The myth: Weed makes you lazy

[curvymommy]

Now I'm an ice-T man...

lol, you had me at Fritos, Bondsman.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

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.

It's pretty sad if people need illicit drugs/narcotics to be happy or feel good about life though.

 

[Lestat]

It's pretty sad if people need drugs to be happy or feel good about life though.

Is it? People use different things to make themselves happy. I'd say food is very common. Exercise is too. Alcohol especially. Some people thrive on stress. Others by simply collecting something. Why do you judge one person's source of happiness over another?

 

[timtim]

It's pretty sad if people need drugs to be happy or feel good about life though.

its fantastic for someone like myself with high anxiety. its been difficult without it but like everything else, you figure out how to get by. i dont want to get a prescription drug.

 

[fit4sure]

how is that a myth. everyone i know from highschool who is still smoking in thier mid-twenties is doing jack! period. it almost ruined my life. just as bad as alcohol in my opinion, in the wrong hands.

 

[Lestat]

how is that a myth. everyone i know from highschool who is still smoking in thier mid-twenties is doing jack! period. it almost ruined my life. just as bad as alcohol in my opinion, in the wrong hands.

It would be like saying "Alcohol makes you beat your wife" just because some people who get drunk beat their wife, doesn't mean its solely a property of the alcohol.

 

[jackangel]

alcohol does make me beat lestat's wife. i'm so ashamed.

 

[jerseyrugger76]

I'd respond to this post, but I just smoked a fatty and can't seem to find the motivation.

 

[Lestat]

I'd respond to this post, but I just smoked a fatty and can't seem to find the motivation.

lolol

 

[mrplunkey]

It would be like saying "Alcohol makes you beat your wife" just because some people who get drunk beat their wife, doesn't mean its solely a property of the alcohol.

You know that its all based on the differential. A lot of smokers don't die from lung cancer either.