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Has marijuana helped moderate your consumption of other drugs?

When I smoked, I was a naturalist. Pot wasn't my only thing, I also liked shrooms and salvia, but I wasn't eating pills and snorting coke and other harmful shit. But now that i can't smoke anymore, I'm all over X, benzos, opiates, alcohol, and the sad part is, none of it can compare to the ganja (not even the X, when you take into account the costs, detrimental health effects, and the hangover). When I can smoke again, ganja will save my life and protect me from the evil pharmies.
 
For me, I was on probation and couldn't smoke for 2 and a half years. During those years, I only got to try pot 3 times at the beggining (when I got on probation) experimented with psychedelics and occasionally prescription stims for school. The only "feel-good" drug I regularly used was alcohol, and cigarrettes if you count those. When I got off, I start regularly started smoking pot and this got me to quit cigarettes and alcohol. Is it good for me to smoke pot at least a few times a day/everyday? Maybe not but since getting off probation a few months ago, I've only tried 2c-e and mephedrone, once each in a non-recreational setting. I believe marijuana has caused me to view drugs less recreationally. I don't even smoke to get super high usually, I just use enough (and choose indicas0 to relieve anxiety and relax me. Since I'm relaxed all the time, I don't feel the need to get super fucked up, I also no longer have the time. Job, School, family, friends, etc. However, I can smoke a shit ton everyday for a while and always get up in the morning and go through the day like normal. If I drank that much, or used any other serious recreationally drug with possible hangover, addiction, etc. then I'd probably have a lot of serious health issues. This is probably kinda scrambled, I'm scrambled myself and pretty tired from work.

To add, pot can lead to other drugs depending on how you use pot itself. I use it to enjoy life as I've been through quite a lot. I don't use it to combo with alcohol, pills, etc. I prefer to smoke alone and I rarely go to parties. I'm not really around those drugs because of it. For me, it is not a gateway drug. In fact, I experimented with a lot of drugs because I couldn't smoke pot. It's kind of replaced all of that usage in my life. If I want a different high, I can just get a Sativa or Indica dom accordingly.
 
It has helped me, but only because I've set it up in my mind that way.
I very much right now have the mentality that I can smoke and get my cannabis receptor fix as much as I want, well not as much as i want, I only smoke at night and heavier on the weekends.
And truthfully, mentally I'm clinging to it heavily because I know I can use it as a tool against other forms of drug addiction.
Or rather not as a tool, but a possible barrier, at least right now.


Pot has definitely helped me curb my appetite for other drugs, in fact I'd attribute pot to basically getting me off of dope(heroin). Not the sole reason, but it definitely played a LARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE factor.
 
Cannabis potentiates the effects of opiates and alcohol. If you are taking opiates for pain control for example, you will need less to get the desired result.
 
Yes, definitely.

I used to use alcohol and coke alot. It's very easy to get trapped in a downward spiral with those two. You do some because you feel stressed but the comedown makes you feel worse, so you do more etc. At one point I couldn't see any way I'd be able to stop.

Then I got back into smoking weed, and it made me appreciate doing so many other things again, like reading, listening to music, eating food, watching films etc.

I don't drink, smoke cigarettes or do any hard drugs now, just mary j.

Memories not great but overall much better off!!
 
Pot took the place of all drugs, I used it for everything. For me weed just works. When I stopped smoking it I took way more other drugs. Smoking helps me use more moderation. Infact I'm going back to smoking fuck everything else.
 
yes and no.

pot introduced me to the world of drugs. didn't cause me to use them, but put the idea in my head and the sources in my phone.

but after periods of heavy abuse with amphetamines/cocaine, pot is what made the withdrawal bearable and kept me from going back. it also has a very definitive effect on my alcohol consumption. for me, if i'm trying to get a really good buzz on, 4 drinks then weed = 12 drinks and no weed.
 
I could probably only smoke weed and use nothing else but I do like other drugs. I find weed makes in a lot easier to take breaks in between rolls. I don't like to be high everyday so that also makes in easier to manage my drug use.
 
If anything it made me do drugs AND get high at the same time more often. Thats why I quit it. Its been 6 months since Ive been high :)
 
I think alcohol is the main gateway drug. Most ppl drink before they smoke consistantly. Ive been thru every type of drug out there and now im back to my mary. sure i do trip, roll, or nod once a month but im not doing anything on a habitual basis. Sure i smoke pot most days but I did that before and that turned to all other sorts of drugs everyday. Now im all responsible n shit with my bud
 
Jibult said:
Nope... in fact, my consumption of other drugs increases my consumption of pot.
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i would love for this to be true for me, however by the time i wish i had a joint to go with whatever chemical im feeling at the time, im already broke... weed should be legal to consume and cultivate, it is a medicine.
 
I'd say yes and no. I definitely don't have a desire to do other drugs while I'm high, but I do have the tendency to keep smoking and keep smoking my pot.
 
If I didn't smoke weed everyday I'd do a different and most likely more harmful drug/combo of drugs at least every other day. So yeah, weed has keeped me from habitually using other drugs. I smoke cigaretttes and do other drugs, but only like 1-3 cigarettes per week and hard drugs a few times monthly, depending. I smoke herb every day though.
 
YES! great thread!

Weed keeps me away from all the other drugs i wish I could be on much more often, it settles me when hopelessly craving past experiences and is a wonderful pacifying drug on its own. Completely kept me sane over the years! helps me get off of drugs that I get addicted to for short term amounts of time like dexadrine and codeine, the only reason I don't fiend out on other drugs is because i've at least had one bowl a day for the last 6 years!
 
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