Why quit weed?

[Mannyb]

8 minutes ago, Peo said:

I smoke weed only 1-2 times per week. Am i doomed? 

Does it deepen your life—or dull it?

[Yimpa]

49 minutes ago, Peo said:

I smoke weed only 1-2 times per week. Am i doomed? 

Imagining pairing it with therapy or shadow work instead of partying and escaping your suffering. 

I was thinking in black and white. Again, it’s balance.

And eventually, it will break you, and you will quit, no questions asked.

Edited May 10 by Yimpa

[Yimpa]

[Carl-Richard]

2 hours ago, Peo said:

I smoke weed only 1-2 times per week. Am i doomed? 

Not necessarily "doomed", but you will experience at least some of the effects I listed earlier at all times to some degree (cognitive narrowing, impaired learning, elevated cortisol and lowered stress tolerance, health damage and carcinogenic effects of smoking, numbing of emotions, disorganization of thought and behavior).

If it's something you do every weekend, there is of course also the tendency to cause a dependency on weed to "have fun", but it's not quite at the level of depending on it to "function" (which is more if you smoke every day and when you stop smoking, you can't sleep or eat very well and your mood is severely disrupted).

See what happens if you smoke every other weekend instead of every weekend. Maybe you will be forced to find out other ways to enjoy yourself and you will also feel an additional sense of freedom that you don't have to smoke every weekend in order to have fun.

Edited May 10 by Carl-Richard

[Peo]

@Carl-Richard I used to take weed edibles everyday. The high would last for almost 24-36 hours. I told myself edibles would be healthier then smoking, but i no longer believe it is the case anymore. I have large gaps in my memories, several weeks where my memories are really blury. I started to smoke instead 1-2 times a week, since the high last shorter time. I wake up sober, unlike edibles. I know smoking has its unhealthy side effects for the lungs, but mentally it is better in my experience. 

Also i have started to replace my weed habit with a better drug called working out (gym). Especially deadlifting, cardio, seated leg press and squats. The working out high is way better then weed and can last for hours. I don't crave weed after i am done working out.

I don't really want to quit weed, but i want to reduce my use to no more then 2 times per months. 

[Yimpa]

9 hours ago, Peo said:

Also i have started to replace my weed habit with a better drug called working out (gym). Especially deadlifting, cardio, seated leg press and squats. The working out high is way better then weed and can last for hours.

 

[Mixcoatl]

It’s not healthy at all.
It’s actually very psycho-addictive—contrary to what a lot of hippies like to say.
I quit weed for many reasons: it scatters your mind, turns you into a chronic procrastinator, and makes everything that should matter feel like it doesn’t. Your priorities just dissolve.

[Peo]

2 hours ago, Mixcoatl said:

psycho-addictive

Only slightly. More addctive then pshychedelics but less addictive then caffeiene and nicotine.

[Carl-Richard]

22 hours ago, Peo said:

Only slightly. More addctive then pshychedelics but less addictive then caffeiene and nicotine.

Weed addiction is much more sinister than addiction to caffeine or nicotine.

[Moomzy]

I was a heavy smoker for 4 years.

I feel much, much better after quitting and my life has changed completely. Here are a couple of reasons to quit:

- Addictive 

- You become lazy and completely unproductive

- Problems with memory (which affects your work significaly)

- Relationship issues (romantic, friends, family)

- Bulls*** yourself that its actually good for you and it helps you

 

And I could go on and on.

BUT...i know a guy that was very productive and effective while doing it occasionally.

See for yourself, but be wary of the traps.

 

 

[samijiben]

Here is my contribution.

1st, if u are a weed smoker and reading this comment, FKN STOP DUDE!! If you are even CONSIDERING stopping, fkn STOP!! This goes for any addiction. Good rule of thumb is that if u are on da fence Abt whether or not to kick it, kick it. Can't hurt. At least you will see if you are addicted or not. CHances are, you are, and the withdrawal symptoms will reveal this to you, not in a subtle way.

I am now 1 day sober. THIS IS THE FUCKTEENTH TIME I HAVE QUIT GODDAMNIT! Every couple other days, when my top shelf Cali dispensary 8th runs out, I quit. Then I buy another 8th. Has been going on for a year. Before that, was unabashedly smoking Hashish everyday. No attempt at stopping.

