So that's where the name of the Sonic Youth song comes from (IYKYK)

Dude as an addict myself still fighting the demons inside your story helps and inspires as it shows the other side with out being forced to be someone I don't want to be. Not only that but for any addict the fear of the easily predictable irony of something bad happening when you finally make the right decision is a real thing so it's good to see it's not as certain as said fear might imply (even though I know it's bullshit it's still a real thing). It's good to see someone speak from a place of just positive growth. Much respect. Way to own your life and see your path. And thanks again for sharing

I do feel we’re consciousness trapped in a fear based reality so they can feed on our spiritual energy against our well. I never tripped in my life green is the closest I’ve come but I have personally seen physical reality change. By that I mean things in my life I’ve personally experienced. Example Objects in mirror “maybe” closer than they appear. My first car I cleaned and studied every inch for hours. Sitting in the driver side and thinking maybe isn’t definitely yes or no it was uncertain. You will never find an official factory made that says maybe it is now Objects “are” closer than they appear. One of hundreds that are 100% for me. Others like Ed McMahon not working for publishers clearing house never delivering a single giant check to anyone’s door. The “What if I told you everything you’ve been told to believe was a lie” Line from the Matrix NOT existing anymore Morpheus said it to Neo right before he sat down and presented the Pills That line has stuck with me my entire life. I never owned social media and didn’t even know what a meme was until 2015 I didn’t get that from a meme. Point being I know this reality is a deception. I never tripped but I could believe these entities maybe responsible for us being in this place yes there’s beauty here, But so much pain and sadness as well and possibly why we age so hard?

I'm on my first week of obstaining from weed bc,s I just can't afford it anymore

just because you don't understand the meaning doesn't mean it's a joke

I have CHS, so quitting for me was pretty damn easy. Every time I looked at a THC cart, I had visions and memories of intense stomach pain and nausea. "Nope, traumatized for life. Never. Again. Ever." I want it, sure!... but, it's like, would you take a bullet for something you like? ehhhhh, nah. For me, the consequences are pretty damn severe. I've had it put in my hand and gone, "NOPE, NAHHH, MMM MMM, NOPE"

I stopped smoking after 20 years or so. No reason really. Nothing happened.

Thank you for your help and time! I’m glad that you’re doing well I hope to get there soon .

This video is what i needed, thank u for making this.

Its a SYMBOL deep within the collective unconscious.

Omg the voices 😲😲😲

I just subscribed, simply because you acknowledge that we are missing initiation in our society.

Who else noticed the ssj3 goku faulconer score at the end 🔥

Hallucinations are justba looking glass into your soul. Can teach you what things you soud work on to be a moral human being. Shows who you really are . your ( ID). Demons attached? You can sense them. you can find your faith, to GOD. I have witnessed more times i can count. That bad trips happen mre to non believers yet on the ther hand if you just dont care about nything. Youll have a god trip every time.

I'll save you all watching this: weed makes you an orrtard. weed being "part of your personality" means you don't have one.

wtf do you know about anxiety stress and boredom at 12 years old

Moderation is key-you wouldn't need to talk yourself into quitting if you never got addicted in the first place. But then again, what else do you enjoy in life? An addiction to weed is not the problem, after all it's the poison you picked as the temporary solution to your various problems. Haven't you seen one of those videos talking about drug addiction and that one experiment where some scientist built a rat park utopia which demonstrated how when the rats were happy living a healthy life, they stopped relying on the drug, even when it was readily available? If you manage to find peace doing what you enjoy and living your best life, the addiction automatically stops. Maybe you'll still engage in it, but you'll stop seeing it as such a problem that you need to quit to be healthy. Again, moderation is key-so stop making such an obsession about either smoking or quitting. It's funny when people do that. That is to say, an over reliance on this temporary fix can in itself be a problem, but blaming the recreational tool instead of yourself for becoming reliant on it in the first place just shows you never really took accountability for your own decisions and never really knew yourself. You clung onto it as a solution before, and now that you no longer find it satisfactory, you cling onto blaming it as the next problem you somehow need to solve. That's such a flimsy resolve. This video may be very inspirational to some, but to me it just seems very naive, and honestly... kind of dumb. 😂 Brag about being high on weed all the time like it's such a cool thing, then brag about quitting weed like it's such a noble thing-what really is the difference, here? You're just doing the same thing, whether you congratulate yourself for winning or consoling yourself for losing. I see you pat yourself on the back now, but I know the same person will curse himself for slipping up when it eventually does happen. How about not keeping any weird ideas of what is good or bad in the first place and not putting these strange pressures on yourself, and just... do whatever you truly enjoy, without any idealism attached to it?

I haven’t seen the jester in a trip (as yet anyway), but this description of the ‘jungian’ jester archetype was really eye opening and thought provoking. Thank you for creating and posting it.

Παν μέτρον ἄριστον, applies to everything in life - Κλεόβουλος ο Λίνδιος

can you take it taking fluoxetine for 29 years already?

I saw your video about 9 years ago and it's true, it sounds like you refined your opinion a lot. You were talking about how if smoking is bad then you should try to eat it and if you're doing it too much then it's probably not for you because some people aren't bothered by it. It's refreshing to see someone reflect on their experience and change their mind. I honestly could not quit alcohol for the longest and came up with many excuses of my own, but once you realize you cannot quit is perfect time to try.

Mushrooms made my music :)

Cheers mate I needed to hear this ✊

Hahahahaha weed is medicine.

Weed saved my sleep and made me way healthier. I take a small edible a few hours before bed and sleep like a baby now. Wake up way mkre refreshed too. Use it as medicone and not a toy.

