attention all weed addicts!!!

thanks for taking the time to actually read the topic above two posters, i appreciate your thoughts/effort.

 

yeah weed is a cinch.. but so is tobacco! lol but people bitch about that shit all the time.

fuck tobacco, thats way more easy to stop smokin than ganj, imo

 

so i took a break two weeks ago and was fine without weed, although I was wishing that I could just light up at some points. now im back to daily smoking, though I have cut it down and I think more about when and why I'm smoking. I have begun doing it mostly in the evening when I'm settling down to do artwork/ hanging around before bed.
I see the OP's point, but I think the condescending nature of the post was what got people angry. I think that life really should be experienced with and without weed- that is, there's the right time to smoke, and there's the wrong time. You also SHOULD take breaks from daily smoking even if you consider yourself functional, just to "get your feet ont he ground" and to help yourself see the big picture. because while I think a lot about life and what i want to do and all while high, I have a hard time seeing the BIG PICTURE, the grand scheme of things, weed keeps me more in the NOW. so a periodical break is good to really retrospect and think about where you're going, ya know? Because smokin weed is amazing, but in the end, we are all gonna come down from that high and have to face things as they are, so yeah.
Moderation.
Though I'm still working on it myself.

 

i think smoking weed every day all day is fine, it's just people who let it dominate every aspect of their life that have a problem.

 

huh? is this sarcasm? are you saying its not a cinch to quit weed? If your serious and think tobacco is easy to quit, you have never been addicted to ciggarettes. I go insane, and I mean actually insane if I don't have ciggarettes. Are you a nicotine addict mr stonerbill

 

Alright, well I only read up to page 12 of this thread, as it just appeared to be the same people reiterating what they had said post after post. In my opinion (up until page 12 that is), PsyGrunge is the only one that's actually looked at this from a "non biased" stance.

As far as I can tell Dave made the thread with the right intention, that being to help people who have developed a psychological dependence on herb due to it's overuse. Now, if you're a logical thinking human being you have to realize that virtually any substance when taken has the ability to produce an "addiction". This greatly depends on why and how often the substance is taken. Therefore Pot is undoubtedly a substance that has "addictive capabilities". Regardless of what kind of dependence (usually determined by why they use) the user has towards the substance, a dependence is still present. That being said, Dave has a point....HOWEVER


Dave you made this thread in a "marijuana" forum...what did you expect? If you realize that herb has psychologically addicting qualities about it, then you'd have to realize that addictions are VERY hard for most people to admit....Majority of posters here probably don't have an "addiction" in the first place, or at least hopefully not. So, they are going to attack you for claiming something exists when they have not yet experienced it, do not realize it is possible, or have experienced it and simply don't want to admit to it. On the other hand, it's wrong to initially attack Dave , he's not directly labeled an individual or group of people as "addicts", rather he addressed the thread to "weed addicts".

Both sides of this "argument" seem to be reiterating what they've said time and time again....just stop arguing and look at this from more than one point of view. Addiction does exists, denying that, and that those qualities do not exist in any substance that is taken is just ignorant, either unintentionally ignorant, or worse...ignorant due to ones inability to cope with the truth. So, both sides are essentially neither wrong or right just too caught up in being one or the other that they can't see the validity in each others words.

 

That's already been said in this thread as well

 

"So, they are going to attack you for claiming something exists when they have not yet experienced it, do not realize it is possible, or have experienced it and simply don't want to admit to it."

"So, both sides are essentially neither wrong or right just too caught up in being one or the other that they can't see the validity in each others words."


how can you say that then speak of validity in my attackers words? what they said was a product of ignorance, stupidity or lack of weed experience - as you implied with the first sentence. almost every criticism was invalid, as i showed multiple times.

 

^You seem really hard-headed, maybe thats why you keep getting attacked? I agree with bthizzle on most of what he said.

It is possible to become addicted to marijuana on a psychological level, but it is NOTHING compared to real addictions like alcohol/opiates(heroin,oxycontin)/cocaine/meth...etc People who can't stop smoking even when their is consequences I don't understand. It is simple to quit smoking weed, I have smoked heavily and lightly in the past 7 years of my life. I quit 30 days cold turkey from smoking 7 grams a day to my head, and it was nothing. A little trouble sleeping, and eating, but not painful. I have also been addicted to oxycontin, and that is on a level 50 million miles away. You CANNOT eat, theres no possible way in the world you can sleep, you are constantly vomiting and shitting liquid shit every 5 minutes, you feel like your going insane, you have restless leg syndrome, your entire body aches, you look and feel like death, all you want is just some relief, a little pill to make the world liveable again. That is addiction.

 

Dave seriously? You're acting like a literary evangelists that only takes snipits out of the bible so that they can prove themselves "right" or someone else "wrong". Why are you trying to point out a contradiction in my words when it's not present? Those two sentences are in completely separate paragraphs, one addressing you're side (previous one discussed opposing viewpoints) and the other paragraph, that contains the second quote was aimed at finding a common ground...as that's what this thread should be. Why there's arguing going on in this thread I have no ideal, but what I was trying to get at was the fact that both you and the people you've been arguing with have taken it too far.

In your claim that those sentences are contradictory, you seem to have failed to recognize that I'm stressing there is no "right" or "wrong" in this case...hence I am not taking sides, just noticing that you've got a logical point and weren't initially "attacking anyone", that is until you yourself were...then you played in to this "I'm right, you're wrong" game. "Validating" their words would imply that I'm in agreement with them....aka I said they were right.

 

if i'd simply ignored the posts, this would've finished without many people seeing it. the more posting in here increases the visibility of what i originally wrote, allowing more time for weed addicts to see the post. every little bit of "conversation" helps.

and i was 100% correct on any factual matter in this topic. ignoring opinion, i'm talking about the people saying "weed isn't addictive" and dumb shit like that. on the only parts where you can objectively say one person is right and one is wrong, i was always right. it's common info, it's odd how uneducated the people on this board are about their drug of choice.

 

After viewing this thread. I would have to say that it is now time to smoke a bowl.

 

this post got quite big.

 

Agreed!

 

well sometimes it's nice to just smoke and chill in the house.

watch a good movie, listen to some tunes in my room, read a book or just straight law down and chill.

others i like walking through the woods or around town. riding around in a car with some friends.

heck dude, i even like smoking and going to some social events.

i do the same shit i do not stoned as i do stoned.

 

It's not like the OP said there's something wrong with that, so why are you telling this? No one is calling you an addict

 

i didn't read this entire thread, don't have time. but my favorite part was "weed addicts". :smilielol5:

my favorite thing i read today. i'd rather be a weed addict then someone is an alcoholic, or someone who gambles or blows all their money on lottery tickets. atleast i'm getting something from the weed. and i'm working and in school with A's in all my class's.

Hi i'm Jill, and i'm addicted to weed :cheers2:

 

Can this thread just die?

 

Actually, I find smoking some herb really enhances going outside and experiencing the world.

 

Hi, Jill! :cheers2: I'm addicted to weed too, more years than most of you have been alive. Wow, and still working, raising a family, great marriage, it's a MIRACLE.