Why I Smoke Weed- Steemit's First Weed Post
Why I Smoke Weed
For my first post I chose to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart--cannabis.
I started smoking about 9 months ago. I was in Las Vegas for a friend's birthday party, a friend I had only known for a few weeks. I had not yet had the chance to meet any of her friends that were going on the trip, so I didn't know what to expect.
- I didn't know anyone.
- I didn't have a lot of money.
- I did have a sense of adventure.
Her friends turned out to be super chill and friendly. They offered if I wanted to take a hit of something that resembled a skinny cigar. I said no because I am mostly a rule follower and I barely even drink and have never done any drugs before.
So I wasn't sure I should do something like that.
A few hours into the trip I became more and more curious about what the two women in the front kept smoking every 15-20 minutes. The fact that she was driving and smoking didn't even seem dangerous to me. I don't know the effect weed has on a body. I knew it was a drug and it was "bad." I asked the driver about it (because in second grade I was rewarded for asking a lot of questions--I guess that trait stuck with me), and she said it made her a better driver because it helped her to focus more on the road. Immediately I was skeptical, but didn't share my concerns--just hoped to die quickly if we got in an accident.
But they kept smoking and driving. During the ride, our conversations were rich and deep and kept me entertained during the long drive. Again I was surprised that even though both women in front smoked, they were able to drive well and hold intelligent conversations. (Talk about judgmental!!) We spoke about conspiracy theories, 00's Boy Bands, even better music than that, and one of my personal favorite subjects: spirituality. We sang at the top of our lungs and laughed so hard we made the car shake. I was impressed by these women--they were multitasking like crazy and didn't judge me for being so curious about everything they said--things that went way over my head. I am from the Mid-West and didn't think I was that naive about life, but man was I wrong.
By the time we got to our hotel I was ready to make a choice.
We checked in, walked around The Vegas Strip a bit, came back, and got ready to go out to dinner. All along I was thinking I wanted to try this "natural" plant that had to seemingly benefit these interesting women. Since I was younger I have had a negative connotation about marijuana due to family issues that made me want to stay away from drugs and alcohol. After witnessing how full of life these women were, I was intrigued. It was time to take a chance to break out of my rules. I wanted to see what it was all about. Mustering up the courage, I sheepishly asked to hit some of their weed. Ha! To my surprised they were excited and wanted to share with me. They weren't worried about me paying my share, as it is often here in LA. Eye for an Eye. But they didn't expect anything in return, as a gift should be. And this was a gift indeed.
They gave it to me freely.
I knew from their reaction that I hadn't been peer pressured and that I had made this choice on my own. They were joyful that I got to get my "green cheery popped." I was excited to be breaking some of my rules and taking a step out of my comfort zone. I was given the choice of how I wanted to smoke and I asked, "What is the healthiest way to smoke?" because I was still health-conscious, of course. Duh! They looked at me with straight expressions and answered my questions without judgment. To which I was surprised to learn about vaping.
It is thought to be the cleanest way to smoke. "Because vaporizers don’t put direct fire onto the herb, you’re able to get a nice inhale of vapors while mitigating many of the harmful impacts of inhaling hot plant material."
Here is a great article (the one I just quoted) that talks about the different means to smoke and the ways each method has an effect on the body.
http://herb.co/2015/09/07/how-to-smoke-weed-and-keep-your-lungs-healthy/
Once I smoked from the vape I didn't feel anything. I was pretty sure I didn't inhale correctly. But as I kept thinking and over-thinking about what I did wrong to not get high, I realized I had been standing in the same position for a long time near the bed in the hotel room. My body felt like it should have been stiff but it wasn't, and I kept thinking about time, and then time was a new concept to me. As I was thinking about the beginning of the creation of time I asked the question, "How long have we been here? I feel like we've been here a long time." Then it hit me! I was gloriously high as balls. I didn't hear their laughter because I was finally, and I mean FINALLY high. It was all at once made me feel like I was super content with everything. I was feeling strong. Confident. Mysterious. Beautiful. As we went into the city life at night I was captivated. The world was brighter and the colors stood out more vibrantly. Music made my body feel the notes, like the notes were physically touching me. I was excited and drank in the life that was happening around me as we walked through the many people on The Strip.
I felt like I had stepped into a whole new realm beauty.
That is basically what I felt like. 500 Days of Summer dance sequence happy. Like for the first time I didn't have obsessive or irrational thoughts. I felt calm and collected. I became more quiet when I smoked throughout the rest of the trip. It gave me a space to collect thoughts and focus on important things. On the inside I felt like parts of me were healing emotionally and spiritually.
