The myth: Weed makes you lazy

[juiceddreadlocks]

The multitude of people who I know who smoke weed to sleep or just to ''chill'' is an example of anecdotal information. Obviously, you're going to cite that there are exceptions, which is also obvious.

 

[calveless wonder]

weed makes you lazy. get the fuck out of here with that bullshit that it doesn't.

i am clearly more lazy when i smoke weed on a regular basis

im content doing nothing and any simple task becomes alot more trying

dont tell me you can function the same/better when you're high. its just not true

 

[SaladFork]

When I smoke a bowl. I am up for the next ten hours. No going to sleep for me. Weed hypes me out and makes me work 10x harder and faster. SO this weed makes you lazy is a bunch of bullshit. At least for me any way.

I'm the same way when I puff... I can honestly say I have had some of my best workouts stoned.

 

[jackangel]

i wish it didn't make me lazy. there are too many examples of things that i usually do, but which don't get done once i'm stoned. it makes me physically tired. perhaps it's what i'm smoking, but i don't recall smoking something that amped me up. the few stoned workouts of any kind that i've tried didn't go so well. hell, i think that i'm weaker even the day after smoking. i hope that's not true, though. teh suck.

most of all, i wish i fucking had some. fucking A, this is pathetic. in SoCal, no less.

 

[mrplunkey]

Slightly off-topic question, but does anyone feel guilty about supporting the drug trade industry, even with a drug as mild as weed?

 

[heatherrae]

Everyone that I've known who were pot smokers were SO LAZY. I understand the difference between correlationa and causation, but, damn, I couldn't help but notice the correlation!

 

[Smurfy]

I love dope, I love getting high..

but smoking marijuana definately makes people lazy.. I've been around people smoking dope for over a decade now, and 8/10 times any motherfucker gets high, they almost completely lose all motivation, shit they don't even want to move.

Especially out here, cause our chronic is some wheelchair if you know what I'm saying, like BOOM you're a quadrapalegic (sp) and you aren't able to move even if you wanted too, thus making you lazy.

that's my take it on it.

definately makes a motherfucker happy though.

yeah the handful of times ive been high, in literally paralyzed

 

[Smurfy]

by this thread alone its fair to say that the drug has different effects on diff people. lumberg also stays up wide awake when high

 

[hog#head#cheese]

more like partially retarded

 

[billfred]

I'm sure everyone has heard it. People who smoke weed are lazy. Wee makes people lazy. Amotivational syndrome is real!

Check yourselves.

There isn't any data to support that, but some people do see pot smokers and think of them collectively as a lazy bunch.

What does that mean, lazy? To me someone who is lazy is someone who does the bare minimum required of them to get by. Someone who will sacrifice quality or work for no discernable reason.

Others think lazy means you are not a "go getter" or over acheiver. Someone who sleeps a lot?

Did you ever think that weed makes people happy? It makes them have a good time and feel pleasant, even content. It reduces anxiety (except for those who get paranoia, a real side effect of marijuana). It makes you feel good about life.

People who feel good about life DO sleep easier, maybe they aren't as concened as the next guy at making quite as much money, why? If you are happy now, what will more money do? Maybe other people look for their high in other places, or are constantly chasing it, but those who have found the herb have what is right for them to make life smooth sailing.

My theory is that people are so satisfied with the weed, they have no motivation to go and do something else. But yeah, I think stoners are typically an underachieving group in general.