So true. Marry Jane is helpful first but once abused she starts causing problems.
You are 100% correct on the developing brain. I know many friends from high school as well and they say the same things.
The Effects of Cannabis On Our Hormones.
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You are 100% correct on the developing brain. I know many friends from high school as well and they say the same things.
Amen, brother. That’s a good way to describe it tbh- walking with water halfway up your body. Glad to hear you’re doing well after it, people don’t realize how shitty it is to go through if they haven’t walked the road themselves
What we’ve learned in pharmaceutical chemistry and addiction is that once you have given your receptors enough time to recover, you will FULLY recover. It’s just time. The best remedy to many of our problems. Too bad it’s finite.
The worst part is that people who have not lived through abuse or mental problems associated with genetic and external factors start judging and have no clue about the darkness and how it pulls people in. It’s the path of least resistance.
Also, when we’re hurt, or have been hurt by people, we tend to punish ourselves and do things that harm us. There’s always hope and the best days of your life are ahead of you, never forget that.
I’m glad you’re doing well brotha, keep it up. Now you have so much experience, so when life throws a punch at you again, you counter
MIKE TYSON style! 
Yea us taking testosterone kinda beats these negative effects... the main issuewith opiates (besides the insane addiction) is it destroys your endocrine system... lots of people who are prescriped opiates for life or long term are also put on trt to combat these negative effects
100%
Just my two cents since I believe it shouldn't be frowned upon as much as it is. To each their own...
I appreciate the information and I know this is not cannabis vs. alcohol thread but I'd just like to add there are most certainly studies indicating that alcohol can do the same things to our body, if not maybe even worse.
The hormone effects are good to be aware of but like others mentioned many things we do can effect that.
I grew up watching my Mother get the crap beat out of her regularly for many years and this was due to alcohol. I'm certain this would not have hapened if they used cannabis instead of alcohol.
I also watched a friend die a slow death on a hospital bed because he was an alcoholic. He would get out and then be back in fairly soon after until he no longer recovered. Again, would not have happened with Cannabis.
I've seen lots of fights and violence from alcohol that would not likely happen with Cannabis unless mixed with alcohol or other drugs.
I also watched a friend's Mother that had Cancer and had been wasting away and was told she only had weeks to live (according to her Doctor) use capsules which helped her appetite, increased her bodyweight, helped her sleep, made her feel happy and improved her quality of life and she lived an extra year. She then stopped for some reason and then quickly went downhill and ultimately passed away within around a month.
I never use it in the daytime. Usually just an hour or so before bed and in moderation. I don't ever smoke it (not since a teenager) but use vapour or edibles, drops or capsules. I can skip several days and it's no problem other than it works better after taking time away from it. Personally, I find it is beneficial and helps relax and loosen up sore muscles from training so hard. It can almost be like a massage sometimes. The right strains can also help with anxiety and pain. It can also be good for increasing appetite and some strains can be used to fight appetite as well.
Also, there are lots of other powerful compounds other than THC or CBD that are yet to be fully studied and may have health benefits such as CBG, etc.
Thanks & good luck,
OD
I appreciate the information and I know this is not cannabis vs. alcohol thread but I'd just like to add there are most certainly studies indicating that alcohol can do the same things to our body, if not maybe even worse.
The hormone effects are good to be aware of but like others mentioned many things we do can effect that.
I grew up watching my Mother get the crap beat out of her regularly for many years and this was due to alcohol. I'm certain this would not have hapened if they used cannabis instead of alcohol.
I also watched a friend die a slow death on a hospital bed because he was an alcoholic. He would get out and then be back in fairly soon after until he no longer recovered. Again, would not have happened with Cannabis.
I've seen lots of fights and violence from alcohol that would not likely happen with Cannabis unless mixed with alcohol or other drugs.
I also watched a friend's Mother that had Cancer and had been wasting away and was told she only had weeks to live (according to her Doctor) use capsules which helped her appetite, increased her bodyweight, helped her sleep, made her feel happy and improved her quality of life and she lived an extra year. She then stopped for some reason and then quickly went downhill and ultimately passed away within around a month.
I never use it in the daytime. Usually just an hour or so before bed and in moderation. I don't ever smoke it (not since a teenager) but use vapour or edibles, drops or capsules. I can skip several days and it's no problem other than it works better after taking time away from it. Personally, I find it is beneficial and helps relax and loosen up sore muscles from training so hard. It can almost be like a massage sometimes. The right strains can also help with anxiety and pain. It can also be good for increasing appetite and some strains can be used to fight appetite as well.
