Disclaimer: No suggestion anyone I'm responding to does any of this... Weed sometimes helps, sometimes hurts, but usually hurts. The weed isn't helpful even if

Disclaimer: No suggestion anyone I'm responding to does any of this... Weed sometimes helps, sometimes hurts, but usually hurts. The weed isn't helpful even if just meeting a couple friends for a beer who know I'm stoned. They aren't stoned so we're in a different space and it's harder to connect, leading to me getting left behind in the conversation. Not intellectually but more emotionally as in why less eye contact with me? I asked about it and sure enough, the answer was what I expected. And these are people who do do it occasionally so even for them they'd rather deal with me not high. Alcohol usually hurts. The ceremony of having a couple drinks with friends is the drinking together so it's not helpful to be halfway there already. And if it's non-drinking event, see above, same kind of problem. I find too much alcohol to be uncomfortable so I rarely go that route to prepare but I can see how it could seem appealing for people who like it more than I do.