I am a marijuana addict

I hear most of you on the sleeping part, its rare that i dont have bud, but when im in that situation i need to have a long days work to sleep good. I also eat only when im hungry (not really a bad thing). My family says they can tell when i dont have bud because i dont smile lol.

without pot I am harder working, less eating, less sleeping, and not too fun to be around...in the last few years i quit cigs, coffee and alcohol so i know what a real addiction is. and ive never had headaches and been puking because of no weed. just need to find something else to keep me busy.

I could go without, but i dont wanna, and you cant make me...



oh and dont blame ur problems on the ganj man.... not our fault you cant handle the weed...



if you give up smoking, drugs and alcohol, sex. fast cars, guns, and all the other multitudes of fun stuff.. jus jump off a fukn bridge allready....

My wifes like that. Thats why I got into growing it, I couldnt keep her supplied so I had to start making my own. She needs a T break something terrible but cant somehow. Its all my fault too. She didnt do anything like that till she met me. Now, I quit smoking it other than to test fire the latest strain to ripen, but her, she'd smoke the laces out of my tennis shoes if there was nothing else here.

I was smoking half an oz a week then developed a bad cough and quit. No problems. Am just about to start again after a year off.
Funny thing is, I was living in a place that had damp problems so I don't even think the coughing was due to the weed.

lol lot of similar people then.

To be honest i have always had sleep problems and weed cures that problem , oh and it's not like i just smoke a bowl before bed every night.Most nights i will make a good evening of it ,it's just the nights i'm supposed to not be smoking i will end up getting up at 3 am for a bowl..

The other werid thing is it treats my depression.When i am completly clean of thc i drift in and out of depressive bouts and have zero motivation,but when i smoke weed ,not only do i sleep great but i wake up with loads of motivation ,to clean the house and excerise and stuff.

In short cannabis is a wonder drug that i have no intention of quitting.

THis is the only reason i don't want to smoke every single night. Tolerance . Theres stoned and then theres stoned ,and after a week of smokign every night you never get as high as that first night, so ideally i'd love to take 4 or 5 days off every week.

I'm not an addict in the slightest if I'm honest. If I don't smoke the day after, I can be a little grumpy/snappy, but the day after that I'm back to normal and fine.

Its about state of mind and habit formation, some people become reliant psychologically or physically more than others.

I smoke weed because I enjoy it. I enjoy the change in consciousness, I use it as a tool for being creative, for deep thought, for relaxation, for stress relief, for comfort, for taste, for boredom, to enjoy music more deeply, to search my own soul from within. It also buffers the pain of existance in the modern world, as it did in the old world.

I don't rely on it in a medical way, it just offers so many benefits/positives that its easy to make it a regular and common part of my life. Due to anxiety/depression in the past (and present), weed might well have saved my ass, and certainly been way more positive than the prescription shit they give me.

Also - +1 on the sleep and relaxation, especially with a heavy indica ... a lovely sensation climbing into a clean changed bed, with an epic stone. I don't necessarily use it for sleep assistance (although totally agree with it), my problem is the opposite, sleeping too fooking much, lol

keepitcoastal said:

If you know what Mullies, mulches, bloopers, bloopys, half weed and half Tabacco chopped up and smoked in snaps out of bong then you know what a real addiction is. The combination of weed and Tabacco is awfull and is 10 times harder to quite than just Tabacco and even compared to Oxy's and morphine the only thing that comes close addiction wise in my experience is Opana oxymorphine and I dropped that cold turkey but good old weed and Tabacco can turn me into a damn fiend. Separately they are not a problem at all, but together it's fuckin bad

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i know what you mean dude... anyone that knows the feeling of a cigarette while high knows that its like crack lol... sometimes itll even make me chain smoke. i draw the line at it in my bong though, would probably gag on that.

you are not an addict
its all in your mind

i guess you never been really hooked on anything
cause a true addict it is mind to -but also includes body- body gets like sick without it
a form of withdraw that is not all in your mind -like weed


me thinks weed can be a dependent (craving and wanting)
but can not be addicting (body needs it and goes through withdrawals)
its need lies in your mind not in your body

WeedKillsBrainCells said:

i know what you mean dude... anyone that knows the feeling of a cigarette while high knows that its like crack lol... sometimes itll even make me chain smoke. i draw the line at it in my bong though, would probably gag on that.

