How has marijuana negatively affected your life?

I was smoking for just over 5 years averaging probably at 3 times a day. At the peak I was smoking over ten times a day for weeks on end.It made me very short-sighted. I was thinking more day to day as opposed to thinking about taking steps which would ultimately better my future.

Fuck.

I'm 40 and have been smoking more than you were, and for much longer.. Like for the past 10-15 years.

I've been telling myself that my shortsightedness, my habit of just existing to continue my existence, my inability to look towards the future, etc.. was due to my ADHD (unmedicated). But really, I've been lying to myself the whole time, because it's been mostly due to the pot all along.

I did cut down severely over the past year, I moved to the quiet rural township where my 14-year old daughter lives with her mom to be closer to them in summer 2014.

Didn't know anybody for weed here, so I went back to adult high school, got all the credits I was missing to get my high school equivalent diploma in about six months , and I'm starting a career orientation workshop in two weeks. Then I'll have chosen a path and I'm off to apply for my loans and grants and stuff.

My daughter's stepfather would toss me the occasional bud, it became a rare delicacy.

Unfortunately, over this summer, I made my first real friend outside of the family circle, as luck would have it he just happens to be the local weed dealer and actually a really nice guy.

So I smoked like a fiend all summer break and totally undid all that hard work it took to forget about pot as a daily fixture in my life. Back to giving less of a shit about my longterm plans, back to not being able to enjoy a video game or movie without pot, back to eating more junk food less while the bike and weight bench get dusty, back to spending hours per day drooling to reddit and Netflix or South Park reruns.

Fuck. Here we go again.

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