My objective analysis of marijuana:
Pros:
- Helps you concentrate incredibly hard on a single thing, making you more attentive to whatever that thing might be whether it's playing an instrument, watching a movie or listening to music, or simple tasks of all sorts. (Outdoor laborious jobs come to mind.)
- Treats an extremely wide variety of serious medical symptoms that you would otherwise have to take potentially harmful-over-long-term expensive medications while utilizing natural compounds that are easily broken down and naturally eliminated by the body with essentially no trace of it ever being there in the first place aside from your good health and potentially lung cancer. (Which ironically it can be used to treat by not smoking it, instead ingesting in other ways if you're that worried about it.)
- It's not an addictive substance.
It's a habitual problem much like biting your nails or not wearing a seatbelt if you want to quit. You just need some self restraint and then you're free of it's grasp. There are no withdrawl symptoms.
- It can be used to ween yourself off of other addictive substances.
Smokers often smoke pot instead, then quit smoking pot. I've had multiple friends do it. They still have an enjoyable smoke which is half the battle, not to mention feeling great until it wears off. (Then very sleepy and hungry...) Then they can simply quit pot cold turkey afterwards.
- Makes you feel good with your situation regardless of what it is.
Cons:
- Makes you feel good with your situation regardless of what it is.
This is it's worst quality, even if at the time it makes you feel awesome. You might have some very productive things that you really ought to be doing right now, but you just smoked and don't feel like doing it because you're high, so you'll just do it later... unless you smoke again. It robs you of your motivation to change your life for the better, which is terrible. You're too satisfied with just being high because it makes you feel good at the time.
- You can't multitask.
If you're high, you will most likely not be very mindful of other things that you aren't fixated on. Things like operating equipment or remembering something on a strict deadline are extremely irresponsible things to do while under the influence of marijuana. This is another one of those Don't do things that effect other people's ability to do what they're doing if they're following that same philosophy as well sort of things. It's just not a considerate idea.
- It can cause health problems and poor judgement while under it's influence.
It isn't necessarily good for you regardless of the medical benefits people are finally coming around to admitting. Smoking it is a cause of cancer and honestly I'm just guessing here, but there's probably other things it might be screwing with in regards to physical and mental health. I know when I used to smoke, my short term memory was horrible. It would humiliate me on a regular basis making me feel stupid when I was too airheaded to remember simple things when I was smoking it quite a lot. (I was an every hour, on the hour, every day smoker.) Luckily science and my own personal experience has shown it doesn't cause any permanent brain damage or kill brain cells or anything ridiculous like that. You can quit and be done with it.
In regards to decision making, it can be similar to making decisions while sleepy, drunk, etc. When you make an important decision, make sure you are in an alert capable state of mind.
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Smoke responsibly once September October hits, fellow Canadians! <3
