Cannabis??

[Pinkdust]

Hey all,

So I’m a cannabis user, I use CBD and THC but I prefer THC then CBD because I like the effect of THC more as it helps me cope with insomnia and helps me deal with being a pedophile and my minor attraction.

Just wanted to know if any map uses cannabis like CBD or THC or both to help them deal with their attraction to kids or other needs like mental health issues.

I think legalising it could be a beneficial for us maps to use cannabis either CBD or THC and I would like to be a cannabis user especially THC as I love getting high and the feeling of the high.

If I had the choice of getting CBD or THC I would pick THC over CBD because it helps me cope with my ma and helps me sleep better.

I think there should be research on maps using cannabis to see if it helps them with being a map among their metal health as well.

Does any map use cannabis to help them deal with their attraction and mental health problems being a map??

If so please share your thoughts and opinions why maps should consider using cannabis and why it’s beneficial for us to consume cannabis??

Peace and love,
Pinkdust

[TayFerret]

All forms of smoking should be illegal and heavily punished.

[Julia]

I used to smoke cannabis for over a decade until two years ago. Mostly for PTSD though. The only time I can think of that it helped with being a MAP was when I came out and fell victim to a smear campaign resulting in a lot of harassment that continued for weeks.

[RoosterDance]

All forms of smoking should be illegal and heavily punished.

I would almost be inclined to agree with you, but as we should all know here, banning benign behavior never really works out.

[WavesInEternity]

I've been using cannabis since I was 13 years old. I love it. It always helped me with anxiety and depression, in addition to enhancing my creativity and motivation (yes, it increases the latter for me, rather than decreasing it as it does to many).

It's also totally legal and quite normalized where I live.

After more than a decade of heavy substance abuse, cannabis and caffeine are the only drugs I still use. I usually smoke a few hits on most days, i.e. quite small amounts. I might use some psychedelics again some day when I feel more psychologically stable, but I'm not there yet.

[MemeticTheory]

Cannabis is great! here is couple cool things I found in studies...

" Previous research suggests cannabis may enhance some aspects of creativity, although the results remain somewhat equivocal"
"While low doses of THC might enhance divergent thinking and creativity, higher doses can impair cognitive functions essential for convergent.."
" Amounts between 2 and 10 milligrams of THC per serving may stimulate your brain's reward system to increase mental energy and motivation..."
" Interestingly, low doses of THC are reported to potentially foster creativity, especially among those who don't naturally consider themselves.."

[Lennon72]

I think that cannabis can be beneficial for lots of people. But I don't think it is going to do much on the MAP question.

[MemeticTheory]

I think that cannabis can be beneficial for lots of people. But I don't think it is going to do much on the MAP question.

After a quick, search I found this...

"In our study, we found that the use of cannabis can allow men to access a deeper sense of sexual freedom and intimacy in a context where same-sex sex is historically stigmatized." (Now in the context of MAPs)

"Our analyses demonstrate that minority stress constructs, namely perceived stigma, enacted stigma, outness, community connectedness, and prominence of sexual identity did account for the relationship between sexual orientation and cannabis use cross-sectionally and longitudinally."

"How Cannabis May Prevent Early Life Stress"

I don't know, but maybe on some level cannabis is helping with MAPness/MAPs on the basis of, MAPs have stress(like the above) so more likely to use like everyone else who is stressed, and it could act as a 'social glue' to say that can keep people on level that is more than just related to MAPness, and finally it does seem to help with PTSD/stress/minority stress related psychological and physical symptoms and processes, like the study above "restored" was the key word.

"Following brief explanations of the normalization hypothesis and the concept of stigma, this review is organized between structural (macro) stigmas, social (meso) stigmas, and personal (micro) stigmas. Furthermore, since cannabis stigmas are similar to the stigmas faced by sexual minorities in that each is physically concealable, the two groups are compared here because the literature base is more extensive with the latter."
-A qualitative review of cannabis stigmas at the twilight of prohibition

Cannabis is on one level part of MAP/Youth liberationism...?

[SCM123ABC]

All forms of smoking should be illegal and heavily punished.

