• Because before it my ADHD made it functionally impossible to sleep, since when I’m not on the meds my mind runs too hard and when I am on the meds I can’t sleep either because they’re prescription meth, but weed solves that problem and I enjoy sleeping.

      •  abraxas   ( @abraxas@lemmy.ml ) 
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        21 year ago

        Here’s a balanced take from someone with moderately bad ADHD who very rarely smoked weed (so, not biased).

        A mild high feels like a bad ADHD day, but then I had a fewer symptoms after the high is gone. Trace amounts could get me mostly symptomless without any real feeling of “high”, but I’m so lightweight that would be less than what most people call “microdosing”.

        A moderate high…well, probably the same as everyone else (except I would get there for less than most). Then the entire next day it was like I didn’t have ADHD at all.

        Beyond that, I only did once and I “greened out”, possibly related/causal to the part where I “very rarely smoked weed”. Greening out with ADHD is like greening out without ADHD I’m sure.

      • Basically same as the other dude, but no anxiety beyond the norm anyone would have in their daily lives, and no paranoia beyond the legal consequences of excersing what I see as a right yet the state sees as a crime. Were it federally legal it would mitigate that of course, but that’ll never happen because then nobody could use legalization to get votes so we can’t actually go around solving things, now can we? (Bitter? Maybe. Paranoid no lol.)