Also, there are lots of other powerful compounds other than THC or CBD that are yet to be fully studied and may have health benefits such as CBG, etc.
Thanks & good luck,
OD
I've read research that says TCH isn't too bad AFTER the brain has fully develped. Of course that's using within reason.. But using TCH before the brain has fully developed can cause a lot of issues with brain developement. Id say if your brain can't develope the way it is supposed to then it would be a form of brain damage.
I juat did my first aid course afgain and the lady did a bit about TCH usage. She says the research now shows that heavy long term TCH use at any stage of life is now bieng contected with schizophrenia. SHe said they don't knwo why tch causes schizophrenia in some and not others.
LMFAO!
If your predisposed to mental conditions weed can trigger those mental symptoms into effect. Psychosis, a.d.d.(if u believe add is a real thing, i dont), anxiety issues, depression, personality disorders, psychotic episodes, whatever that one is that serial killers have... gives them no conscious.. i dont remember
This is on the predeveloped brain, apparently when its fully developed u have a harder chance of weed causing these.
At one point i was a socialworker till i developed visceral ptsd
O and animal has said... schizophrenia
This is on the predeveloped brain, apparently when its fully developed u have a harder chance of weed causing these.
At one point i was a socialworker till i developed visceral ptsd
O and animal has said... schizophrenia
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grammar hs never been my strong suit
ADD or ADHD? they are very different..
I am told at work (and I believe it to be true) that both are bascially a lack of brain hormone.. The hormoe that keeps us stiumulated and happy.
Both conditions make it difficult to focus because their brains arent stiumulated enought to focus.
Often when left undiagnosed, these people naturally evolve to find ways to control the lack of their brain being stiulauted such as drinking coffee,
What I have seen a few times at work is when a young person (say preteen/teen) gets diangosed and medicated for ADD especially, is that they will claim they are no longer depressed along with other symotoms going away. I find it very interesting that these youths have been diagnosed with depression at a much eariler age, but when in life they are later on diagnsed with ADD and given meds, the depression miraculously goes away.. it's no coidisence though since ADD/ADHD people have a lower amount of that feel good, energizing hormone in their brain. I want to know how many youths are rubber stamped "depressed" but when in fact they are ADD and just need to supplement/medicate for the lower aount of hormone.
From my years at work, its shocking how many youths are now diagnosed with depressesion..
I am confident there is a biolgical link between the effects of video games, screen time and social media and the change of brain developement in youths. I'm sure the big men in charge also know this, but they know its a trillion dollar industry and don't want resereach to support a surgeon general warning or a outright ban on these things for people under 18.. ADD/ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety is exponentially rising.. and the causes are obvious, yet ignored. Along with video games/ screen time/social media comes lack of sleep in young developing brains.. I can not tell you how many youths are up until 3,4, 5 am on screens and get on a bus at 7:30 am for a full school day then go home and repeat the same schedule..
The young developing brain is so fragile and so easily permentantly changed if it does not develope properly at each stage..
Weed and booze affect each person differently just like steroids. If i smoke , I like to activate the brain and do something, even if its just workingaroundthe house. When i drink it just shuts down my brain, anything I attempt to do I will probably fuck it up. Most people are the opposite, weed puts them on the couch in a coma..lol
I don't do anything when I drink. Well except drink, lol.
Weed I'd play a video game, or bullshit about stupid stuff.
A.d.d. and a.d.h.d were a disorder invented by a pharmaceutical giant owner... i think it moght have been Lilly, basically he said he wants to expand his market, he was referring to the youth. I have been diagnosed with both and i have met many who have been diagnosed. What i found was they all, including me, just had parents who didnt take them places to burn their energy and they werent taught there are specific places to play. They used to say it was a youth disorder and it goes away in late teens but then they just kept adding symptoms and then said it affects everybody. I know university isnt right 100% of the time but i read it in a masters book. Ananomy of an epidemic... really good book, i read it like 5x.
Also before this the psychiatric department for medical studies was laking and it was the lowest paid profession for a doctor. But then when hitler died, the lock and key theory had been used and tested and they were teating everything to see what it did, when hitler died they git their hands on rocket fuel, invented for the v2 rocket.
So psychiatry professionals were going an
roundand seeing these new cures and it was shown that v2 rocket fuel cured t.b. (back then if u had t.b. you were lovked up because you were so contagious and there was no cure) so when these patients (prisioners) were given the v2 rocket and their t.b. was cured they started jumping around in celebration and dancing on their desks. A psychiatrist said o it must also must make people happy. Boom anti depressants were made. Lol fucked up right?
