SunnySingh

Some info partly related to this thread started by the OP. How Marijuana/Cannabis Affects Your Mind and Body Marijuana, weed, pot, dope, grass. They’re different names for the same drug that comes from the cannabis plant. You can smoke it, vape it, drink it, or eat it. Most folks use marijuana for pleasure and recreation. Marijuana has mind-altering compounds that affect both your brain and body. It can be addictive, and it may be harmful to some people’s health. Here’s what can happen when you use marijuana: You Can Get “High” It’s why most people try marijuana. The main psychoactive ingredient, THC, stimulates the part of your brain that responds to pleasure, like food and sex. That unleashes a chemical called dopamine, which gives you a euphoric, relaxed feeling. If you vape or smoke weed, the THC could get into your bloodstream quickly enough for you to get your high in seconds or minutes. The THC level usually peaks in about 30 minutes, and its effects may wear off in 1-3 hours. If you drink or eat pot, it may take many hours for you to fully sober up. You may not always know how potent your recreational marijuana might be. That also goes for most medical marijuana. It May Affect Your Mental Health Not everyone’s experience with marijuana is pleasant. It often can leave you anxious, afraid, panicked, or paranoid. Using marijuana may raise your chances for clinical depression or worsen the symptoms of any mental disorders you already have. Scientists aren’t yet sure exactly why. In high doses, it can make you paranoid or lose touch with reality so you hear or see things that aren’t there. Your Thinking May Get Distorted Marijuana can cloud your senses and judgment. The effects can differ depending on things like how potent your pot was, how you took it, and how much marijuana you’ve used in the past.It might: Heighten your senses (colors might seem brighter and sounds might seem louder) Distort your sense of time Hurt your motor skills and make driving more dangerous Lower your inhibitions so you may have risky sex or take other chances You May Get Hooked About 1 in 10 people who use marijuana will become addicted. That means you can’t stop using it even if it harms your relationships, job, health, or finances. The risk is greater the younger you start marijuana and the more heavily you use it. For instance, the odds of addiction are 1 in 6 if you use pot in your teens. It might be as high as 1 in 2 among those who use it every day. You could also grow physically dependent on marijuana. Your body could go into withdrawal, leaving you irritable, restless, unable to sleep, and uninterested in eating when you don’t use it. Learn more about how to spot the signs of marijuana addiction. It May Impair Your Brain Marijuana can make it harder for you to focus, learn, and remember things. This seems to be a short-term effect that lasts for 24 hours or longer after you stop smoking. But using pot heavily, especially in your teen years, may leave more permanent effects. Imaging tests with some -- but not all -- adolescents found that marijuana may physically change their brains. Specifically, they had fewer connections in parts of the brain linked to alertness, learning, and memory, and tests show lower IQ scores in some people. Your Lungs May Hurt Marijuana smoke can inflame and irritate your lungs. If you use it regularly, you could have the same breathing problems as someone who smokes cigarettes. That could mean ongoing cough with colored mucus. Your lungs may more easily pick up infections. That’s partly because THC seems to weaken some users’ immune systems. You May Feel Hungrier Many people who use marijuana regularly notice that it boosts their appetite. They call this “the munchies.” Some research suggests that might help people with AIDS, cancer, or other illnesses regain weight. Scientists are studying this and whether it’s safe. It May Harm Your Heart Marijuana makes your heart work harder. Normally the heart beats about 50 to 70 times a minute. But that can jump to 70 to 120 beats or more per minute for 3 hours after the effects kick in. The added strain plus tar and other chemicals in pot may raise your chance of heart attack or stroke. The danger is even bigger if you’re older or if you already have heart problems. It Intensifies Alcohol’s Dangers More than 1 in 10 drinkers say they have used marijuana in the past year. Combining alcohol and marjuana at the same time roughly doubled the odds of drunk driving or legal, professional, or personal problems compared to drinking alone. Your Newborn Might Be Underweight Mothers who smoke pot while pregnant face a higher risk of giving birth to underweight or premature babies. But researchers don’t know enough to say if those infants are more likely to grow up to struggle in school, use drugs, or have other problems in life. Many of the same carcinogenic, or cancer-causing, compounds present in tobacco smoke are also found in burning marijuana. In particular, unfiltered smoke from joints contains higher concentrations of a class of chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) than does smoke from tobacco cigarettes. Since marijuana users generally inhale more deeply than tobacco smokers, they may be exposing their lungs to even higher levels of these dangerous substances. Preliminary research also suggests that marijuana smokers' lung cells contain higher levels of an enzyme that converts PAHs into a cancer-causing form. Thus, it is not surprising that several studies implicate marijuana smoking as a risk factor for lung cancer as well as for mouth and throat cancer. Several reports have suggested that marijuana smokers are at greater risk than nonsmokers of developing cancers in tissues that come into contact with smoke, such as the lungs, mouth, larynx, pharynx, and esophagus. The short-term effects of cannabis use Everyone's response to cannabis differs and can vary from one time to the next. When cannabis is used, it can: Impair your ability to drive safely or operate equipment Cannabis can cause drowsiness, slow reaction times, lower your ability to pay attention and impair coordinationFootnote1 Using cannabis and then driving or operating equipment can result in an accident, serious injuries or death. Make it harder to learn and remember things Cannabis can impair your thinking, concentration, memory and decision-making, and can impact your ability to perform well on the job or at school.Footnote2 Affect your mental health Though cannabis can cause euphoria (a high) it can also cause anxiety or panic.Footnote2 In rare cases, cannabis can trigger a psychotic episode (not knowing what is real, experiencing paranoia, having disorganized thoughts and, in some cases, hallucinating).Footnote2 The long-term risks of cannabis use Using cannabis frequently (daily or almost daily) and over a long time (several months or years) can: Hurt your lungs and make it harder to breathe, if smoked Cannabis smoke contains many of the same harmful chemicals found in tobacco smoke.Footnote3 Affect your mental health Frequent use of THC over a long time increases the risk of cannabis dependence, also called: addiction cannabis use disorder problematic cannabis use It is also associated with an increased risk of developing or worsening disorders related to anxiety and depression. Using products with higher levels of THC (20% THC [200 mg/g] or more) such as resin, hash oil, wax and distillates further increases the risk of mental health problems over time. Stopping or reducing your cannabis use can improve your mental health. As a general rule, by all means, one should avoid any consumption of narcotics/intoxicants, because their poisonous effects as seen above, strike the mind and making it even more stronger than what it already is. Which means, a still bigger hindrance to overcome, for those who seek the Lord Waheguru. It is only by killing the mind with the sword of Nam, that one gets liberation/mukti, for it is because of the mind since aeons/yugas we have been separated from our Father Waheguru, and roaming aimlessly in the wheel of 84. But, if we ourselves give the mind total control over us, how the hell can we reach our True Home? Obviously never. It is like adding more fuel to the fire, so naturally the fire will never extinguish. And this fire will sure burn into ashes our opportunity as human beings for the purpose of reuniting our surtee with Waheguru, then who knows when the hell will we get a human birth among 8.400.000 species of lives. Just imagine even an year spent in each of those lives, it is still 8.400.000 yearssssssss, then too no guarantee. Aren´t we dumb and foolish, for wasting away such a golden opportunity, as a blessing upon us by Waheguru? *Just an example, a daughter of a good friend of mine, started with weeds at the tender age of teens.... for 26 good years went on falling into the well of misery, staying on the streets, a life worse than that of a dog... had become almost a skeleton...one can well imagine all the pain and anguish caused upon her parents .... they not knowing what will happen next moments ..... Then by His grace, nobody knows how, but it has been 3 years now she is out of it, has some job here and there, but yet the deep effects on her mind and heart are yet impossible to erase like aggressivity, loose of temper, no self confidence, sudden change of moods... she may take a whole life to recover... All drugs/alcohols should be burnt away forever, for it turns a human being into a demon, into a beast ......breaking family ties, jobs, wealth, health, sense of equanimity, responsibility..... Yet people take this devlish issue as something light or unimportant..... God save people.

