Tend to go overboard with pot use.. but I'm able to control hard drug use?

[mooseantlers]

IDK why but it seems like when it comes to pot I always end up smoking so much that it's not fun anymore and I'm just getting back to the same level I was before, however I have cut down lately.


But when it comes to harder drugs, even opiates I'm able to just put them down and forget about it for a while before the opportunity comes up..

Is anyone else like this?

Theories on why this could be?

 

[_DankOpiAmp_]

Perhaps weed is never quite satisfying enough for you so you just keep smoking.

 

[BlueBull]

Yeah I'm the same. I suspect this is because you can incorporate weed in almost every aspect of your life once you get used to it. There's hardly anything I can do sober that I can't do when I smoked some herb, so why do it sober when I enjoy myself more baked? This coupled with the almost non-existent negative feedback the substance gives you when you misuse it makes it very easy to abuse. The only thing it does that is really bad if you do not keep an eye on it is that it eats away at your motivation and your sense of self-worth, but this is not unavoidable

On the other hand, most hard-drugs have profound effects on your mental state, your physical functions and your appearance while you are under the influence but also afterwards. Furthermore most of them will kick your ass in half if you abuse them, their feedback is much more direct, happens much faster and is much much more defined. Also hard-drugs tend to be something a person views as a "special occasion" while smoking weed does not feel like something special anymore after a while (this happens with hard-drugs too once you are addicted).

All of this combined makes it MUCH MUCH easier for me to use certain hard-drugs only sporadically without risk of losing control of my use, while weed (at least for me) almost always spirals out of control once I start back up after having quit for a while. Luckily weed doesn't destroy your life (not in the way most hard-drugs are capable of) and it actually improves certain aspects of my life, even when abused. I am in love with weed and I don't know if I'll ever fall out of love. I was made to smoke weed, it goes together with my personality PERFECTLY

 

[mooseantlers]

Interesting input you two I agree about harder drugs being like a special occasion, but I used to have a way more addictive personality, lately I've realised that my willpower has become stronger. Today I did blow for the first time, and reacted in a completely different way than everyone else would believe. I knew when I wanted to stop... And I actually enjoyed the first part of the comedown? Is that strange?

Afterwords I felt kinda restless and shitty, but most people say that when they feel like that they start jonesing for more coke; I was the absolute opposite, the last thing I wanted was more coke, for a good chunk of the time I that I was blitzed I kept thinking "how on earth can people handle this every day, I could never see this as more than an occasional treat"

It wasn't nearly as crazy intense and like immediately addictive as people would have led me to believe.. Don't get me wrong it was a good ride, hell I'd prefer it to drinking which I rarely do, and I can only see myself doing it rarely. But also interested in mixing it with cid.

 

[BlueBull]

Interesting input you two I agree about harder drugs being like a special occasion, but I used to have a way more addictive personality, lately I've realised that my willpower has become stronger. Today I did blow for the first time, and reacted in a completely different way than everyone else would believe. I knew when I wanted to stop... And I actually enjoyed the first part of the comedown? Is that strange?

Afterwords I felt kinda restless and shitty, but most people say that when they feel like that they start jonesing for more coke; I was the absolute opposite, the last thing I wanted was more coke, for a good chunk of the time I that I was blitzed I kept thinking "how on earth can people handle this every day, I could never see this as more than an occasional treat"

It wasn't nearly as crazy intense and like immediately addictive as people would have led me to believe.. Don't get me wrong it was a good ride, hell I'd prefer it to drinking which I rarely do, and I can only see myself doing it rarely. But also interested in mixing it with cid.

I think it's like that for most hard drugs. At least the ones I've done. I never did blow as the risks are too great for me. I have a very addictive personality and if that happens with blow I am screwed, so I won't risk it. But I do partake in some other hard drugs and indeed my thought has always been "how can anyone do this more than occasionally? You can feel from the effects it has on you that that would be very unhealthy, so why do it?" So yeah I guess for some people that is normal. At least for me it is. To give you a picture, these are the substances I partake in on occasion and except for weed I have never had any problems with any other drug (and I will never develop problems as I am quitting everything except weed soon): MDMA, MDA, LSD, DXM, DMT, 2-CB, 2-CI, psilocybin, salvia, peyote, LSA, nitrous, truffles, coideïne, tramadol, I had amphetamine pills once sold to me as ecstasy (never again!) and ofcourse alcohol. Never any problems except for weed. Luckily those are not really problems, just minor annoyances

 

[smokedup]

I certainly i am in this category. It the only substance where the high is unbelievably consistent for so many years. I know what im getting and i always will be left satisfied whether it be 2 or 10 cones depending on my mindset. Everything else slowly becomes fiendish or financially impossible.