“Roger Waters is better than David Gilmore”…“Them’s fiightin’ words, it’s go time asshole”.
I think that’s also a combination of paranoia (that you’ll get caught) and just simply not paying attention.
Back when I was in college, living in the dorms, we’d go out for a drive to smoke. The dorms were to crowded to smoke in there unless you were friends with one of the handful of people who had a room set up just right* so they could smoke in it without the hallway stinking.
One thing I noticed is that when stoned, people tend to drive under the limit. I’ve always worked under the assumption that it’s mostly due to not paying enough attention, kinda the same reason most [sober] people accidentally find themselves going 5 under the limit.
Well out of college I was talking to my mom about something or other and she mentioned that Uncle Police Officer said one of the ways he spots stoned drivers is because they go so slow.
*The trick is to not only have a fan blowing out your window but as hard as it is, you have to get rid of the towel under your door so fresh air can get in.
I’m sure there is a causal connection. Marijuana use is bad for ambition and productivity. Crime will therefore decrease when more criminals use marijuana.
Lack of marijuana has been known to make some chronic users restless, irritable, and discontent. On occasion such emotions may be expressed in an aggressive manner.
Any drug could potentially cause a paradoxical reaction, so especially if you’ve never seen the person under the influence of that particular drug they might act in the opposite way you would expect. I’m not saying it’s likely, just that it’s possible.
Not a stoner. Not an academic. Marijuana is known to have a long slow decay curve, but I was told that heavy users do get narky when they can’t recharge. Many drugs (coffee, cigarettes) do make users brittle when in withdrawal.
What about dope? Any anecdotal evidence the users are more violent in withdrawal?
I can contribute. I don’t get violent if I’m dry, but I do get very irritable. I admit, I routinely refer to marijuana as my “anti-asshole medication,” and I tend to like myself more with a little THC in me. It’s a chicken/egg thing - does not having marijuana make me irritable, or am I just an irritable cuss in the first place and the drug mitigates it?
Back when I used to smoke everyday, all day, I never had any issues if there wasn’t any around. Sure, I might be annoyed about not being able to get high, but that was it. It’s not that I was acting like a recovering alcoholic and taking it out on others.
And, yes, the half life is very long, at least for the metabolites. A heavy user can still have detectable amounts for 3 or 4 weeks. I remember back when I had to have a clean UA, which I did, I had a few friends asking me how I did it, to which I replied “I didn’t get high for a month, didn’t you notice I haven’t been smoking with you guys?”.
Okay, literally every single stoner claims this and also claims that smoking weed makes them better drivers.
But as someone who has never smoked weed and grew up around stoners, every stoner I’ve seen drive (while not as bad as drunk drivers) still drives noticeably worse than sober people. A lot of the time it’s stuff like not putting on turn signals and changing lanes without actually looking behind them to see if the lane is clear or not.
Marijuana is implicated in schizophrenia. Research is ongoing, except it’s probably not since pot research is difficult to do. Anyway, do posters have anecdotes about stoners suffering from pronounced mental illness? I’m not implying that pot causes schizophrenia, but I’m wondering whether it worsens a predisposition to it.
Remember that background rates of schizophrenia and related disorders are less than 1%. So we’re discussing a small though not minuscule population.
My WAG is that it may exasperate symptoms and if the person wasn’t showing any symptoms (yet) but actually had it, the things may bubble to the top. Whether it’s due to a lack of inhibition or your brain suddenly having access to parts it didn’t know about*.
I’d be curious if you took a large enough sample size and had them all smoke pot for the next few weeks and see what percentage of them started showing signs of schizophrenia, would the percentage be similar to other drugs. I could certainly see LSD and Ketamine triggering a psychotic break with someone that was probably going have issues with it at some point in their life anyway. What about cocaine or alcohol? Ecstasy?