I’m going to smoke for the first time tomorrow. Just thought someone, somewhere, might care.
Because I’m damn excited.
i care 
May your soul shine out.
Welcome to the dark side!
Happy smoking, Koifer - let us know how it goes…
It’s hard, but some-ones gotta do it 
I’ve had some times of paranoia and anxiety on pot. I think most of it has to do with individual finding their own prefered set and setting. I didn’t start to really enjoy cannabis until I started smoking it alone or with a good friend or two, usually camping or on a long hike through the woods. I never could enjoy it at parties.
You want to hang around with stoners because they think like you when your not stoned, makes sense to me.
Tis true…
Then again, you could always instead heed the phrase, “it won´t happen to me” or “let someone else do it”!
I don’t really know how you guys live who DO smoke it. Its rank - the only times i had it, i hated it. twice was hash cakes, and other times was a spliff at a party. Each time it made my mouth dry out, my eyes feel like they were filled with sand and i got really hungry.
I already have a very hearty appetite, so no more needed there - and who wants dried out mouth and eyes all the time? Yuck.
Not to mention every person i know who smokes it regularly appears virtually retarded to someone who is sober.
my friend who works at the local mental hospital says that 99% of the intakes mental illness is from cannabis use.
Drugs are bad … M’kaayy.
He is at the very least misleading you. He could be outright lying, but I reckon it’s more likely that 99% of the intakes have taken cannabis, rather than are there solely because of it, so it’s probable he’s just manipulating an essentially accurate stat.
Possible of course - but he had no reason to lie to me in the context of the conversation. He said it is so rare these days to get someone in to the mental hospital who are GENUINELY mentally ill - ie, not from drug use.
I’m not fussed if people want to take drugs - I just think its a shame that so many people feel the need to do so to have a ‘good time’ - same goes for the alcohol consumption. Where her ein the UK it seems to be a passtime to go out and get slaughtered at the weekends to the point of not remembering how you got home etc - and people look at you strangely if you drink a soft drink.
Weed is what got me into philosophy, as I couldn’t help but think deeply about everything while high.
If anyone is hesitating trying it, do some research and you will see there is nothing to worry about. Other than losing short term memory, you will be FINE. If you start to freak out your first time, just go to bed.