Is smoking weed acceptable for someone trying to reach their full career earning potential?

I'm sorry, did you mean glorious?

My life has gone downhill since I stopped smoking weed. I'm on the verge of losing my $150k/yr job and my friend group. Things just seemed to fall into my lap career-wise when I was smoking regularly.

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t.daily smoker for 20 years

I love cannabis, pretty much everything about it. I'm trying to move primarily to dabbing mostly solventless concentrates. I only use cannabis to add value to my life though, I don't think many have the willpower to not ruin what can be a good thing.

No. Its literally the opposite thing you should be doing. Weed makes you a complacent piece of shit. If you are going to drugs (degenerate) at least do adderall or coke

>the right strains
Lol kys you dumb pothead

I work front office asset management and smoke weed every fucking day when I get home because I've only got 3-4 hours max to relax before bed.

being sober has made me want to overthrow greedy capitalist scum, who propagate the insidious ideology of hard work paying off

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Sweet, I can save money by not buying into the consumerist life.

I’m super addicted. I’m a music producer though so it makes more sense. Helps me mix through long sessions. Hate being dependent though I’m fucked

>cannabis strains are all the same
He is right you uneducated schmuck. Sativa and indica have two very different chemical makeups.

No.
>Don't believe the hype bro, it makes you a retard. Don't trust Coke about diabetes, don't trust the people trying to promote weed about it turning you into a retarded slob.

the effects of cannabis are attributable to cannabinoids and terpenes, compounds found in the cannabis plant, regardless of 'strains'. And while some cannabinoids and terpenes may be found more commonly in an "indica" or a "sativa," none are found exclusively in one consistently enough to say an indica and a sativa will definitively cause specific effects. You uneducated Schumck. You have been reading adverts, and mistaking them for information.

the strainz woo really pisses me off. its classic addict reasoning. The addict knows he is fucking up his life, and tries to rationalise a way he can reasonably continue his addiction & destructive behaviour. Those who promote weed understand consumer psychology. That's how multi-billion dollar industries work. They understand that the empty claims that there are non-sedative weed options will encourage the user into a "permissible" frame of mind. ("I can keep smoking every day, I just need to find the right strain to be productive, so i'm just gonna smoke in the mean time, it'll be alright")
>It's advertising, and it's ballocks.

Thanks for clearing that up while proving my point.

Absolutely

Smoking weed is essential to making it

I always try to find this girl with image searches and fail.

where does her thighs/waist stop and ass begin?

I just smoked weed for the first time last night
After taking a huge hit, it felt like I had to puke so I tried to, but nothing came out. Then I started sweating bullets so I sat in front of an open refrigerator and started covering myself with ice as I felt like I was dying
20 minutes later I felt fine, but there was never a point in the next four hours that I felt high

LoL - Check out the comprehension skills on this guy OP.
>you wanna be like this spastic?

Absolute moron

That's Carbon Monoxide poisoning mate. Carbon Monoxide is a gas produced by combustion, the structure of which makes your lungs absorb it instead of oxygen, resulting in the sickness you describe until such time the carbon monoxide exposure has cleared (you stop smoking) and sufficient oxygen has reentered your system. Its a common thing in new smokers (who inhale any kind of smoke).

Your virgin system was probably so whacked by the carbon monoxide that you didn't have a chance to inhale enough smoke to actually get high....

Yeah me and my understanding of chemistry and presentation of basic facts. what a retard I am. The truths hurts I guess bro. But you keep on believing those sales pitches, fucking loser.

No.

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if you use it as occasional relaxant. No more that couple of times a week. It can really help to relax and give fresh ideas

glad to know what exactly happened; here's to (You)

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Lol kys

Yeah, people who can do this will be fine. However, in my experience people who smoke, smoke like fuck.
It's an instant fix for boredom, depression, low life quality etc.: and that's why it can be dangerous. It won't solve any of these things, just mask problems that will return tomorrow, while making you unproductive and dumb.
After a few years of this you will be way behind your peers, and a viscous cycle is on the cards. I've seen people let a decade slip by in this cycle, in no better position than they were at at 21.
Getting high is a way of making a boring life a bit more interesting. Why not just put in work and get to an interesting space in your life?
Its a temporary, easy way out for 99% of the people that smoke it, and all the while their problems get bigger and bigger, and the are just watching sponge bob and jerking off.

