Genuinely curious about this - in my naive and uneducated understanding it seems regular use of anything that activates reward circuity as effectively as marijuana seems like an overall "bad thing" longterm?
Anecdotally, I've noticed with friends and acquaintances that this leads to what basically comes down to a de-motivating effect, i.e. the "reward" via built-in mechanisms (like productivity, exercise, etc) gets attenuated over time as marijuana activates similar reward mechanisms very quickly and reliably via something as simple as inhaling. Basically "why bother going for a run, smoking makes me feel even better and I don't have to do anything".
I don't want to seem critical or anything of the sort, I've just seen it myself in multiple cases and it "makes sense" to me.
Your anecdote seems to counter this. Do you find the effectiveness of this strategy reduces over time?
That said it's obvious daily drinking has similar reward system impact with significantly greater overall health consequences.
Anecdotally, I've noticed with friends and acquaintances that this leads to what basically comes down to a de-motivating effect, i.e. the "reward" via built-in mechanisms (like productivity, exercise, etc) gets attenuated over time as marijuana activates similar reward mechanisms very quickly and reliably via something as simple as inhaling. Basically "why bother going for a run, smoking makes me feel even better and I don't have to do anything".
I don't want to seem critical or anything of the sort, I've just seen it myself in multiple cases and it "makes sense" to me.
Your anecdote seems to counter this. Do you find the effectiveness of this strategy reduces over time?
That said it's obvious daily drinking has similar reward system impact with significantly greater overall health consequences.