how much weed u smoke (week)

i rarely smoke. last time i did was two months ago in colorado. before that it was 5 years ago, before that probably 7 or 8 years ago. but a friend hooked me up with a quarter a couple weeks ago and i am eager to smoke it.

i have a few questions:

1. i had my physical and gave blood/urine - is it okay to smoke weed now? or should i wait to hear whether i was approved? what are the chances of them having to come back and ask for an additional urine/blood sample?
2. if you do smoke weed and have life insurances, what did you tell them about your smoking? if you told them you smoke, did it affect your rate?
3. once you get approved, do you ever have to get tested again?

I smoke a couple times a week but way less than any of the options on this poll...?

life ins are typically looking for meth/coke and such. weed doesn't figure into actuarial tables really.

I was tested initially years and years ago and saw the results (which is how I know they weren't looking for weed). never tested again.

smoking on the beach atm

they told me when I applied for life insurance that if I test positive for weed they'll give me a smoker rate. I laid off for two weeks and took something called sonnes #9 (or #7? Something like that) and it worked

mordy, did you have to fill out a questionnaire asking about weed & other drugs?

yea given how little i smoke and that my last bowl was two months ago, i feel like the test will come out clean. just wondering whether i should hold off on smoking until i'm approved or whether it's cool to just go ahead and smoke now that i already had the physical

if they already gave you the test then what is there to worry about?

I may have filled a questionnaire but I don't remember

yea i think i'm just being paranoid. e.g. "what if they need another sample" etc etc.

you must be high already

lol

weed doesn't figure into actuarial tables really.

No, but this sentence is killing me.

so it's been really interesting to smoke again! like a way different feeling than when i was in high school and college. it honestly doesn't feel like an escape anymore, it's more like tuning in closer into my life.

does anyone else feel a surge of clarity when they smoke? i feel lately like smoking gives me a view 10 feet above my life, where i'm able to get a meta-picture of everything going on that i am otherwise too busy with work, kids, routines, the daily grind, etc., to ever notice.

i feel like it's been a really healthy thing for me. like i've been procrastinating like fucking crazy at work this whole summer, but i've been too fearful and paralyzed and distracted to do much about it or even think much about it. then i smoked a little pot the other night and i'm hit with this powerful fucking clarity that tells me "MARCOS YOU NEED TO GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER, YOU HAVE BEEN PROCRASTINATING LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER AND YOU ARE AT MAJOR RISK FOR FUCKING UP A LOT OF SHIT AT YOUR JOB. YOU ARE ALSO NOT TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT IT AND YOU ARE FUCKING ISOLATING YOURSELF." over the next couple days afterward i am calling up my best friends and talking to my wife about everything and getting connected and finding support.

i also haven't done yoga in months, and while my body is feeling it i just can't find the time. then i smoke and i'm like "marcos you must do yoga right now, it will be so healthy for you."

smoking has motivated to make this big list of all the things that are stressing me out right now, like....i'm handling all nightime wakeups w/ my son b/c my wife's weaning him, my son is getting early intervention treatment for speech delays, we're trying to have a second child, one of my best friends is moving to california, i'm having this major rift with my sister, i have three major projects at work due at the end of august, i am planning three out-of-town trips over the next couple months, we're interviewing candidates for the director at my job, etc. i was not otherwise putting together this big picture but smoking has helped me be holistically aware of all this. lol it is not the escape i was really looking for! it has more been a reality check!

It sounds like you have a lot going on right now. You know what "they" would say. You're "self-medicating during a time of anxiety and stress. The clarity you feel from the high is actually the marijuana intensifying the anxiety you already feel." Or something like that.

Plausible, I guess. For the sake of argument, why would anyone self-medicate with something that produces these effects? It's far too uncomfortable an experience, at least for this thirtysomething.

your experience has been very much what i would like a return to cannabis to be for me but i am still pretty wary.

I'm right there with you Marcos. Got a lot of similar stuff on my plate and 'small' as I call it helps.

You know what "they" would say. You're "self-medicating during a time of anxiety and stress. The clarity you feel from the high is actually the marijuana intensifying the anxiety you already feel."

ha, i am totally willing to admit that this may actually be what's going on.

I'M HIGH ALL THE TIME

i thought you said you hate weed?

You're "self-medicating during a time of anxiety and stress. The clarity you feel from the high is actually the marijuana intensifying the anxiety you already feel."

"and why would you want to feel that? let me sell you some valium."

yeah, marijuana helps me think about things better sometimes. not always, though, it's a dice roll really. one session it's inner vision. another it's anxiety freak out. another i'm just laughing my ass off. etc. etc. i just finished vaping all mine, so i'm thinking of what to do with the leavins.

bake em

if you're having anxiety freak outs you're not smoking enough ;)

yea the anxiety freak outs just got a little worse when my wife said i'm smoking too much and she doesn't like having it in the ouse :(

ousehouse

inthemiddleofourstreetreet

R U HI DID I JUST BLOW UR MIND

Doing pretty well for myself in just second-hand smoke the last few months

Got a printed receipt for the first time ever yesterday which was kind of mind blowing

i ate an edible granola bar at noon and it is still affecting me 11 hours later

yeah the one time i did a brownie it was an all day high, spent the day doing laundry and cleaning shit around the house.

Yes cleaning and organizing. Both
Physical and digital if you're so inclined. Infinite Jest has long passages on this.

looool i have barely made a dent into this quarter i bought in august 2014

i'm quitting btw

i smoke about twice a month or so, i am definitely lightweight, like a little chillum will do just fine, but still this little jar just seems to last forever

why are you quitting crut

I think I will probably occasionally smoke for another few years, but I'm down to once every 2–4 months at this stage.

At this stage, there is nothing marijuana can do that alcohol can't, and I can say that having used both for extended periods of time (but not always concurrently).

I used to depend on marijuana for feelings of, well, insight, elevated conversations with friends, and a deep feeling of engagement with things around the house (music and video games, mostly). It seems like little of the overall depth and nuance that initially drew me to it over alcohol as a teenager is still possible. I think I've burned all those cells or whatever.

it's been a month since i've smoked :(

babies taking over my life

i am starting to feel a little embarrassed by how long this quarter ounce has lasted me, this jar has been in my hutch since last august

smoked 1/2 a joint a month ago. the other half is waiting for a time when I'm not too exhausted after both kids go to bed to enjoy it. welcome to this world marcos you're going to save a lot of money

thanks jclc

also i did not see that i basically made the same most back in march

"looool i have barely made a dent into this quarter i bought in august 2014

― marcos, Monday, March 16, 2015 4:24 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

loooool

if you can get a job that involves travel, especially to the western states, this affords opportunities to make up for lost time if you catch my drift

lmao about once a month i type "library conferences in colorado" "library conferences in washington" etc into google to plan out my yearly work conference

hey I just had a librarian buddy who was in the bay area for *three weeks* for some future of library tech conference. sounded like a party.

the heat + humidity this summer has really been fucking my stomach up to an unusual degree so i've dramatically increased my weed intake and now i'm blowing through my supply :(

bf and i finished a quarter off over the past 3 days

wtf