Smoking pot makes you nicer and less greedy

In other words, smoking weed does not necessarily make you more empathetic. It may mean that those who are already empathetic are more likely to smoke weed.

maybe cannabis effects those neural connections that detour reproductive impulses to the left brain

weed's been around a long time and sowb has been around for millions of years, as long as our ancestors were masturbating with the right hand ---and it may be that weed was cultivated as a treatment for sex on the wrong brain.

that's why the sowb authoritarians don't like anyone smoking it. a major motivation for authoritarians is avoidance/fear of uncertainty. does weed reduce fear of uncertainty in most smokers? that could be easily measurable

greed is what happens when you mix reproductive impulses with generally left brain parts of the brain that quantify, compare, do the numbers

...for an incurable cancer. It helps. I try to microdose most days to avoid the psychoactive experience. But, come the weekend (more than just Saturday and Sunday - I'm retired), watch out! Maxi-dosing here!!

Feelin' good tho....

though I’m just 70.

…do you have any issues with your short term memory as a result?

It is great for anxiety and it does chill people the fuck out. But, I am interested to know if any of you long term users have any shorter memory issues as a result.

But also not frequent. And whatever it was, always comes back around eventually.

Seriously, I do not. I don't smoke as much as when I was younger, a bowl in the evening, or when
I am bored (pot will make you not bored).

Smoked it for pain regularly. He did have memory problems. So much so that I took over giving him his other medications. But it may have been due to how sick he was, you know, brain fog from being so weak.

put me in a great mood for my morning walk. Even an hour and a half in the rain today.

Pass it over to me.

It would be a lot better for him than Ritalin.

My older daughter has a high stress manager job making good money and she comes home and smokes pot to chill nightly, has for years. She is super motivated, hard working.

it's the only way they can stand to be around all awfulness going on right now.

I don't think I am nicer but I am more I don't give a shit.

It really helps with PTSD.

A friend I was visiting recently and I were joking about what we tell our shrinks when they ask what it does for us. I looked at him and said,

"Some days it keeps me calm and alters my attitude so don't all wacko and do something I might regret. Other days, I helps me laugh."

I’m as nice a guy as you can find

Don't ask.

I think that friendly, less greedy, empathic people are more likely to be pot smokers.
The weed didn't make us that way, it's the way we are.

But of course.

...or eating the last donut. (not anyone in particular )

There's some folks that just dig tie dye...

at the end of the work day!

I don't like to smoke if I'm going to hike or bike or something...I like to have my lungs clear for that!

If I'm going to garden or putter, I like that I feel floaty, if I smoke earlier in the day. It always "talks me down." May be because I tend to the hyper, anxious side of things.

We've recently learned (from our daughter!) about vape pens. Ummm...it's cool that they are so stealth. But the idea of it being a chemical, even though derived from the plant, is a turnoff.

Just a good ol' leftover 70s hippie chick, I guess!

better than money will get you through times of no weed.

That was true back in the 60s when there were weed droughts. Now the country awash in weed. There aren't any weed shortages anymore.

the wild bunch for sure. Big old house, 5 bedrooms, beautiful open stair case with two living rooms and another rook we called the TV room. We had lots of wild parties, but I remember the next morning after one of those parties I walked into the TV room and this young gal was asleep on the floor with art brushes and paint next to her. On the blank wall she painted the fabulous freak brothers smoking a water pipe. It was so nicely done we just left it alone.

The black light edition!

The only poster I have from the 60s that survived is, "Phi Zappa Krappa", Frank Zappa sitting on the crapper. I still have several original Fillmore posters. New Year's Eve 1968 with The Jefferson Airplane, one for The Doors, and one for Jethro Tull. Those are still in pretty much mint condition, believe it or not. I knew they'd be worth something someday.

My brother got all the cool stuff like you have. I have a few Grateful Dead and the Allman Brothers nude in the stream. I have a few others but I don't recall what now. It'd better check on them, my storage was flooded last week in that Yellowstone/Montana flood. It only got up to 3" in my unit and nearly everything is up on shelves and a loft, all paper stuff is up there but I should bring those out and check for dampness.

