Pot
I'm very ambivalent about pot. I first tried it during my fresher year at uni (yeah, I know) having avoided it up until then. It had never impressed me - looking like a bunch of people sitting about apathetically, dozy and stupid. But once I moved away I fancied trying all sorts so I gave it a go, and really liked it. It made music and books much more vivid, in a here-and-now kind of way - I could never really remember what I'd been thinking about when reading, unlike when straight, so although I read a lot, it didn't really help my studying. I didn't smoke vast amounts - a quarter to a half a week (some I knew smoked about an ounce a week) - but it was always a given. But thanks to pot I spent many fun hours talking nonsense, listening to music (which was so VIVID, man!) and idling time away so comfortably.

Until then I had been an energetic, can-do kind of guy but with pot my horizons shrank (going to the vending machines became a day's highlight), and I became timid and found it difficult to be at ease with people I didn't know well. I grew increasingly depedent on it, and more and more of my actions were based around it - and my friends were doing much the same, so it became all we did.

Eventually it led to ectasy, shrooms and acid, which is where it all went pete tong. Too much of that just isn't good for you, and typically I overdid them. So now I haven't smoked pot regularly for nearly ten years. Eventually I shook off the lethargy and timidity that plagued me in my early 20s and I now feel so much better for it. Pot does have its good points, but I regret all the time I spent doing nothing. My student days should have been so much more fruitful and rewarding, instead of me skulking in my room with a j in my hand re-reading old books and wanking.

But every time I have a drink, I still think, "I could murder a joint".
(McChinaman banned, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 2:49, 2 replies)

That's the...
...trouble with grass and hash. After a while it's like having a cup of tea. It isn't difficult to stop, you just find it impossible to believe that you need to.
(zebideedoodah likes florence but prefers venice, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 9:16, closed)

The real
addiction comes from the tobacco you smoke with it. If you had just smoked bongs are vaporizers, you probably wouldn't have smoked it that much. But i agree it can cause lethargy especially in a student environment.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 20 Sep 2010, 9:27, closed)