After military training this summer, this semester in university was a complete failure, chronic marajuana use, which made my anxiety and depression much much worse. I only prioritized military and completely fucked off school, smoking every day. I’m convinced quitting this evil vice can help me recover mentally, I hope so.

I work a deadend job and live with people that I hate to live with, including inflation I could ave 150 a month but it wont help me live by myself or get a better job its miserable almost unbearble! i do plan to stop in time thanks for this amazing video.

I can't remember the details of the few saliva trips I did years ago but after only a few, I stopped using it because the experiences were all overwhelmingly negative. I only really remember the last one. As it kicked in I was sucked down into the earth but I wasn't me anymore, or even human I don't think, barely able to breath because I was underground but being pulled deeper and deeper, then it wore off. It was horrible mainly because I had no agency over what happened. I was not in control. Everything was happening to me without my input or consent. I think the problem is that I didn't treat it with the respect it deserved and I was not an experienced psychonaut at the time. I think I should have taken a less strong extract to start with, then worked my way up when I was comfortable with the feeling. That said, I have taken triptamines intravenously and no matter how many times you have taken it before in lower doses and by smoking or snorting it, you are taken by surprise every time. You are never prepared for the complete shattering of the ego that it is delivered. You don't have agency because there no longer is a "you" to have agency. The best way to do these things is through the slower release mechanisms because you can talk to yourself as things change and say, "Ok, this is me dissolving, don't panic". When you do these strong psychedelics at high doses and with a fast ingestion method, "you" are smashed to pieces so fast and become something else so fast that you forget that there was every anything before the experience. This is why it is so scary. The current experience is all you know so if it is terrifying or even just unsettling then the fear that this is it for eternity is overwhelming terrifying in itself. Edit: Like other commenters have said. I knew it was going to be saliva from the thumbnail quote. "I turned into a chair". I wish I had been as responsible with psychedelics as you seem, Tom. It was only towards the end of my time using them that I started treating them with respect. That phase didn't last long because I became a dad and I wanted to be a good father who was there for my little girl all the time. I didn't want to her to suffer because of my affected mental state. I think I succeeded in that for the most part.

Everything you use in abuse will be damaging you. I started to replace smoking weed with drinking weed tea in 2017 after 10 years of abusing smoking weed. The effects of drinking weed tea were totally another story in my life. In 2019 I started to use full spectrum the oil once in a couple of months per year. In 2024 I haven't used it at all without even realising that. Gradually, everything in my life got better. Today I have 9 ml of oil in my fridge and is not calling me to use it at all. I don't know why, but I know I realised in 2017 that smoking weed is damaging every aspect of my life and I did everything I could to change that. Today, I found this video. Thank you! Now I understand more because of your video.

Now that it's decriminalised and socially accepted, we can start having way more good-willed and honest discussions about the worse effects too. I love this.

really good video dude, will remember this when I quit one day

Não se compare com ninguém, mas com quem você pode ser! Thats it mann! Tnks for sharing!

the problem with smoking weed your whole life is that you're gonna be a dry stoner just like a dry alcoholic the rest of your life bottom line you're fucked and there's no going back

thats cool man, ima gonna keep enjoying my simple pleasures.

San Pedro was by far the most psychedelic experience I've had, It felt very different compared to my aya or mushrooms trips( however, I haven't taken big doses for mush) I was able to see the ego construction, constantly reforming and deforming, Allowing your persona to disintegrate into nothingness. I also experienced 50 orgasms as it pierced through my sacral chakra. I entered a death realm where it felt wonderful with a profound primordial feel. I still get chills from the sound of chimes as they were used during that moment.

I’ve been smoking since I was 14 and I’m 30 now and I have no issues at all so not sure what you mean I think this has to due with your own personality some people have very addictive personalities.

Dude looks stoned as he’s talking

Salvia has shown me elves once, it has shot my consciousness into other people, a plant once, and it felt like it turned me into taffy like striped substance that twisted around very uncomfortably, very. very weird stuff, but it only lasts for a few seconds, and you don't realize that youre tripping

Video says actually decreases activity then at the end says increased activity for up to three weeks … got it

Weed is good shit

lol i don't think i want to integrate.. trickster archetype forever 😆🃏

Trickster = A Devil , Dualism -- Making us come back to old habits. Defeat the devil within.. No more trickster. It's all within the mind of the beholder.

Cannabis can do it also, if you let it..much like meditation.

I go upstate New York In the heart of the Mountains There's sweat tents we're There's held Ayahuasca trips Completely Amazing Experience

did you know that many things fear you, and try to avoid you, and theres some that hate you and snatch you up and leave your shoes behind, how many times have i said to stay out of the forest areas, too many, and how many listen to me 2, really, i quit and know that you all do not want to live forever so you wont

unless dead and stuck in purgatory, them monsters are merely branches in YOUR family tree

seems like two decades of use is the turning point for the enlightened few. it was for me. also, the cannabis industry is full of deceptive trade practices and taxes that fund the corrupt police and government who squander it. i'm glad you mentioned dreams, too, cuz that's a whole other part of life's experiences and insights deprived by THC that you get back after quitting. 13:26 quitting pot gives you back your waking life as well as your dreaming life, a double increase in life satisfaction.

Great video ! I can relate to your story.. I love it but also hate it at the same time because of what it is doing to me mentally and financially. I have quit many times over the years for months at a time, but it always seems to find me again! and like you say, " just one pull " then your back in that same toxic routine a week later. I will keep watching this video to remind me it's not worth the "brain fog" Thanks

Started at 12 myself also. I’ll be 42 in 2 months and finally trying to break the chains.

Add binaural beats to this. It's much better with binaural beats.