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The Awesomeness of Marijuana
- Thread starter HempKat
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all of the above @ one point in my life or another
Just a note on the awesomeness of weed. There are strains for some conditions and strains to avoid for others.. One condition could be cured by one strain and then made to express by another strain. For one species of plant, thats' awesome. It teaches us so much about our physiology and disease BECAUSE it is counter-intuitive, weed once again makes us think further. For example.. The psychosis mentioned above by Botanist prime would be cured by a CBD rich strain most likely of afghan or hemp origins but would be extremely exacerbated by a THC/THC-V combo rich strain like that found in your typical africans. Why..? 
And so we learn more about ourselves..
And so we learn more about ourselves..
The Keys to Possibilities...
The Keys to Possibilities...
I would say that cannabis was the catalyst that opened doors in the dark corridors of my mind as a diagnosed maladjusted youth and enabled me to access areas on a cerabral plain that I was previously unaware of and so gave me the ability to travel around and explore the mental geography within my own psyche....This caused me not only to be enormousley entertained and enlightened, but also it gave me a growing confidence and understanding of my own thought processes and the ability to steer them in a positive direction and at a velocity or speed that was more controlled....
Before I had toked on that first spliff it seemed to me that I had only experienced a view of my life and world from the inside looking out and after that first spliff I suddenly had the ability to survey myself from the outside looking in, so gifting me a whole new perspective and dimension in perception and a growing awareness of what I thought really made me tick......and so I took to this new and previously undiscovered bright and positive mind-scape with great gusto now with this fresh outlook and capability to think to far greater depths on a myriad of subjects that needed to be thoroughly examined, disected and understood then neatly filed away in the now brightly lit and unconfused place within my buzzing cerebral cortex.
I began in earnest to study my emotions and emotional responses to various scenarios within my real world and think deeply about why I might react to any given situation in a certain way before cannabis with a dawning realization that I would most often react without any real semblance of cognitive thought 'in the raw' often times leading to confusion and misplaced anger that occasionally could manifest itself into a potentially violent and dangerous end, due to me not being in control of a certain emotion and letting it run un-checked, rough-shod and misdirected to the point where I could not possibly reign the runaway response in.....I just could not find the brake pedal when I needed to and so inevitably this would lead to the fear and bewilderment present within an emotional breakdown and this would always hurt me and others too.....
Cannabis bestowed the levity upon me to be able to achieve the correct pace and timing that was required by giving me enough time and space to pre-empt a looming psychological train-wreck and the associated fallout from it and stop or re-direct the chain of events long before the reactor reached critical mass and any subsequent negative fallout that might ensue due to lack of control....
Quite miraculously this seemingly magical herb initially in the form of a medium grade dry-sifted and pressed Moroccan hashish pervaded upon me at 15 years old the conscious reasoning to seek always to accentuate the positive whilst gainfully persuing the now obtainable keys that would unlock the doors that now swung open wide granting me access to potentially infinate levels of greater understanding of all things that previously had looked dark, inconceivable and daunting to ever fully comprehend or make use of......
This new-found realization settled and centered me, it calmed me down and naturally excited me for now I became gloriously aware of a different and shiney bright path to what I saw as much better states of conciousness that could be reached just by imbibing cannabis and perhaps other mind altering or mind enhancing substances herbal, ethnobotanicals, cacti, fungi and the like......with cannabis my journey had begun and it was good....
The Keys to Possibilities...
I would say that cannabis was the catalyst that opened doors in the dark corridors of my mind as a diagnosed maladjusted youth and enabled me to access areas on a cerabral plain that I was previously unaware of and so gave me the ability to travel around and explore the mental geography within my own psyche....This caused me not only to be enormousley entertained and enlightened, but also it gave me a growing confidence and understanding of my own thought processes and the ability to steer them in a positive direction and at a velocity or speed that was more controlled....
Before I had toked on that first spliff it seemed to me that I had only experienced a view of my life and world from the inside looking out and after that first spliff I suddenly had the ability to survey myself from the outside looking in, so gifting me a whole new perspective and dimension in perception and a growing awareness of what I thought really made me tick......and so I took to this new and previously undiscovered bright and positive mind-scape with great gusto now with this fresh outlook and capability to think to far greater depths on a myriad of subjects that needed to be thoroughly examined, disected and understood then neatly filed away in the now brightly lit and unconfused place within my buzzing cerebral cortex.
I began in earnest to study my emotions and emotional responses to various scenarios within my real world and think deeply about why I might react to any given situation in a certain way before cannabis with a dawning realization that I would most often react without any real semblance of cognitive thought 'in the raw' often times leading to confusion and misplaced anger that occasionally could manifest itself into a potentially violent and dangerous end, due to me not being in control of a certain emotion and letting it run un-checked, rough-shod and misdirected to the point where I could not possibly reign the runaway response in.....I just could not find the brake pedal when I needed to and so inevitably this would lead to the fear and bewilderment present within an emotional breakdown and this would always hurt me and others too.....
Cannabis bestowed the levity upon me to be able to achieve the correct pace and timing that was required by giving me enough time and space to pre-empt a looming psychological train-wreck and the associated fallout from it and stop or re-direct the chain of events long before the reactor reached critical mass and any subsequent negative fallout that might ensue due to lack of control....