Beginning in October of last year, I now smoked most days of the week. I've gone weeks without it. It's not addictive. I am able to focus better. Since childhood I have struggled with staying focused and having clear thoughts. By getting my certification (because it's legal in California), I am able to sleep through the night. I've also been the healthiest that I've ever been in my life. I lost close to 20lbs because smoking has helped me expand my mind, expand my paradigm of thinking. It's encouraged me to be healthy overall. My emotional health is better. I have prioritized and created lasting boundaries that work well in my life. My spiritual health is growing and deepening each day. Do you know how many times I have had spiritual encounters while smoking and walking a night? Man the Earth is beautiful when you are able to gaze at the night sky and see the enchanting stars. I've also felt more creative and encouraged in my career choice. I'm into improv and acting and have felt a break through in my craft.
- I am healthier.
- I am more focused.
- I am more creative.
- I am more chill.
- I am more productive.
- I have more clarity of mind.
- I am more spiritual.
Those are just some of the benefits I have experience in my life since I first started smoking.
Here is a link to show some more health benefits to smoking weed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/health-benefits-of-medical-marijuana-2014-4
I was welcomed into the weed community with open arms. I no longer have fears about my "drug of choice." (There are NO cases of deaths directly related to weed nor are there weed overdoses. Even with edibles, you would just fall asleep and sleep off the effects.)
Here's a link to healthy edible use.
Weed has made me happy. I am posting today because I am happy with my right to medicate with marijuana. I found pot later on in life (25 years old) and am thankful that I've had the chance to live life without it to now know how thankful I am not to take advantage of it--because some people do. But for me for now, it's good. It's real good.
Nate Dogg said it the best. "Smoke weed everyday." And I plan to do just that.
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P.S. I'd love to hear what you think about smoking. Leave me a comment!
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I've been a cannabis connoisseur for almost 25 years and I have a few thoughts to ad.
It's really strange that cannabis is being allowed to catch on in the mainstream. The controlling elite kept it illegal for a long time for three reasons. They could make money because of the black market and private prisons. They could make money using trees for paper instead. And the most important one, and why psychedelics are still illegal, cannabis has the tendency to "wake people up".
After many years of seeing it wake people up then watching them do nothing about their newly found ideas, I think the elite have determined that the people are sufficiently brainwashed as to not be a threat. Most will see that money is printed out of thin air and will go to work the next day anyway. We don't need much paper anymore because everything's digital. They can't build the private prisons fast enough.
I really think that the laws on weed are being relaxed because there is a more nefarious plan. I think that plan is to profit from the addicts, keep as many as possible distracted and mellow for the coming cull, and they'll start introducing gmo weed into the market that will further compromise our freedom and effectiveness against tyranny.
So, even though I believe all of this, am I quitting? Hell No! It's the only reason I'm still around, watching my species further enslave and eventually destroy itself! Without it, my false meritocracy damaged neck swells up and tries to kill my brain by starving it for oxygen. To avoid the corporate/government/elite trap, I'm going weed freegan and only smoking what I or my friends grow. This eliminates the money aspect of it, has reduced my dependency on it, I have less chance of going to jail, and I have a bigger chance of avoiding GMO herbs.
Vaping is just marketing, wastes weed, and doesn't give you the entire cannabinoid profile like eating it or smoking it does. There's a neat thing called the entourage effect. It's what happens when the terpenes and cannabinoids combine to strengthen each others' effects. Tinctures, oils, and wax usually bypass this effect and concentrate the cannabinoids alone. This could be compared to taking a shot of heroin vs drinking a cup of opium tea. With the heroin, certain compounds have been processed out so it's very easy to overdose. With opium tea, there are compounds that make you sleepy and nauseous so if you sip it slowly, you'll fall asleep or vomit before you can kill yourself.
Different cannabinoid compounds are created as cannabis is decarboxylated at different temperatures. Smoking the cannabis gives the smoker a wide variety of these compounds, which studies show are more effective when combined rather than isolated. Vaping cannabis releases a very specific profile depending on the temperature.
Then there's marketing/consumerism/garbage creation. I wonder how many vapes there are in dumpsters/landfills/oceans. It's sad when smoking it out of a rolling paper, apple, or even glass pipe creates no waste and doesn't require human and environmentally exploitative factories to produce.
The most healthy way to ingest cannabis is by juicing it raw. Check out https://cannabisinternational.org or https://rawhemp.tk
We've evolved alongside the plant for millions of years, so long that all mammals have endocannabinoid systems that only respond to cannabis. For those millions of years, we've been smoking and eating it. Since vaping and the other methods of ingestion have only been around for less than half a century, we have no idea what the long term implications of using it this way are.
There was something else I wanted to mention, but I forgot....
I actually "woke up" on weed this sunday. It was really weird, I hate inhaling so I just took one puff, but it was enough! I just went silent and listened to my boyfriend and our friend talking together and suddently they where talking to me! They where still talking together about what they thought was random talk, but I HEARD them, and they where trying to wake me up. I realized that it is what we always do when we just talk without thinking so much, we try to wake eachother up.