Bro I am proud of your positive attitude, keep it up, I am sure you will. And if you do not mind, just my 2 cents with a comment on a line in your post above. That is when you say: This is the way the Lord SATNAAM designed me. Waheguru Akal Purukh made all of us equal as souls, as drops from Himself the unfathomable Ocean. But then, the soul in associtaion with the mind, has commited all types of karmas, and each one of us according to our own karmas, have got a particular destiny to go through, due to those karmas, we are born in a particular kaum, a particular mazab, a particular country, a particular family, with all our ups and downs, which are different in each jeeva, different mental levels, absolutley all that we have or to go through, is due to karmas, and then how we react in our present lives, is again a basis for our future existence... good, bad, pain, sorrow.... even mukti. It is mother Nature, who wisely acording to own karmas, give us praticular circumstances in our births, in order to better settle those our very karmas, and all this is rigorously followed by Nature under His Hukum. But not that, Waheguru Akal Purukh, Himself designs someone to sin, or to be virtous, all that is done by oneself under the influence of the mind, but Bro, never by God Himself. If there is such a God, then I do not need Him, but thankfully, Waheguru is not like people pretend Him to be, He is an Infinite Ocean of mercy and love only, anything nonsense thrown upon Him, is just deep ignorance, which of course will never reach Him, for He is far beyond the reach of Maya and Kaal. That is why He is Parbrahm, that is why He is Akaaaal Purukh.

