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  Ah right, I forgot some folks put it into brownies.
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  I smoke everyday and am a programmer. All my friends are engineers and smoke all the time. Friends fiancé is about to be a lawyer and she smokes more than all of us. Lazy people are already lazy and weed seems like a good excuse for them. >
  
  Yes and no.  You will find plenty of people who buck the lazy stoner trend if you meet a thousand people who smoke weed.  On the other hand depending on the circles you run in you'll probably find a lot more burnouts than people with graduate degrees. >
  
  Most burnouts have graduate degrees, where do you think they first started toking? >
  
  They started toking out of an apple behind the middle school like a civilized 12 year old. >
  
  Look at Admiral Fancy here using an apple instead of a pop can. >
  
  We were partial to using gum wrappers and  the spare sheets from the Bible to roll joints >
  
  I smoke some weed because I got issues, I don't have issues because of smoking weed. >
  
  Smoking for like 15 years now (~10yrs daily use). I tried to stop (many times) but always fell back on the excuse  that i don’t feel motivated, focused or positive without smoking before any activity. I now realize that for myself all that weed over all those yrs made me dependent on weed to reach a baseline of functionality. basically my body had handed over the responsibility of naturally creating the chemicals that result in better focus, motivation and general happiness over to marijuana. So when i stopped smoking (initially) my body wouldnt produce enough to make me feel normal. I thought it was because i had some mental disorder and weed was a cure, whole time i was just an addict. >
  
  I have a similar story. To anyone this resonates with, check out "dopamine detox". It takes 2 or 3 weeks for your body to straighten things out, but it does work. I went from an all day every day user to now only using it every once in a while. Over indulging will make your body crave it, regardless of what others say. >
  
  absolutely agree. it takes some discipline and understanding of yourself to know if your the type to smoke causally or if your the type that is all in. once i get passed 2-3 weeks the cravings are gone and it’s up to me to keep my head together when life throws a curve ball and the though to smoke creeps back in. my problem is i always smoked to deal/ cope
  with my issues instead of taking on the issue head on. >
  
  I stopped for a month because I had to take a piss test for this health insurance application - was 4 weeks of being bored. Fired a bowl as soon as I took that piss test. >
  
  I'm not against weed but I personally don't like the effect it has on me. Many friends of mine smoke on a regular basis, some every day.
  You'd be surprised how many think they don't fit into any stereotype but they actually do, and think they are still functional when they actually are not. They don't notice, because... well, they are stoned. >
  
  Stoners aren't high 24/7 so during their sober times (which would be most of the day) wouldn't they know if it's impacted them negatively? I'm a "stoner" but it's something I do after work and after my responsibilities for the day are handled. >
  
  Everyone is different. I have friends that have the ability to be aware that they are not in full capacity to do complex situations, and I have friends that even after casually smoking almost every day for 15-20 years (with some clean stages in their life), they still don't realise I have to switch to meaningless conversations when they smoke because they can't follow a conversation (and get upset if I point it out).
  So yeah, there's a wide variety. But what I encounter the most, with all due respect, is people that even after smoking regularly for years, they still think it doesn't affect them as much as it does. >
  
  Functioning pothead here. I wish i could go back to the high of 20 years ago lol >
  
  Getting high back in the day would last for like 6 hours. It was great until I convinced myself I was actually mentally handicapped, but everyone was pretending I wasn’t to be nice. A double-edged sword to be sure lol >
  
  Lol when i was 18 i got stuck in a mental timeloop off fucking commercial haha. >
  
  I got ADHD - cannabis is the only thing that keeps my head on sorta straight.
  Tried medications over the years - adderal, bupropian, vivance, etc -  but all of them seem to give me an edge.
  Weed makes me chill and happy - kind of slows my brain down so I can cope. >
  
  Ditto! >
  
  More people smoke than you think, it’s far more common. Another misconception probably paid for by the alcohol industry. >
  
  It's true. The older I get and the more people I meet the more I realize just how many people smoke or use cannabis products regularly. People you wouldn't expect either. Just recently found out that an older family friend who's super super conservative uses edibles. He's the absolute last person I would have ever suspected of using cannabis products. >
  
  I would think most stoners don't smoke like cigarette smokers. >
  
  Smells like absolute shit, neighbors made my apt sleep awful in my bedroom. Didn't appreciate it >
  
  As someone who's prescribed it for my back pain. I literally became the opposite of the stereotype. I was using muscle relaxers before that didn't help unless I took enough to knock me out. Weed, just take one hit of the distillate and within 10 minutes my back loosened up enough to go outside. I wasn't laying on the ground with pain any more. 
  I smoked before my back injury and never really saw it useful for pain management. Once I tried it my mind was blown with how much better it was than flexeril for me.
  Just to throw this out there, not everyone will have the same results as me. It's worth a try, but if it doesn't work talk to your doctor. >
  
  Well one of the main issues wirh weed is that it can impair the whole memory formation thing because endocannabonoids and such
  Weed is however a super useful tool.
  It really depends what kind of variant people take, if it has a lot of the psychoactive stuff.. well it tends to fill the stereotype well still >
  
  The longer you know people that uses marijuana, the more the stereotypes about stoners get reinforced… >
  
  Has anyone opened up a stoner and seen what their lungs look like? I'm curious if their lungs are black like a traditional smoker or maybe green. >
  
  Smoking isn't the only way for people to consume thc. Stoners could be people who drink or eat edibles as well.