Are you addicted to marijuana?

poplars said:

hah mental issues?

and as far as your statements about my mental issues, that's pretty presumptuous of you isn't it?

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poplars said:

pretty much man. I have pretty in depth mental issues that marijuana clears up for me.

it's ridiculous how I think when I'm without my weed . . . I feel like a madman . . .

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I don't think that taking your own words at face value is presumptuous. Why are you being sensitive about information that you have disclosed about yourself? I am just looking out for your welfare and advising you to seek medical treatment based on personal experience. I apologize it that hurt your feelings

poplars said:

are you following me or something?

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Following you? Are you fucking kidding me? Right now on the first page of Toke N Talk you have 8 "last posts" - that is 40% of the threads in that section have you as the last poster. It's not following when you are EVERYWHERE.

poplars said:

ok so I didn't describe addiction, I described a DEPENDENCE SYNDROME.

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poplars said:

do you have some sort of infatuation with my posts and have a constant hard-on to prove me wrong?

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You seem to spew information without having intimate knowledge about the topics you speak so freely about. As far as singling you out? I treat everyone on this board the same - you are no exception.

Now please seek medical help for your "in-depth mental issues." You shouldn't feel like a "madman" for any reason.

madman as a figure of speech. I guess I need to watch out for people like you on these boards.

I do have intimate knowledge of the topics I speak about, I simply don't have the proof on-hand. so I suppose from that perspective that makes all my statements unfounded.

I also use the statement mental issues very lightly, I don't intend for anyone to interpret that as true mental issues. so I'll refrain from such statements in the future.

poplars said:

madman as a figure of speech. I guess I need to watch out for people like you on these boards.

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This is more alarming than the "madman" part.

poplars said:

I have pretty in depth mental issues that marijuana clears up for me.

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I know someone that self-medicated for years - it isn't pretty when you have your "prescription" wrong. I'm talking desperate measures - straight-jacket, HEAVY medication, mental ward, shock therapy to get you to "snap out of it." Please seek help.

poplars said:

I do have intimate knowledge of the topics I speak about, I simply don't have the proof on-hand. so I suppose from that perspective that makes all my statements unfounded.

I also use the statement mental issues very lightly, I don't intend for anyone to interpret that as true mental issues. so I'll refrain from such statements in the future.

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I have never asked you for proof. I can tell by your explanations that you are not well versed in some of the topics you attempt to expound upon.

Perhaps I am so used to mental issues being somewhat taboo that when I see someone say:

I have pretty in depth mental issues

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and they are self-medicating; it rings loudly. It is not something that you hear often (or at least I do not hear).

honestly I'm not going to explain myself to you. or take your advice when it doesn't apply to me. and you can explain how you think it applies all you want, you have no evidence other than a simple statement and possibly other experiences to apply as relative to mine, either way I don't really care.

I am self medicating, but it's not like I have demons in my head. by indepth mental issues I pretty much screwed myself over with those words because they truly aren't what I have.

it was simply a bad way of saying it helps me solve complex problems in my head. but whatever, I'm done explaining myself to you, when I said I wouldn't in the first place.

I haven't smoked today and I already almost fucked some kid up for kicking a soccer ball at my car.

poplars said:

honestly I'm not going to explain myself to you. or take your advice when it doesn't apply to me. and you can explain how you think it applies all you want, you have no evidence other than a simple statement and possibly other experiences to apply as relative to mine, either way I don't really care.

I am self medicating, but it's not like I have demons in my head. by indepth mental issues I pretty much screwed myself over with those words because they truly aren't what I have.

it was simply a bad way of saying it helps me solve complex problems in my head. but whatever, I'm done explaining myself to you, when I said I wouldn't in the first place.

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This isn't a joke to me. It may have been poor word choice - but it is aweful strange and peculiar word choice at that. So strange that it was alarming. I am trying to help you (or anyone on this board) that is following this same path of self-medicating metal disorders.

You are taking my words the wrong way. I am not even remotely suggesting that you owe me an explanation nor am I asking for one. I am not a Dr. nor do I pretend to be. I can tell you ONLY as someone who has seen a loved ones suffer and have PERSONALLY seen the ravaging effects on a 22 year old when denial and self-medicating mixed. You've heard someone say "he's completely lost his mind" or "fell off the rocker?" I have literally seen it first-hand - it ain't a pretty sight. If you have issues that you are aware of; you owe it to yourself and those around you that love you to seek help before it gets too much for you to medicate.

Do not feel the need to respond. I had to get it out there.

yessir! I'm a weed addict, there are much worse things to be.

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This isn't a joke to me. It may have been poor word choice - but it is aweful strange and peculiar word choice at that. So strange that it was alarming. I am trying to help you (or anyone on this board) that is following this same path of self-medicating metal disorders.

You are taking my words the wrong way. I am not even remotely suggesting that you owe me an explanation nor am I asking for one. I am not a Dr. nor do I pretend to be. I can tell you ONLY as someone who has seen a loved ones suffer and have PERSONALLY seen the ravaging effects on a 22 year old when denial and self-medicating mixed. You've heard someone say "he's completely lost his mind" or "fell off the rocker?" I have literally seen it first-hand - it ain't a pretty sight. If you have issues that you are aware of; you owe it to yourself and those around you that love you to seek help before it gets too much for you to medicate.

Do not feel the need to respond. I had to get it out there.

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well I appreciate your caring about my well being. I don't need help, I'm doing quite fine. sorry to trigger such a worry in you.

yes.......

