I smoke cigarettes. I wish I didnt, but I do. That takes the edge off sometimes. As far as weed, I cannot comment as I don't do it.

I smoke everyday and never really know how Im going to feel after I smoke ..but I assume that it will be good for me ..lol
Sometimes it does make me anxious ..but that is when i change dealers in the same week. Different weed affects me differently..hopefully you wont get bashed here for admitting this ..i would try the Marijuana comm. for support

Hey Allison I have the same problem with pot. It makes me so crazy it's not even funny. I never have a good high. my heart races, I have to be by myself, I feel like I'm going to stop breathing, it's just bad. I stay away from it i have learned my body just doesn't like it.

I suffered from Drug Induced Psychosis in 1993 due to chronic cannabis use. I don't use it anymore, but all drugs affect people in different ways. I can totally appreciate that some people have a high tolerance for it, and therefore can use it to help manage their BP.

I could talk about the experience for hours. Or write pages and pages of stuff..

..but as an overall opinion based on my own experience only, I can only state that there are short term and long term affects. Short term is mellowed me out, but seeing as I smoked every day for 5 years and started at 7:00 AM, I really didn't give my body and mind a chance to recover from the effects.

Long term - paranoia, delusions and psychosis. Horrible.

IMHO, the most underrated drug out there.

I have smoked for a long time but had to quit at the end of August to clean out my system in case i want to get a driving job to supplement my SSDI.

I can walk out my door and get weed any time of day, but can't, right now, because of the fact that it takes 6 weeks for the THC to leave the body fat.

I love weed, but recently there have been studies concluding that pot smoking leads to psychosis. Interesting to think about, fur sure.

Weed, for me, leads to paranoia. I had to really analyze what I was running from with the weed in my life. Me. I was running from me. I am better than that. Oh, the temptation.

thanks guys... somedays i'm saying i'm going to quit because of all the stories i hear about long term affects... but hey, i'm already crazy, right?? :)

and what exactly is drug induced psychosis? what happened to you? how did you know what it was?

Allison, Smoked daily (5-10 times a day) I wouldn't have made it to 43 without it. I would be dead or in jail for kicking the shit out of someone for looking at me the wrong way. My weed problems didn't get bad until I started the medication for my ADHD. I smoked more and did less and it wouldn't calm my running thoughts like it used to. I have been clean for almost 3 weeks now and am dealing ok but I am also on Lamictal which I think helps. I plan on not smoking again and the only reason I was able to quit this time is because it was my decission and not someone trying to force me to quit. Best of luck in whatever you decide to do about the smoking. One thing I didn't expect was the relief of not driving around with weedage. I always had to have it with me and didn't realize how big the burden I was carrying around with the worry of getting arrested.
Keep on keeping on.
Ron

thanks... the weird thing is is half the time i hate how i feel when i'm high... but still continue to smoke. but then again, i'm also a recovering addict. (gave up all the hard stuff 4 years ago - don't consider weed to be a "hard" drug) so yeah i'm clean, i mean no coke or pills or anything, so why can i not stop the weed even when i don't really like the way it makes me feel??? once an addict always an addict, i guess.....

allison - i can relate about not being able to quit.

For me, i had to look at what had caused me to begin in the first place, and what caused me to begin and then continue and then what caused me to begin, continue and the use it as a crutch.

That's just me but I had to look at it, finally, from the point of view of my body being a temple and why would i want to mess up my temple. Trust me, I would love to know I could get high everyday and live life chillin, but, for me, I had to make a choice, for work, and it turns out i quit and it benefitted my sanity.

do your meds work better when you're not smoking pot? my docs all tell me that smoking pot on meds is like not taking any meds at all - it cancells them out. i don't know if i beleive that 100%. somedays it makes me feel great ad some days it doesn't. but when i'm not on meds... all days are bad... and when i am on meds and not smoking i still have ups and downs... so what do i do? ugh!!!

I smoke cigarettes. I use to smoke pot when I was younger. I am trying to quit cigs because they stink and cost too much and on and on. If weed helps you, alls I can say they need to legalize it for medical reasons. I take xanax to calm me. One's legal ones not.

Hi Alison,

It started on a Saturday. I felt completely off my head. By the Monday I was scared, but I went into work and managed to get through the day. I woke up on the Tuesday, went into the office, and opened my briefcase on my desk...and just cowered behind it. Hiding from everyone. Everyone was staring. I walked up to my boss and said "I'm going home and I don't know when I'll be back"

I only knew it was drug induced psychosis because the pdoc told me at the time. It took me about 9 months to fully recover, the first 3 months off work. Really terrifying, and all the worse because I knew it was because of something I had done to myself. I felt so guilty.

I'd just like to reiterate that I'm not being judgmental on what other people do in any way. This is just what happened to me. I have a friend who has worked as a psychiatric nurse for 20 years. He told me that it's common to get admissions for drug induced psychosis caused by cannabis use going way back

I couldn't tolerate it 'cause it made me so paranoid. Now i just smoke cigs, a nasty habit, but it seems to calm me down, for some reason.

Used to smoke. I kinda think it kept mania away. I never got paranoid. I quit at 27. Tired a few times since then, it only gave me a headache.
I think it's a good treatment for cancer patients, etc.