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People create emotional attachments to things....I'm not a sex addict, but I wouldn't mind having sex everyday....I look at weed as something u want to do...never something u have to do
 
T. Calderone said:
I had a professor in college tell me there's nothing wrong fundamentally with getting high on weed. Yet it you feel like you Have to use it, you might have a problem. I had a friend who would get real grumpy when she couldn't smoke, like she was on fire and I didn't want to be around that.
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No need to overcomplicate. It sounds like this person was right on. Today I'm feeling still fine without it, only the ruminating thought (I don't need pot to to graze "normal" yet- I'm not that deep) but surely I'm on the way when pot (with little deviation) has become my post-coffee routine.

smokedup said:
will smoke green till the day i die, we are all privileged to be able to partake in such a harmless/victimless act. For some, pot is the farthest thing from their mind as they are foraging for food, trying to survive. WE ARE LUCKY
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It depends on what you are looking for. Is there really no victim? In my experience pot when used incessantly keeps me from being my best self. So I am the victim. I overeat, I don't exercise, don't meditate, I oversleep. Self-actualizing is not something I partake in when I'm hooked into the pot cycle.
I agree with OP, that it's shameful it's so addicting. Because at the beginning of use it *seems* expansive. Truth is it's limiting.
 
^^^^ I agree for the most part. But as they said before it's actually not addictive in the strict sense of the word. It's people with addictive personalities (like me) that make it in to an addiction/habit for themselves. I agree it can be quite detrimental for some people though, I know it has a HUGE impact on my life. Gonna quit this habit again real soon, I've had enough....
 
After three weeks off without pot and feeling great and not even craving it, I blazed with my cousin once and the next day all I could think about was getting stoned haha.
It works like that for most chronic people, after a break you start again slow, but in a couple weeks you're blazing daily again.
It took a lot of my will power to not go out and buy a quarter haha.
I'm trying to keep it too a once or twice weekly thing
 
I think it's the way you fall into it, like the first time I got into smoking it was cool cept for when I was tweaking out about music I heard dogs and thought k9 unit was trying to get my ass. Then i started seeing a girl a lot and wanted to give her my heart in my hand pretty much. I told her I'd quit for her no questions asked I didn't even jack off during our relationship. Lol.. Then we broke up eventually all that first broken heart bs. And I eventually started abusing weed as a way to cope. Haven't quit since. But I'm def way over the girl but I am kind of still detached in away and I think it was whatever the girl took from my personality or maybe it's the weed making me stupid. But ever since a certain point in my high school life, things that were funny weren't as or weren't at all anymore. I don't know how to explain it but I feel like its kind of how people on x have sex and it never feels the same again.(I've never done it so I don't know if that statement or myth is true)
 
.:Holy::Toast:. said:
After three weeks off without pot and feeling great and not even craving it, I blazed with my cousin once and the next day all I could think about was getting stoned haha.
It works like that for most chronic people, after a break you start again slow, but in a couple weeks you're blazing daily again.
It took a lot of my will power to not go out and buy a quarter haha.
I'm trying to keep it too a once or twice weekly thing
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I'm in my mid 30's & it has been that way for me since I was 16. Good luck if you can keep it to once or twice a week :). If I stop smoking, after a week I don't miss it but one session & I am a daily smoker again. It is no burden on me financially but the extra $5-6k a year could be better spent I spose.
 
I know that feeling of not hungry in the morning, I'm trying to remember and I'm pretty sure I had that feeling before smoking pot where I would go through my whole food cabinets and fridge and couldn't find one thing the least appetizing and I had the same vomit feeling. It was hard cuz I was bodybuilding and I couldn't eat a lot of calories in the morning like I used to and that would mean no energy for 3 period weightlifting. I get this feeling I think more often but sometimes less severe. I try to sleep as long as I can so it kinda of melts over before ven going through it
 
rave_itsrealfun!!! said:
Many of you probably smoke weed all day, without having physical withdrawals. Therefore, your own experiences have helped to reinforce the idea that cannabis cannot be addictive. From my own experience, I can tell you that I am definitely addicted.

Of course you are going to have cravings to repeatedly do something that you love, and is really fun. This isn't addiction. I usually want to smoke more weed even if I am already stoned, but that is not why I am hooked.

