WTF...why are you an addict if weed helps you?

Seriously screw those people....are they an addict if they get a prescription or rely on coffee to function?

 

.are they an addict if they get a prescription?

yes i am.

 

If I got prescribed opiates I might be...but that's probably screwed up, but the only thing I've been precribed for crap other than when I was a kid and got sore throats or whatever....is prozac and that crap just fucked me up even more. So now I don't know that I trust psych meds enough to take them enough to get addicted.

 

I know that addiction to caffeine is real - but easy as shit to break. I'm not sure I understand your question though - but allow me to say that whether or not a person is addicted doesn't matter if it his helping (more than hurting). Well, I don't mean that absolutely.

 

I suspect you are preaching to the choir, CN. Most people on this forum, indeed most people who know the first thing about weed, know that one cannot form an "addiction" to it in any medical sense of the term.

Addict is a term used in the hopes of equating weed with harder drugs, and making it seem like the province of degenerates and fiends. Newsflash: propaganda is not based on actual fact.

 

Because, being addicted to personal freedom and experiencing you're own consciousness does not bode well for being another wheel in the system. That doesn't suit the higher echelons of powers priority's.

 

Yeah my question was rather vauge, I guess what i was trying to get across was I don't see self medication and addiction as quite the same thing. But I suppose one could be addicted to something that helps them......I don't really know.

 

Yeah I know, I don't like propaganda that is part of what I was bitching about with this thread.

 

Well they can go screw themselves:smoking:

 

Addiction is dependence.... So yes, I'm sure there are millions of addicts, who are genuinely helped by what they are addicted to.

You could even argue that even with no adverse side effects solely from the cessation of use, one could be addicted to something like weed, or even aspirin, because of the positive reinforcement they get from the analgesic effects.

If I had a prescription for something other than weed, I wouldn't be an addict, I'd be a dealer.... And if it was for weed, I wouldn't be an addict, I'd be stoned.

Where the hell is this thread meant to go?

 

Well I guess I feel like a helpful dependence and a harmful addiction are really not the same thing.

but yeah I don't think this thread has a destination at all really. But do most threads in the stoner forum have anywhere specific they are meant to go? was probably stoned when I posted it anyways.

 

This is a fair observation!

 

very true:2thumbsup: