Who’s a stoner again?

Participants who had the most persistent cannabis dependence — 38 individuals, each with three or more medical diagnoses of cannabis dependence — experienced the greatest negative impact: “IQ decline was most pronounced among the most persistent cannabis-dependence group … but the effect of persistent cannabis dependence on IQ decline was not solely attributable to this group.”

Moreover, the “association between persistent cannabis dependence and full-scale IQ decline was still apparent after excluding the study members with 3+ cannabis-dependence diagnoses from the analysis.”

Those who never used cannabis showed a slight increase in IQ, while the heavier, longer-term users exhibited a loss of approximately six IQ points.

Neuropsychological impairment was primarily evident in attention problems and reduced processing speed and executive functioning.

Those who began using cannabis before age 18 were more likely to become persistent users, defined as once a week or more, and suffered the greatest decline in mental functioning — approximately eight IQ points.

Adult-onset cannabis users did not appear to experience IQ decline, indicating that adolescents’ developing brains could be uniquely vulnerable to early pot use.

Quitting pot did not completely restore mental functioning of participants who had started using cannabis as adolescents, but it could prevent additional impairment

LOL so, when i was melting in the couch, i kept coming in and out of those "waves" i guess cuz it was towards the end.. i kept getting up like fuck yes its done! oh nooOooo /sinks back in.

i also failed to express how literal i was when i said i could not get up from where i was at. i was literally "floored" ... stuck to a bench until my ride came. i also felt like i had wanted to throw up.

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do you guys like being outside on a sunny day when you're high? i usually smoke inside and once i get outside i feel like everything's.... a lot *more* ... usually if i smoke outside it'd be at night.. o____O

Man any of yall ever have an outer body experience when yall were high? I did.....shit was wild.

Okay so me and my homie were chillin the other day playing FIFA and dude rolls up this fat ass gram blunt of blue dream and we smoke on it and play FIFA. Everything was gravy and I was really high. Probably like 15 minutes into the first game, my mind started to wander about hella other shit. I was thinking about what designs im going to make, what i'm going to do when I get home, what song was playing blahblahblah---basically thinking about everything else BUT FIFA. I was basically there but not there...Now the strange part is, although I wasn't focused on the game, I was fucking busting ass...and I realized this and asked to myself "damn who's playing this"....and then like 10 seconds later I realized I was still playing FIFA! It's like my mind was elsewhere, and my body was on cruise control. It was so weird because I felt as if someone else was playing.

So when I got home later that day, I was googling around and it seems like OBE is a natural occurrence amongst people who smoke. And this made me think of past times where I had a similar experience, where my mind would be somewhere else and not focused on the topic at hand, but i'm still capable of doing the task. For example, sometimes when I drive high as fuck, I end up not knowing how I got to the location, but I know I was driving...like its a weird feeling to explain, the best analogy I can say is my body was in cruise control, or like I was just unconsciously acting. Almost like breathing you know? You don't have to think about it, you just do it.

And there was another time where I was high as fuck laying on the ground of my room, and I started to feel as if I wasn't in my body, almost like a floating sensation. Like I was looking at my hands and arms and it felt like I wasn't in control of them...I could move them, but it felt as if I wasn't moving them...

Idk man, all this made me come to the conclusion that your body is just a vessel of your mind/soul.