Is this a troll? I know something's are bad but habits are hard to break and deal with stress say for example I got into sex like around 8-12 to help me cope with all the bullying and eventually being taken out of school and homeschooled so with loneliness I do food now because of the pedophillia so can't do sex while it helped in childhood it's too much of a danger now

[John_Doe]

I'm not a drug person. I react badly to refined carbohydrates (I suspect that they affect us like a drug) and caffeine. I wouldn't be surprised if marijuana gave me panic attacks or made me really paranoid.

I'm sure there are some drugs that some people can use in moderation, especially or at least when they're young, but I'm generally 'skeptical' of drugs as a strategy for long-term happiness (given how they seem to affect the brain in terms of tolerance, desensitization, dependence where the brain stops producing those feel good hormones on its own, etc., they introduce a chemical imbalance).

Still, whatever happiness people feel when they're high on the most dangerous drugs has inherent value and I'm glad that they've had that beautiful experience. It sounds as though MDMA has really helped a lot of people even though I wouldn't assume that it's worth the risk (ending up in the emergency room with a panic attack, rare cases of death, etc.). I've never liked how some people will dismiss an acknowledgment of real risk as anti-drug propaganda.

Anyway, I definitely think that marijuana should be legal regardless of whether or not people should actually use it. I would love it if there was some simple substance I could take that could make me feel intense euphoria and give me something to live for and I could have that substance no matter what happened in life. I've been looking into lucid dreaming lately even though I've always preferred to believe that the characters I interact with in my dreams are real minds like me. I doubt I'll ever have one (I've had a couple of dreams where I thought I was lucid in the dream but in retrospect I'm not sure that I really was and it wasn't as people described, the sensory perception wasn't identical to how it is now, for one, I couldn't really control things, etc. I had a mundane not pleasant dream not so long ago that was identical to my sensory perception and cognition now, no difference at all, I wasn't sure if it was a dream when I woke up but it must have been. I've had other 'vivid,' or rather vividly remembered, dreams). My dreams tend to be mundane/ok and I forget most of most of them. Even my more interesting ones never have blue grass, purple skies or unicorns and very, very rarely have actual sex (I have had some sex dreams though; a wet dream comes to mind and another dream I can't really remember but wrote about in my dream journal and I can think of another but the sensory perception was incoherent/fuzzy, and more where there was romantic/sexual tension with some girl and maybe the anticipation of sex). To be fair, I have had some beautiful dreams and I guess I should be grateful for them.

Sorry to go on/off-topic but I thought that would fall under "escapism" or pushing the boundaries of what happiness real life or normal/natural brain chemistry will allow for. I wish that people took dreams seriously as a life-long source of hope (nothing you have in real life can't be taken away from you in terms of external sources of happiness and no level of 'spiritual growth' or 'self-improvement' is ever going to change the fact that emotional well-being is partly dependent on such external states-your legs, your arms, your sight, your house, your youth, your friends, etc. but there's no experience that you can imagine that you can't have when you dream; at least if it doesn't involve high self-awareness/reflection/critical thinking with the non-lucid dreams or the belief that others are sharing your dream world with you with the lucid ones, although maybe some lucid dreaming hunter-gatherers believed that they traveled to another dimension when they dreamt or maybe some other lucid dreamers believe that brain activity can cause the existence of multiple minds) but I understand why they don't, if you can't clearly remember something it's as though it never happened and I don't think I'll ever have exactly the kind of perfect dream I would have if I could write out my dreams like a story. That might be an immature attitude to have when you consider that happiness is relative so even if my wildest dreams came true, there would always be another level of happiness that could leave me dissatisfied with what I've been fortunate to experience (e.g. if I had sex with the woman of my dreams I could have had sex with her high on MDMA, I could look at the most beautiful sunset and still wish that I lived in a world with blue grass and purple skies but if I lived in such a world I'd think that a world with blue skies would be the most magical, exotic thing ever and if I lived the most exciting fantasy life for 100 years I could lament not living it for 1000 years, etc. The difference is that I'm not as frustrated with the absence of higher-level experiences I have no concrete reference for but I can't shake the frustration that comes with sexual desire and the memory/concrete understanding of how intense sexual pleasure can be, I have no concrete reference for how intense heroin or MDMA-induced euphoria is so I'm oblivious to what I'm missing out on. I don't want to elaborate, on this or my thoughts on dreams in general, this is already shamelessly 'off-topic').