Stoners, please assemble - I just have a question, well, two

[AnOminous]

I haven't done it regularly for 25 or so years, and only something like a dozen times in that whole period. When I quit doing it regularly, and for a couple years after that, I noticed how fogged my brain was because it improved in about a month. I also noticed on the few times I did it again after that that I'd be slightly dumber for 2-3 days.

I found it made dumb entertainment like vidya more fun, and made tedious work more tolerable. For instance, proofreading and second drafting is tedious and detail oriented but not necessarily all that intellectually challenging if you're doing it according to a plan you already had. And first drafting was a bit of a crapshoot. Sometimes you actually would get something well written, but other times, rereading it straight you'd wonder what the fuck this shit is.

Also even that is a lot more infrequent now, because most of the people I knew who used to do it even occasionally have stopped and other than maybe one or two old friends I see every few years, the ones who still do are people I wouldn't want to hang around with any more anyway because they're burnouts.

Maybe it's my lack of resistance to it from non-use, or maybe it's the ridiculous THC concentration you see now, but now when I do it it nearly renders me an inarticulate retard for a few hours.

 

[vomitusdeux]

but now when I do it it nearly renders me an inarticulate retard for a few hours.

The way your brain handles it changes as you age, along with the higher THC percentages in even the flower itself, not even counting like vape and dabs and shit. If you're becoming retarded you're doing too much. Unless you're getting like that after just like a hit or two and then I don't really have much of an answer

 

[Grundlejungle]

It very much depends on the person. I've known a lot of smokers, and maybe 15% of them are able to use pot as a performance enhancer. It's entirely a random roll on genetics. I smoke very regularly due to my knees/back being totally shot. It makes me generally more pleasant to deal with, as I'm not a raging asshole because shit hurts. The side effect of not being in agony is that I can actually take care of stuff that would otherwise take me significantly longer than if I was sober. You don't need super fancy shit, it's pretty much a scam. An ounce of modern shake is around $50 and is stronger than the best hippy era weed and I personally recommend avoiding anything above 15%.

 

[mrs thickness]

yeah pl i guess but i do a lot of proofreading and editing and very little of it is done stone cold sober. i dont get any complaints. it's nice to have when working out, too. cooking, cleaning, picking up or practicing hobbies, it's nice to have with most things.

idk if it's a bmi thing or what but i feel like you've got to be a real retard with no sense of portion control to somehow burn through 50 bucks worth of skunk in a month, or even just smoke yourself stupid and incoherent in general. it often takes me a few weeks to get through a gram, and i even regularly have a few puffs a day. like. just start small and work yourself up to where you're comfortable. use your goddamn hands. have a pinch and give it a few minutes, don't just load the whole bowl up and go apeshit.

i like competitive multiplayer games and the loudest neopuritan level 1 humor e-dad tradlarpers really love to talk a big game but never walk the walk. i've seen you fags play deep rock galactic and the like when you're brave enough to actually try the higher difficulties and it's fucking embarrassing, let alone anything that demands any consistent precise technical inputs against an opponent that presumably has some semblance of foresight. i wish you were even more forward in your retardation so i could have more justified opportunities to rip the bong right into the mic after carrying/perfecting your stupid asses

 

[AnOminous]

If you're becoming retarded you're doing too much.

I'm doing what someone who probably still regularly smokes it does, which is probably too much, but I am also more cognizant of when something is making me stupid and no longer like that.