Cannabis - A New View

[gammagore]

newdimensions- I started smoking cannabis when I was 13 or so, it began as just the in thing to do.
Since then ive been using it heavily, not in any nice way, it began to be just the "norm" for me. Just abuse if you ask me.

Ive used psych's for many years, but never got any good out of them, I suppose I abused those as well.

But after begging my journey with caapi and spice things have changed, big time.

So the thing now for me is, after stopping it for a few months, and starting to smoke the ocassional spliff with friends... its funny stuff, cannabis, so subtle in its grasp.

So for me its somthing I need to just stay away from, rather not tempt myself

 

[polytrip]

gammagore, I'm curious what your experience with cannabis, and your seeming disillusion with it has been, because it sounds similar (perhaps) to what I've gone through.

Cannabis was the first psychoactive I experienced, and it was such a wonderful plant to me. My first time, I went into a state where I felt entirely like myself (I have some issues with body dysphoria) and nearly every time I smoked for a couple of years (not frequently most of the time, but probably 1-10 times per month) it was perfect. I generally don't smoke a huge amount, since I like to be functional, but at the same time I could benefit from the cannabis working its magic on me.

A few months ago, when I began using psychedelics, I found that the psychedelics were telling me something about cannabis. It's like each time I dosed, I would have at least one point where I compared the experience to cannabis, and somehow the cannabis seemed shallow, or lacking. Since my first psychedelic experience, cannabis has almost completely lacked euphoria, and generally the high has just been very mechanical, unpleasant, almost like side effects without the main course.

I stopped smoking for a couple months, and just started trying again this past week. I still can't seem to find the bliss in cannabis that I used to only a few months ago. I can obviously get by just fine without it, but it's like losing a good friend. And when I'm around friends who are smoking and enjoying it, getting happy instead of worried, getting hungry instead of unsettled, it makes me a little sad.

Has anyone else experienced this at some point? Has anyone found a way to "restore" their body's interactions with a plant? Tolerance should not be an issue, since I stopped for a few months...I don't know what happened here

I know exactly what you mean.

In my view, the use of cannabis can very quickly lead to an extreme tolerance for the substance that can last for months and months.

Sometimes you might even need to stay abstinent for more then 6 months in order to be able to feel the full bliss cannabis has to offer.

A couple of times in my life i didn't use the stuff for more than half a year and when i started using cannabis again, i always was completely astonished with what it can do, but after just two or three times it completely lost that psychedelic quality again. At that time it's only a sedative to me, with hardly any psychedelic quality's at all.

I think that at a certain moment, the body just knows how cannabis works, and it can build up tolerance incredibly fast.

If you stay abstinent for long enough, you CAN have that euphoria again like you had the first time, but within only a few times of using it your whole system has build up a sort of immunity for it. Like it's some capacity your body has that's just dormant for a long time, but once activated again, it very quickly functions again at full strength.

 

[epiphany_awakening]

i totally understand what you mean.
I've recently undergone a personal experiment. I'm not going to smoke cannabis for 3 months this summer because over the past 3 years that I've been using it, I have noticed that I've been getting badly affected by it and it doesn't give me any insight into anything and to be completely, I feel it has begun to gnaw away at my brain and the narcotic effects of the plant have become so apparent that I can hardly remember the psychadelic effects of the plant at all that were so compelling when I first smoked it. Mary Jane is a very subtle addiction. Because it is so socially acceptable that one has trouble realizing the problems that marijuana addiction has. I'm no heroin addict and I haven't got withdrawals and I look normal. However, it does eat away at your soul and it blunts your feelings. It can be the most beautiful plant on the world but can also be the devil. For me, its both. Thats addiction and yes it is sad but it doesnt make you totally inactive which maybe, if it did, it would be easier to come off.

Solution? To use cannabis once a week in a spiritual manner as Terence Mckenna said. However, when one is surrounded by ''stoners'' that is very difficult. Everything in moderation, even drugs.

 

[Virola78]

Cannabis is great for pondering

Just treat and take it like you would any other entheogen.
Respect, you know.