Quite miraculously this seemingly magical herb initially in the form of a medium grade dry-sifted and pressed Moroccan hashish pervaded upon me at 15 years old the conscious reasoning to seek always to accentuate the positive whilst gainfully persuing the now obtainable keys that would unlock the doors that now swung open wide granting me access to potentially infinate levels of greater understanding of all things that previously had looked dark, inconceivable and daunting to ever fully comprehend or make use of......
This new-found realization settled and centered me, it calmed me down and naturally excited me for now I became gloriously aware of a different and shiney bright path to what I saw as much better states of conciousness that could be reached just by imbibing cannabis and perhaps other mind altering or mind enhancing substances herbal, ethnobotanicals, cacti, fungi and the like......with cannabis my journey had begun and it was good....
I don't know if I would say this is what makes marijuana awesome but it was something I wanted to share because of some of the more recent posts others have made. I find it amusing when I see marijuana described as a gateway drug.
For me if anything marijuana was an anti gateway drug. I grew up and started using marijuana back in the age when everyone was dropping acid, doing heroin, coke, speed, downers, ludes, PCP, etc. All my "peers" were doing all these things and encouraging me to try it but I had my marijuana and that was good enough for me. It scratched that itch at the back of my cerebral cortex and I was content. Then in the 70's the US government in collusion with the Mexican government, sprayed all the marijuana fields they could find with this stuff called paraquat. Either killing the plants off or rendering the little that got harvested into something that would seriously harm you if you smoked it.
What was once widely available was near impossible to find and over the next couple of years that itch demanded scratching again. So I tried alcohol, coke, speed, ludes, etc and none of it really did me any good. Then marijuana started creeping back into the system but it was much more expensive, much poorer quality and much of it rather then being sold as weed was used to make something called "Love Boat" which was weed soaked with PCP. It didn't matter how good or bad the weed was because it was just a vehicle for smoking the PCP.
Now at the time I was pretty ignorant to what PCP was and so when I first tried Love Boat it was for the marijuana figuring that if part of it was marijuana it couldn't be too bad. Well I was wrong and it turns out I really liked PCP because it always left me having these experiences where I was transported to a different reality and I always felt on the verge of uncovering some deep secret of the mind and the universe. Unfortunately all it was doing was turning me into a nutcase and getting me in alot of trouble. Then after getting out of that trouble and regaining some control over my life again I managed to get back to just enjoying decent marijuana and everything has been more or less fine since.
If anything could be said to have driven me to experimenting with harder drugs it was not the use of marijuana but rather being denied the ability to choose it over other drugs. Had the government not sprayed those fields with paraquat I'm fairly certain my life would have gone in a much better more positive direction then it did.
For me if anything marijuana was an anti gateway drug. I grew up and started using marijuana back in the age when everyone was dropping acid, doing heroin, coke, speed, downers, ludes, PCP, etc. All my "peers" were doing all these things and encouraging me to try it but I had my marijuana and that was good enough for me. It scratched that itch at the back of my cerebral cortex and I was content. Then in the 70's the US government in collusion with the Mexican government, sprayed all the marijuana fields they could find with this stuff called paraquat. Either killing the plants off or rendering the little that got harvested into something that would seriously harm you if you smoked it.
What was once widely available was near impossible to find and over the next couple of years that itch demanded scratching again. So I tried alcohol, coke, speed, ludes, etc and none of it really did me any good. Then marijuana started creeping back into the system but it was much more expensive, much poorer quality and much of it rather then being sold as weed was used to make something called "Love Boat" which was weed soaked with PCP. It didn't matter how good or bad the weed was because it was just a vehicle for smoking the PCP.
Now at the time I was pretty ignorant to what PCP was and so when I first tried Love Boat it was for the marijuana figuring that if part of it was marijuana it couldn't be too bad. Well I was wrong and it turns out I really liked PCP because it always left me having these experiences where I was transported to a different reality and I always felt on the verge of uncovering some deep secret of the mind and the universe. Unfortunately all it was doing was turning me into a nutcase and getting me in alot of trouble. Then after getting out of that trouble and regaining some control over my life again I managed to get back to just enjoying decent marijuana and everything has been more or less fine since.
If anything could be said to have driven me to experimenting with harder drugs it was not the use of marijuana but rather being denied the ability to choose it over other drugs. Had the government not sprayed those fields with paraquat I'm fairly certain my life would have gone in a much better more positive direction then it did.
I have used cannabis since I was 18. It's awesome to me for many reasons.
After severely injuring my left knee and having a tumor removed from said knee, I found mary jane to be quite awesome. I got to not only find relief for an old and used up knee, but I found a little different side of life. It just made everything in my life better. She's always there for me when I need her, it's like a really old friend who's been there for years and just stays the same , cool chill person you always knew.
Just something about it that's magical. She's a great friend, that Mary Jane.
After severely injuring my left knee and having a tumor removed from said knee, I found mary jane to be quite awesome. I got to not only find relief for an old and used up knee, but I found a little different side of life. It just made everything in my life better. She's always there for me when I need her, it's like a really old friend who's been there for years and just stays the same , cool chill person you always knew.
Just something about it that's magical. She's a great friend, that Mary Jane.