Sweet comeback bro. Anyone saying you guys are fucking lobotomised is (clearly) talking out of their ass.

" a viscous cycle "

>the cycle will be vicious, as well as thick and gooey.

I smoke erryday and I make $250k/yr

You just need to follow these rules:
1. Don't smoke until after your work and errands are done, and never earlier than 8 PM
2. Don't let your coworkers know that you're a degenerate stoner

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nice larp. check out how long it takes cognitive function to return to normal after smoking weed. I know you won't believe me, but its empirically tested at about 48 hours.
you are either 16, or work at McDonald's, and a smoker making 250k is something you just want to believe, to rationalise your own behaviour.
I'd bet; in reality, you wake up role a joint, go to a monotonous job, come home role a few joints and fall asleep in front of your playstation.

how long does it takes cognitive function to return to normal after drinking alcohol?

yes because it's all bullshit. the weed will help you to know which bullshit to say to get your ass in the right place and time to be promoted.

about 12. But people who drink every day, die.
the problem with weed is that its insidious, it wont turn you into a tramp, it wont have you stealing, or punching your wife: you can do it all day every day and not die, you can do simple jobs and be entertained by very little. you can get by. but after a good few years of getting baked, eating booberries and watching cartoon network, you find you ain't got no real skills, and when you take weed out of the equation, your life is really, really depressing.

that's still true even if you don't smoke.

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100% you can totally get a cisco architect job and understand vast complex network engineering questions by just inhaling an intoxicating plant. fucking genius.
>This is a classic example of the stoner being stuck with a teenagers understanding of how the world works, because they've been to baked to learn how to adult.

lol? yes, you literally can get high and learn network engineering and do the job at cisco.

but if you're sober you can fight bro. you can read that boring ass TA book, you can slog through learning Linux. you can get to work on time and pay attention to what you are doing. You can fight and maybe, you can win.

you can be a plug-it-in-pete for sure that's one of the monotonous, brain dead jobs stoners can hold on to. No one getting architect certs is getting high. Its like saying you can do ironman and eat KFC 3 times a week.

U sound like u need to get high bro

You have an irrational fear of cannabis and should probably try it before making your juvenile conclusions. I know people personally who smoke lots of weed and are greatly successful at home and in their careers. Not to mention far more in tune with things than some seething basement faggot who cries about weed adverts on a picture forum.

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lol yeah it might help me chill out a bit. Weed is being pushed on dumb young people big time, by some pretty sinister commercial interests.
They are telling these kids all kinds of mad nonsense, and kids don't know no better.
>it genuinely pisses me off.
trust me bro, Big Weed is just like Big Tobacco was in the 30s / 40s. and a lot of kids are going to flunk out and fuck up, thinking they are doing something really special, when in reality they are getting intoxicated and sitting about like a jerk. Also I genuinely think it will be one of the factors cynically employed to pacify western populations as our quality of life declines, like soma in brave new world.

who says I've never smoked weed champ?
and does a burning plant "in tune with things", yeah? of course it does. its totally spiritual and magical, and that's not just mindless hype.

People who smoke weed can have loved ones and jobs. success and daily intoxication don't go together, except in very easy gigs like music or art. and so few people have the connections or the breaks for that to be viable.

and does a burning plant *put you* "in tune with things", yeah?

watching hbo, on my second monitor and not proof reading, sorry...

Had to give up being an incel gaymer weed smoker for a high paying job and girlfriend

I miss weed

>defends big weed company lies and hippie thought
>posts retarded spongebob meme

fuck off 19 year old retard

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Watching sponge Bob and jerking off >>>> real life shit

hey man if its all someone got, make the best of it. But there is a reason most people don't smoke.

