Have anyone been addicted to weed and managed to have a healthy relationship with it?

[paradiseengineering]

6 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Weed dissociates you from salient aspects of your psyche that you want to be connected to for personal development. Perspective change, creativity, may arise, but at the cost of a more narrow cognitive stream (and perhaps expanded being stream, but in a narrow fashion).

This is my experience as well. Especally with the creativity part.

Funny thing is that my best creative works has been made off the weed. By this I mean the work im most proud of and also have gotten the most attention from other people. Sober I have much more connection to both my heart and my brain. By heart i mean that the emotional range, honesty and nuance in the music/ art I make is just so much deeper. On weed you are kinda stuck in the "chil vibes duuude" state. And the cognitive capacity to actualize the idéas into real life is diminished. 

The main benefit I got from weed was feeling inspiered and being less self critical when starting. The idéas seemed revolutionary and the beats I made where like re-inventing music (while eating strawberry jam out of the jar in my underwear at 2AM lol). The problem was the next day when I woke up it often sounded sooo bad. When create sober I am much more self critical, but listening to it afterwards Im like "yo this is actually super cool". 

[Carl-Richard]

3 hours ago, paradiseengineering said:

This is my experience as well. Especally with the creativity part.

Funny thing is that my best creative works has been made off the weed. By this I mean the work im most proud of and also have gotten the most attention from other people. Sober I have much more connection to both my heart and my brain. By heart i mean that the emotional range, honesty and nuance in the music/ art I make is just so much deeper. On weed you are kinda stuck in the "chil vibes duuude" state. And the cognitive capacity to actualize the idéas into real life is diminished. 

I've had similar experiences. Same with improvising on guitar: every note feels more profound, but my motor skills are clearly inhibited, so it just sounds sloppy and limited. The inhibition of motor skills is a microcosm of the larger inhibition of cognitive movement.

 

3 hours ago, paradiseengineering said:

The idéas seemed revolutionary and the beats I made where like re-inventing music (while eating strawberry jam out of the jar in my underwear at 2AM lol). The problem was the next day when I woke up it often sounded sooo bad. When create sober I am much more self critical, but listening to it afterwards Im like "yo this is actually super cool". 

Adds points to my point in another thread dicussing how psychedelics (weed goes under there) makes you take insights into form/Maya very seriously (it seems very profound), even when it might not be. Weed has its own caliber of this, but other psychedelics might be even more radical in their own respects.