So I just turned 18. I already got drunk in my life after I threw a party while my parents were gone, I wanna try drugs too. Is it worth it?
I have been smoking weed daily for 11 years now. If I knew what I’d become I never would have started. I am completely dependent on it, I have really low/bad moods if I’m sober and I’ve lost all motivation. I am just coasting through life, smoking weed and playing video games. It really sounds like an amazing time but it’s depressing. I haven’t done anything in my life and I’m coming up on 40. I have a career and that’s it. I can’t lose weight because I simply don’t care enough to stick to it. I never traveled anywhere, I have never ridden on a boat, I’ve never ridden a horse, hell… I haven’t even gone skiing and I live in an area where it’s very popular and I have access to the best spots.
I’m not saying weed is bad but you’re young and your brain is still developing. I started smoking when I was 26 and if this can happen to my supposedly developed brain it can be worse for yours. I used to have a drive, I used to be able to do anything. I was pulled out of school in 7th grade and I haven’t gone back to any school but somehow ended up being a software engineer. I was excited for my next steps up to management and then director. Now I don’t give a fuck. I just anxiously wait for each work day to end so I can start smoking until I go to sleep.
Don’t be me. Be smart.
Edit: also, avoid alcohol if you can. My partner nearly died from alcohol withdrawals. He had only been drinking for 2 years and spiraled straight into a TERRIBLE addiction. He hit his head after drunkenly falling down the stairs and was unable to function, I took him to the ER and they said he’s just drunk and to to home and sober up. I took him home and he lost his ability to walk the next morning because he had a brain bleed from the fall. So he stopped drinking because he couldn’t get his drink and went into the bad withdrawals called delirium tremens. He was hospitalized for a full month. He spent the first 2 weeks intubated in the ICU and had to learn how to walk again.
Please, don’t drink.
Hello friend. I was also in your position not so long ago and really feel for you so much. But have hope. There is light at the end of the tunnel youre in, and you’ve taken the first and hardest step in admitting to yourself that it’s a problem. Seriously well done.
There are two things I would suggest you consider if you feel you have the energy to start to tackle this:
The first is that, I believe current methods of getting “clean” and “sober” are inconsistent in their outcomes for a reason.
Whilst total sobriety works for some people, it is my belief and experience, that going completely cold turkey and abstaining from a social and common drug like weed forever, is the hardest route forward long term. I have observed that for those that choose this path, they will always to some degree, feel the pull towards that drug regardless of the length of time they’ve abstained. It will be a constant battle for the rest of their life. To some degree this is sobriety on a knifes edge.
I saw this in the midst of my addiction and decided this wasn’t what I wanted. I wanted a new relationship with my drug of choice. One where I challenged every unhealthy behaviour I’d developed with it. One where I gained control back piece by piece. One where I rewired my brain so much that I could say yes or no depending on the context and reasoning occurring inside.
And so that’s what I did. I started by weaning myself off by working out how much I smoked and choosing to weigh that amount at the start of every day. I’d then decrease this little by little every day, getting used to the feeling and effects of taking that control and running out at the end of each day. This forced my front brain to take charge amdnstart to plan where I’d have this limited amount.
Over two months I eventually whittled it down to one joint a day. It wasn’t without slip ups, but it was important that I accepted these, and instead of criticising myself, got straight back on the horse.
Once I made the jump to zero, I felt it important to give myself a length of time entirely off of it. To deal with the effects of withdrawal, such as night sweats, nightmares, vivid dreams etc.
Then once that period of time, for me six months, had elapsed, I made a list of all the unhealthy behaviours that I had built up over the years with weed. And reintroduced the weed with those in mind, challenging them each individually. This ranged from being able to say no to it when being social, to stopping at a certain point of the evening (one and done etc), to preplanning when I’d order it so that I was free and available to waste that time, so it didn’t impact my life.
For you this will be unique to your addiction.
I can now happily say I’m at a point where 80% of my addictive behaviours are dealt with. Where I am in control and weed is no longer my mistress. The balance has swung in my favour. But I still have some work to do :).
Secondly, I would advise you examine the reasons why you may have been attracted to weed in the first place.
The route cause of your issues will vary depending on your own individual history. But for me things like childhood trauma, ADHD and health issues formed the core parts of my need to use weed as a means to hide from the adult world.
