As a former long term frequent user, weed makes you dumb for several days after and it's fairly obvious. The slowdown, increased introversion, and dented motiva

As a former long term frequent user, weed makes you dumb for several days after and it's fairly obvious. The slowdown, increased introversion, and dented motivation will stick with you for a while, but so will the increased baseline dopamine, at least if the user isn't functionally dependent. If you're already a shut-in, and smoke nonstop for years, it will multiply the introversion, and schizophrenia-like symptoms are essentially inevitable. You will be too nervous to let anyone see you in this state of degraded capacity, and cope with it by just smoking more, it's a vicious cycle. If you have friends who don't mind your habits, or join you frequently, the risk is mostly neutralized.