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So I have this dilemma. I use illegal drugs to make myself happy. I know this is detrimental to my health in the long run, but I honestly dont care. Id rather be happy and not live as long then be unhappy and live a long life. Most of the illegal drugs Ive tried I can give or take. However, I honestly cant ever remember being happy for extended periods of time my whole life up untill I tried smoking marijuana. All of a sudden, I could be around crowds of people without feeling irritable and uncomfortable, I could interact with people in social situations without getting weird looks for unknown reasons. I just overall felt good. I had a tendency not to notice stupidity in people, which is the main reason I dont like socializing. It cures my sleeping problems. I manage to get to bed and wake up at reasonable hours. And better yet, I feel refreshed when I wake up. Which is something that rarely happens and affects my mood for the whole day. It helps me focus on one thing without gettting distracted, it helps me think things through thoroughly and see most if not all possible outcomes. It cures my suicidal and homicidal thoughts. As if this wasnt enough benefits, there are many more things it helps me with that I dont feel like taking the time to list. The more I read around, the more I find that other people with Aspergers are having similar benefitial effects from marijuana. If this kind of happiness comes at the price of lessened health, then so be it. What do you guys/girls recommend? Dont say prescription drugs... Because the truth is, a lot of prescription drugs are just as bad for you as a lot of illegal drugs. Thats why they require a prescription. Dont believe me? Do some research and be enlightened. I already did. Plus, in order to get all those same benefits from prescription drugs, I would need multiple prescriptions. Why take multiple drugs when I can just take 1?

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson makes brain waves cd's that alter my brainwaves, the way that I used to need pot for.

You can experience all the awesome body and mind alterations, just by listening to an array of waves.

Most individuals function at Beta normally. I am, and most auties and aspies, work at alpha. When I listen to my own, mixed up bag of sounds, that randomly go from Alpha Theta to Delta, in different orders. I get the full hemispheric connections, I used to have to use pot to get.

The brainwaves go: Awake- Beta Alpha Theta Delta- Asleep

So you can go to Itunes and search Dr. Jeffrey Thompson and buy a few songs, maybe one for each wave length, and just listen to them. You will get the similiar feeling of happier and calmer, just buy listening to the examples.

I love Delta. Its deep connective flow, really makes it easier to just chill.

Good Luck

There isn't anything wrong with marijuana if you ask me. The media has made it look like it is something bad. People who abuse it make it look like it is something bad. Smoking it on a regular basis wont kill you any faster than a person who doesn't smoke it. Don't let the propaganda influence you - do your own research!

There are many people who use marijuana for medicinal purposes, and you would NEVER know it. You could know these people for 20 years, and unless they let you in on it, you'd probably never know. I for one don't use it for anything, however given my neck problem and sleep problems, I could probably benefit from it. I'm tired of using stuff from the stores that makes me feel sick, and is bad for my stomach/liver/et cetera.

I actually agree that theres not much wrong with it. Just didnt want to say that for fear of making it sound like Im saying that its good for you. And then id have people arguing trivial things, like the obvious part that inhaling smoke is bad for your lungs. Although since THC is known to help for cancer according to research done by harvard and the Seth Group, I dont think Ill have to worry much about that.

As far as Dr. Jeffrey Thompsons brain wave cds go, that sounds very interesting and I will definately look into that. Thank you for the excellent post Alisscious

For me to take illegal drugs would be like committing suicide, it will never happen. I respect those who have voted to make it illegal. In fact it makes me very happy to do what the majority of people think is right. That's mainly because a group of people can think better than what a single person can (not sure where i got that info from ). They wouldn't make something illegal for no reason at all would they?

IMHO, If everyone did there own research we'd all be hooked on illegal drugs.

I encourage you to think this through.... that statement may be popular, but I believe it to be very far from the truth. especially when it comes to things like that. People are often heavily influenced by the media to make decisions without doing any research of their own. people are but programmable drones...

I'm gonna say "Stick it out". Illegal drugs can get you in a lot of trouble, and prescription drugs can be lethal.

