To start smoking weed?

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Single parent. Find the days stressful and long and the evenings boring and lonely. WIBU to start smoking weed to help me chill out? Can't ask anyone in real life, don't know where I'd get it from mind but it seems appealing ?

I recommend an adult colouring in book instead.

To quote my own post. I'm actually serious! My husband bought me this pencil case.

If I'm getting stressed or need time out I do this. Bought a beautiful colouring in book in Aldi a few weeks ago, animals, birds, butterflies, elephants etc. It is so therapeutic and the finished result makes me feel like a true artist!

Good Lord! The hysteria! I don't drink, I like an occasional smoke. Away from kids, outside in my garden. For me it is a wind down once all else is done. I find it very amusing watching the prosecco and gin brigade shouting about various purported guaranteed side effects of cannibis.

Beel

It's all shit really. Alcohol, smoking, prescription drugs and weed.

Good lord gamerchick I don't know what you have in mind but my suppliers weren't exactly Kaiser Soze. Most dabbled in growing and selling it exclusively in order to pay off their student loans. Many smokers grow it themselves without having to go anywhere near that dark underbelly you speak of and know exactly what they're getting. So for me, and many others, it is nothing like porn. Sure it can be part of a more harmful bigger picture, but often it's not. I know several lives that have been ruined by alcohol mind. Others will of course say they know people whose lives were ruined by illegal drugs including cannabis. I'm saying a drug is a drug. The only difference is that one is not driven underground and the government earns a fair amount of taxation from it. Doesn't stop it costing the country millions from hospital admissions, social care and police intervention. At its worse degree it doesn't make it more acceptable just because it is legal.

I'm not necessarily anti cannabis (never tried it personally) but smoking anything whether it be tobacco or weed is a foul habit. Either your house will stink or your neighbours will have to put up with the smell. Plus there are the not so small issues of passive smoking if your children are around and lung cancer.

The hysteria around weed is amazing! To the OP, if you don't smoke it. Then don't take it up. Personally, I'm very educated and have smoked a couple a joints a week for years. I certainly wouldn't call myself a 'loser'. I have not and would never take anything else, and honestly since the age of 30, have had my eyes opened to the amount of cocaine that seems to go on within groups of people you wouldn't necessarily assume such as business owners, lawyers, doctors ect. As for weed, I support it should be legalised like in some US states. A quick search on youtube if anyone's interested, and there's many vidio's that document the immediate relief of life altering medical conditions and the reduction of symptoms such as MS, and chronic pain. Years ago I had a injury which was excruciating, I told my GP i was self-medicating and he just nodded, and suggested when the pain was bad to use a pipe rather than in a cigarette with tobacco!

Not everyone who has disagreed with the OP is part of a gin and prosecco brigade beel

I rarely drink, unless we're at a special occasion and even then it's usually one glass of wine.

Not everyone who is opposed to weed is a big drinker.

Although I've just noticed my username.

Not smoked for many, many years though what I would say is that I remember having quite depressing thoughts when I wasn't smoking-these went away once I quit so I'd be wary OP.

ExP was diagnosed with schizophrenia induced by weed, he sadly past away few years ago, inquest with his care team said it was definitively the weed smoking that caused his psychosis. Why would you even but this decision to take it up in other peoples hands? sincerely hope you are joking.

Smoking weed doesn't just exacerbate existing MH conditions. It creates them.

There have been plenty of studies on this.

If you have a developing brain, i.e. you are under 25, it has been linked with MH issues. For fully grown adults I cannot see how alcohol is a better option.

im not sure how youll do it if you dont know any dealers OP, but I dont think its any worse than having a glass of wine. We all have to have our little pleasures in life.

I find it very amusing watching the prosecco and gin brigade shouting about various purported guaranteed side effects of cannibis

Don't forget about the anti-depressants, mood stabilisers and tranquilisers too.
Women with children make up an overwhelming proportion of prescriptions filled for these drugs.

I'm an avid gardener so perhaps I'll grow some

But the point is it's not legal and it's not regulated so you don't know exactly what you are buying or even growing. You are putting yourself under the influence of something having no idea how it will effect you. To do that while you are looking after children is irresponsible.

If you want to compare it to alcohol then compare it to drinking a random glass of unspecified grog you've bought of a teenager in an alley.

I tried it for the first time last week and it really doesn't do anything but make you sleep and make the following day difficult as well energy wise. So in my limited experience, I would say a glass of wine works better.

Don't buy from a street dealer is the advice I would give.

I've smoked weed for many years and am old enough to have started when you could buy normal weed and hash.
It's nigh on impossible to verify what you are buying so you need a very trustworthy grower who sources their own seeds or you need to break the law and buy from a reputable grower like Humboldt Farms.
If you want to grow, go to Amsterdam to buy the seeds.

The street dealers tend to deal in skunk or other high thc genetically modified strains.

The GM skunk is the one linked to higher incidence of psychiatric issues.

OP in your position I wouldn't bother. Too much faff trying to find a dealer.

I think it is ridiculous that a plant is illegal, considering it has so many medicinal and environmental uses (hemp is amazing stuff). It is illegal for political reasons, rather than health concerns, otherwise alcohol and tobacco would be illegal too.

DH and I may very occasionally have a few spliffs (maybe twice a year) but it just involves us snuggling up on the sofa with lots of snacks, watching comedy films. We don't have children yet though. I really don't see the harm in that.

What OrangeFluff said.

Ok so scientific research has found that there are two forms of a certain gene and if you have one type then you are at a much higher risk of developing psychosis from cannabis, especially if you start in adolescence. If you have the second type then it's relatively harmless. Thing is, without genetic testing you have absolutely no idea which form of the gene you have.

Not a risk that I'm prepared to take.

so if youve tried weed, and youve never developed psychosis, then youre probably alright

Probably. Although only in that respect - any other effects still apply.

It was data from the Dunedin longitudinal study if you want to look it up.

Me and DP have a spliff or two every night after work whilst when our DS is in bed and we're cooking tea .
It's a nice wind down