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When I started smoking back in May, my primary concern was that I would become even lazier and less motivated in school than I already was. But I decided to take a risk, and keep smoking weed anyway.
During the summer I smoked on and off, at one point it was at about every 2 weeks, but toward the end I was averaging about 3 times a week. Anyway, school started a little while ago, and before it did I made a promise with myself to work harder than I ever have before.

What you have to realize is that I've been promising myself this for years, and it never works out. I'm lazy (maybe its genetic or deeply rooted in me...I have serious problems with motivation), I procrastinate, and never study. During my good moments last year, I would do *some* of my homework and study a little, but wile I would do it, I would just rush right through it and studying was really little more than an afterthought. The whole time I'd be studying my mind would be off with the clouds, thinkign about activities I'd rather be engaged in. It causes a huge problem for me, because I know for a fact that I have above-average intelligence, and I hated seeing it go to waste. I felt helpless.

Well, this school year rolled around, and the week before it started I just smoked once.

I first noticed my change in attitude a few days ago. I was paying attention in class, focusing and what was being taught, and taking notes like I never had before. I was totally focused, and my mind was completely enthralled into the lesson that was going on. I attributed my new found sense of motivation and my increased attention-span to determination and strength, although deep inside I had pretty much utterly suprised myself with my behavior.

Lately I've been doing all my homework and studying my ass off as soon as I walk in the door, before doing anything else. I find its easier to concentrate than ever before, and I feel myself a lot more relaxed. A major problem I had before was that if I encountered the smallest problem/difficulty in my homework, I'd get EXTREMELY frustrated, anxious/restless, and end up not finishing it. Now I find that I have an infinite amount of patience (at least compared to before!) and I'm more interested in the material I study. I got to thinking last night and I realized that the ONLY factor thats changed from last year is my pot smoking.

I've conlcuded that its helped me RELAX (I get anxious/mad/moody/nervous/frustrated easily) and thus made my homework seem a lot easier, and even more interesting.

And then I got to thinking about marijuana as compared to prescription drugs. Take prozac, for example. Its use as a drug is to help cure depression, yet all it essentially does is NUMB your feelings and make you lose interest in life and things you once enjoyed (hrmm...where have I heard that before? DARE, perhaps?). I remember when my mom was taking prozac how she'd always complain about how her lifewas even worse now, and ever since she stopped she hasnt been the same.

Marijuana, on the other hand, doesn't re-wire the brain's infrastructure, and is extremely effective in treating a number of physical ailments. Headaches, stress, nausea, chronic pain...all cured. The side effects of the drug only last while you're high (except for the lung stuff of course), and the high itself is more like a light, soothing daydream than the intense carnival of disorientation produced by other drugs.

And whats more, I've been finding its invaluable for emotional symptoms. Unlike the legal drug prozac, which kills your depression by simply numbing ALL feelings, or the illegal drugs cocaine/heroin, which alter levels of dopamine in your brain (thusly giving you a very fake and fleeting, chemically-induced blast of euphoria), marijuana doesn't create happiness/kill depression in and of itself. All it does is clear your mind, sooth your soul, and grant you an oppurtunity to find IMMENSE pleasure in very very simple things. A warm joke shared with friends has the potential to be an amazingly euhporic experience, and the same goes for a summer sunset or a nightsky filled with life. It has the potential for misuse, no doubt, and not everyone finds that it helps happiness - but a huge potnetial is in this plant. It helps fight depression, amotivation and hostility in a very safe, light way. The experience you get out of it ends up coming out of YOU, and YOUR hopes and dreams and simple pleasures, and because of THAT, my friend, it is the best drug (illegal or otherwise) in existence.

Its a shame more people can't reap the benefits. Even if you don't enjoy the high, the potential to CHANGE YOUR LIFE AROUND lies in the leaves of this drug. Proof of that will come in a few weeks, when I get my first progress report, complete with very good grades...

toke on

 

schwadood

It's great to hear a first hand account of someone that marijuana helped. Now whenever somebody starts saying that marijuana causes amotivation you can say no it dosen't, look at me! peace

thrashnor

the bud helped me too, it gave a a real barrier between playtime and worktime, so now i focus better when i know it's worktime.

alivenkikn

Oh what a delightful statement just so happy to hear that there r people who have benifited from the almighty herb.Remeber,"The HeathenDevilWeed"?Yes,I also have been greawtly helped.Helps me relax,focus on certain tasks,and definitly picked up my appetite,stoppped the nausea.I have hepC,which i became emaciated,now i have some meat on my bones. maybe a little much these days I am a firm believer in that if more acceptance to using the herb came about,it could be used in liew of un-natural substances that may be doing more harm than good.
Smoke On

lyonlass

I have PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder). I suffer from nightmares, flashbacks, triggers, panic attacks, exaggerated startle response, hell, I can't even wear a seat belt.
Spent years being misdiagnosed, everything from ADD to Social Phobia. Have taken just about every legal pharmecutical and none work. Began smoking pot about a year ago with good results. Doctor and therapist know and don't care. They see the difference, especially in my ability to now think things through and be more productive.
When I see a joint I don't think of it as an illegal drug. I see it as 3-4 doses of medication that works for me.

 

alivenkikn

They use to give me dilatin,phenobarb,then depecote and phenobarb,4 seizures,which were brought on by anxiety,and i take none of those anymore.SO what seems to be the problem w/legalization?

ADR531

Pipe, I agree with you 100%. Wow, what a good post. Marijuana is the perfect drug, and has brought wonders for me in my everday life. I too find that classes become more interesting and I have a happier outlook on life. I once was depressed and had anxiety problems. Even when I'm not high, I feel changed. Now if only this was legal in the US I think I'm gonna move to Amsterdam where my cousin lives haha.