Thanks for taking the time to type out a paragraph that opposes your own point. That takes a special kind of brainlet.

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Anybody who is promoting it without saying vaporize the weed does not know what they’re talking about l. Regardless, heavy usage is probably not very good for you.

you, um, you need to learn how to read bro.

>the same compounds are present in both strains.
>although there are small variations in amounts, this does not cause any discernibly unique effects in the user.
>So no unique, specific effect is attributable to either strain
>That means they both to the same thing, in the same way, because of the same chemicals.

Seriously OP, this is what I'm talking about. The referenced paragraph isn't in anyway complex, but because its not written in spastic talk, two of these fucktards have failed basic comprehension.

The con is you are spending money on weed and paraphernalia and you become a piece of shit stoner like me

Someone is probably going to make a youtube fortune making change out videos like they do with wine snobs.

cheech and chong reached their full potential because they did smoke weed

reminder that cannabis causes psychosis and schizophrenia. dumb faggot stoners, be a good wage slave and stay straight edge

get prescribed Xanax and you’ll never need muh weed again. also you don’t have the lazy rutty after effects of weed

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No u

schizo is based and redpilled tho. fuck the normie mentality and hang out with the aliens.

I think being in a sedated state, rather than a fully alert hunter gatherer alpha bro state, will be what makes you a good worker drone. It'll keep you just content enough to not rebel, and too spazzy to organise in any case.

that's what your gay mom said when I banged her.

Dude... there is no aliens.. they are demons.

This. It helps you sleep better as well. To be honest I'm pretty sure my boomer boss also smokes weed.

still better than normies.

Sorry to be a bummer, but smoking weed decreases your time in deep sleep. A lot of weed smokers will tell you they don't have dreams. My suspicion is that in time we will see some link between this and the rare, correlated psychosis that has happened to some poor bastards after they had smoked weed for a while.

I'm aware of this. But if means taking two hours longer to fall asleep vs losing some deep sleep I choose the first.

I'm not sure how much it affects deep sleep however but I do sleep extra 2-4 hours with it during stressful work periods.

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I work 10 hours a day aprox
Making 80k yearly, mind you it's in the third world
Apartment and car already paid off

yeah, the research is old and I think its a case of "if it works for you". Like any sleep aid, be it herbal, manufactured pills or a lazer beam, its important to remember its a work around with side effects, (my feelings on the weed ones are half this board), and that there is an underlying cause for the insomnia.

Been smoking everyday since my country legalized it in October, but I had a terrible panick attack 2 weeks ago. I think I almost had had an heart attack, my face was becoming numb and moving weirdly and huge shoulder and chest pains. I'Ll pretty much never smoke weed again and i'm so glad.
Weed is for dumb and lazy people. Period.

21 times the average third world salary while high. Shit man if you were sober you'd probably be ruling the world by now. or you're larping, one or the other.

(btw: the western equivalent would be $1680000 a year, the kind of salary where you think "ima go on biz", for sure)

Well I'm strictly forbidden from alcohol due to interaction with one of my prescription meds. So somethings got to give. Weed is the replacement.

yup haven't had a drink for 5+ years and i just partied in my young adult life
but I built a small business and make 100k+ from home
and smoke a joint with some concentrate after workout 'every' day
im kinda a god tho

i know functioning heroine addicts pulling in +6 figures and i know people who quit smoking weed because they were going nowhere in life. it's up to you to get shit done and if getting high impacts that then it's time to consider stopping.

I actually knew two guys who semi-held it together while being bang on the smack. This is freak of nature stuff though, probably best to consider yourself as part of the "I'll be sucking dick for oxys" 99.999% rather than risk it .

Back office here, give me a job.

>all this fud about weed
>weed is a psychedelic
>psychedelics give you new perspectives on life you would not otherwise be able to access
>retarded normies will shill you being a mindless unstimulated drone because its unfathomable to them that a plant can open up your heart and let you see things in a new light
>cultures have been smoking this shit for centuries saying it opens your third eye

I smoke hella weed, and I can confirm that it makes you Woke af. People who don't smoke weed are spiritually deprived mostly.

