I don't think marijuana addiction exists

i think there's a part to the mental addiction that has to do with letting the drug do you instead of doing the drug... i had that problem for the first few years i smoked... i would feel irritable if i went a day without smoking but that only lasted a few years then i "grew out of it"...

 

sorry i was trying to get in on the 1 st page conversation... i'll figure this out sometime...

 

i love the cannabis plant i really do, but how many regular connoisseurs can just quit cold turkey and never give a shit, no. theres always gonna be a psychological addiction if you really enjoy being baked all the time. think about it

 

in aa and the 12 steps they tell you that it was because of character defects that you got addicted...but what they don't tell you and is the logical implication of this is that you could smoke pot if you were a good honest person...

in greek adicere means to want... and it's that the character defects or just being a fag that get in the way of what a person really wants... which is peace love and happiness....

 

it dont.. Sure you can be miserable., but nothing really physical about it..

Tobacco on the other hand.. I have never woke up wanting to smoke marijuana. I wait til Im fully awake, later on. Tobacco is one them drugs you reach for as soon as you wake up..

Its easier to control a society thats full of sickness and disease..

 

this isn't a personal attack and i'm not saying you're wrong but it seems like everyone on this forum is incredibly paranoid and think the whole world is out to control and get them.


by the way being unable to sleep without weed? is that mental or physical, that isn't mind over matter or anything that's 'i need weed to be able to sleep'. i think weed is physically addictive in some people for that reason.... unless someone can tell me that is wrong.

 

it does not matter, when people dont use their minds...

 

Lol. perhaps there all stoned not that there any link.

I find it really hard to listen to ppl who were.nt even born when I started smoking mj saying its not addictive and easy to quit. That being said in grand scheme of things its the lesser of all the evils out on the streets.

 

It all fall downs on personal choice if you choose not to quit then there ya go if you do then there ya go. What I'm trying to say its that its personal not something just because they said marijuana is adiictive it is when you prove that its not people tend to still argue of how marijuana still bad in other terms. So to my conclusion you will never define what's addiction in marijuana but a personal choice.

 

Maybe this sort of fear and paranoia leads to such things. maybe it does matter.

 

i haven`t read this whole thing, but this is an issue i`ve grappled w/ for many yrs. sry but some ppl are addicted to marijuana.when i hear some1 say that they would commit murder if they didn`t get weed, wouldn`t even other stoners agree it`s an addiction?& believe me, this individual is quite serious abt it.so, for reasons like that & others, i don`t smoke as a form of protest, imagine that.

 

When I was younger and I'd run out of smoke I'd become irratable and would go nuts trying to find more.

I quit for about 6 months back when I was in my mid to late twenties, because of a girl of all things. But after she screwed me over I started smoking again and noticed a very unique thing. If I had smoke that was great but if I didn't that was ok also and I've been that way ever since. So even though she was a bitch and basically used me for housing for her and her kids, she did give me the unexpected gift of being able to take or leave cannabis.

And to set the record straight I'd much rather have it or not but now I smoke because I want to and can say no if I don't feel the time is right and it doesn't bother me in the least.

 

would u blow it in someone`s face, who has no desire to smoke?

 

Its middle of the road as far as addictive substances go, pretty much on par with alcohol to me. The fact that it can be used daily, multiple times for some people, causing relatively little tolerance compared to some drugs, sets it up for a drug that is easy to abuse. I have seen some people get pretty irritable without, I occassionally did or got a bit of anxiety without it but mainly I got to the 'everything is boring' without it stage but never felt an overwhelming need to do it.

 

i`ve found over the many yrs of not smoking that the irritation & anxiety of not smoking isn`t that difficult to deal with.