Amotivational Syndrome

[midnightToker]

this for real? read this in my bio book. i do feel relaxed afterwards, not to the extent of this! http://www.druglibrary.org/Schaffer/LIBRARY/slikker.htm

[Dr. Greenthumb]

Check out the cites before you go believing things. Do some research on the Rhesus studies and see what bullshit they were.

[Mate]

well, fuck, if it exists, you have to smoke at least 2 ounces a day, cause i'm smoking 1 ounce or so per week, and i'm not affected at all.... my scores at school are even higher than the others, and that, cause i'm getting high often.

[Genius]

Weed actually can make you unmotivated and lazy, or at least for some people. I know there are people who smoke a ton and do well in school, work and every other area in life, but for me and a lot of other people I know, weed DOES make us feel lazy and sleepy if we smoke too much. But in the end, it all depends on how strong your will power is to prevent you from slackin off all the time.

The only "real" bad side to weed is that sometimes you can't take life too seriously when high - we all know this. This can be a lil bad for someone young, such as a 13 year old who smokes every day. Normally, you have to go through at least some sort of pain or struggle to learn how to deal with your problems as well as learn life lessons, but if you just try to forget about everythin by smokin it up all the time, it won't be very good for you in the long run. Now, for us older teenagers and adults (18 and older, etc), we don't have to worry about this, as most of us are already fully emotionally developed and matured well enough, but for a young teen (12 - 16), weed isn't the best thing for you to do all the time in my opinion. There are times when you need to be sober to deal with shit, and if you don't know how to deal with it other than smokin it up, you're gonna be in a bit of trouble when you have no weed and the problem is all the way up your ass.

[Dr. Greenthumb]

For me weed is a motivator.

[dubers]

i started smoking out when i was 15 but i used to only be able to get hash unless we got real lucky. (usually coz we were broke but also coz we didnt have a regular dealer)

i gave up when i was 16 when i was starting study leave for my gcse's but i started again just before my 19th birthday coz i got pissed with the chef in my old job when i was kitchen portering and hes a caner. i had a few spliffs with him then started buying it coz he used to get at least an ounce every week.

basically ive been smoking again for 2 years and i kept my old job until my boss sold the pub, then i got a new job 2 weeks later and ims till there after 8 months with no problems. ive not pulled a single sicky.

i did drop out of college but that was 2 months before i started smoking again and i had a load of fucked up stuff happening in my life at the time.

since starting again i seem to be able to get up easier in the mornings (with the help of 5 alarms on my phone lol) and it gives me incentive to work coz if i didnt work i wouldnt have any money and i wouldnt be able to afford weed.