How many people self medicate?

Been using pot over 1/2 my life now - 50-100 bowls a day of good quality stuff - preferably hydro/hash - now I have to say I enjoy pot but a lot & always was a heavy user but a lot is self medication - I have stomach problems & pot allows me to eat 3 meals aday & also I have depression/anxiety but I'm off prozac & the dirty scum meds for years now & just control it much better & healthier by using pot all day than with medicine which harm you & are not good for you like pot. Obviously if it was legal I would b medicated by a doctor but I was wondering - How many people self medicate with this healing herb??

 

50-100 bowls a day?

 

i second that query

 

I've been through this already on this board - I have 5-10 bowls in the morning (obviously a lot more if I'm not working till lunch) & about that many (10-15) when I come home for lunch from work (5min away)- evenings weekends days off I smoke constant. just think what you would smoke in a heavy session - smoke all day every day & it soon adds up. Good hydro or hash I might use a bit less or if I take oral doses also but normal good grade dank I'm using 50-100 bowls. Been smoking pretty much every day for 16yrs(?) so I'm pretty used to it - I take it most people on this forum are kids who have only just started toking & maybe haven't met heavy regular users - I use much more than most daily users I know but over the years I've met a good few who use this sort of amount - some just like it others medicate

 

Damn, that's Slayer from Dazed and Confused right there...

 

50- 100 bowls how much does that cost?

 

I have found that smoking does indeed treat my depressive disorder. I was prescribed Lexapro and after a week of sexual defficiencies I told my doc I wouldn't be taking the pills any longer. I started smoking a bit heavier after that and since then I have had no problems. Until yesterday. I have been out of smoke for about three days and yesterday I went from fits of rage toward my children (on Father's Day) and ended up in a crying mess. I am now convinced that marijuana is what has kept me happy and norml (hehe) for the last couple of months.

 

I have mild social anxiety disorder, but I don't use any drugs to deal with it. I do it myself, and I do it fine. I smoke herb as a totally different thing, it's something for fun and good times, an activity. I don't want to start using it like a drug because then it becomes less fun for me. "Oh shit I gotta go get high now or my depression will kick in"... that just isn't cool for me.

 

since i was around 15 or so, I been self medicating, i have A.D.D., and a chronic anxiety disorder. Just this spring, I finally found a doctor i was comfortable talking to, you see i live in california. So i told him what i go through, informed him i used cannabis as a tool to quit doing meth, and when i run out i feel as if i am spun out on meth.

Now i have a legal right to grow my own, something i have been doing anyways since age 11 or 12. But yeah i go through an ounce a week easily- more if i got it. I smoke at 420 every mornin, all day long, and a good 420 in the afternoon,And i do mass sessions in the evening before bed.

"I smoke two joint's to smoke two joint's, and then I smoke two more!"

 

Sounds like awesome times.

 

this may not be true for all people with chemical imbalances , or who have like depression and anxiety. but for me i got mentally dependant on it. so maybe thats why riff you had an outrage. im not saying this is the reason but for me i got mentally dependant on it. but im sure im dependant on my pills i take. especially my seroquel.

 

im on celexa and ativan for anxiety and whatnot, and i just starting smoking like a week or 2 ago, smoking along with the pills defintly helps chill me out that extra notch, it helps me sleep, usualy i sit in bed and my body is tired but my mind is thinking of a million things, if i smoke though i can chill out and go to sleep much easier

 

i get minor anxiety problems when i smoke and im around people im uncomfortable with.

 

50 - 100 bowls a day? now THATS heaven

 

quite a fucking lot - that's the main draw back - probably about $90-150 a week - it depends on a lot of things.
when I was on antidepressants I found pot gets rid of the side effects 2 some degree - the pills r basically bad - they don't really work without pot for me at least

 

WOW!! 50-100,,,,

I too self medicate, for ADHD, I have been steady smoking since 1996, every day, but I too felt the strain on my pocketbook, so I decided to
1. grow my own
2. find a better way,
so here is my routine, and it definatly keeps me from being a hyper mess (I used to frequently have what I called "freak outs", where I can't stop moving for a few hours, constantly up and down, cleaning, moving furniture, etc.. it's extremely scary and annoying to people who are unaware of adhd)
I eat a good, energy inspiring breakfast, then I do some meditative breathing before I go to work,
I exercise during my lunch break, usually for 30 minutes, some kind of cardiovascular stuff,
When i get home I usually do Yoga for about 45 minutes, walk the dog if it is nice out, then more meditation.
After about 6 pm, I medicate, I only either smoke through water or use a vaporizor. I would be concerned about lung damage from that many bowls, and I find that those two methods also help to conserve your resources. I also suffer from extreme nausea due to my adhd, I hype myself up so much sometimes that I can't eat, especially if I fiddle with my routine, and after I got the vaporizor, the nausea really subsided
I find that the exercise helps to control my energy level, and the "medicine" helps to calm me down, with out "Gods plant" I would be useless...

 

"I would be concerned about lung damage from that many bowls"
I do cough a fuck of a lot! Life isnt so great without weed so 1 makes a choice I guess - don't smoke cigs thank fuk

 

sag,

i dont mess with cigs either, but you could save soo much weed if you got a vaporizor or even a water pipe. I also use a grinder, which breaks it up nice and fine, and then a glass screen, so I don't suck any green weed through. I have cut my intake by 1/3 by using these methods. Think of it this way, it may be a one time investment of 300 bucks or so, but you save that money in lung function, and money spent on the stuff you burn through right now. plus green hits every time taste sooo nice....

 

I think that marijuana has so many medicinal purposes from anxiety, to help aids/cancer patience, glocoma, people who have no apitite, nausea, ect...

This may sound super odd, but here goes!! I have a nine month old daughter & she has a problem with eating. She's not into it really. It's like she eats just enough to not be hungry. They've done all the medical tests to see if there was something wrong & there wasn't. I had stated to my friend that if they would allow me to give her medicinal marijuana, I would! They couldn't belive I said that! I mean I would never give it to her unless it was thru doctor supervision &/or permission/perscription. But I do know that they marinol pills which is synthetic THC. That would indeed inhance her feeding, no question!!
I personally don't have any kind of proplem with smoking pot. I have gone thru severe addictions to opiates & am now on methadone maitenance for that paticular problem. I was even sent to prison behind my opiate addiction. It sent me thru some pretty adverse things, but pot.......it has NEVER caused any kind of problem in my life. I haven't lost friends, or things, anything from pot! I say if it helps.........go for it!! Here's a toke just for you guys!

 

50 to a 100?!?!?!? I believe we have our king.