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Everyone's mileage varies - you'll find no shortage of people who lament the long term effects (although abstinence for even a month or so seems to cause comple
by jMyles 12y ago
Everyone's mileage varies - you'll find no shortage of people who lament the long term effects (although abstinence for even a month or so seems to cause complete reversal).
For my part, smoking cannabis is great for me, especially for programming. I find both that I feel more focused and that I am more capable of juggling multiple tasks. The "listener" in me comes alive, and I'm better able to empathize with the author who, three years ago, wrote the class from which I'm inheriting for a slightly different use case.
Sometimes I spend the morning under coffee's spell, writing really great tests, to then get as high as I want and spend the afternoon making them pass, with the aesthetic sensibilities from some high-quality indica powering me through ensuring that my code is readable, reusable, and maintainable. Even if I get a little too high, I always know that the tests I wrote will keep me tethered to a more grounded demeanor.
However, the effect of the herb that I most treasure is that just a little bit of weed tells me what I so often forget: that I need to get up and go for a walk to get some real thinking done.
Sometimes the reefer also tells me other things about my habits: I've had too much coffee. I was too hard on a colleague or friend earlier. I need to stop fussing and just merge that pull request.
After smoking fairly consistently for 13 years, I seem to be blessed by having no negative effects of which I am aware. I think it's just a great plant and part of a healthy, whole-food-and-drugs lifestyle.
- PlzSnow 12y ago"After smoking fairly consistently for 13 years, I seem to be blessed by having no negative effects of which I am aware." Your prose suggests otherwise.
- jMyles 12y agoI think you're suggesting that there's an error in the snippet you've quoted? I don't immediately see it. Can you point it out?
- PlzSnow 12y agoYour prose exhibits that rambling not-to-the-pointness that I often encounter when interacting with habitual blunters.
- unprepare 12y agoWhat exactly are you implying is wrong with the quoted segment? Further, are you basing an opinion of a human's mental acuity on a single comment posted on a news forum? Do you think that is a valid measure of the long term effects of marijuana use?
- zwieback 12y agojust curious - were you high when you wrote this?
- jMyles 12y agoNo I wasn't, but while writing it, I came to desire it, and so now, as I write this, I am! :-)
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- drzaiusapelord 12y ago>After smoking fairly consistently for 13 years, I seem to be blessed by having no negative effects of which I am aware. Well, that's the problem with cognitive faults, we usually aren't aware of them.
- jMyles 12y agoI'm sorry - did you just change the predicate of your comment from "Except, apparently, your prose skill" to "Well, that's the problem with cognitive faults, we usually aren't aware of them" after we had responded to it? Are you serious?
- drzaiusapelord 12y agoNo, that was someone else's comment. Mine stands as originally posted - its tough, if not impossible, to make your own self-assessment on cognitive issues. That's why double-blind studies are the norm in biology and medicine. I have stoner friends who make the same argument and, frankly, they're completely unaware at how slow they are from a cognitive perspective and seem overly forgetful. I can't just pin this on aging as we're all the same age. It just seems that those who took drugs seriously, even just pot, in their 20s, are paying a price for it much later in life. That's something people should be warned about. No amount of diet changes, meditation, or fish oil is going to get help here. They have permanently altered their brain.
- jMyles 12y agoAhh, my apologies for accusing you. I don't mean to sound cocky, but I can't think of a better way to say: I don't think my capacity to contribute effectively, drawing from cognitive capacity among other sources, is in question.