Drugs you can buy from the store, such as Walmart, are more dangerous than marijuana. Marijuana has been shown to help many things that currently many companies offer pharmaceuticals for. If growing and using marijuana was legal, then I imagine less people would buy products from companies. A lot of business would be lost. If just using marijuana was legal as opposed to growing it, many companies still would lose business. This world is ran by money, and many products are offered with interest to make money, not to actually care for you. You're so happy with marijuana being illegal, yet you don't mention something like smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol, which are more unhealthy than smoking marijuana. Also, making these things illegal only creates more negativity. Look at all drug related crime. That alone is a business, and I bet many of those high end dealers would like it to remain that way too.

Your willingness to accept what the majority thinks is right is one of the biggest problems we have in this world. People should make their own decisions on what is right and wrong, not let some "group" (aka government) tell them what is acceptable.

You're going to get lots of differing opinions on cannabis. There are positive and negative studies. Its legal in many places, both for recreational and medicinal use.
I smoke myself, so I have a few points of advice for you:
Smoke in moderation, and be sure it doesn't impact on your day to day life. Don't get high before work/school, but instead promise yourself a smoke as a reward when you've done everything you need to do for that day. This includes cooking dinner and cleaning up.
Cannabis isn't a cure for depression. It typically amplifies whatever emotions you feel at the time. It can make mood swings far more severe.
It can bring out latent psychosis and schitzophrenia in people predisposed to such conditions. If you have a family history of mental illness I suggest steering clear.
Cannabis makes you feel ok with being lazy. Stay fit and eat good food.
Try and have breaks on a regular basis. Take a week or two off at least every 6 months. It will build up in your system and you will lose track of what is a 'normal' state for you and why you smoke in the first place.
Don't believe every study you read, either for or against it. Such research is usually commissioned by a group or individual to reinforce their position - they pay to get the results they want.
Finally, on the subject of prohibition - it was politically motivated, as most laws are. One of the biggest reasons was to quash the hemp trade - a brilliant plant with thousands of uses that have now been replaced with oil based products. It sounds like conspiracy theory but I encourage you to research it. Your declaration of independence was drafted on hemp paper.

I thought it through, I don't read newspapers or watch TV news. I do observe people that do take drugs and it isn't good. I believe most of them would do anything to keep their addiction. If you are taking the stuff how do we know if it is 'you' talking or the drug, it changes your personality into thinking that everything is okay, does it not?

Doctors must know what all the good and bad effects that drugs can do to people. Why not just ask your doctor about it? I'm happy with my 40mg of Fluoxetine, you've got to wait for about a month before it starts to work though. I feel absolutely 100% normal on them, not too over happy, just normal, as i was when i was a kid.

It's not just the side effects of drugs that are the problem, in time, everyone will know that you are a drug user. Parts of society, whether we like it or not, do not like drug addicts. Drug addicts is a term used these days even if they aren't addicted to them yet. People fear them, which is a shame because not all of them are bad.

I have never taken illegal drugs, not just because they are illegal, but because my friends and family would be extremely worried. More often than not, taking illegal drugs is done because of peer pressure, any kind of pressure or brain washing inflicted on another human being should be treated with caution.

Legalizing drugs is not the way, simply because the drug dealers will go onto selling harder drugs.

"Drugs you can buy from the store, such as Walmart, are more dangerous than marijuana."

Yes, they are also more widely available than Marijuana, so more people take them. Generally, the more people there is to take the drug, the bigger the death rate (side effects, etc). Would it not be better to make the drugs you can buy from the store illegal rather than legalizing Marijuana? Curing two problems rather than introducing another one?

Personally, I think tobacco cigarettes should be banned, although they should do it slowly, like, increasing the smoking age each year by one. Alcohol, yet another problem, and probably the only one that the world will never get rid of. I think the trouble with legalizing something that's addictive is that once it's done, it's difficult to reverse. It's a bit like the drug itself.

I agree, everybody should vote on whether they want something to become legal or not, it is the people that have to live with it, not government.

