (including Forced Expired Volume ratios, carbon monoxide diffusing capacity, and airway hyper-reactivity). Unfortunately, this review also cited methodological complications in many of the 34 reviewed articles, including not controlling for tobacco use, other substance use, or occupational and environmental exposures that may affect lung health."

"Naturally, research on respiratory effects of marijuana does not apply where marijuana is not smoked. Currently there are several alternative methods of administration available including devices with filters, vaporisers, and oral, sublingual, rectal and transdermal ingestion. Smoking devices that use water filters have been shown to involve equivalent amounts of tar and do not reduce risks of inhalation.20,21 Vaporisers and pyrolysis devices, which heat marijuana below combustion point were also mooted to be a safer method of administration with the ratio of tar to cannabinoids when compared to cigarettes claimed to be reduced from 13:1 to 10:1.22 However, these devices were since shown to release toxic amounts of ammonia (50-170 p.p.m.).21 Eating marijuana is perhaps a more obvious means to reduce the respiratory effects when using the drug. However, oral administration has a slower onset of effects (30–60 minutes compared to seconds, peaking at approximately 2–3 hours after ingestion compared to 30 minutes after inhalation) and the effects last longer than some users prefer. Although the subjective effects are similar to smoked marijuana, they are perhaps less pronounced and the delayed onset makes it more difficult to titrate dose, increasing the risk of over dosage.22-30 Additionally, there is no great consistency in reported subjective effects between different individuals taking the same dose and between the same individual taking the same dose on different occasions (see Grotenhermen, 2001 for a review). Alternative forms of marijuana delivery, including sublingual, rectal and transdermal delivery have not been appropriately investigated.22"

Im not saying its bad, but theres a noticeable buildup.

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