marijuana addiction

Yeah, I'd have to say it's pretty addictive, but I can deal with that understanding...just like anyone who smoke tobacco. I smoked everyday for about three years, my wife also. We recently decided that smoking was becoming to large a part of our life, to the point that we would start getting all nervous and worried. So we took three months off and had different results. She felt worried, nervous, had trouble sleeping, cold hands/feet (in fl), but only for the first week or so. I felt the same things + short term memory loss (hadn't gone away the whole 3 months), clumsyness, and I sort of slipped into mumbling at times instead of actually speaking like I normaly do (still normal speaking just I sort of slurred it all together). Also I never really stopped thinking about smoking. When I would listen to music I had to skip sublime, beatles, etc...weird huh?.

Our habits were a bit different though (she didn't start smoking like I did till two years after I had started we were together 4 years of highschool so we knew what eachothers habits were for awhile). She would just smoke weekends, once a night. I would smoke everyday, at first just at night, then slowly in the morning and the night, then 3, up to sometimes 6 times a day (for about two years at this rate). Other drugs we would use was acid (probally about once/twice a month..whenever we felt we had a full day to devote to pulling something from a trip) so sometimes we would go a month or two without using any.

Recently we started smoking again, mainly because we just wanted to..but are trying to stay to twice to three times a day (until next semester starts then we are going to keep it to once or twice a day). Ok, ha just realized how long this was....sorry really stoned, just wanted to chime in on this so..short version: yeah I think marijuana is addictive, but you can manage it if you acutally try to and not let it take over.

 

Asthma is the reason I don't smoke weed

Almost everytime I inhale smoke my lungs get heavy and it brings on an asthma attack

 

No, I just like to be stoned more then I like to be sober.

 

i just dont know when to stop. i bought half a ounce of some really good shit 4days ago and have about a 1/4 of a eigth left. ive smoked so much the last few days i dont feel it anymore no matter how much i smoke cus my tolerance is so high. im start sticking to the 4/20 regime (FOUR days of not toking at all then TWENTY days of tokin/whatever then four days of not toking at all again... continue as neccassery).

 

I was the same way back when I used to never really smoke, I would cough so hard and my lungs would feel really heavy when smoking and I would sometimes have an asthma attack and freak the fuck out because of it

but i started consuming it via cooked in foods and shit, and after a while of consuming cannabis i started smoking it again and it didnt bother my lungs much at all, and the only time my asthma has given me a problem smoking after that is if i stop using cannabis completely for a few weeks or more then the asthma sort of starts to slowly build back to how it was


and as far as addiction goes, cannabis isnt physically addicting, however for some it can be psychologically addictive, but pretty much anyone can go mind over matter and get through any withdrawl types of things. i usually smoke and consume weed everyday throughout the day, and have been doing so for years, but will sometimes stop for certain reasons, and yeah, it sucks (since i tend to get a sore back from working and have always since a kid had bad insomnia, so when im not smoking pot, the insomnia returns and i notice the back pain alot more, since when im high it doesnt really bother me and i dont get tense from it, and make it worse.)

however, besides trouble sleeping which i get around with certain changes, and the back pain which my girl giving me back runs helps with, i can completely go mind over matter and not feel any need for it. that being said, i dont ever plan on completey quitting permanently, it has many uses medicinally and is enjoyable, and i feel no reason to have it be illegal and swear to not use it or something.

 

I love smokin weed..
I guess I consider myself addicted, even though I've completely quit for long periods of time up to 1 year, for various reasons.. haha
I can definately stop if I need to or if I just want to, so I can put my focus on sports or school for a while. (or probation) haha
I don't do drugs man, I just smoke weed :huh:

 

I'd say i'm addicted, i can't go a day without it.
i like the feeling of being high and eating alot

 

I was a speed freak for 2 years, and when i quit that... THAT is withdrawals. After that i moved on to x, and used as long as i could find it, on a weekly basis. my use tapered off later, to be replaced with the ganj, and i've been smoking daily for abuot 4 years... Meanwhile i've graduated college with two degrees, and a minor, and found a great job doing what i love. i love to smoke. i make sure i dont run out tho... then my need to smoke something, dammit, forces me to go buy a pack of cigs, and i quit those when i was 19.
at present, my husband and i ususally smoke 4-5 bowls a night after we get off work, but on weekends, we have time to smoke all day if we want, so we do.

honestly ive been far more "addicted" to other things. i love to smoke, like i love to hang out and listen to music, or have sex, or go for a drive...

 

Not at all really. I've been a pretty regular smoker for over a year now (I would smoke from once a month to once a week, or somewhere around that with ocassional two month breaks or so) and I don't find myself dependant at all on pot.

The only time I find myself really craving it is if I just ran out for the weekend, and then the next day I might crave a little more, but I could easily quit, or take a long break at any time.

I admit though I don't have much of an addictive personality. I have only ever felt dependant on alcohol of all the drugs I've tried (I've also tried morning glory, tobacco, speed, hydrocodone, and salvia).

 

Yeah, unfortunately I have to say I think I'm very much psychologically addicted to weed. When I don't have any, the feeling of needing some goes away relatively quickly, but when I have some, there are days (most of them, actually) when I look forward to smoking right from the second I wake up. I smoke every day before bed. Sometimes I tell myself to give it a day's rest, but I always end up smoking anyway.

