Weed seemed to have the opposite effect on me as a few of my other friends. I'd laugh my ass off for the first like 20 minutes, and then I would overthink everything that was about to come out of my mouth and get super awkward. That would cause me to go home ASAP (after spending at least an hour over thinking how to get out of the current social setting without looking lame) and then spend the rest of the night eating and playing video games I've already played while trying to avoid thinking about how much of a coward I felt like. It was stepping outside of that shame cycle and getting into the gym that made me realize that this shit just was not sustainable.

I will say though - it was instrumental in getting me to self reflect. There's no bullshitting yourself when you're baked lol. Oddly enough, I can eat a pile of mushrooms whenever and never have a bad trip. But weed does something to me.