I would advise definitely wait until you are at least in your 20's man. I started before your age, and still unsure if it had any bad effects or not and I always wonder.
When you start smoking weed, it gives you some feel good chemicals artificially, and can mess with your reward center of your brain. The "unmotivated stoner" stigma comes from this. People will want that happy funny time back, and smoke weed to get it instead of something that really makes them happy (pushing your comfort zone, reading, accomplishment and meaning in your life), and it can get them in a pretty brutal loop that turns into ripping every weekend, to every evening, etc.
Doesn't always end up like that, but all too often it does. Similar to playing video games.
When you start smoking weed, it gives you some feel good chemicals artificially, and can mess with your reward center of your brain. The "unmotivated stoner" stigma comes from this. People will want that happy funny time back, and smoke weed to get it instead of something that really makes them happy (pushing your comfort zone, reading, accomplishment and meaning in your life), and it can get them in a pretty brutal loop that turns into ripping every weekend, to every evening, etc.
Doesn't always end up like that, but all too often it does. Similar to playing video games.
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