everyone knows how bad alcohol and tobacco is

It went from the bad sides overplayed or made up

to the downsides being downplayed

alcohol did nothing wrong

But a lot of the downsides are very person to person

Say you have an anxiety disorder

Yeah, it's very personal

Weed can either dramatically help it or utterly ruin you

weed gives me existential dread

I only took it once and had a panic attack and couldn't speak for like 5 hours.

Like full on hallucinating that everyone could hear my thoughts

That happened to my friend when I tried to introduce it to her

Her boyfriend was not happy with me lol

weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip

Other people are perfectly fine and actually get better wth it

Well it does feel pretty good for a lot of people

It's not technically addicting but as with anything that feels good, you want more of it

(technically addicting in the physical dependency sense)

yeah

There isn't really a strong withdrawal

caffeine has a stronger withdrawal

```weed just makes you want to keep smoking weed. I went on a long camping trip once and picked up some weed half way through, and did nothing but lay around and smoke. and after it was gone, i just kept thinking about how much i wanted some more weed. It put a damper on that part of the trip```That depends too. After I recovered, I don't feel that at all anymore. Whenever I get high on occasion now, I'm totally satisfied with being completely sober for the next few days.

its mental

It can also cause things like nerve disorders and bring on mental health issues like schizophrenia faster though. As well as lung problems, heart problems, etc. I have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat because of the constant smoking because it raises your heartrate so dramatically and so high, then it drops, then you raise it back up again, repeat. Especially with the amount I smoked at the time.

Also if you're under like 20 you pprobably shouldn't mess with it

Well, a caveat there

If you have schizophrenia

I first smoked weed at 18

a drug trip can trigger it

so if you're undiagnosed you can have your first episode when you smoke weed

I had the opportunity to do it earlier, just never did

I started at like 17

Didn't become a daily thing for me though until like last year

@obrallaghan yeah, nowadays if i smoke it feels like when Frodo puts on the ring and everything gets dark and scary. fuck that shit

I know a girl who got *fucking destroyed* when she took some drug(I want to say LSD, but it might have been heroin)

She already had the disorder but it finally got triggered for the first time

and hit her like a train

I've definitely had a few totally batshit deathly weed highs

Got schizoid personality disorder, dissociative personality disorder(changes names like every 3 months)

Only recently(like 4 years after it started) has gotten better.

brb