Cannabinoid receptors exist in the gastrointestinal tract. These receptors become downregulated with constant use. Therefore, when I do not smoke weed, I cannot eat any food whatsoever. For example, yesterday I did not smoke pot. I skipped my usual breakfast and lunch as I did not feel hungry. I proceeded to make dinner, as I was finally feeling some hunger pains around that time, and 10 minutes after taking the first couple of bites, which were completely horrible and disgusting, I started to feel very, very sick. As soon as the food was down my esophagus, I suppose. I immediately had to puke violently. I still haven't smoked any weed, and even still I am not hungry today and have not eaten any food.

If I were to get high, I know from past experience that I will instantly become extremely hungry and enjoy a massive, massive feast to make up for the lost meals. I call bullshit on the suggestion that it's psychosomatic. Or better yet, how about you can call label this any term you like. I don't care, if you don't refer to it as addiction. But it's pretty obvious that is just what it is. All I know, is that I need weed in my system to be able to eat food, and that if I quit smoking weed it takes about 2 weeks for my digestive tract to kick back up again. It will be a full 3 days before I can even handle so much as a banana. This has little to do with my mind. It is a betrayal of my body. If this is not considered to be a physical withdrawal symptom, then I don't know what is.

I'm around a lot of stoners. I can tell you that I smoke far, far more weed than the vast majority of people who use cannabis daily, and I have been at it for many years. This is why I have developed such an uncommon addiction.

Now once I realize that this symptom is occuring, I usually start smoking less weed. I am able to control my psychological attachment to the drug, and I will reduce my consumption levels until I once again no longer require weed to eat food, which is definitely still possible for me as a daily / habitual user, it's just a matter of 3 bong rips instead of 30. I've just really been getting that kush and oil into me all summer.

The psychological attachment, and rebound anxiety / mania - now that is a whole other beast. It's definitely still a withdrawal symptom, just of the brain and not of the digestive tract this time. A lot of people get that, and I don't think it is really strong enough of a problem to label it anything more than a mild addiction, and it is possible to transcend these common psychological issues for the most part. It sure as hell doesn't stop me from consuming calories.
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Lol I completely disagree with you.

You can not become physically addicted to weed... I'll repeat that one more time.
You can not become physically addicted to weed.

Let me ask you something.. and I want a serious answer. No lies. How much exercise do you get daily?

Start running at least 3 miles a day and I guarantee you will not have these problems
 
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Too many times have I heard someone say "I'm addicted to weed! I've been smoking every single day for the past few years... and then I stopped and now I feel like shit! What the hell is going on?? I must be addicted"

Every person I know IRL who has said that are the laziest motherfuckers I have ever met and literally sit on their ass ALL DAY

no wonder you feel like shit when you're not high

go get some exercise, you can thank me later.
 
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Arci said:
Too many times have I heard someone say "I'm addicted to weed! I've been smoking every single day for the past few years... and then I stopped and now I feel like shit"

Every person I know IRL who has said that are the laziest motherfuckers I have ever met and literally sit on their ass ALL DAY

no wonder you feel like shit when you're not high
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I sit on my ass when I'm not working loading trucks or helping a buddy out with his landscaping company. I feel dog ass tired after work, man... but I wouldn't disagree with you about the laziness. When I'm not working, I'm a lazy son of a bitch, heh. Every day at work is a near 6 hour hybrid workout, and if I'm doing yard work you can add another 8-10 hours onto the 6.

I feel like I earn the privilege to sit back and burn a couple when I've got some free time to myself just to chill and let my body recover. Definitely pretty lazy when I'm like that, though. :)
 
Cohesion said:
It depends on what you are looking for. Is there really no victim? In my experience pot when used incessantly keeps me from being my best self. So I am the victim. I overeat, I don't exercise, don't meditate, I oversleep. Self-actualizing is not something I partake in when I'm hooked into the pot cycle.
I agree with OP, that it's shameful it's so addicting. Because at the beginning of use it *seems* expansive. Truth is it's limiting.
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Agreed. Weed can be really bad for someone especially if used compulsively. It is silly to say weed is harmless: no drug is harmless, moderation and responsible use can make any drug safe
 
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