tried weed last night, today i feel grey

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I actually use weed to calm my symptoms. I also experience less restful sleep when I use it, but the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks IMO.

I have researched marijuana extensively (secondary research, obviously, I don't have a government-supplied laboratory) and have concluded that unless the subjective experience is unpleasant in any way for an individual user, there is absolutely no reason to hesitate aside from legal reasons. In other words, cannabis doesn't cause lung disease, it doesn't cause long-term brain dysfunction, it's safe except for things like transient panic attacks or other subjective mood problems PLUS if people start using as children or adolescents, that's a bad idea, but for adults, IMO, it's a valuable medicine and the fact that it's illegal has more to do with money and power than it does with pharmacology.

Oh yeah, and marijuana is less addictive than caffeine and less toxic than acetaminophen. These are facts.

Anyway, stepping off my soapbox, I discovered that weed helps my symptoms. I am not officially diagnosed with AS but I've had mental health trouble all my life for AS-like reasons. Given the reading I've done recently about autism and marijuana, I'm inclined to believe my experience on this one.

smoking cannabis is injurious to health....you have to kick this...and one thing You get hungry & eat all the food in the house. You don't feel like going to work (or doing anything labor intensive for that matter.

I've never felt depressed after I've smoked some leaf.

I guess it affects people differently though.

Never have felt depressed from it. It's great stuff, if used in moderation.

I smoked really strong "skunk" with a friend a few years ago and felt like crap the next day. Paranoid and shaky. The worse part was, a bunch of kids who stunk of weed came on the bus with me, and the cops came by, and if they smelled it and searched us all, well i had a bag full of it. The stupidest part was, i threw it away in the bin cause i felt so bad, then days later retrived it and smoked it, and felt bad again. I did the same thing with ritalin pills !

I surprised and offended at the anti-weed dopes. Ironic on an AS forum.

How do you know what you are talking about? US government propaganda? As a lawyer, I here to tell you that the law is an ass, especially as it relates to control over one's own body. I'm too angry to write more now. Maybe later.

One of the biggest lessons about AS, for me, is to avoid pontification on subject on which I am not an expert.