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Experience with cannabis or magic mushrooms?


I'm not against medical marijuana as a chill drill, drops seem to help. But everyday use without meltdown or depression can cause negative side effects in my opinion.
For myself if I finish bottle THC I get severe withdraw, so fine line balamce.

Post on you tube with positive and negative feedback for Tourette's and other neurological disorders. However this claim is still onboard • With regard to side effects, acute use of cannabis has been shown to cause anxiety and panic, impaired attention/memory/psychomotor performance, increased chance of psychosis in those already predisposed, and tachycardia. Long-term effects are less well studied, but there is evidence of cannabis dependence, bronchitis, increased risk of auto accidents, and the potential for mild withdrawal symptoms. There is no evidence cannabis use increases risk of cancer, leads to permanent psychiatric/cognitive deficits, or can result in overdose

(Green fever is taking too much, dizziness, vomiting for few hours)

I still disagree daily usage.
 
Best to avoid drugs, so many disgraces because of this.
My experience with weed, i smoked 1, and i didn't feel anything, so i said 'this is pointless', and never tried again.
I try to avoid alcohol too, because i know i am not a person with too much discipline or control for this kind of things, i don't want to get addicted.
 
I'm not a close minded person, I have seeing with meltdowns how thc drops help, my concern is that prolonged use of marijuana may cause withdrawal and other side effects. It's really about whether it works used everyday.
Same with psychedelics, or sex MDMA if it's in pure form it causes less bad experiences, but I wouldn't give daily doses under legalised scripts. I'd allow a little for social life exploration, obviously not to under 21 years of age.

Issue is manic depression and addressing long term social isolation from autism, but I don't believe drugs are the answer, bad experience or addiction are huge issues. It may also cause unwanted effects (maybe affect speech, motor at high dose over long time)
Whilst I've seeing that it is relief for cancer patients, ease their pain and rest....I think they can have it for few days but everyday, forever. Um

Apologise this message is badly written, I'm really tired and mentally drained but recent media exposure on Elon musk has made me think of reminding people to acknowledge that drugs do have side effects even though some claim it affects them differently.

Message: give me hugs not drugs
(I'm not opposed to legalised medical use, but I'm aware enough that long term exposure to any drugs gives time needed for effects to show)
Dosing on thc everyday, is no no. But for meltdown for PTSD and various reasons it's ok.y
 
Best to avoid drugs, so many disgraces because of this.
My experience with weed, i smoked 1, and i didn't feel anything, so i said 'this is pointless', and never tried again.
I try to avoid alcohol too, because i know i am not a person with too much discipline or control for this kind of things, i don't want to get addicted.
Drugs do not agree with some at all, having taking ecstasy I sat in bath with jitters from what cut into drugs, MDNA can be much easier to tolerate as it's in pure form.
Same with THC or good weed, the effects are better, however occasions bad experience happen and more one uses, tend to increase dosage and psychedelics known to make people behave strangely in public, with autism this can be very bad.

We went to a pub, karaoke night. I was playing pool, sipping apple cider but some people were intoxicated by alcohol. This one girl was dancing really badly and some guys as in mimic sex whilst dancing. Or holding fishing rod near crotch area and becoming confused/vulgar. I'm not sure but seemed Elon musk was high and holding chain saw near crotch area, very cheap/nasty.
I prefer when watch tango or ballroom dancing where people don't go as far as to equate sexual organs with what they are doing.
 
I think it's entirely possible that psychedelics used in a true "micro-dose" scenario where a person takes so little they don't feel any "trippy" effects at all might have medical efficacy.

However, in my opinion and in my own experiences, recreational use of psychedelics is most often a phase of experimentation that a person goes through and usually in their youth. In my own experience, the few people I've known who actually used psychedelics on a regular and extended basis to the level of tripping hard often, were people to avoid because they were also mentally, very unstable. The kind of people you wouldn't want to be alone with.
 
Living with speed addict was crazy, he'd experimented since teen years and was non-prescribed version for his ADHD.
Even if smoking very little, he was awake days on end with work excuse. It eventually cost him his business and became my problem to ensure there was food in the house whenever he went off the rails or relapsed or whatever. So for this reason I prefer to keep drugs far away from my life!!!
Examples: a hard drive went missing, always harassing people for money, sleep routines that disruptive, taking my sunglasses for driving (taking a lot of my personal stuff, actually)
Customers complaining, work slowing, being argumentative.

And the list of lost jobs all coinciding with his need for meds. Some meds were for allergies and too heavy to work, he used this excuse that this drug worked better.

So whilst he had ADHD personality to be socialite, he lacked calm methodical approach I had with customers. He mostly dealt with hardware and networks so creativity and thinking out of box wasn't required.
We used to put in long hours with Java programming long before C# started copy features, and still he never committed same effort to his work. Brutally unfair for me to pick up pieces, even supply contracts for him to further stuff up in his state, of course bring a guy he was going to take all the credit, and it's just tiring to be around people who suck life force out of you.
 
Mostly I tried this as youngster, aside from affecting my studies and taking a long time to get back on track, marijuana had this affect 'where I was forgetful of even what I had being doing a moment ago' stopping was like a clarity. I was even less aware of my surrounds and more self absorbed. Which with autism shy became eventually very unsociable.
Psychedelics may backfire and give bad trip under say pressure with difficult people. What was supposed to be anti-depressant can make matters worse.
(Many vieetnaam soldiers have flashbacks to a horrific time, from LSD and agent Orange left men with many health affects which passed to children. The idea that drugs make you brave can severely backfire when you don't need it)
 

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