If i go without I can get very irritable and anxious. The key is the same as quitting anything (even video games). If you dont want to quit you will get angry. Heres how I think it works:

If i wake up, and i have no weed and i knew that was the case and im not planning on getting more, im my normal happy self, just with more energy. If i wake up and think to myself "today im gonna buy some weed", then it doesn't happen i get angry...but its the screwing around. People say they have it then you drive 40 minutes to them and oh we cant pick up till tomorrow...its the expectation and hope that you will have it. Once i start the drive to pick up ive already considered myself as "having weed". Now when i get there and it doesnt happen im cranky because no doubt it took 3 hours to organise in the first place, and now ive driven that far, got no fuel, its too late to try to arrange anything else, so i then waited the whole day till afternoon to arrange, then the whole afternoon driving, i get home with no petrol, no weed and wasted a whole day..thats when i snap at people and stuff.

When the fiancee and i agreed to have a break, we said once this oz runs out we will stop for a while, and we did no probs....no anger or trouble sleeping. I cant sleep after getting screwed around though, i want to hit someone...but at 40 mins each way if i was gong to pick up 2l of milk and i got there to find they were out when they said they had it i would be just as angry.

I could be way off but i just dont seem to care unless ive got my hopes up ill be smoking that night.
prot

They came through this time tho, so excuse mistakes plz, baked atm

poplars said:

well I appreciate your caring about my well being. I don't need help, I'm doing quite fine. sorry to trigger such a worry in you.

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ha ha, you will get your bill in the post!

a coke head would suck dick for coke, a junky would suck dick for herion, would YOU suck dick for weed? thought not, the withdrawl symptoms are real, cannabis affects many chemicals in your brain, your brain will learn to live with these mass changes, if you smoke weed everyday you cause these chemical changes to be commonplace, all of a sudden they are gone, now comes the withdrawl, its chemical rebalancing, if you crave and use cannabis even tho you have a test or are goin to work then youre an addict, just my 2 cents, i will accept anyone that can prove me wrong but until then

I wouldn't suck dick for white or h either or for my fucking life, and I can say that from an ex-addict point of view before anyone plays that card

and depends on the job IMO, surgeon, flight path co-ordinator yea you shouldn't bake before work!!!

tnrtinr said:

You seem to spew information without having intimate knowledge about the topics you speak so freely about. As far as singling you out? I treat everyone on this board the same - you are no exception.

Now please seek medical help for your "in-depth mental issues." You shouldn't feel like a "madman" for any reason.

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Now, none of this is my business, but seeing this topic coming to the top, I just started to read it.

A. tnrt - The few times Ive seen you "spew" information, you just ramble and talk about experiences you have had, or people you know.

So lets go on about that, are you fucking kidding me? So because your dumbass friend was a hardcore depressed person, that makes everyone on RIU a suicide risk? Im just saying, not everyone needs prescription meds buddy, im no where near depressed, just go through stresses in life, doctor prescribed me medicine that was expensive, and did nothing more than marjiuana did, which was cheaper. My doc took me off the medicine and advised me to continue cannabis.

so since I had this experience, its the same for everyone else right? No.

The point? Unless your a doctor, you should take your own advice, and stop giving your "advice" information, let people live their own lives, and make their own decisions

HfB

On my days off from work I can easily smoke all day long. At night after work I can easily smoke 2 or 3 times before bed. But I'm just as likely to get busy with something around the house or kibitz with my wife about something she's doing and before I know it I'm in bed getting ready for sleep before it occurs to me that I hadn't got high yet today.

It may be that I don't schedule getting high around any certain activities that I don't fall into that gotta have it mentallity. If I set myself up to always get high when I get home and again after dinner and then to be sure right before bed then I think I would become addicted to the routine. The few times I've tried quitting cigarettes I always failed because of the missing routine. A cup of coffee in the morning had to have a cigarette with it and a cigarette after every meal was the only way to finish off a good meal. I was addicted to the routine.

Not that this adds anything credible to the subject at hand, just my two cents.

highflyby said:

Now, none of this is my business, but seeing this topic coming to the top, I just started to read it.

A. tnrt - The few times Ive seen you "spew" information, you just ramble and talk about experiences you have had, or people you know.

So lets go on about that, are you fucking kidding me? So because your dumbass friend was a hardcore depressed person, that makes everyone on RIU a suicide risk? Im just saying, not everyone needs prescription meds buddy, im no where near depressed, just go through stresses in life, doctor prescribed me medicine that was expensive, and did nothing more than marjiuana did, which was cheaper. My doc took me off the medicine and advised me to continue cannabis.

so since I had this experience, its the same for everyone else right? No.

The point? Unless your a doctor, you should take your own advice, and stop giving your "advice" information, let people live their own lives, and make their own decisions

HfB

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Go fuck yourself. How you like them apples?

for me its not an addiction its a choice i hav stopped for as long as almost a whole year

I've stopped smoking for long periods of times, either because it was necessary to obtain/keep a job, or because it was too hard to find decent smoke.

I no longer have a "need" to quit. Addiction is a word that just makes no sense with cannabis for me.

Some people simply have addictive personalities.

I will ALWAYS opt for that strain that "elevates your mood" vs. Paxil or some other chemical designed to take away your depression. There is a strain for just about every ailment known to mankind.

If you are going to be "addicted"....what better addiction to have?

anyone can get addicted to anything it all depends on your personality now marijuana may not be physically addicting like cigs or alcohol can be but some people might get mentally addicted to iti myself feel like i have developed a dependency i cant sleep worth shit if i dont smoke so i feel like i HAVE to be high b4 i go to bed now ive been smoking everyday give or take a few weeks for the past 3 years and it just seems like its a part of my life now and really i dont want to stop ever i prolly could if i wanted to but that would lead to me getting put on sleeping pills why have somthing unnatural in your body when you can just smoke a plant grown from pure soil and get the same affects without the risk