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browndustin
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Re: is pot really addictive? [Re: Dark_Star]
#5751027 - 06/14/06 08:22 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Dark_Star said: It's habit-forming, not addictive, the problem is most people confuse habits with addictions. Once you've experienced real addictions (which hopefully you never do) you'll see what I mean. As far as the pot habit goes, willpower man, willpower...good luck with it.
Clicked on this thread and this was the first post in view. I couldn't agree more. 
I spent a couple of years smoking daily. No health problems surprisingly (kept getting more health concious as well), no social problems, nothing psychologically wrong and didn't even blow too much of a hole in my wallet. I'm not in denial, I can be optimistic and turn into the devil's advocate the next moment, but I agree completely that marijuana's not addicting. If you have an addictive personality, you can bond to marijuana in more negative ways than you really should. But I mean, everything in moderation eh
I wouldn't be concerned about this at all really, just concious to the facts. Referencing myself once again, asides from 4/20 I have really only smoked a couple of grams over the past few months. I used to smoke that in a day. A joint here and there, a bong rip or two throughout the day. Even smoking amazingly potent weed, I could go through a 1/4 oz in a week quite easily. I'm not even stressin...
I appreciate pot as much as the next stoner, but if you can keep yourself occupied on other positive tasks then it's no problem. I have a nice joint sitting on my computer desk right now. Was going to smoke it but instead I took my dog out for a walk... I might take a puff just cause of all the marijuana threads I read tonight though... bastards.
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HeadTripVertigo
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Re: is pot really addictive? [Re: browndustin]
#5751093 - 06/14/06 08:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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the only problem with smoking pot(or doing anything regularly) is with other people. you can smoke pot every day and not be addicted, which can be easily proven to yourself by stopping for X amount of time. however the outsiders (i.e. everyone but you, or everyone who isn't like minded) will say you're just trying to rationalize your addicition. you're the only one who knows better or not. from an objective standpoint, it may be that you just don't realize you are physiologically dependent on it. or maybe you're not and you can stop at any time. you're the only one who can really know if you're addicted to something or not, so there's no real point in asking anyone else "am I addicted to XXXXXX?"
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TheFakeSunRa
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From the movie half baked
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Cocaine Addict: Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana?
Pot is not an addictive drug.
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Interesting (and old) topic.
I used to debate ad nauseam, the semantics of a physical versus mental addiction.. but have found that to be absolutely useless when it comes to evaluation of the self. Now when I introspect, I much rather prefer the simple definition of addiction as something you cannot stop. The trick to life is to keep everything in moderation - don't get so caught up in a specific routine that the routine begins to dictate how you live your life. You should be making conscious choices - and I know it seems like a no brainer, "Of course I'm making a conscious choice!" But I've found through my own experience that what I sometimes play off as a conscious choice could very well be a force of habit.
Marijuana and liquor are most definitely the strongest habits that I have, and as of late that I have been trying to test whether or not I am actually exercising a conscious decision with regard to their useage. Having been a regular user of both substances for 6 - 8 years now, I am finding that perhaps I indeed have fallen into routine for the sake of habit, and not because that is necessarily what I truly desire. It's been four days since my last drink and my last smoke. A short time perhaps, but it sure seems more significant when stacked against the fact that I haven't gone for more than a day or two without substance use in the past many years. Even though my daily use has been moderated in that I frequently only have 1 - 3 drinks, and perhaps one vaporizor bowl (0.2g) full of marijuana, and most often only after the day's obligations have been tended to, it is the constant repetition and not necessarily the overall quantities that had sparked in me second thoughts as to my own will power.
So this is the test... we will see how I handle it, and whether or not discernable results or reflections may even manifest when all is said and done. I hold little expectation, but I can confidently state that I am taking some satisfaction in the fact that I have broken a cycle that I have thought to myself for so long about breaking, but from which I had never taken the first step.
For the record, I do not believe I will ever quit.
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Re: is pot really addictive? [Re: geokills]
#5751991 - 06/15/06 12:10 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The mental habit of pot is very seductive. It's easy to grow lax, desiring to be in that state day after day. Whenever you do this for a long time, and then halt abruptly, your consciousness is left wondering, "WTF? Give me my SUGAR!"
And you DO have the power to say, "Sorry brain...it's time to go on a diet."
You may be healthier for it.
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THE KRAT BARON
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Re: is pot really addictive? [Re: geokills]
#5752007 - 06/15/06 12:17 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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geokills said: The trick to life is to keep everything in moderation - don't get so caught up in a specific routine that the routine begins to dictate how you live your life.
I couldnt agree more. I've found that too much of anything will make one an addict.
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Gumby
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For some people: Yes, there is a definite psychological dependance possible.
For people like myself, who don't like regular pot smoking: N, not at all.
I have a friend who goes through cycles of being a normal, very motivated person(without pot) to a guy with out any ambitions/motivations in life when he smokes pot. When he goes through his pothead phase I ask myself "why am I friends with this guy?"
For myself: It may sound weird, but being stoned is just too intense for me. The effect it has on my brain/body is comparable to a level 3-4 trip on mushrooms. I could never do that daily/several times a day, I'd go crazy.
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