You'd better check that stuff. Paper and cardboard will mildew in a hurry. Protect your hippie valuables at all costs!

I did have couple boxes on the floor but the two with paper stuff were this I was going to get rid of anyway, why they were on the floor.

mine who taught middle school in Vermont reported that the boys there thought a good time was getting stoned and fighting out in the parking lot. I've heard other similar anecdotes since then that suggest the effects of pot vary depending on who is smoking it and what their idea of a good time is. It's not so simple.

I believe the "less motivated" part, but not much else.

I abhor marijuana use, and before people jump all over me, that doesn't mean that I want anyone to go to jail over it. I just think it isn't good for people.

If I say that pancreatic cancer is bad for you, that doesn't mean I have to talk about heart disease, or does it?

Some of the most irritable un-mellow people I know are potheads that aren't stoned. Just my experience

it's almost impossible to run out in today's marijuana economy. Just about every state has decriminalized it, if not legalized it, and many have state dispensaries now.

So I hear anyway. I'm not allowed to touch it.

Seriously, hemp will mellow you out without the buzz.

MOST fun thing I’ve read here in a long time. Been a whole lot of bickering and belittling others’ thoughts and opinions for a long while. See, just talking about weed makes people nicer. More please. More weed talk, less GQP bullshit. We will all be healthier. Or at least feel better.

I used to crave pizza when I got high many, many moons ago.

It is subjective from beginning to end.

Scientific Reports is an "open access journal" which is ranked 4084 among journals. Its impact score is 4.84. Good journals are 10 or more.

https://www.resurchify.com/impact/details/21100200805

https://www.cwauthors.com/article/At-what-score-can-a-journal-be-considered-a-top-journal-in-any-discipline

I never smoked anything.

And I have never seen a nasty pot smoker but I have seen plenty of nasty and violent drunks.

Please note, I do not smoke or drink but I am fine with others who do.

There's just simply no excuse for it being legalized and/or decriminalized at this point.
ZERO.

I use it because I can't use opioids due to prior addiction. The amount of pain I'm on on a daily basis is unbelievable due to 2 ABX resistant superbug infections of both Staph & E. Coli. I micro-dose with gummies which are just 10mg each but when it's really bad where I can't function, pass the hybrid and a lighter please!

Always made me depressed

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/04/marijuana-heart-disease.html

It's not all good, folks. Never think it.

Yes, I smoke it. That's how I know. 😛

I have many stories like this.

My wife never smoked. I do occasionally. Now, only very occasionally, because it gives me uncontrollable munchies.

I was at a concert with my wife several years ago. She drove there, while I got high on the way. You had to walk up a ramp and stand on this big elevated concrete platform where the entrance doors were. I'd say there were maybe 1,000 people there that arrived early, standing around, waiting for the doors to open. We were standing next to these two young guys, maybe late 20's, early 30's.

One of the guys was standing behind me, and his friend was to the side of me. I hear the guy behind me teeth start to chatter, and he's making that teeth chattering/shivering noise. You know, like...zazazazazaza....sucking air in.....zazazazaza. Teeth banging together.

I turned around and said "What the fuck man, it's not THAT cold"! (It was late March).

He said "I can't help it man! I'm fucking freezing"! He had no coat on.

I had a really nice leather coat on.

I took off my coat and helped him put it on.

He thanked me, and then I turned and looked at his friend, who was just as baked as I was. We locked eyes, and we made some kind of connection. We both smiled. Then we started giggling. I hear my wife whisper "Oh, no, Jesus Christ", because she knows how I get.

So this guy and I are staring at each other, laughing. Then we started laughing harder. Then we started ugly laughing, screaming laughing. We were laughing so hard that we were holding onto each other, and we fell to our knees, clutching each other. By this time, the people in our immediate vicinity started laughing, and then REALLY laughing. This laughter spread throughout the crowd, and about a minute later, about 1,000 people waiting to get in were laughing their asses off. Many were laughing so hard that they were crying.

Things calmed down a bit when they started letting people through the doors. When we got inside, the guy I gave the coat to said "Hey, here's your coat back, thanks a lot"!

I said "Keep it! You need it more than I do"!

So in that particular case, being stoned made me nicer and less greedy.