[ornornor]

> The model I use to think of it is that drugs steal life energy from your future and give it to you in the present.

I know this might sound naive but I don’t have firsthand experience: is that also valid for marijuana? What are the long term effects in that case?

[1_player]

Hazy memories that are lost forever and causing my now lifelong general anxiety was the result of 10+ years of smoking marijuana.

YMMV, my 20s are lost to time, and I guess I needed to get to the stage where inhaling it was playing a panic attack russian roulette to finally get serious about quitting that awful herb. It definitely was fun the first few years.

But sure, there's someone bound to tell me there was something wrong with me, and that for them marijuana was a panacea. To be fair, I did not respect it, but neither do the stoners nowadays who think THC and CBD are a miracle cure for any problem and that it's perfectly, 100% safe.

[pennaMan]

n=1 but I thought myself computer science while skipping high school and smoking copious amounts of said "awful herb" and I'm convinced I would of never chased that dream sober. I also have fond and clear memories of said period.