I just saw this thread. A nice break from some of the growing threads I can't understand.... ;). It's like "Help!! My leaves!!". Then someone asks "What's your system like?", and then it just trails off.......
Anyway I started smoking young, I was 13. 1982. I was a hyper kid, definitely ADHD but in the 70s they didn't help hyper boys out much. My Dad had the brilliant idea to take me out of public school and put me into catholic school in 5th grade. So I just got yelled at by nuns. What they should have done was give me more/more advanced work, and more exercise.....
I loved weed as soon as I tried it. And it worked great for me. Unfortunately it was a tough time to be a kid pot head. This was the Reagan drug war years. So a lot of being stealth and paranoid. But I smoked every day, before school, during, after......I still got very good grades, I never did anything bad, just class clown type of stuff......and I was well on my way to becoming a hippie. I also went to a very good, catholic, all boys, JROTC High School. The JROTC was optional by the time I went, but the school gave me good balance, and kept me solid. I went onnto college, kept smoking every day, I was the guy who got the best weed and hooked up all of my friends. I become a Dead head, Phish head, eventually grew my hair (I still have long hair;) ). But I'm also a financial advisor......he he he....I worked on Wall st for many years.....
I liked mushrooms and LSD too, still do. I was always respectful of it, I didn’t do it constantly, I've probably tripped about 50+ times over the past 35 years. About once a year I'll still do a good dose of mushrooms or 2 or 3 drops of good LSD......
Somewhere about 15 years ago, in my late 30s, I stopped smoking weed every day. Already I had cut down, there's no waybyou can do bong hits all day or get high in the morning and still be sharp and focused, work in an office.........if you asked me at age 20-25 to stop having weed for a day I would have climbed the walls. But at 35 I was down to just a few hits at home after work at night. At 40 I was going a days here and there without it, my tolerance continued to drop, and these days I go more days without weed than with it. Your brain changes as you get older, or maybe I've just had enough.... ;). Or God
forbid......I've become more mature......nah. Full circle, I'm now far more excited about growing it (and breeding, landraces, heirlooms.....) than using it. I still love weed, and when I have it I get ripped. Sometimes I'll have an edible or two, or a hit of extract, and I'll be flying.....
I'll be just as happy growing now. :)