I need a quick answer, what are the long term effects of cannabis use?

ive smoked pot daily for 6 years , started at 15. Did I permenantly fuck up my brain? How fucked am I. I feel as fine and intelligent as ever but people on here are telling me i fucked shit up

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>started at 15
Aww shit. There have been recent studies showing cannabis use before 21 years old can negatively impact mental development. You might be ok but that wasn't good. Depends on how much you smoked and the frequency.

Lowered iq.

This goes back to normal if you started using as an adult. You're fucked.

I mean, my IQ is still high as fuck so I'm probably good

Does anyone try pot first at 21

Bump , someone reassure me im freakin out here

I first tried it last year at 21. However, an edible was my first experience and it was fucking crazy.

So I found stuff on the internet

"For most young people, recreational cannabis use is essentially harmless, a rite of passage ending as young people settle into careers and adult intimate relationships," writes Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Michael Bostwick. "For 10 percent, however, the drug becomes addictive, its relaxing properties transforming into a constant need that interferes with interpersonal and occupational advancement."

Someone on a forum said simply "He needs to quit long enough for his brain chemistry to adapt again. That's all."

So I'm good right? That Mayo Clinic Psychologist said its essentially harmless if u don't become a total wastoid stoner living in a basement at 30

fried sperm


on the plus side your chances of getting cancer are much lower

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bro joegan started at like 30

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Do you suffer from a lack of attention span? Find it difficult to sleep? Poor appetite and feelings of nausea?

These would all indicate that you have fried your natural cannabinoid system. If you started smoking heavily at 15, it may be quite permanent.

>do you suffer from lack of attention span?
I mean .. I guess a little. I find it hard to focus on things I'm not interested in. but I can still focus when I need to, when I was in high school I got a high SAT score after smoking for like 5 years

>find it difficult to sleep?
Sometimes yes, but working out seems to help

>poor appetite and feelings of nausea?
no.

So how fucked am I

yeah man you uniromically fucjed your brain lol i did the same thing started at 15 and now im just fucking retarded

>now im retarded

You were probably just retarded before u tmstarted smoking bro

It's hard to tell. As a pseudo-stoner with some real degenerate pothead friends, I can never figure out whether it's the weed or that the person was dysfunctional to begin with. Same even goes for myself.

I think it's not so bad if you're naturally intellectual. It's the guys who were already mentally disabled to begin with who seem like the most hopeless cases when they've been smoking daily for 5+ years.

>I think it's not so bad if you're naturally intellectual. It's the guys who were already mentally disabled to begin with who seem like the most hopeless cases when they've been smoking daily for 5+ years.

I think this is essentially what the Mayo Clinic psychologist I quoted earlier said

bump. So bottom line, did I fuck up myself? I've been smokin daily for years but I feel absolutely cognitively fine, I get A's and B's in college-level courses (but suck at math lol)

So am I good? Or am I going to be a literal vegetable

I was lucky I started at 20 because I was too much of a melvin to get it before then

Trying is different from smoking daily

Nah, you're good.
Normalfags who drink themselves stupid every fucking saturday and sunday are the ones who truly fucked their brains

True. I've seen the damage alcohol can do to people. My own grandfather was a severe alcoholic and died in his late 50's of liver cancer and was just an absolute wreck

I never knew him because he died when I was very young

weeds cool forever dumbass

nah thats what sucks

like i visibly remember the moment where i was like why the fuck am i forgetting things and why the fuck am i not processing thoughts like i was a week ago

i still smoke but only socially, but still i still feel like i stunted my brain capacity at 15

Ok so everytime you smoke pot, you inhale cannabinoids which goes to your brain. We have cannabinoid receptors in which the brain uses the body's own cannabinoids. These cannabinoids are essential to brain growth. Your DNA has a blueprint of where each cannabinoid(made by your body) will be used to guide your brain. When you smoke pot while your brain is still developing, you mess up the proper coordinations for what your brain was destined to develop. Cannabinoids from marijuana randomizes the process. It's like giving a plumber a blue print of a piping system to fix but out of nowhere you give him a crayon drawing of a piping system made by a 3 year old. Hence the reported 10 drop IQ in surveys.

also im high as fuck so sorry if i messed up the wording

I started smoking at 21, with increasing frequency and now i'm 26 smoking pretty much every day. All the while i managed to finish a college degree and get a pretty good engineering job, and looking back i wonder how the fuck this turned out the way it did.

But that's another story, my point is now im holding down a pretty cognitively challenging dayjob, and i smoke a lot. Do i feel sometimes my memory isn't what it used to be? Yes, mostly the day after smoking a lot. I've sometimes felt my attention span isn't very good, but only when i'm just fucking around on the internet (where did all these tabs come from? oh right i was reading that, watching that etc.) While when i decide to focus, i can focus. I used to feel like i can't sleep without it, but i've realized that's bs, i can sleep without it easily.

When i take a 1-2 week break i feel back to normal.

I don't know where i'm going with this OP, just telling my experience. I would recommend you take breaks, quit for a month and see how you respond, can you still function without weed every day? If you can't then you must quit and figure out what's wrong, what are you trying to self medicate for? If you are neet, then quit asap and get off your ass, obviously.

>Natural cannabinoid system