Effects of Weed on Semen Retention Progress: Weed and Semen Retention

Last Updated on May 17, 2026 by Wechuli.B

As someone who has practiced semen retention both while sober and smoking weed, I can confidently say that weed is detrimental to semen retention progress. If you think weed does not negatively affect semen retention progress, it’s because you have never practiced semen retention while sober for at least 90 days. If you practice semen retention while sober and another time you practice while smoking weed, you’ll notice the negative effects of weed on semen retention.

You’ll notice that marijuana prevents you from fully experiencing the mental stillness that usually comes with semen retention because it causes overthinking. I remember smoking weed after three months of semen retention combined with complete sobriety, and I immediately noticed how it disrupted the mental calmness I had been experiencing. My mind became extremely noisy as I started overanalyzing everything. I began questioning God, existence, the soul, and many other deep spiritual topics.

At first, a person may think this is an advantage because it creates the illusion of contemplative thinking. However, a spiritually mature person understands that this is actually a disadvantage. Such subjects cannot be fully understood through excessive intellectual analysis because the more the mind overthinks, the more confused it becomes.

A spiritually mature person understands that such deep truths are usually realized in states of mental stillness or inner peace. When the mind is calm, perception becomes clearer, and certain truths are understood naturally without endless questioning. Weed disturbs the mental stillness caused by semen retention and replaces it with mental noise disguised as spiritual contemplation.

Another negative effect of weed on semen retention progress that becomes very noticeable when you compare semen retention without smoking to retention while smoking is the excessive fantasizing it causes. Weed tends to pull the mind away from the present moment by causing endless fantasies about a glamorous future, success, pleasure, status, relationships, and many other things a person desires in life.

Although fantasizing in moderation is not necessarily bad, the excessive fantasizing caused by weed becomes detrimental to semen retention progress because it prevents you from experiencing the present-moment awareness that semen retention causes. As a result, you lose the sense of awe and mental clarity that usually accompany semen retention as the mind no longer rests in what is happening because it is constantly reaching for what could happen.

Anyway, the worst effect of weed on semen retention progress you will notice is that it either causes a relapse or wet dreams. Many people agree that weed makes them horny, and many retainers confess wanting to watch porn and masturbate when they smoke weed. For me, weed is my greatest cause of a relapse because it causes intense and vivid sexual fantasies, which increase my desire for porn, masturbation, and sex.

I realized that if I avoid masturbating despite the intensified sexual desire that comes with smoking weed, I eventually have wet dreams. I successfully prevent conscious ejaculation, but unconscious ejaculation still occurs through dreaming because arousal has already been triggered.

Even when wet dreams do not occur, the mental struggle that comes with trying to control sexual fantasies and the heightened sexual desire associated with weed is overwhelming. Instead of experiencing the mental stillness and present-moment awareness that usually accompany semen retention, I find myself constantly negotiating with my own thoughts, trying to resist sexual thoughts and images that arise more frequently and more intensely.

I think one of the reasons why many people don’t fully experience semen retention benefits, and they end up claiming that semen retention is ineffective, is because they still use weed, alcohol, and other drugs while retaining their seed. Intoxicants not only impede semen retention progress but they also hinder progress in all areas of life, especially when used daily.

The ancient ascetic sects knew about the negative impact of weed on ascetic practices such as semen retention, and this is why all of them required initiates to avoid intoxicants. They taught that true awareness is lost when one is intoxicated, making it incredibly difficult to see reality clearly. According to these sects, intoxicants weaken moral restraint and prevent the development of true wisdom by clouding the mind. These ascetic sects knew that the benefits of semen retention and other ascetic practices heavily rely on one’s mental state, and they knew that intoxicants, which consistently disturb this state, inevitably prevent one from fully experiencing several benefits.

Therefore, if you are retaining while sober, don’t use weed and other intoxicants, but if you are smoking weed while retaining, just quit for a while, and you’ll fully experience the true power of semen retention. There is no need to make the greatest sacrifice, which is avoiding sex and masturbation, just to dilute its effects with short-term stimulation that clouds perception and weakens the very benefits you are trying to experience.