To ask how common is cannabis smoking?

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Brothers son smokes it. Holds down a job and his financial commitments.
Hasn't progressed to any other drugs.
Been doing it for some years.
Its never spoken about. I just know he does.
I dont really have anyone to ask but i just thought I'd ask you mumsnetters.
It is common. He's mid thirties.

Where are these people? I have 2 teenagers, ive been a teenager and I work with lots of younger people and I don't know anyone of any age who has this elusive psychosis that gets trotted out every time we talk about cannabis.

Our mutual friend grows it in his outhouse. So try again 😘

Yes. Unsure of the relevance but I wouldn't drive under the influence, just like anyone having a glass of wine.

On mh wards and teams who are working with them in mh community teams

I am guessing you do not work in a mh health team that is working with young people

It is very very rare and usually only happens to people who already struggle with schizophrenia. For the rest of society, the worst thing you're going to do while high is eat too much pizza. Alcohol on the other hand ...

Try some deep breathing and exercising instead.

I think it's pretty common, I usually smell it somewhere at least once a day. I don't have any close friends who smoke it but I do know a few people who do and a couple of family members on both my side and DHs side. Some of them function normally, some have mental health problems and don't function well.

I eat it occasionally and love the buzz

I never have, even when at uni. I know 2 people who did but now dont...However by the smells around a rather exclusive housing estate as well as 2 up 2 down terraces near us, its pretty rife!

Pretty much everyone i know, from the cleaner at work (vapes it 😂) to i suspect my CEO based on comments made at the Christmas party smoke it or do edibles.

I used to love a joint, was great for stress but I started throwing whiteys for some bizarre reason, not fun at all, so stopped a couple of years ago. I get edibles now, dont do them a lot, maybe once every few months or do. A friend does his own syrup too thats nice in a hot chocolate or coffee 😬

It's very common and mild compared to alcohol.
I grew up in a household where both were consumed a lot. The parent who was into getting stoned as opposed to pissed, was a lot more productive. Marijuana affects people differently I guess, but some people like my DM and I, are very active, busy types, with good jobs, who consume regularly.

I get that some people don't respond well to it, it makes them paranoid or insular. Again it's like alcohol, some people get really arsey when pissed, or can't stop, others are fine.

My DH and I both smoke weed we have done for the last 8 years we are both in our early 30’s we don’t have any kids so we have the money to spend on it none of our family know we do it. We would like kids one day and we will stop when we are ready for kids.

It's still grown illegally though? Unless I've misunderstood?

It's extremely common. It's also seems to be really bad for the heart according to a lot of studies over the past few years - 42% higher chance of a stroke in one I read the other day. I believe it was thought previously that this was more likely to be because until recent years people mainly smoked it, or had done so in the past. However, studies are now showing that even edibles alone can result in arterial narrowing to a similar extent as a smoker.

I used to smoke it a lot and would have a pretty elevated heartbeat just sitting on the sofa.

Moderate alcohol consumption (1-2 drinks a night) actually has a host of benefits. Less chance of alzheimers, kidney stones, stroke, heart attack, etc.

I only knew one person who was a regular weed smoker who actually worked, and he was a chef. Apparently a profession known for addiction issues anyway.

The rest either used it as a coping mechanism, and denied it was one and that they were addicted, or it was a "lifestyle" and they were boring as fuck. I met far too many people in psychiatric wards who were there due to weed.

Smoked my first joint at 16. Still doing it at 70. It relaxes me. Very pure organic weed.

Have always worked, supported myself, brought up my son as a solo mum.

Never taken an aspirin in my life or barely a paracetamol. I know I'm lucky.

I met far too many people in psychiatric wards who were there due to weed.

Was that in a professional capacity?

Well, that's not pure weed then but some shit mixed with it.

I dont smoke it but I know alot of people that do. In their 20s/30s and even 40s an they can do all the same things hold down a job etc

Moderate alcohol consumption (1-2 drinks a night) actually has a host of benefits. Less chance of alzheimers

My mum never drank at all, maybe a glass of wine while out for dinner in a restaurant. Had Alzheimers.

I think genetics is much more to do it.

No, as a patient.
It kinda of annoyed me as I could see they could actually help themselves by stopping smoking... but they don't and won't.

to do with it

typo.

Personally, I think cars are more dangerous than smoking a joint.

Much more deadly.

I could see they could actually help themselves by stopping smoking... but they don't and won't.

And who made you be be-all and end-all of medical knowledge?

Let people do what they want. If it helps them, surely that's a good thing?...

My grandad smoked till in his 90's. Didn't kill him.

Pollution and car exhausts nowadays would have finished him by now I think....

Prevalent in houses with "soft as shit" rotties, ladies with terrible lip fillers and frustrated gentlemen with anger issues.