- When I smoked weed, it was for fun and relaxation. It made me calm. Things wouldn’t bother me. I would rarely get angry. But then something happened in the last 5 years. I didn’t get as calm as I used to when I started smoking weed- If anything, my trigger to overreact and get angry got quicker. I’m not sure why. It could be that I smoked so much weed that I became desensitized to weed. I needed more and more weed to get to that state of relaxation that I used to get with just one puff of weed- Now I think there are some of you that might be afraid that if you quit weed, you won’t be calm. My advice - try exercise, getting enough sleep, and meditating for 2 minutes a few times a day- It is possible to be calm without weed