I guess this would come down to the person. The music I make is burned into my head as much as how to walk or breathe, probably due to amounts of LSD/Mushrooms previously done. Before I started making music I’d been to Surgeons night in Birmingham hundreds of times, pretty much without fail for four years+, plus atomic jam or other nights on the same weekend.
Most of the time not in work would be practising DJ’ing and I worked in some pretty nice record shops like Hard2Find and Dance Music Finder.
Even now, the 1st thing I do every day is put music on for a few hours, if I’m at work, there’ll be music on. If I’m watching something on tv it’s more than likely to be something dark, no matter if it’s fictional or factual.
So, not smoking weed doesn’t make a difference to me, in fact it probably helps as you don’t get lost in what i’m doing.
I’ll listen to things when i’m on pills or drunk or whatever other chemicals find themself in my body.
yeyeyee. Love wants to be free. To me partners should support each other in their respective journeys through life rather than restrict each other.
I’ve seen it many times that a person who does not smoke gives their partner stick for smoking. And often in a manner so vehement, that it starts to look like a smoke screen to me.
I guess what I’m saying is, I think people should respect the herb and the teachings it can provide a little more.
At the same time of course each of us is responsible to use responsibly and mindfully. So that’s a prerequisite to the above in my book.
3 small Js over an entire weekend is no big deal. Yeah some people do change. Fortunately my partner likes me better when high as I’m more chill, less on edge and funnier. But you can also do it when she’s not around or when you’re doing your own thing.
Update: My T-break lasted 2.5 weeks. I had no plan of how long I’d do it. Maybe all of 2020. But I realized I wasn’t making any music, I wasn’t that much more productive off it and wasn’t exercising more. I felt okay overall, but kinda “blah”. But I also realize T-breaks of a week or longer are very useful and I plan to take these kinds of breaks more often from now on. One thing I’m doing differently this time is I don’t have a smoke (or edible) until at least 7-8pm - except on certain occasions such as yesterday when I smoked around 5pm because I went to the beach. In the past, if I smoked during the day time, 90% of the time the rest of my day was shot. Besides, it’s much funner to do it at night after the majority of your tasks have been completed.
It really depends on strain. My in-laws are elderly mormon and my spouse thought my MIL starting weed would be the cause of a divorce, instead he tolerates it because she’s nicer to him and cleans up more…
stopping nicotine had, for me, more important effects than stopping weed (which I consume occasionally, without combustion, nor nicotine, with a vaporizer)
Nicotine is a powerful drug with important “positive” effects on the capacity of focus (and which also promotes insomnia which can be a good thing for the nights of work, and a bad one for the day of work )
Tobacco is the spirit of clarity and focus. It’s quite a powerful substance that gets abused in our society. Not least because what most of us smoke is barely tobacco
I agree with you that the focus it gives is powerful. I know of practitioners that pre roll tobacco cigarettes prior to engaging on mushroom or marijuana ceremonies, in case it gets too much, the tobacco has the power to ground and clarify.
In my mind this was one of the reasons why it was smoked in the peace pipe, so everyone was at their clearest when agreeing the terms (as well as agreeing from a grounded place).
yes, to consider tobacco as a “drug with no effect” is really strange.
the difference between pure weed and weed + tobacco is obvious (not to mention even the combustion), and it is much easier to regulate your consumption of weed when it is not related to tobacco (which is really a good thing for me).
sometimes I plan to consume nicotine for its effects, but its consumption, as we consume it in Occident seems to me more and more inappropriate.
in my opinion, for me, marijuana helps me with coping and being able to slow down stuff going on in my head.
this last year I’ve lost 4 family members (my step dad, my only aunt on my dads side, my grandma and my god mother) and one of my closest friends committed suicide. I definitely need therapy but with all of the covid BS, insurance not being able to kick in till September and not having a lot of friends to talk to, cant really fix myself like I want to right now. so if I’m going way too deep in my head, I usually smoke a bowl and try to slow down examine and accept the situations that have happened and all of that. so for that aspect, it helps me slow down. drumming and music creation helps a ton too. but as far as the creative aspect, I say start of clear headed so you have some sort of steady and solid direction then start the joint and let that take you for a ride. idk if this makes any sense or helps but yeah, hope everyones doin good out there
I smoked weed for 20+ years. I gave up cos I didn’t like what it was doing for mental health, I was short tempered and apathetic, but I was convinced I needed it to make music until I realized once I’d stopped that it was basically lying to me. Every night I’d smoke and write music I was sure was vibing and the next best thing, until I listened back the next day and found out what a incoherent bunch of nonsense it actually was. My music has became a lot more focused and I haven’t looked back. What I came to realise was I enjoyed procuring it more than smoking it, I’d have instant regret once I smoked that first one, I think I’ve exchanged that lust for equipment now aka g.a.s
Nowadays I only smoke while tripping.
Been smoking heavily for the last 25 years and I kinda wish I hadn’t.
In a way it can help to focus but in the long run it makes most ppl just lazy, prevents from seeing dreams (come to fruition as well), it makes physical exercise more unlikely and skews the diet into very unhealthy directions.
I want to be sober when I make music and art.
To be present as much as possible.
Also, weed is not what it used to be.
It’s super strong compared what it once was.
When I quit, I lost all my focus, half of my memory, and most of my attention span. It was a lot easier for me to exercise and be creative when I was smoking, all the things I liked to do were brought into focus. I slept better. I felt more comfortable in social situations. But it’s a double-edged sword, smoking is awful for your breathing and your physical health, so if I didn’t quit, I think it would have only gotten worse. Now I can make more arbitrary music related purchases, but I also feel like I haven’t seriously recorded anything good since I quit. We’ll see though, it’s only been a couple years, some things take time.
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