Bro, yes one can for sure talk to God, and He does listen, even knows about our thoughts without being expressed. And the other thing you say, that the information is wrong...believe it, it is nothing but a mental engaged chatting, and mind is the biggest hurdle between us and Him, for He can never ever be wrong, He is the Infinite Ocean of Truth and wisdom. The Lord God does talk to us, but the thing is, our spiritual ears are filled with the wax of our karmas, and our spiritual vision is clouded with the dirt accumulated since we left Sach Khand and stepped into this mayavee creation. And to remove these layers of dirt, of mud upon us, we have to use the soap of His Naam, and the water of His grace, without which, whatever one may do, howsoever popular amongst the people as religious practices, nothing, absolutely nothing can remove it. The Bani says: Ekas(Naam) bin sabh dandh jae. We may howsoever do our mamat, be it for 24/7, but Gurmat, is simple and very straightforward, on each Ang, if only it stresses upon anything, that is His Name, the only Reality, the only Truth. And unless we rub our mind with that Truth, through His Simran, we shall remain deluded that we have spent so much time in doing so many things, so I must have achieved something. But the fact is, we have not moved even an inch towards Him. The thing is, since we were born, we have seen so many things done by the vast majority, so we believe that all that is valid, but the thing is, if we stop even for a second to check all those practices of ours within the context of Gurbani, of Gurmat .... it will not match at all. I am sure, many will arise their voices and protest that so and so called sants, so and so gyanis have said and written so and so practices .... I care a 5hit for it, for if anything is to befollowed and practiced with love and devotion, that is the cleansing devotion towards Waheguru, with the repetition of His Name. What others think or believe is very much of their own freedom, but for me, that only is valid, whosoever may be, if it only tellys 100% with the teachings in Gurbani. The main objective of Guru Sahiban and Bhagat Jan to come at our lvel, was not to get name or fame for them, but get us freed from the unending cycle of births and deaths, by the practice of the Simran of His Naam, the only eternal and unchanging universal Truth for all times/yugas. God bless you, Bro.

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Agreed, but the picture above also shows the heights of madness of this guy.

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THE TALE OF THE DRAGONFLY At the bottom of an old pond, lived a group of larvae who did not understand why when one of them ascended the long lily stems to the surface of the water, never again descending where they were. They promised each other that the next one of them to rise to the surface would come back to tell the others what had happened to her. Shortly after, one of said larvae felt an irresistible desire to rise to the surface. She began to walk up one of the thin vertical stems and when she was finally outside she came to rest on a lily pad. She then underwent a magnificent transformation that turned her into a beautiful dragonfly with beautiful wings. She tried to keep her promise, but to no avail. Flying from one end of the pond to the other she could see her friends on the bottom. She then understood that even if they in turn had been able to see her, they would never have recognized in this radiant creature one of her companions. The fact that after that transformation that we call death, we cannot see our friends or relatives, nor communicate with them, does not mean that they have ceased to exist... All of us will have to go through that natural evolutive transformation sooner or later at hiher levels of consciousness, but while some remain stuck, most os us by the grace of Guru Sahiban have the chance to get freed even from that (subtle) higher form of the dragonfly, and become formless and one with that last Ultimate Truth of Satnam, Waheguru Akal Purukh as per Gurmat, by holding on tightly to His Name. Sat Sree Akal.