Why do you Smoke?

Wow,

Lots of great reasons to smoke in this thread.

I smoke because of insomnia.
I smoke because life sucks sometimes.
I smoke because life is awesome sometimes.
I smoke because it tastes so good.
I smoke because people who smoke are all around cooler people.
I smoke because why not? Fuck it. Pick your poison. =)

I smoke because;

-I like getting high
-the perception of sensation is enhanced, so you feel like Afleck in Daredevil except with all five senses!
-food tastes epic
-it creates interest where there otherwise wouldn't have been in certain things, like mathematics, exercising or architecture, you tend to look deeper into things
-it relaxes me, I totally look forward to coming home and chilling out with a bowl on the couch
-it helps out a lot with social anxiety
-it helps you look past small, unimportant flaws in people just long enough to be around them for a short period of time
-it smells nice

Saves my life everyday!

many many many reasons my friend

I smoke because of stress. When I was younger(and sober) I would come home from school and stress about every little thing. Sometimes I'd get so stressed, I would get a mean ass headache and even make me not enjoy eating, so I hardly every ate. Now that I have started smoking, just a little over a year now, I've noticed many changes for the better. 1.no more headaches 2.regulates my eating 3.Takes away pretty much all my stress 4.made me become the happier and all around better person I am today

Great topic by the way!

pain relief, and to enjoy life.

Originally Posted by AssDan

I don't know if this question has been asked before, but I'm wondering what draws everyone to marijuana. I'm hoping for deeper answers than "I like to get fucked up."

I'll go first since I started the thread. I love a good head high or stone because it inspires ne to do something other than sit around, watch TV, and feel down on myself. I feel like I have a need to work with my hands or play music. These things, I feel, genuinely enrich my life. I also feel 1000x more outgoing and personable. I feel like I have the will to solve or at least tackle problems I normally wouldn't. I don't feel like it impairs my ability to think at all as I have done many projects while high.

MY TANGENT

I hate going to home depot while high. Not because I can't decide what to buy or anything related to being impaired. Home depot has a sign out front that says something like, "We drug test. Drug users need not apply." Here's what really gets me; I function better high and know the store better than the employees that work there,and I'm a CUSTOMER. I don't expect everyone to know what a surge arrestor or a #12 machine screw is, but I do expect someone who is paid by home depot to know what these things are and where to find them. I can't even recall all the times I've gone there high (or not) and been so frustrated with help if I asked for it. I think to myself, "How could they possibly reject drug users over the staff they have on hand? Could they possibly be worse?" Then I remember the best job these people can find is at home depot, and I need to keep that in mind. If they had better skills, they would be doing something better. Then, I feel bad for even thinking like
this.

END TANGENT

Ok, I got off track in my own post. I would love to know why you smoke. I understand that many people smoke to relax and do the opposite of what I do while high. That's ok too. I figure there's no right or wrong way to use this wonderful plant. I am not judging. Please indulge me.

I'm with you on the work drug testing - if this is the best you can get with a drug testing policy, maybe your policy sucks. I've been on legally prescribed drugs that truly fucked with my head and body. Getting mad over weed is ridiculous. And I'm a daily smoker and at every service job I've had, I've been the brightest there. That's not a testament to my intelligence - that shows you the bottom of the barrel they'd rather hire in order to maintain a drug free workplace.

I smoke because it's the only thing that helps with my health related issues without side effects, makes me more uninhibited creatively, makes everything taste absolutely amazing (I have almost no appetite if I don't smoke), is a great way to socialize with friends, makes everything I watch better, helps me concentrate and I love a good cloud.

You'd get a much shorter answer if you asked "Why wouldn't you smoke?" hahaha

I only smoke, or ingest medibles for medical reasons anymore for the most part, I do enjoy burning one while trolling for walleye, and between the hot morning and evening bites ice fishing.

Ingesting butter medibles, or drinking tincture does the most pain relief for me during the day, and cuts down on the amont of oxy I have to take.

Smoking in the evening, or even in the middle of the night helps me get to sleep and stay asleep. If I get these horrible muscle spasm's, which are very much like seizures, I quickly smoke a couple of hits of BHO that I make, and it stops it right now. My arms and legs suddenly go relaxed, from rock hard, and my arms and legs stop jerkng and kicking uncontrollably. I can go right back to sleep.

Thank God for legal medical marijuana in my State.....now we can at least control what we grow and by at the dispensaries.