Backthen almost every person had suffered from depression at some point, it was referred to as the blues, but depression would go away on its own after a few weeks. Only like 1 in 500 americans suffered cronic depressive episodes. But since anti depressants came out, our understanding and beliefs have changed and we have used new brain altering substances that were not out back then
. Now 1 in every 5 americans is on an antidepressant (year2012-2013)
So its completely subjective if antidepressants actually help or if its the belief it helps... since mood disorders usually are just personal opinion (personality disorders, schizophrenia shit like that can cause chronic depression and depression that isnt controlled by your own thoughts of course)
Also before this the psychiatric department for medical studies was laking and it was the lowest paid profession for a doctor. But then when hitler died, the lock and key theory had been used and tested and they were teating everything to see what it did, when hitler died they git their hands on rocket fuel, invented for the v2 rocket.
So psychiatry professionals were going an
roundand seeing these new cures and it was shown that v2 rocket fuel cured t.b. (back then if u had t.b. you were lovked up because you were so contagious and there was no cure) so when these patients (prisioners) were given the v2 rocket and their t.b. was cured they started jumping around in celebration and dancing on their desks. A psychiatrist said o it must also must make people happy. Boom anti depressants were made. Lol fucked up right?
Backthen almost every person had suffered from depression at some point, it was referred to as the blues, but depression would go away on its own after a few weeks. Only like 1 in 500 americans suffered cronic depressive episodes. But since anti depressants came out, our understanding and beliefs have changed and we have used new brain altering substances that were not out back then
. Now 1 in every 5 americans is on an antidepressant (year2012-2013)
So its completely subjective if antidepressants actually help or if its the belief it helps... since mood disorders usually are just personal opinion (personality disorders, schizophrenia shit like that can cause chronic depression and depression that isnt controlled by your own thoughts of course)
I work with this guy who smoked like 10 joints a day and he is skinny, a black belt in like every type of martial artthere is and hes a stunt double, hes ryan gosslyns(idk how the fuck to spell his name) stunt double, hes been on almost every episode of supernatural, as the monster, he also does the sound effects. Weed makes him happy, energetic, and very creative.
. And hes 50, i dontremember whichmartial art is was but he held canadas top for 15 years in a row.
Doesnt affect him negatively at all for what he says
. And hes 50, i dontremember whichmartial art is was but he held canadas top for 15 years in a row.
Doesnt affect him negatively at all for what he says
My thought is, for the average person, how are you supposed to create pathways and patterns of you don’t deal with depression and such naturally. When you are on drugs all the time, what is normal?
I have a friend, multiple times they have changed his meds, everytime he finally gets to a point where he feels centered, then they come along and fuvk him up again. The last time, they wanted to change his meds again, he was doing really good, best I’d seen in years, i tokd him to tell them, no you don’t want them changed. Anyhow they pressured him until he did, then he was all fucked up again.
Anyhow after another year, I couldn’t take all his mood swings from them fucking with him, so I slowly distanced myself.
After years of watching this, I figured they just liked to experiment on him for fun.
It does not apply when adding exogenous drugs.
I dunno I smoke daily and always have since 20 yrs old. I honestly do not have any negative and I can build some beef and string like bull, smart like tractor.
So I will keep on smoking.
Career wise, well I am at the top echelon of industry. Called upon minimum 4-5 times per week with offers at top executive roles after working my way from the trenches every step of the way.
I drink zero booze and weed keeps me in check at times.
I do not smoke ever during the day, as it will affect one’s performance and that is not debatable at all, it however does not affect me nor many folks the next day if you do not smoke excess.
I have worked with literally thousands of folk over the last 35 years or so and many were and are partakers.
I can spot a doper a mile away and won’t tolerate it during work hours at all.
Use and abuse like most things.
The difference between medicine and toxin is typically in the dose.
Always remember this fact, doseage is the be all end all for many things.
So yes pot can be used daily responsibly, for certain.
I will continue to use forever.
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I dont smoke anymore. Actually i kinda stopped when i was finishing highschool. Just didnt like it anymore.
I have no issues with it as most of my co workers do smoke daily. Im the foreman and theres only a couple of guys that i wont tolerate it from. These guys are a dumb as fuck on a good day, they cant afford to be stoned at work.
What i dont like is the amount of weed stores around. There more of these then tim hortons. Sick of seeing these big signs everywhere. Looks trashy
I have no issues with it as most of my co workers do smoke daily. Im the foreman and theres only a couple of guys that i wont tolerate it from. These guys are a dumb as fuck on a good day, they cant afford to be stoned at work.
What i dont like is the amount of weed stores around. There more of these then tim hortons. Sick of seeing these big signs everywhere. Looks trashy