Thank you for posting. I too smoke weed.
FUCK THE GUBMENT! GENESIS says that ALL SEED bearing plants... are ours!
I hate how they try to deny us. WEED FREES THE SOUL <3
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I am so glad you wrote what you did. Thank you! I absolutely agree about the more nefarious aspect of allowing more legalization of weed, but for a slightly different reason. Maybe it's just me being cynical, but I feel like the government wants to provide us with poorly made and chemically induced marijuana (as you said) so that we aren't aware of the top quality weed; I believe there are strains out there that help reduce the plague in our brains, like it does for possibly reducing the Alzheimer's proteins. http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/marijuana-alzheimers-thc-removes/2016/06/30/id/736394/ If the general public was able to have this quality weed, then their minds would be "woken up" or aware of all the bs the media and the government spill out. There would be an epic change in our world and that would bring chaos to them so they don't want it happening that way. There does seem to be a push for vaporizing as well and my post is shortsighted about many of my feelings about vaping. I myself enjoy hitting a bong or joint. Vaping for the most part seems to give me a headache and I don't seem to get as high as I would if I was smoking with a bong. I used it for my first time, and a few times since, but it' s not my favorite method of smoking. About being weed freegan. I LOVE this idea!!! My boyfriend and I have been looking into growing a small garden of our own, but have run into a few confounds that hasn't made this dream possible, yet. They are creating pods that can nourish plant growth vertically on walls if you are without land space. This is my hope to be able to start this soon.
I appreciate your words and thank you for imparting knowledge!
Good stuff!
lol, marijuana has the tendency to wake people up?? lol, the weed I smoke everyday makes your ass pass out after a few hits ;) No just playin i know what you talking about and Im glad the US is the rest of the world ahead by legalising it, after all its just a plant, to much fuss about nothing, fuck the ELITE
Everything in the post was good except the stuff against GMO.. You need to educate yourself here, there where just an open letter from over 100 nobel price winners published The antiGMO people are spreading so much crap, making people think the crops are bad for you. It´s GMO that will save our food supply and bring poor nations out of poverty. Like in China, India, Mexico, Look up Norman Borlaug.
Thank you for sharing this! As you know, I'm only 9 months into my "weed" journey, so I still have so much to learn!! All of which I am excited to do, so thank you for helping me with that. Cheers to you!
The hubris to think that humans with test tubes can improve upon billions of years of natural selection and adaptation is what will end up causing our species to go extinct soon. You really think they give Nobel prizes to people that aren't towing the line? Come on now. You're too gullible and ignorant to have an opinion.
After reading into this, I'm going to agree with you on this one. I believe the closest we can get to pure and natural is where we should be headed. Not toward fake and lackluster imitators.
TL;DR but nice!
Good thoughts!
Re-reading this again after a year or so later and am loving how good your response was. All the great info you gave. Thank you for taking the time to interact with me and talk about weed! I smoked earlier (after going awhile without) and stumbled upon Steemit and went back for a walk down memory lane. Glad I did. Cheers to you! @apocaloptimisto
An interesting and well written story about your personal relationship with the herb. Thank you for using my art, freel free to use it as you wish.
Your boyfriend referred me here, from YouTube. Gratz on a great post and awesome 420 intro!
And you are the reason we know about Steemit, so really, THANK YOU!! If you are ever in LA, you have a place to stay with us. Keep those videos coming! :)
Smoking is great, but it can get dull after a while.
yup
Yeah it definitely can, and thats why I enjoy taking breaks from it, too. On the other hand, if I start to feel like I have to smoke more of a certain strain to feel anything, I just switch and go with a hybrid dominant of the other strain. It gives me the chance to experience different highs while not getting too bored with one type. Its like a buffet out there! :)
I'm on disability with a nervous disease, and I'd smoke and even better eating, but we have in the country of Russia there is no concept of medical cannabis, and I am under the threat of criminal prosecution for self-medication this medication.
this is my art. peace to all
Very moving art!
I smoked 12+ years and only stopped because i have to, in order to keep my driver license. It took me around 45 days to get clean on test.
I would like to add that sleeping is great when you smoking, almost no dreams at all, no headache.
I see some bad thing for me like consuming more sugar/food and being more lazy than usual.
Keeps me off the xanax, feel like I have my life back...
Just posted a follow up to this! Check it out!
what a beautiful story.
thanks for sharing
I have an article on the benefits of vaporizing cannabis infused oils.
https://steemit.com/marijuana/@pennilesthoughts/the-future-of-cannabis-the-incredibly-convenient-and-superior-alternative-for-the-typical-smoker
check it out =]