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The thing with cannabis (with THC) is that it makes doing nothing OK so you may realize after some time of daily use that you have accepted doing nothing as a legit activity, contrarily when not high you'd either do something to utilize that time or may feel bad that you have nothing to do (bored). Cannabis has not much of physical addiction properties which is great yet one day you may find 10 years have got behind you and you have done not much. Perhaps no one told you to stop consuming it daily or you have just drifted upon losing the handles on your life.

If you want to be a daily user, or already are, do try to still feel the need to do something when there's nothing to do and consume it responsibly. You probably will be fine health-wise but remember that doing-nothing-is-ok is not ok especially when it's become routine.

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> one day you may find 10 years have got behind you

Is it a bad sign that I heard that in David Gilmour's and Richard Wright's voices?

I was literally reading with a screen reader and my brain stopped listening to the speech after this sentence to play that clip of audio. I even got the music.

I can't really relate to this. There is a spectrum of how high you get. Maybe we should distinguish between getting super stoned, just sitting on the couch watching TV and smoking half a joint, going for a walk in nature and listen to music or cook or bake.

With psychedelics some refer to a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience. There are similarities with cannabis and other drugs (including alcohol of course).

That said, sometimes a little dab is enough to throw things off — fun story: I was practicing the Filipino Martial Arts and my teacher had a hit off a blunt some fellows practicing kinda-wushu in the same park were passing around. His ability to count out our drills went to hell, but in generally all other ways he was fine. It was very humorous at the time.

> a "museum dose" — that amount you can use that would allow a person to visit an art museum and enjoy the experience

This feels sad to me, and sounds like another angle on the same issue raised above.

You should be able to enjoy/engage with culture while sober; I'd describe needing to be high to connect with art as a dependency and a problem.

I think what they meant was a dose that still lets you enjoy it, not a dose required to enjoy it.

Stoned is the former, high is the latter.

I smoke very little, not enough to get high. This helps me practice musical instruments and do other tedious stuff. I never ever do nothing when on it, maybe the small quantity has the opposite effect, at least for me.

What about people who use cannabis to work, e.g. people with ADHD or PTSD?

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