Addicted to Pot

Okay, so I know I am addicted to marijuana. I smoke whenever possible. I don't smoke when I'm working or at school, but otherwise if I have free time I spend it getting high.


Is this wrong? I don't feel like it is. I know that I am addicted, but I do not feel that I am any different than Joe Blow who gets off work and drinks a few beers to relax or smokes cigarettes on their brake (I am not a cig smoker). I don't think that it is my affliction for pot that is giving me this paranoia, I feel like it is the laws restriction my "relaxation" of choice. I worry that someday my use will prevent me from getting certain higher paying jobs that drug test or that certain police records of conviction of use, misdemeanor only, will exclude me from consideration. How does a person break away from this stigma? I'd like to live a normal life, but at the same time I hate to live by all these hypocritical laws we as Americans are forced to abide by. Sometimes I have thought about quitting smoking pot, but I enjoy it so why should I give up a leisure activity just because the status quo says thats whats normal? I feel torn between liberation and the need to "fit in".

Maybe I am just really high, or does anyone else agree with me? Has anyone else grappled with their conscience over this issue?

 

I smoke a lot, but I know it is not an addiction. I have felt absolutely zero physical symptoms of addiction. I will definitely say I have a psychological dependency to dope... but it is far from a debilitating addiction. Sometimes I think I smoke too much, but that is strictly because it is so fucking expensive.

I know what you are talking about though.

 

You pretty much summed it up for me. I love smoking pot, but can't pass a drug test and I don't want a posession charge. Seems like you just can't win.

 

there are no physical addictions to marijuana.. all u need is half way decent self control to quit... also i dont think that u have to tell potential empolyers about misdeminors

 

its all in the mind mon...like if u think of weed as beeing something u CUD be addicted to, then it prolly is in yer mind. but if u dont think of it like that, then its not. haha. wel thats what i think anyways.

 

So you guys have never experienced a headache or lack of appetite due to not smoking pot? I know I have if I have had to go without pot for more than a day or two....

 

Definitely not. Maybe you have problems that you dont know exist because when you are blazed it covers up the symptoms.

 

seriously u are wrong... i hate to sound like a dick but it is a scientific fact that it is not physically addictive... if u put anything in ur body all the time and then u stop putting it in u will face some withdrawal... hell if u eat meat every day then all the sudden quit eating meat totally then ur body will react to it... but that doesnt make meat addictive

marijuana is only habit forming

 

I read somewhere that they estimate about 4% of the population can become physically addicted to cannabis. I think that is bullshit though.. I think that some people become so psychologically dependent that the power of their mind causes physical symptoms.

Weed is less habit forming than free internet porn.

 

so its addictive but not that habitual... that doesnt make sense right there most ppl who are addicted to something usually have a habit of doing it too... u have a weak mind if u cant quit pot when u want and if a headache and stomach ache is all thats stopping u then u are very weak physically too

 

Oh yes...I'm quite addicted, but only psychologically. Whenever I get a bag I pack bowls whenever I feel like it which is pretty often. But when the pot runs out its quite easy to go a few weeks without smoking, much as I would like to.

As far as physical symptoms the headaches are a product of the non-active ingredients. Just don't smoke schwag or middies that often and you'll be fine.

I guess there is a bit of physical withdrawal too. Whenever I smoke heavily for a week or more I'm sometimes a bit naseous when waking up in the morning until I smoke a bowl. If I have run out though, its just a simple matter of moving around and getting the blood pumping...not even comparable with a hangover.

As far as society goes we in America are all pretty screwed. MAYBE it might be legal by the time I'm a senior citizen on chemo, but who knows. The only solution I can see is moving to Canada, which I intend to do when I am able.

Care to come with?

 

i think that u must be stoned cause u went waaaaayyyyyy off subject with that one.. from addiction to legalizing it to moving to canada

 

my boyfriend says im addicted cuz i have to have it like every day and all i want to do is get stoned, thats not true, i wanna do lots of stuff i just wanna be stoned when i do them all lol, i passed a drug test and got a job and i am so careful about my weed i have never been caught, but i probably am pychologically addicted and i see nothing wrong with that, if i wanted to quit i believe the psychological addiction would go away

 

I can hardly go a day w/ out smoking, and im not ashamed of that one bit. I see absolutely nothing wrong w/ smoking pot, and i openly admit it to my friends and family. Its not you thats wrong, its society. If you ask anybody why they dont like pot its always some bullshit answer like "its illegal". Yea, but so are fireworks in my state, yet im sure you've shot off a few bottle rockets before. The only reason why most people dont like it because fo the stigma left behind.

 

the withdrawl doesnt kick in till bout 3 or so weeks once it all leaves your system, and yes there is withdrawl. i felt sleep problems and loss of intrest in EVERYTHING for a few days. also anxiety attacks, but that was towards the end of my few month smoking binge.

 

but damn...that porn'll get ya addicted pretty quick...

Anyways...adiction is a mental thing, if you think you're addicted ,then you're addicted. Maybe you should take a break? I realy don't know...I haven't been smoking for too long, but a while back I smoked four times a day, a bowl right before school, a bowl at lunch, a bowl right after school, and then a bowl as soon as I got home, and after about a month of that I decided I should probably take a break...now I just smoke about once every two weeks.

 

Mucho agreed. I guess it depends on why you're smoking. For me, I got into a bad habbit awhile ago of smoking pot as a means of not dealing with issues in my life. Instead of doing something about my problems, I'd stuff a bong full of nugs and pull tube after tube until my problems just floated away.

It was a dumb move on my part.. for a lot of reasons.

I don't believe that marijuana is addictive AT ALL -- but I do believe that people can abuse it; as with anything in life really. I obviously don't blame marijuana for the way I acted, it was me who was being an idiot.

What I do tend to think about actually, is how lucky I am that all I was doing was smoking weed -- as compared to people who drink their problems away or even worse stuff.

 

All the admissions to drug treatment centers about weed you read about everywhere are almost completely because of court orders, or over protective parents, not because the kids are addicted and want to quit.

 

what is thread even about anymore?

 

Cheese?