Smoking pot makes you nicer and less greedy
https://futurism.com/neoscope/smoking-weed-nicer-less-greedy?utm_source=GetTheElevatordotcom&fbclid=IwAR0V74xFRsqQpQmIOn9JnXHNGkkKQDxHz7ON7Twpy_RQieeJrDBMtBrCcPcGood news, stoners! Science is finally backing up what you've long known: that smoking weed does, in fact, make you nicer — and less greedy, to boot.
In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of New Mexico researchers found evidence that cannabis use makes people more empathetic, as well as less motivated by money.
Though the study focused on the "prosociality" of cannabis use — that is, as the Scientific Reports paper defines it, "the intentional act of advancing the well-being of other people" — lead author Jacob Vigil said that he's interested in reframing how other researchers approach studying weed as well.
"They see cannabis users as unmotivated, or they see them as addicted, or perhaps believe that they are losing sight of their goals," he told Albuquerque-based nonprofit news site The Paper. "It’s never really been approached objectively to see what’s going on before making negative interpretations."
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put me in a great mood for my morning walk. Even an hour and a half in the rain today. 
I’m as nice a guy as you can find 
I think that friendly, less greedy, empathic people are more likely to be pot smokers.
The weed didn't make us that way, it's the way we are.
...or eating the last donut. (not anyone in particular 
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at the end of the work day!
I don't like to smoke if I'm going to hike or bike or something...I like to have my lungs clear for that!
If I'm going to garden or putter, I like that I feel floaty, if I smoke earlier in the day. It always "talks me down." May be because I tend to the hyper, anxious side of things.
We've recently learned (from our daughter!) about vape pens. Ummm...it's cool that they are so stealth. But the idea of it being a chemical, even though derived from the plant, is a turnoff.
Just a good ol' leftover 70s hippie chick, I guess!
better than money will get you through times of no weed.
That was true back in the 60s when there were weed droughts. Now the country awash in weed. There aren't any weed shortages anymore.
The black light edition! 
The only poster I have from the 60s that survived is, "Phi Zappa Krappa", Frank Zappa sitting on the crapper. I still have several original Fillmore posters. New Year's Eve 1968 with The Jefferson Airplane, one for The Doors, and one for Jethro Tull. Those are still in pretty much mint condition, believe it or not. I knew they'd be worth something someday.
You'd better check that stuff. Paper and cardboard will mildew in a hurry. Protect your hippie valuables at all costs! 
it's almost impossible to run out in today's marijuana economy. Just about every state has decriminalized it, if not legalized it, and many have state dispensaries now.
So I hear anyway. I'm not allowed to touch it. 
There's just simply no excuse for it being legalized and/or decriminalized at this point.
ZERO.
I use it because I can't use opioids due to prior addiction. The amount of pain I'm on on a daily basis is unbelievable due to 2 ABX resistant superbug infections of both Staph & E. Coli. I micro-dose with gummies which are just 10mg each but when it's really bad where I can't function, pass the hybrid and a lighter please!