Is fucked, man. I am scared of everything. Just jerk off all day. Jerk off. Assassin's Creed. Listen to OSHO talk abt God. Rinse/repeat. Terrible fkn lifestyle man. Fuck that. Fuck weed. Fuck being slave to substance. I have abused weed more than I have abused my phone. And I have abused my phone quite literally. 

I really hope to God and Jesus to become free of my addiction. I don't like it very much. I keep sabotaging my damn self. Over and over again. Keep telling myself I'm gonna quit. Lately, longest I made was 2 weeks. Then bought more weed and re-entered cycle of debauchery. It is dangerous. Carl-Vinson said it is more sinister than nicotine or coffee, both of which I am also addicted to. He is right. 

 

[Carl-Richard]

8 hours ago, samijiben said:

Carl-Vinson

That's a new one.

Yup. Quitting weed is not just quitting a bad habit. It's quitting a lifestyle. It's altering your personality. Even if you only smoke once a week or once a month, that shit stays in your system for at least a week and passively works on your brain.

[Nemra]

I quit weed a month ago.

I smoked it about 5 times.

The first two tries were quite an extraordinary experience for me.

However, I was eventually getting more paranoid of forgetting stuff.

I was starting to think I was high even though I didn't smoke any. Although I don't mind mindfucks, I didn't like that I was forgetting lots of minor stuff, which can lessen the quality of my life.

Also, it was not getting more mystical.

Edited June 21 by Nemra

[Carl-Richard]

5 hours ago, Nemra said:

Also, it was not getting more mystical.

Generally the more often you use it, the less mystical and more degenerate you become.

Edited June 21 by Carl-Richard

[Nemra]

23 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

Generally the more often you use, the less mystical and the more degenerate you become.

I'm glad that I took a psychedelic before weed, which helped me compare the experiences of both.

I don't understand why people consider weed a psychedelic. Yeah, you might have some non-ordinary experience, but you won't get incredibly conscious or have some transhuman experience, at least that's the case for me.

To this day I'm much more moved by the psychedelic experience that I had than weed could ever give to me.

Weed was making me less motivated not because I realized something but because I was just forgetting stuff.

[samijiben]

@Carl-Richard yes, Carl-Richard, my bad for epically butchering your name lol

It is malicious kind of addiction for sure. Gotta stop 

[Wilhelm44]

Weed has its benefits, but just like any addiction, it's ultimately used to numb emotional pain. It becomes easier to let go of addiction, once we get better at Allowing uncomfortable feelings to purely be as they are. 90percent of suffering is resistance. Once that Allowing click happens, healing becomes more effortless. 

[Aramara]

Smoked a lot of weed back in 2020 till 2022 during covid

Easily the worst 2 years of my life. My learning got impaired, I wasn't focussed, couldn't finish any task, very scatterbrained and just overall a very narrowed vision on my life. I noticed I struggled to plan things for a longer period of time.

And I only consumed it once every weekend, so imagine how hard the side-effects would hit me if I'd do it daily. 
It just made me super dumb, even in-between the sober days.

I quit at the end of 2022 and all the side-effects went away after 3 months off it. The world is so much better without weed. It was as if I could see color again for the first time.

[Carl-Richard]

On 21.6.2025 at 6:16 PM, Nemra said:

I'm glad that I took a psychedelic before weed, which helped me compare the experiences of both.

I don't understand why people consider weed a psychedelic. Yeah, you might have some non-ordinary experience, but you won't get incredibly conscious or have some transhuman experience, at least that's the case for me.

To this day I'm much more moved by the psychedelic experience that I had than weed could ever give to me.

Weed was making me less motivated not because I realized something but because I was just forgetting stuff.

I'm not gonna lie, the first few times I got high, it was like a new world opened up for me. The level of interconnectedness of mind and stream of insights I got and which I would spill in raving rants like Terrence McKenna on speed was something else. The euphoria and sense of profundity was unmatched. One the other hand, LSD opened it up even further and also crushed the previous world I lived in. And seeds were planted there for meditation to take over and bring in a new world again which recaptured the older one.

Edited June 28 by Carl-Richard

[samijiben]

8 days sober today. Haven't been sober for this long in... I don't even remember.

Like @Aramara said, I feel almost like I can see color for the first time again. Like I regained a sense that I had lost. 

And I was smoking dailly, multiplle multiple multiple times daily. Im sure after 3 months will be even better