Your reason why... - to get high? or to feel normal?

[fireball01e]

I smoke because I had a serious cycle accident back in 2001 and smashed both knee caps, cracked my pelvis and did a number to my forehead. Since then, my knees and backside have been riddled with pain, the NHS did not want to know and I cant afford to go private. After I started smoking ganja; the pain calmed down and the pain is now bareable.
Im also short sighted and i find I can see better when I am high, wierd!

But if i am smoking at a party or just doing it socially, I will get mashed.
This is the diffrence, I smoke a spliff to calm the knee down, but only take more if im with mates or want to get wrecked.

[Toker70]

I smoke for pleasure i'll smoke anything and i'll get it into my system any way i can

[NirvanaEJ]

just for fun here, i dont consider self medicating for some stress a medical need puff puff pass

[25211]

Well I smoke for both reasons
I have smoked recreationally/socially since about 84 then In 2001 I injured my back and have been left with chronic sciatica
daft as it sounds I find it isn't great for the pain (mostly referred pain so that may be why??)
but helps me cope with it better & sleep better
& I can function a hell of a lot better than when taking the industrial strength pain killers the leach peddler prescribes
(Which also give you a stinking hangover, without the pleasure of getting rat arsed first!!)

Socially & recreationally, well
What can beat sitting down with a good mate drinking copious amounts of tea & talking total bollocks till the wee small hours

[Pauli Wallnuts]

stopped smokin in u.k in 2005, only smoke in dam now, amount i was smokin was stupid, it was all skunk aswell &i was smokin just to feel normal which aint right, maybe if i could have got top maroccan (instead of standard polm) it wouldn't have been as bad, eversince i'v gone back to dam at least 3-4 times a year, after a day its like i never stopped