is weed addictive?!?!?

mentally addictive yes
physical addictive no

 

It's addictive like your favorite food song, or anything else. As long as it's there you want it. If it's around, it's hard to resist.


I got caught by my mom 3 weeks ago and she is in no way tolerant of any kind of drug use. I had, or thought I had, no money left so that was the thing that was going to keep me from getting more weed. But I found $, now I'm picking up a dime tomorrow. During that time I thought about it a lot, but I was ok. But since I found money and it is readily available to me, I cannot resist the temptation.

 

Yes, just not physically addicting.

 

It is...



Untill you run out of cash.

 

I think weed can create dependency. Like you need it to feel like you can function but you can still function just fine without it. I've had slight mental withdrawal since I stopped smoking from smoking every day, multiple times a day. I used it to regulate my mood and since I've stopped I've been having heavy mood swings. From super happy to pissed off at everything in literally seconds with nothing to set it off, and it's worse when there is something to set it off. But there is a definite withdrawal if you've been smoking every day for a few weeks, but it's quite subtle compared to other drug withdrawals.

 

And why would someone HAVE to quit?

Weed is not bad for you so smoking it everyday MIGHT be called dependency but really we are dependent on a lot of other things we enjoy, so should we quit those too?

I don't see any reason to quit unless it's fucking up your life. And weed only fucks up the lives of those who use it in wrong ways and at inappropriate times.

 

I smoke off and on, like one week on, two or three weeks off because I don't have it all the time, and I find that I actually enjoy the break. For the first few days I might miss it, but no more than I miss chocolate or other sweets.

Weed addiction is completely exaggerated.

 

You kind of....need food to survive. You don't need weed.

That's decent idea you have but I'd just do alternating weeks. Anyway, I needed to pretty much quit because I can't afford it anymore. People have fun ripping me off so I'm done buying from pretty much all the dealers I know because they're all assholes =/

 

Well yeah, you're right. I kind of typed that fast. I would do alternating weeks, but I can only get weed when I can get weed, and that's every few weeks. Sorry about the assholes.

 

weed is addictive to me because i know i can quit, but i just don't want to. i know that in the long run it has very little health issues, while compared to opiates, when they are phsyicaly addictive and your mind is telling your body to quit but it's just so hard. with weed, my mind is like, fuck it, it's only pot.

 

I'm sure as hell addicted....
but I don't mind.

I agree with stonerbill... but who doesn't.

 

It's not addictive

 

I spent MONTHS in this same discussion on another forum and there were certain things that became really clear.

A lot of people are confusing "addiction" with "attachment". Two totally different things.
People think being addicted is when you simply prefer and like something and would rather have it than not, but that's not what addiction is.

Many people began smoking pot because it "made them feel better" and when they tried to quit (not really WANTING TO but just stressing about it too much), they find that they were actually self medicating for an existing problem all along. When they try to quit, they begin feeling those things that they found getting high covered up, and confuse those feelings with "withdrawls" from pot.

I've even run into people who had NEVER HEARD of smoking pot without mixing it with tobacco, and then they "had to quit because it was ruining their lives" and had a really rough time because they were coming off of tobacco, but they blamed it on the pot...

I'd probably be some kind of case study on long term use. 36 years and counting. No apparent ill effects, but maybe a lot of positive ones. But I've gone weeks or months at a time without occasionally, and it does not make a bit of difference one way or the other. I just happen to LIKE smoking weed. It is one of life's little pleasures, while an addiction is something you become a slave to and it ends up not being a pleasure. I know a few drug addicts. Their lives are so full of ups and downs and the downs are living hell...

I've also witnessed a guy having "withdrawls" from ELECTRICITY when his was shut off. But REALLY his problem was anger management, not addiction to TV and electric lights. Two weeks later he was preaching to all who would listen about the virtues of living without electricity...

 

^ the earthmother knows. ^

 

Earth Mother is making a lot of sense. I am inclined to agree, ma'am.

 

It's not chemically addictive, no.
However, it is VERY mentally addictive, to an extent you wouldn't even believe me.

 

Porn can be VERY mentally addictive, too.

Everything has the potential to fuck up your life. It just so happens that some addictions are more harmful than others. Being addicted to caffeine won't be nearly as bad as being addicted to pot, because pot makes you unable to be productive while you're high; This is why being addicted to pot can do your life so much harm. Because when you're high, you can't do anything other than being high.

If you aren't addicted to pot, and you don't allow pot to prevent you from doing the things that you need to do, then where is the harm in it? The answer is: There is none.

 

I don't agree with earthmother's post at all, although I don't really see any real point being made in it. It seems as though she thinks pot is not addictive, but you never defined addiction.

I know plenty of people who are addicted to pot. They smoke more and more all the time, they are very unproductive, despite wanting to be productive, because they smoke all the time... they choose to smoke pot instead of doing the things that they know they should on a regular basis. They get really upset when they don't have it... they try to quit or to take a break and fall right back into daily smoking within a day or two... Play whatever mind games you want to convince yourself that it isn't addictive, but it simply isn't true. That's great that you can take months off without it being a problem. It sounds like you are a person who has great control over his/her desires. Many, many other people are not so blessed, and they can easily find themselves smoking an eighth a day and blowing off all of their classes to get high.

 

Maybe they're using pot as an excuse of not doing the things that they want to do. Perhaps there is a deeper issue here, and the usage of pot is just a way for you to mask your own issues.

When someone has a phobia over something, they can create a fake phobia to hide what they are really afraid of, both to others and themselves. I forgot the terminology that describes this, but it is probably happening a lot more than we realize. For example, a woman can be afraid of traveling by any mode of transportation, and you would automatically assume that she has some sort of issue with traveling. But in actuality, the real reason she is afraid of travel is because her father traveled alone often, leaving his family behind for months at a time. Once this is realized, then her phobia becomes less of a fear of travel, and more of a fear of abandonment, so she hates to travel, because it may remind her of the feeling of abandonment that she so hates.

So is weed addictive mentally, or is it just the most popular way to supress latent issues?

If I had to choose a way to supress something, I would definitely use weed. Weed is harmless, even at high doses, not known to be deadly, and so on. This addiction is a lot healthier than turning to porn, sex, meth, etc.

I would rather people turn to weed than something that is deadly. Weed is a safe way to suppress.

Also, I am not saying that supression is good in anyway. It is actually very healthy to bring everything to the surface. But if there wasn't a choice, I'd rather someone to turn to pot.


What is the root of addiction? I don't know, but I do have an idea. It seems to be an addiction to anything that allows them to escape their issues. People are addicted to stagnancy, because growth can be painful; It's kind of like pulling a bandaid off very slowly, then giving up because it just hurts so bad. Many would rather just to leave the bandaid on and wait for it to fall off on its own. But unfortnately, latent issues don't fall off on their own, they need to be peeled off willingly.

 

^^ That was their choice, not weed's choice ^^ They are abusing the plant, and not using it to it's full potential. They must be really immature.

Some people smoke all the time and still keep up with their responsibilities.