Does smoking pot every day stop you from developing and growing as a human being?

Does smoking pot every day stop you from developing and growing as a human being?

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From what I've seen, yes. I've met very few successful people who smoke every day.

For some people yes. Smoking it every day is fucked up, dunno how anyone does it. Two or three days on it and I'm wishing the bag away haha. It's grand in moderation

No, it doesn't.

Source: I smoke everyday, own a house and have a wife.

Some people who don't have their shit together make the rest of us look bad.

I tried to meditate on skeletons but kept cracking up because skeletons have and always will be hilarious to me

omg a house and a wife that's the absolute limit m8

What else do you want mate?

Fucking owned.
Adolescents-25, yes. The brain, specifically the frontal lobe, which is the area of the brain responsible for decision making, future planning, judgment, attention span, and your inhibitions. What happens is as humans grow up, we experience this, that, what have you. The brain creates memories via the axons of neurons, and we store many of those memories forever. They shape who we are. For a simple example, if you touch a hot stove, your brain makes that memory, your neurons make that axon, it's there forever. The frontal lobe completely stops making new axonal connections around the age of 25. It stops it forever.

Now let's factor in marijuana, typically known to chill a mother fucker out. To relax someone. When you're relaxing on the couch watching television, playing video games, all while high, you're not critically thinking. You're just accepting information. You're not a vegetable, of course. But you're not actively using your brain to create new memories that teach you how to make decisions or to plan. Read: You typically don't make new axonal connections while high. So if you smoke, do edibles, what have you, from age 15 to age 25, you haven't been making many axonal connections all those times you were high. Now, at 25, you physically lack the connections you probably should have. You have less capacity for memory, for learning. You still have a crapton of space, but less so than someone who didn't smoke every day for a decade.

So yes, it can physically stop your brain from growing from overuse.

>The frontal lobe completely stops making new axonal connections around the age of 25. It stops it forever.
To clarify a bit, what will happen as we all age is the brain will "overwrite" memories and skills we learn as we age. If you take a job that doesn't require you to remember AP calculus from the 12th grade, and you're 35, your brain has probably already overwritten how to solve a certain set of equations. Maybe you took up an instrument, or learned to woodwork. This does not mean you can't ever learn calculus again, of course. It just means when you're 35, upon learning calculus again, you'll overwrite something else if you really hit the books.

I'm glossing over things like short term memories being stored in the hippocampus, and the function of sleep in creating long term memories, but this is how we learn and how it's affected by drugs in a nutshell.

You are a psued and are talking straight out of your ass while throwing in half relevant terms. I know you want everyone to think you’re a genius but you are just embarrassing yourself.

m8 please go on and prove me wrong.

Depends on how old you are and if your still devolping your brain cells. Ive got medical but I'm also like 30 and I need it to live

(Different user) As opposed you your retardo pseudo-intellectual weed-addled brain? Another symptom of too much weed, the denial associated with it being bad. There really is no talking people out of this, because once they're in, they're in, that dopamine release they get is just too strong.

I look forward to your reply and attempt to prove me wrong, thus proving my argument right with your denial and continual lashing out.

Cannabis use during ages where the brain develops may reduce grey matter mass in the PFC. This hinders top-down thinking and rational decision making, much in the same way drinking alcohol does before ages 21-26

What little we know about Cannabis is that it can hinder the immune system and prevent the body from creating new capillaries, which can tangentially delay the onset of certain diseases such as cancer.

It's a stretch to suggest that relaxation brought on by cannabis is hindering the creation of new Axons though. Some people report that creative thought processes and experiences increase while under the influence of THC/CBD/CBN. But even assuming this was the case, the process of forging new memories and experiences isn't static in the developing years, which makes the distinction meaningless.

The more time you spend impaired, the less time you have to devote to other things.

It's a pretty pathetic hobby, all things considered.

>All while high, you're not critically thinking
This has not been true in my personal experience

>It's a stretch to suggest that relaxation brought on by cannabis is hindering the creation of new Axons though
Consistent and constant use of relaxing recreational drugs during a human's developmental years, hindering critical thought, is not a stretch. I said exactly this:
>it can physically stop your brain from growing from overuse.
Never suggested casual use would fuck somebody up.

DUDE WEED

>Never suggested casual use would fuck somebody up.
I'm getting mixed messages here. You literally typed up two strongly-worded posts suggesting that it can hinder development of the brain by preventing Axonal connection development with each use. How is that not fucking somebody up?

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You are retarded or purposely lying

>spews retarded shit with no citations
>gets called retarded
>'refute me bro'

Personally at some level yes, I smoke daily and I notice that I'm a totally different minded person when sober, I can get shit done high, but lack the mental energy to carry some it out when I know I could handle it sober. I'm close to quitting though, I'm trying to move out and start my full adult life.

Of course it stops you from developing. Unless you call securing money and a trustworthy dealer development. I suppose maybe some go for high in their careers so they can stay high on their weed. But I digress. If you masturbate to porn every day, you're not as likely to crave women, correct? And weed is notorious for making people lazy good-for-nothings. Some of it is probably bullshit, but there's a kernel of truth in it. DON'T fall into that lazy trap. Don't make weed a solution to your problems. Then perhaps you'll be fine. If you still feel like you can have dreams and pursue them after getting high, maybe I'm off my rocker. But I reckon you aren't as motivated to revel in life's hard work, failures and occasional glorious successes because you have a sweet sweet fallback. Limit it to Saturdays or something, you fool. As a reward for your improvement in life.

Yes, for most people. There are some exceptions, but there are many more losers who act like they are exceptions than actual exceptions

Pure conjecture, you're just making shit up.

Should he cite sources? Could YOU cite sources as to why user is wrong other than the childish "nuh uh" response? You're really proving our point for us here, please continue.

If you're going to make these grand claims about neurology then you should probably provide some sources, yeah. As it stands this is identical to the horseshit theorizing people do regarding their half-baked knowledge of neuroscience.

I've smoked weed every day(rich kid) since 14 and am now 20 and this resonates with me, fuck

I don't understand why you would want to smoke every day anyway. I can only go two days in a row before I feel totally exhausted from it all.

Just do it in moderation, like any other vice.