Addicted to weed!

its the case of all ants are insects but not all insects are ants.

all people who do sexual acts for money and dont like it are prostitutes but not all prostitutes do not like it.

 

exactily

 

I think that is the biggest problem with marijuana.

 

a weed addiction? or the fact that weed smokers are reluctant to considering addiction?

 

I definately believe that there is a level of addiction connected to marijuana. I think most smokers say "you can't get addicted to weed" because there is little to no physical addiction (at least that is my personal experience) it is mostly the mental addiction that has already been mentioned on this thread.

Several years ago, I quit for a month so I could get a job, the only thing that gave me a hard time was the boredom. I had been smoking after school (this was when I was in High School) every day for a long time, and I realized that I didn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't going out to smoke.

Give it some time and find a hobby, I have a feeling if you can keep yourself busy, you will notice a big decrease in your cravings.

Edit: I wrote "about a year ago" but it was several years ago... stoned while I was writing it

 

I dont know about that, if you were to ask every day smokers if they have any problems when not smoking, ill bet alot of them tell you they cant eat or sleep without it. does that constitute physical addiction? im not sure...

 

The fact that smokers are reluctant to consider addiction, i think that people aren't as careful with marijuana as they should be, alot of the time people will have far greater respect for heavier drugs and avoid any problems because they are atleast aware of their habit.

 

That's anything though, man.

That's how some people are with food.

 

yeh and those people get fucked up from it

 

yes.. a psychological addiction can be just as bad or even worse than something that is a physical addiction. Saying that it isnt physically addictive isnt an excuse.

 

hmm... it's also like... saying you have an addiction to gambling.... oh wait, you CAN get addicted to gambling

many many accepted addictions deal almost entirely with brain chemicals and psychology... it's frankly ignorant to say that psychological addictions are bullshit. people have been having problems with moderation in life for a very, very long time. it's not a new thing that just got thought up by today's psychologists.

 

I'd rather use "psychological dependency" to describe something like this, rather than "addiction" which sometimes implies physiological dependency.

 

Only a retard gets addicted to pot . mentally or otherwise.

 

there is no reason to stop if nothing bad is happenin from it. after i trip i stop smoking for a week or two.

 

differences - youll always be able to masturbate and you dont need any money or anything like that to masturbate.

weed is a resource, in order to maintain a habit for it you have to divert your economic preference toward it (unless you grow but theres still work involved there)

when you masturbate you eventually ejaculate and then there ya go. you cant keep ejaculating.

when you smoke, you can keep smoking more to feed the habit, and it effects a larger period of your time.

ejaculating is healthy,

smoking is not healthy for your body, at least particularly when its habitual, what we are talking about here.

you can ejaculate even better through sex, you cant get stoned even better some way which doesnt involve masturbating.

when you get stoned, you do other things which are then the experience of being stoned.
when you ejaculate, it is an actual activity that youre concentrating on.

thus the pleasure from the experience comes from partaking. there is relatively minimal enjoyment from the sensation of smoking compared to being on the drug (though undoubtedly it is still pleasurable for some)

this makes the habit signals, the signals which bring up the desire to get stoned, are linked all over the mind to all the things you do or think about when stoned, where with masturbating its pretty straight forward, youre horny or not, and can do many things to divert your attention.

with weed, you have to find compelling things to take your mind off smoking if youve habitually done it every day for years

 

No, addiction can be either mental or physical, cocaine is not physically addicting, but I don't think anyone would deny a coke head is addicted to coke.

 

Exactly...?

 

I think to be able to argue something like this you need a concrete definition of addiction.

Referring to the first definition: Firstly, it is obvious that marijuana can be and is a habit-forming substance, whether or not you are addicted to it. It can easily become a habitual exercise.
Whether or not you are addicted would theoretically depend on whether you have a compulsive need for it. This is the distinction between doing it because you like it and it feels good [like the masturbation example] and doing it because you compulsively have to.

The second definition, in my opinion, is more relating to an obsession. It's a looser definition in that it doesnt say you must be compulsive about it. But, using this definition as addiction, most of us here would be considered addicted, as most of us are atleast habitually occupied and involved in marijuana. Yet, we are also habitually involved in taking daily showers, eating 3 meals a day, and stopping at red lights. I dont think habitually doing something is really being addicted to it. So the first definition applies.

So, do you need to smoke weed in order to feel comfortable?
Is there something in you that says you compulsively have to?
Maybe you are mentally addicted.

As for physical addiction, some people do experience withdrawals from pot. I beleive it's about 1/10 people who smoke experience a physical withdrawal such as headaches, fatigue, etc, but I could be wrong. I personally don't, but I know people who do if they don't smoke for a day or two.

 

^^ yes, showering etc could be classified as addiction by that definition... but i remember when i studied psych this year that most disorders (im throwing addiction into it to make it easier) would have to be maladaptive. hence, showering is not an addiction, because it is not maladaptive... smoking would only be an addiction if it is maladaptive (laziness, no motivation, eating too much, etc). comments?

 

ok, masturbation satisfies a basic human need, one of seven (Maslow's Pyramid). weed does not satisfy basic needs, although it might stimulate them (hunger, thirst)

Anyone that when not high is thinking about getting high, planing to, whatever, in a few hours or be it a few weeks is addicted to weed, wheter he admits to it or not. Although not high all the time, you wish you were, or you are at least knowing that in some time (hours or weeks) you will be and therefore sort of "quenches" your addiction a bit.

don't be in such fucking denial people, like insanejester.

I smoke every week or two. I choose to, because I like to lower my thc levels a bit before blazing again, use less weed, and appreciate and enjoy the experience more (compared to smoking everyday). But I also realize that I'll occasionally think about my next blaze, roughly fix a date for my next blaze, and basically have that in the back of my mind..... although this took me some months to realize it, I know that I'm still addicted to weed (I was smoking almost on a daily basis and i was sorta using it to escape reality, cuz I was suffering a diffcult injury) and you know what, so what. I like weed, I have learned loads about myself and about life since I use it and know that I will be using it for years to come.