As with any drug at first it may work but then it will take more and more until it does little good to take it.
it changing the way the brain is wired, when you take the drugs to feel good the brain stops trying to do this on its own,
so the more you do it the more of a crash your going to have when you quit and it takes a vary long time to recover from this.

whats best is to try and find natural ways to bring on that high within your self, first and foremost remember its all a state of mind, secondly, there are many things in life that can bring on that endorphin rush, get out there and find them.

I know many people who use pot because it helps them (including myself). Do whatever works for you! Pot is currently available in Canada as prescription for many ailments (most having to do with pain management), but they've recently started doing research here into whether or not pot can be helpful for treating mental disorders as well. It's been a long time coming if you ask me!

What do you recommend for me based on what i described myself being like in the original post?

if it`s just weed i say go ahead. i know it helps some people and hinders other, so if it helps go ahead and take it because you aren't going to get a prescription for it.

Setting aside any long term issues with the active ingredients, smoking pot is most definitely a bad thing for you lungs, as is pretty much any "smoke". Smoke contains any number of imperfectly combusted organic compounds, and because a joint typically burns much hotter than tobacco (depending on how much you 'cut' it with tobacco, and just how dry the pot is) the levels of these compounds are actually much worse. Just basic chemistry of combustion. This is largely balanced off by the fact most people will smoke less joints than cigarettes but it's hard to classify it as a better situation in total. There are ways to lower this with various equipment but until you stop setting fire to the pot (use a vapourizer or ingestion, ingestion not working for some people) this problem will persist. As a bonus with vapourizers it will likely be cheaper in the long run, if you insist on being a chronic and you intend to be at a particular location every time you imbibe. Because you aren't burning off a lot of the [active] volatiles, and the lower temp [and potentially because it isn't an oxygen starved environment?] will give a different mix of active ingredients to you (THC isn't the only active ingredient), you tend to use a lot less product.

Then there is the problem of fungus/mold contamination (from the combination of humid production facilities + poor handling/processing) and even dubious choice of solvents by even more dubious producers (hey, you expected something better from out and out criminals? ) that dip the buds to harvest the "honey oil" off before passing them onto you. Not burning the pot isn't going to improve this, the fungus might actually cause more problems if you don't denature the problem proteins with heat. EDIT: Although you might not get much of the fungus going down the pipe with the vapourizer, you don't get many solids that way...and it will probably be enough heat to denature. Not sure about that part of it.

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Also, don't get me wrong. I still smoke. It is a minor amount. About the size of 1/8 of a dime. You know the coin. That is more for on occasion when I still need it for one reason or another. Usually when I am so tired, that I am about to break down. Then I sit absolutely alone and draw or something.

I would suggest a mix between alpha, "The improved learning ones" and Delta, "the deep sleep ones, that have the sounds you enjoy most"

The other alpha ones are very neat, yet kinda corny, I love them, they may take time for you to like though. I do not know your coolness factor. :p

You can turn on the meter bar thing, that shows which tones are going. After a while of watching and listening, you can see which low tones that are pulsing slower, are the delta tones, and which higher tones, which pulse faster, are the alpha tones.

I watch this so that I can identify by sound emotion response, which frequency I enjoy most. So I know if I feel a certain type of happiness, oh that is alpha, then follow it up with a deepening delta and I feel that happiness go deeper, if I want to at that point, I can let it drop and cry out the tears that are sitting there from minor stresses.

That is way too much information though, probably. Anywho, any of the frequencies are bound to help us.

Also, they say it is good for us to listen to beta, to be more on the level of everyone else.

I have noticed that when I listen to beta, I become giggly. The brainwaves can only help us hemispherically connect within our own minds.

I still come from different neural pathways, I believe, as the way in which I initially work. I do see beta as being very relevant. I am just a deeper rhythm rebel. I love functioning creatively and emotionally, in the privacy of my own home, with a delta alpha mix. Maybe try Beta, before you leave the house in the morning.

Okay, yeah. Enjoy and take care

Alissa