I'm 22 and I had serious problems with Marijuana...I started because I was depressed with my dad when I was around 19 and did it until I was 22. Last time I smoked was a month ago but even then I hadn't done it a month before and I am a type of person who would smoke like 4-5 days a week at least for like a year and a half and before that I smoked a lot and when I smoked I smoked all day and was way messed up...I thought smoking was the way to be and it kept me from being depressed but all smoking did was make me more depressed because it prolonged my problems and made things worse later. On top of that, I was a very sociable person but when I smoked I was always paranoid and I liked to either keep to my circle of friends or to myself and I didn't socialize like I used to. Now I have not been smoking the last few months (did it 2 times in the last 4 months, and the one time I did it a month ago was just because people were around and I wanted to see how the feeling was) , I did not like it at all. I don't think marijuana is so bad compared to hard drugs but I have ADD problems too and it just made things so much worse for me. The weird thing is in the past I would say I would quit like a million times but even when I didn't smoke for a week or 2 (it would feel like forever) I would have the craving everyday and loved weed and talked favorably of it. Now when I talk about marijuana, I see how it made me lazy and wasted a couple of years of my life but at the same time I can say I went through stupid shit when I was young. I didn't touch hard drugs. Well..I did coke one night only one time and E 2 days in a row and it was the dumbest thing I ever did in my life but the biggest thing getting off weed I reaize is how much more confidence I have in my life and how things have become a lot more successful. It is better to deal with the realities of life instead of ignoring them because people have stress and we have to deal with it and the only way to be successful is to overcome those things and make us better in what we do. But anyways just to say, people who smoke weed like I did (and I know people smoke a lot more than me) become potheads and think there is nothing wrong with their life and weed is the only way to go but please mature before it is too late...especially when we are still relatively young and have an opportunity in making our lives successful. I won't say I won't smoke ever ever in my life but if I do it will be a once a year thing on a super super special occasion but even then, I probably won't do it. I just don't want to lie to myself like I used to say a million times I wouldn't smoke anymore but now when I think of weed it makes me disgusted and it is not something I enjoy or missed. Anyways, it's a big milestone from me always smoking and I have great direction in my life and I am much more sociable and getting girls again like I used to. Plus when I was smoking, it made me less sexually active and I cummed less even when I was with my ex. I don't know why it acts different with different people but I finally feel happy about my life and remember weed does not keep you from being depressed! It just prolongs it and makes it worse!
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Putting Away the Weed
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I may be jumping the gun (by not reading your post) but I just didn't know it was possible to get addicted to pot.The whole reason I gave it a shot was because I'm always open to try new thing. I wanted to see what it was like, so I did. I had some good times with my buddies trying it out, but in the end its just a waste of money and a chance to get busted. I still do it occasionally but I never pay for it and I'm always careful. I honestly didn't know it could be used as an anti-depressant other then the fact that you usually hang out with some dudes when ya do it. hah.
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The thing here Rocked, is that you can become addicted, if not PHYSICALLY (Caffine, nicotine) you can become psychologically addicted.You see this kind of behaviour with smokers who are trying to quit, if they don't have something in thier mouth, they feel unfulfilled (Despite having a nicotine patch) They're addicted to the routine and the act of oral fixation, as much as they are to the nicotine.so you can indeed become psychologically addicted to the feeling of being high, or just the act of having the joint in your mouth.
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Yeah, kind of like nail biting. It is a difficult thing to give up, but how do you ACTUALLY get addicted to finger nails?
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One of the old rumours I heard was you can become addicted to nail biting due to a diet defiency...it's an odd behaviiour that I've heard about more than a couple of times. Although I haven't looked at it recently.
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I did it just because I couldn't sit still...it was just a comfort thing. I got acrylic nails, and the habit stopped.
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LOL, me too hun! :wink:
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yeh you cant be addicted to weed. i dont know why but like you just cant i know you like wnt it but thats becasue like you do it so often it is in your daily routine. but you cant be like scratching for it or anything.
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so you were not addicted good to know right?
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Why can't you be addicted to weed?
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I have people at my highschool who are addicted to weed. My best friend is in juvi(juvenille dentention center) because he's charged with possession. (twice)My school is known as the "stoner" school of the city. Which pisses me off to NO END.It IS an addiction, trust me.Even though I haven't smoked a joint, EVER, I've seen the damage it has done to alot of friends :'(.Not to mention the damn drug is [ILLEGALLLLLLL].One more thing to think about though......They have "medical marrijuana", but say ur a person who's gotten hit by a car, and ur also addicted to pot(the street form.not the hospital one), isn't the medical marijuanna gonna be insignificant? The person would be in HORRRRIBBBLLLE pain.Right?Cuz their system is used to taking it?Kk.I'm done blabbering.....=_=
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Like I stated beforehand; anything can become addicting, if not physically/chemically (IE: Nicotine) it becomes a psychological addiction (IE: Biting your nails, chewing gum)I've seen the latter type of addiction in my job (In a prison); New inmates not only sneak in weed (cheaper than tobacco in the prison culture) they also save peels from fruit, dry them out, break them up, roll 'em, and smoke 'em. They usually use the pages from the bible, or Koran as rolling paper.There are NO addictive qualities to smoking a banana or orange peel, but they do it because they're pyschologically addicted to the act of smoking SOME form of substance. (They also smoke the oxygen absorbing packs [the contents] which come with thier shoes; if we don't remove them)
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You've peaked my curiosity.
First, is smoking banned in the Canadian prison system as it is in much of the U.S.?
If yes, then how are they lightin' their shit, "popping sockets?" That's the only way I know of.
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I'll PM you that stuff, it's a complicated subject.
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Well if you smoke out of a pipe, you can put the pipe to your lips then light and suck as if there was pot in it.. I've found that helped me.
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Ahhhh my prison pastnow lets ,me enlighten you...To light a smoke, or anythign really but it works best with cigs..You are allowed to buy shit withthe money on your books, buy a radio, a small walkman was all we were allowed.Now you have an excuse to have batteries. When a new guy gets put in hes given a booklet, that booklet is held together with staples, its the easiest source for them.take 2 batteries, one posative up and the other negative up.put them together side by side, hold them against eh combo sink/toilet/drinking fountain thats all metal. put a staple on each of the upwards contacts( one negative the other posative) hold them there with your thumbs, allow them to barely touch and create a dead short. The wire staples are made from is shit, it has too high a resistance and the metal will heat up and glow red. just like a ciggerette lighter from here.I have nice tiny scars all over my thumbs from lighting smokes inside. Burns the fuck out of ya, but it works and they are small, as big around as a staple pressed against your skin for a 50 to 60 second period.Once one guy has one lit everyone lights off his and yuo take turns lighit the first one so that your nto always the one being burned.wanna make a knife? how about booze from ketchup? or maybe ink for tattoos? Its all done in prison.
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Wow, that sounds like an awfully lax prison...Viva le USA corrections!
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I didnt say the ink, the knifes, the booze was allowed, just that it goes on and Id bet my left nut it goes on in canada as well.
Or did ya mean the radio? far as I know nearly all prisons alloow you to have some personal items and a radio with headphones was one on our approved list if it was bought through the prison commisary. -
US corrections is quite odd; frankly, so is Canada's.In our Federal system we still allow smoking inside; so inmates have no need for tricks to light or have a smoke. Our provincial system doesn't allow smoking, and it is VERY hard to light one (No electrical outlets, no batteries) the only way to do it is to hoop a lighter or a match (if you're a douche) and make a wick.