Tackling these greatly helped alleviate the gut feeling of needing weed as a means to cope. Now it forms a part of my social life, as a means to accentuate and elevate a night, or a day at home, rather than a means to close off and hide.
I hope you find this helpful and I wish you the best of luck moving forward friend. Should you choose to go down this path, know that regardless of the slip ups, you’ve got this. As long as you can be gentle with yourself, you can always come back to it.
Peace and love :)
Hi. I’ve done lots of drugs.
I don’t recommend at 18 simply because it’s a bit too early and I’ve seen lots of people get used to being high on weed and smoking stupid amounts.
Weed makes you chill and comfy but if you develop a psychological dependence you will lose things like your drive/motivation and it’s very easy for people to spiral into depression.
TL;DR weed is meh, I’d say wait 5-6 more years of personal development before smoking or eating gummies.
Just FYI please lookup what you’re planning to consume online before consuming it just so you at least understand its effects and don’t just trust your friends on it.
Won’t be the end of the world if you consume responsibly and don’t start a habit of being high the majority of your time awake.
Go for it. Make sure you are in a safe and comfortable place with something fun or entertaining in front of you. I wouldn’t personally go out or try to be social in anyway at first (unless you have close friends you trust). I didn’t try until my late twenties and it is fun and addictive for me. The people around me are affected differently and get too much paranoia so your mileage may vary! Edibles are a stinkless way to go about it but remember you need very little at first to feel it. I think it does so much less damage to your body than alcohol but I wouldn’t trust a strangers’ opinion on the internet that far.
Worth it in a controlled environment. Good story, memory, experience.
Also it’s important to differentiate the taste for the future in case you accidentally ingest it.
It’s fun. It also can be not fun.
My golden rule is:
You can always do more drugs, never less.
Start with a low dose and work your way up
I enjoy them. If you have a family history of psychosis though stay away. Acid is the same
Tried it once last year. It was interesting. It was funny and is a lasting memory but I have not done it since nor do I have the desire to.
No.
I’d recommend avoiding any of the delta strains. I had a terrible experience with my fiancé once. We were both so out of it and were having time gaps, it was not a fun experience.
I think you mean delta-8 or delta-10.
Delta-9 THC is the chemical that occurs naturally in cannabis. So they’re all delta strains
TIL, thank you
Yes. Do ‘party drugs’ stay away from fent and opioids.
If you do seriously only do like 5 MG’s to start.
For real dude.
I eat 100mgs at a time and you’ll see a lot of other people tell you if you aren’t going hard in the mother fucking paint its not worth it but that is a lie
Just eat 5 mgs and if that doesn’t hit in a day or two do 10mg and work your way up to it.
If you eat too much at a time before your tolerence builds you will likely throw up and get the spins and have an awful, awful time. Start slow and it will be fun.
Other person was right though, lose the pedestal.
This right here… A friend of mine once gave his girlfriend an edible as her first introduction to weed. This was before legalization so they were homemade and it was impossible to know the dosage.
Well, suffice to say, the dosage was high as fuck lol. She had a horrifying experience and refused to touch any form of cannabis ever again.
Edible weed is no joke. When you get to a high enough dose, especially with low or no tolerance, it’s basically a psychedelic.
Bro straight up I was dating a girl and gave her a 50mg rosin gummy and it straight ruined the entire relationship fr we hardly ever even talk anymore I freaked her out so bad
I still feel so bad about that. I just didn’t know better at the time.
No rush, wait a few years. Enjoy the amazing body you have right now. You don’t realize it but you are so fast and can climb so well at your age. Join a capture the flag league. I’d trade a weed trip for 1 afternoon with a teenage body any day! Jump off a cliff into a swimming hole. Backpack across a continent. Skateboard until you fuck up your knees.
Weed can completely and irreversibly damage a developing brain. Wait until you’re at least 26 before you fuck with THC.
Don’t. You are more unique and cool by NOT using drugs. It can only hurt you the only question is by how much it will negatively impact your life.
If my friend could go back he would had never don’t anything harder than chamomile tea. Do yourself a favor at your age work hard to actually earn a career that will make you money. You are arguably at the worst age possible to start experimenting with this crap.
When you are dying of cancer, sure pull out the weed brownies.
Don’t listen to this NERD!