Based and red pilled

get your CFA or MBA and try and jump ship to the front

I understood perfectly, you agree there's (small) variations in cannabinoids/terpenes between different strains, then you ruin it all by claiming it's insignificant with nothing to back it up. Show me something, I'm genuinely interested.

>hella
california confirmed

degenerate drug users
you'll never make it

it's the exact opposite for me. Weed makes me feel so damn self conscience I can't even enjoy it. Makes me wanna clean and message my mom I love her.

It's true that Weed makes you see things in a different light and be aware of different possibilities.

But apart from the creativity it makes me lazy and unable to do some real, productive work.

do you think its odd that spiritual enlightenment depends on a plant, rather than your own capacities as a living entity, presumably with a soul?

the suggestion that "cultures" believe in a "third eye" sounds like counter culture bullshit to me. An imbecile, american bastardisation of the Ayurveda doctrine of Chakras. You've just accepted some vague but dramatic sounding notions to make your activities seem more special than they really are.

Weed is a mild Psychedelic, but the suggestion that you require psychedelics to gain "perspectives" is just depressing man, are you so inept spiritually that you require consumables to feel spiritual? Like some sort of Viagra for the soul? Why would the universe function in such an arbitrary and absurd way? Again, this is just mindless hype to encourage you to consume cannabis. And really, is your mind so dull that you can mistake the sensory alterations produced by intoxication for profound experience, or is that in dulling your reason you can pretend the vague bullshit you've filled your head with is actually profound?

Most cultures which have an historic relationship with cannabis consumption are just quite primitive mate, or the consumption is limited to primitive parts of a wider culture, like the Aghori in India, and the poor fuckers think the delirium these (simple tribes) people experience is the spirits entering them, because they don't understand chemistry. You do understand whats happening and have somehow convinced yourself that it is metaphysical, which is tragic man.

In more sophisticated societies (lets take Egypt) the consumption of cannabis is strictly frowned upon because they know it'll just make you a lazy, slightly mad rascal. The Nepalese believe it is spiritual, but they also think you can cure diseases by getting naked and killing chickens with a spoon.

And yes mate I've done acid and DMT and other big boys psychedelic. Enlightenment comes from study, mediation and a life of experience. You can't just pop a fucking mushroom in your gob. This is American consumerism at its most grotesque.

Its cool to smoke the first year. It opens your mind, normies dont understand, they are dead.
But after that first year theres nothing more to gain for weed, unless you make music like me, in this case weed helps lots.

I agree

Weed is crap

I like being clear headed

Spirituality doesn’t come from hitting a bong or joint.

That's not what you and your stupid gif said champ!

Its insignificant because the plants have the same chemical composition in slightly different ratios. the same would be true for two cherry tomatoes.

These differences don't produce any measurable variation in effect. All the stuff you see about "sleepy, creative, mellow" strains is, guess what? Just Marketing!

Also the notion of "strains" is really just arbitrary. As made clear above, the difference in composition is between individuals; and any variation in effect you've experienced has more to do with you and your body at the time of ingestion.

I'm not your google mate, but try reading some science journals instead of leafy or high times, they are just pitchmen, trying to sell you stuff.

One last thing, you know how they say its medicine? And for some stuff it really looks like it could be of great help... but regular recreational weed smoking (and its specifically weed) causes a much higher incidence of bulla in the lung. bulla is a like a bubble in the lining (kinda) and is what makes COPD happen (mostly).

With training you can do anything on weed that you could do sober, but even better. I used to study high in college. At first it was very difficult, but eventually I would become fascinated by the material and learn better than I ever did sober.

After college I got into working out a lot. Started smoking weed and exercising all the time. Again, at first it was super hard. Eventually it heightened my mind/muscle awareness and gave me incredible workouts.

"bluffing is an addicts favourite game"

Now come tell me about how you been smoking since collage, but never got addicted.