Marijuana: Classic or Dud?

Horrible idea.

I can't believe ANYONE could listen to that much Smashing Pumpkins and not be on drugs. I think he's lying.

Alas, ye of little faith. ;-)

Now that naivete has gone, I look how I feel, anxieties have been unearthed by time and powders: Dud, I try not to touch it, and even when I've had a good week and say what the hey, it still FUCKS with me.

scott is right: it makes you hear things differently, or at least it makes you think you are hearing things differently. I still think it helped me notice details I hadn't noticed before in recordings and videos, and that it made it more probable that I would discover those details; but I'm not convinced I could not have picked them up without pot (more that it made me more likely to notice them). There was a brief period after I stopped smoking pot that various music would make me think, "Oh man, I wish I were listening to this stoned," but I almost never think that now, and definitely haven't stopped enjoying music. (I think that dancing for long stretches of time also makes you hear music differently, but maybe it's more subtle.)

Dud. I watched Mean Girls while stoned last night and enjoyed it so much that I revived the thread. It may not have been worth it.

At least one of the friends that were smoking with him says that he really didn't inhale--the pot was too harsh for him, and he kept coughing it out.

-- noodle vague (noodle_vagu...), November 14th, 2004.

OTM

weed's alright i guess. it's fun for me once in a while, but i'd hate to be stoned all the time as i already live my life in an absent-minded daze.

and obviously being in the hot sun with a great big spliff and a few beers+some music is paradise.

This is surprising. It makes me much more comfortable socially. Not as comfortable as alcohol, but it's way better than being sober. When I'm sober and thrust into social situations (parties, mostly) I typically want to run away screaming. Pot makes it easier for me to veg out against a wall and examine the people around me; makes me feel less self-concious. (I understand it's the total opposite in many people, though.)

yeah, it's so unfortunate. if i can't handle marijuana, i can't really handle much else. i've been shut out of almost the entire wonderful world of drugs.

and it's not that i hate god as a result of smoking, it's that i start to feel like i'm dying and think, 'maybe if i had gone to church and behaved myself...' which is very strange and uncomfortable because it's not the same kind of dying feelings i've experienced from depression, where i never think of god at all.

but honestly, i like LSD way more than I like pot, and THAT is a problem.

lol yeah the dispensaries have all tried so hard to NOT seem like head shops.

It's weird being in an illegal state but with vape stores all selling hemp-based carts and edibles, and seemingly half the people I know manage to keep supplies of one thing or another around. The whole country is awash in THC.

But if we have to have a dystopia, at least we can have a dystopia with weed.

when I do too much I get that cold/jittery/scatterbrained feeling, the good news is once it passes I usually end up having a great time...

― frogbs, Thursday, June 19, 2025

I know not to take too much anymore, and 5-6 hours later I feel more relaxed, but by that time I should have already gone to sleep and am just exhausted from all of the jitteriness and the feeling that I have Alzheimer's, so it's not fun

I haven't had the experience of any strains or varieties (Sativa, Indica, etc) or local products being different from any others. They all have the same effect on me.

I think pot is much stronger than when I was a kid, and even then I didn't have a good experience with it

I read about some study that found a 5% increase in stroke risk for weekly smokers vs 42% increase for daily smokers. So thinking bout cutting back

we have a fair amount of legal weed shops in oakland and they are such a bummer... they all look like Verizon stores

where's the 'Dark Side of Moon' tapestries? where the nag champa incense sticks, and Freak Brothers Comix? I've never set foot in one of them, the vibe is off

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, June 19, 2025 8:49 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

ya it's kind of a bummer, I get it in the age of just medical since you wanna make it look more 'legit' but now it's like come on. you don't see liquor stores that look like that. obviously it rules that you can just buy it at a shop and basically be guaranteed good shit but I do kinda miss the old thrill of burying a paper bag in your trunk and snickering all the way home

I’ve been growing cannabis for twelve years, and I do believe that anxiety, brainfog and couchlock are entirely the seed supplier’s fault.

Sativa and indica aren’t real

The most narcotic and the most uplifting strains I‘ve grown, Herijuana and Satori, looked identical as plants.

This weed is what I've been looking for... I don't get super fucking stoned, and more importantly I don't start doubting/recriminating myself ('Do I have an ugly laugh?').. I just get relaxed and often feel downright positive about my life's trajectory. It's kinda been a game-changer in that the positivity is still there the next morning. I sorta want to hunt down the mushroom vendor to see if he has anymore 'Jelly Roll', I'd buy another nickel bag

the guy i buy off often has one called 'jelly cake', which i guess is uk equivalent, lol. i had some but found it a bit too mongy, felt spaced on it. i smoke maybe one joint a week and this friend of a friend delivers it in a car, it still has a mildly amusing sketchy feeling. i also don't know him even slightly so the small talk is funny. i got a re-up today and he was like 'let me know if there are any problems... though i can't imagine what problems there would be'

'wedding crasher' is the one i buy most of the time from him. it's quite fun in that it doesn't really make me sleepy, more like alert and interested in stuff.