Since I stop caring once I no longer have weed, I don't view it as a serious issue. The main problem is that I find the more days in a row I get high, the less impressive/fun the effect is. At this point, I've gotten high every day for... two and a half weeks? and the effects are definitely way less pronounced than in the beginning. ...And yet I'm still planning on smoking my last little bit of weed tonight.

 

No. Theres times when I dont wanna smoke, even if I have personals.

 

i dont think that you can be addicted to pot i use to smoke a quarter a day and i had no problem quiting well its not at all like being addicted to opiods ive been use them for 5 years and thats addiction anyone can just walk away from pot

 

My god it's astonishing what some people post...

 

id have to say my opinion on becoming addictid to pot
is
who realy cares? its not like your gona get fucked up and have withdrawls or something

 

There are too many misconceptions about addiction. First of all Addiction is a condition of the mind. It is NOT the same thing as Physical Dependence. People can become dependent physically on all kinds of things, even laxatives. This doesn't mean people are addicted to Ex-Lax, just that they have become dependent and their body will not go back to normal quickly.

Addiction doesn't require a person to ingest anything. People can become addicted to all sorts of things. Gambling addicts aren't smoking lottery tickets, sex addcits aren't mainlining Astroglide. However, some things are more addictive than others and people have varying succeptability to addiction because it originates within them.

Addiction can't be forced onto anyone unless they were aalready prone to being an addict. If you forced heroin on someone for weeks, they'd certainly be physically dependent, but there is no guarantee that they have become addcited. If that were the case pain drugs would not be in common use in hospitals. Imagine if every person going in with a broken leg came out a junkie.

Like it or not Marijuana is quite addictive and plenty of people get addicted to it readily. A good many of them for decades. If you think the lack of withdrawal is the shining proof of non-addictiveness, you're fooling yourself. Addicts don't stop using, regardless of physical dependence, until they have a need to stop. These days that need is usually mandated by legislation, family guilt or the occasional addict who decides to grow out of it and move on.

I've been using pot since the 70s. I was also strung out on meth in the 80s and crack in the 90s. These days my demon is happy with pot, so I live a pretty normal, boring existence. While I don't feel like I can't live without pot, it has become a crutch for me to avoid looking down the barrel of another crack binge. And I have held this precarious balance since 1995 (when I discovered my first child was on the way). While I don't like the idea of my kids learning that I'm a closet pot head (during the day I look like any other corporate dork), it's SO much better than the hard drugs I got so accustomed to. Crack didn't have any real physical withdrawal either, but I guarantee you I was fully addicted to it. So while I have only traded one addiction for another, at least it's not the stuff that turns me into a demon. I can live with being addicted to pot.

Denial is usually quite common among all addicts, particularly pot addicts!

CF

 

LOL being addicted to Marijuana, and being addicted to...watching t.v., or working out at the gym...Isnt the same THING. it isnt the Same ADDICTION. marijuana eventually FUCKS up your brain; where as, other things ppl usually get addicted to (food, video games, etc,) dont result in such serious negitive side effects.

 

Whether I'm addicted to weed or not is irrelavent, because I'm gonna get as stoned as I can, as often as I can, regardless:spliff:

 

I just have to say I disagree with what you say about it fucking up your brain. I know so many pot smokers, in college, who have smoked from time to time since middle school. Completely normal, intelligent individuals.

I do think it can be mentally addicting though if that is what you mean. I disagree with it damaging your intellect or anything like that, but I do think it can be addicting. I have found myself somewhat depedent on it from time to time. I've never had an "addiction", but I have found myself to have slight cravings after I have done some weed to do more afterwards. The same thing when the high is wearing down I crave it a little bit. But I don't ever have a problem resisting. It's not nearly enough to overpower my willpower.

Yeah it's really two different sources for dependance, your body and mind. You can tell how much any drug interacts with your body concering dependence by looking at it's withdrawal effects. Heroin and other Opiates are clearly physically addicting because when you are coming off of them you throw up, and feel real physical pain. Some medications in very rare circumstances can have physical body effects that kill. But this is only in extreme cases, don't be throwing out your medication.

Then mental dependence is different. You crave it with your mind, like you would based on the drug and your amount of dependence mentally. You might feel depressed, or a little anxious, but again it's all mental effects. Of course Heroin and Opiates are mentally addictive too and you crave them mentally with mental withdrawal effects, and you will have physical withdrawal effects like the whole puking, and physical body pain thing. That's why I've never gotten serious with any of that stuff.

Marijuana is obviously mentally addictive and not physically. Mental addiction is much less dangerous than Physical. That's why Cocaine isn't nearly as dangerous as Heroin or mixed Prescription Pills. The effects are nearly entirely mental (though there is an increased heart-rate, but the effective dose is 1/10 the overdose amount. The real danger comes from mixing it with other shit like pills).

I crave it a little, but I can manage fine. I do find some people who couldn't live without weed, but most smokers I know are moderate and don't let it get in the way of everyday life. I try not to either and I am usually succesful. I do get behind in homework though because I love going to sleep early after smoking. It's a very manageable dependency for I'd say 90% of the people who try it. There are more Marijuana smokers than Cigarette smokers now. Shouldn't we be seeing more dropouts and losers if it really destroys so many lives? I only see a little bit.

 

perhaps some people confuse addiction with boredom, i smoke a lot, but i dont feel any cravings for weed, just boredom of life in capitalism.

 

I don't think I'm addicted, but I haven't really stopped long enough to feel the need if there is one. Hopefully this fact won't bite me in the ass whenever or if I ever decide to quit or turn down the pace.