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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!batcomputer!reed!news
- From: jcherney@envy.reed.edu (Joel Alexander Cherney)
- Subject: Re: "ex" smokers of MJ
- References: <1992Nov17.005034.10962@galois.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 06:16:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.061608.28343@reed.edu>
- Reply-To: jcherney@reed.edu
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- John C. Baez writes
- > In article <1992Nov14.114618.29569@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mleayr@nyx.cs.du.edu (matthew
- leayr) writes:
- >
- > >Hi,
- > > I know several people who used to smoke large amounts of marijuana
- > >but no longer touch it because it "freaks them out too much" or they "cant
- > >handle it". When quizzed as to why they don't smoke anymore, they are often
- > >reluctant to even talk about it and shrug it off. This puzzles me.
- >
- > Some people feel paranoid when they smoke marijuana. Here I am using
- > "paranoid" in a colloquial sense, as opposed to any psychological
- > definition thereof. I.e., they feel marijuana makes them alienated,
- > unable to relate smoothly to people, nervous, depressed, nihilistic, or
- > whatever. Some people I know got to feeling this way after smoking a
- > lot even though they liked it initially. It's easy to imagine why
- > people you know might be reluctant to discuss it... they don't want to
- > go back those unpleasant moments, or have people think they are weird.
-
- Well, this describes me currently. I have found it very difficult to relate to people on pot
- recently, unless they're my very close friends. Kind of a bummer, because I still really
- enjoy smoking it. But it's been a while; and I never pictured myself as a heavy user (except
- for a period of about two or three months, during which I smoked quite heavily).
-