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I get high as an alternative to life, not as in escaping of problems or anything but it's safe and fun way to make everyday tasks fun and exciting. And its a good way to have a good time with your close friends, also im more of a quiet person at times i just like to soak everything in and i like listening to people but when im high it seems like i can say things i wouldint say sober. not neccesarily stupid things... well sometimes ha. but its just a good way to have a good time. personally i disagree with everyday use most likely its not but in my view people who dedicate there lives to smoking pot constantly just seem like they have nothing going for them and thats fine we all do own on shit. but yeah it justs makes things more interesting and its an easy way to have a good time thats the sole reason i love it so much

 

Belladom

This is a hard question. I began by trying to figure out if smoking made me happy or sad (no, I don't buy the notion that weed is 'happy smoke', sometimes so sometimes not... at best) and then I started thinking about other supposedly healthy activities when I glanced to the right and my eyes fell upon my guitar. I definately spend more time playing guitar then smoking weed but guitar doesn't really make me happy. It can, but it can also frusterate me; like weed, sometimes I get frusterated when I can't feel the way I did before (I know you probably hate them but Linkin Park has a song called faint with the refrain "I can't feel the way I did before" which is probably not about drug use given the rest of the lyrics but it makes a suitable quote to capture the feeling where you're smoking to remember something vague that meant alot but you just can't seem to quite get there). Yoga: doesn't really make me happy, gives me a distraction and something to get frusterated over and use energy on.

Here's a few reasons I can venture as to why I smoke:

-It puts me in touch with my methodology. My high depends on all sorts of internal factors. So when I roll a bad joint or take a bad breath on the inhale of a bowl, it can ruin the effect. For example a hard hit will have my throat in pain for longer than it needs to be, a miss rolled joint can run or pull too hard, thus tainting the experience, but a perfectly rolled joint, inhaled at just the right speed topping off at just the right amount of smoke for just the right amount of time in just the right amount of hits brings me a satisfaction I can't describe but feel that I probably don't have to.

-It confuses me about my feelings. Sometimes I don't wanna think about whether I feel happy or sad and I think that a good weed high is beyond happy and sad. I think that sometimes thinking about happy and sad are what dries up our spiritual reservoir and straps us down to useless contemplation (perhaps useless... trying to be gentle here). Look at your pets if you have them. Do you think they give a rip (hehehehe...) if they happen to be randomly sad or happy... nah, they seem to just act on whatever comes, do whatever they can whatever the circumstance; and if you don't believe that one then maybe you should turn on the Discovery channel if you have it and watch some life that's further removed from human behaviour.

-It reminds me of what has mattered to me in my life. Before I started smoking at age 19 I was: deeply into music, fairly deep into philosophy and metaphysics, pretty solid with contemporary science, and appreciative of visual arts. After I started smoking I kinda shut myself off a little from other activities and concentrated more on those things that mattered to me that I've listed above, but flourished at music (definately) and philosophy (arguably) as well as increased my involvement with the rest of list, though to a lesser extent. Would I have branched out more had I never made smoking a habit? Would I have become the solid musician I am now without the herb? I don't know, but I don't believe so because for as long as I remember the items of that list above have ALWAYS been my bread and butter.

-It keeps me in touch with life and death in a more intimate way. I've had numerous times where I've crashed head long into the idea of death... everything I know about it hit me head on while high several occasions. Not a near death experience, just various epiphanies concerning what I know about the nature of death and I believe such knowledge is worthy. As for life? When I'm high I often spend less time concerned about myself and this opens me up for realizations about a life that doesn't include me... and oddly, such things make me (I almost said happy) RIGHT (can't find the word, sorry).

-It gives me the chops to manage fear. I've had mad paranoia on the herb and I admit it. Now; while I know that pot paranoia isn't necessarily a fear of anything in particular (more like a vague feeling) it still is fear, and I feel that frequent exposure to fear is healthy for all life especially when one tries earnestly to manage it the way one ought to (which only the one may know). Here's a good example. We have a spiral staircase at my house and I know the floor plan well enough that I don't need to turn on any lights at night to make my way down the stairs, around the corner, down the hallway and into my room. Even as an adult I was afraid going down those stairs I would imagine that a monstrous hand would grab my foot from between the steps (they have a gap) and drag me down and devour or, worse, would cause me to fall and do myself damage and then disappear so no one would believe me. Yes I realized the stupidity, childishness and irrationality of the thought but it still had great power over me. Since I started smoking I've had much worse thoughts than that, much scarier notions and much of my petty concerns about life have sorta melted away in the wake of those experiences.

That's all I have for ya.

Belladom

I just read my post and decided that all it's contents could be condensed into one simple reason. So here's the abridged version: I smoke for knowledge.

slash420

y ask y? do it and you'll find out y we do it.

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SpliffMan420

its none of those its just that it pasts time and is a social thing to do and is fun and my life isnt perfects its medicore

 

bucnasty187

i started gettin high when i started football cause i was so out of shape and i felt like i was dieing doin a 300 yard sprint (full speed or re-do) and makes that first hit not hurt (only the first good tackle hurts then adrenaline comes in which is way better!!!! makes u strong)

slash420

exactly

Saracolours

I get high because...hmmm, ive never really thought about it that much. I guess everyone has their way to vent (whether its venting anger, happiness, sadness, any feeling) and everyone has somthing that they do to make themselves feel comfortable, and its human nature to seek pleasure. Some people draw, some people sit and tap their foot for hours on end, some people drink, some people over/under eat, some people withdraw from social interaction, ect., but i happen to choose smoking weed as my way to spend time doing somthing out of most people's every day life. Not necessarily as an escape, or a cover up for life, i dont feel as if i have anything to run from (my life isnt horrible, i live in an average suburban town and deal with things alot of people have to deal with in life) but as a tool to help myself think about life as i could never think about it if i hadnt started smoking weed.

Somone just recently told me that i "must smoke weed because it numbs my mind and makes it so i cannot think and deal with my problems" which is the absolute opposite from the truth. I find that when I am stoned I am able to look at my problems and my life in a more realistic way, and find myself thinking about life more so when i am stoned than when I am not.

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thaaster

A lot of it is to relax myself, and also to open up my mind to different alternatives.

It's also a very social thing for me - I love smoking it up with my friends, and just freestyling or talking or whatever.

NemoStoned

Of course I love the feeling, but there is more. I've thought this one out a lot.

1. I become more relaxed. I would call myself a chronic insomniac. Most of the time I can't sleep because I'm so stressed about life and all of the things going on. My classes, my friends, my family. So when I toke before bed, I relax and can drift away to sleep easily. In general, I've become a more chill person than I was before I started smoking. The little things that are unimportant in life just don't bother me anymore.

2. Enhances my creativity. I'm an artist. I have always loved to draw and paint. When I smoke, I find that I become so meticulous about my art and it always comes out better. My ideas end up being different than when I'm sober.

3. Rewarding myself. Some people end the day by kicking back and having a beer. I end a hard day's work by kicking back and smoking a bowl.

4. Social reasons. I love meeting all of the different kinds of people who get stoned. You know that if someone smokes, they are atleast a little chill. I've met crazy gangsta rappers, long haired hippies, 4.7 GPA nerds, quiet wallflowers, hardcore punks, all sorts of people who love the ganja just as much as I do.