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When I was in the hospital having my throat operated on and having breathing treatments every 4 hours the only thing i could think of was where was my cigarette pack. I have since quit smoking (cigarettes) cold turkey. It has been almost a year since I tasted that sweet menthol smoke after a good bong hit and I still think about it all the time. That's a true addiction.

Man this is turning into a NA meeting lol "hi my name is-----" and "yes in addicted to cannabis" "whimper whimper" lol its okay guys we are all in this together don't cry

sykk said:

When I was in the hospital having my throat operated on and having breathing treatments every 4 hours the only thing i could think of was where was my cigarette pack. I have since quit smoking (cigarettes) cold turkey. It has been almost a year since I tasted that sweet menthol smoke after a good bong hit and I still think about it all the time. That's a true addiction.

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A reformed smoker i used to know (had to quid after a heart attack) said that he was still a smoker, he just didnt smoke. that was after a few years.

Now internet porn, that's a real addiction.

Login to check email, then BAM, next thing you know you're ripping the head off to Shitting Midgets 7.

everyone is addicted to pot. I knew i was from the first hit. i was like damn, lovin that, and ive barly missed a day in 14 years. most addictive substance on the planet, are you gonna stop? no? then there you go your hooked. if i dont smoke id be thinking about it for sure. it has withdrawl id be pissed and uncomfortable if i didnt get mine not like how i hear dope is but ive done most every drug a whole bunch and guess what i could never quit, weed. other drugs are so crazy and they have hangovers so you can be like nah man, pot is always good to you, sneaky how it gets you, but its got me for sure!!

Dwezelitsame said:

stopping only when i have to but im no addict i enjoy the weed an partake often and reguler

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Same here! seriously you CANT be addict to cannabis ... it's impossible it's a non-addictive plant.

smokejoint said:

Seriously i can't go 1 night without it.Basicly i have the willpower to go the whole day /evening without it ,but when i go to bed i can't sleep and i just lie and tell myself ,no you ain't just gonna get stoned to help get to sleep.. but i always do.

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theleach said:

Have the same problem. I have even quit on and off for a few months here and there, and no matter what the insomnia wouldnt go away. Dont understand it myself.

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I don't think it's strictly psychological as some have suggested. Marijuana does not result in the physical dependence associated with say coke, H, or alcohol, but if you smoke mulitple times a day every day for years on like me, you hit a real physical as well as mental brick wall when you stop all of a sudden. Believe me, I know of what I speak. I don't think a casual smoker's perspective really helps here (and even most of the people on RIU are casual smokers compared to me). The worst is the insomnia, which makes worse the irritability you're already faced with. It's just a matter of about a week of minor discomfort. If you can ride it out for about five days without smoking, you're on a good track, and you'll be able to sleep again eventually. But it's not easy to break that cycle.

To the quit for months at a time but still can't sleep guy, external factors in your life can compound the problem. If there's something on your mind, the insomnia can drag out longer. Peace.

Dwezelitsame said:

make sur you not smokin sativas late at night
sativas sum og's wont let you sleeep
mind be racin and body be tired =no sleep

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True. Recently harvested weed can do this, too.

placebo effect man weed ain shit to quit and it definitely is not physical addicting

, i quit H after 4 years of daily use cold turkey, sea tac to San Diego then 7 days

been smoking cigs since i was 9 cant quit that at all, so having been addicted to H and still smoking cigs i can honestly say WEED AINT ADDICTIVE


if you feel something come on after you stop smoking weed . . welll. better start again because you more than likely need it, try smoking more often in less amounts so your not so high, better you end up feeling 100% more often

there is a reason why millions of people around the world use POT as medicine . . . oh ya thats right it is medicinal , even if you dont have a card duh

nasel said:

A reformed smoker i used to know (had to quid after a heart attack) said that he was still a smoker, he just didnt smoke. that was after a few years.

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Your cat is rollin balls!!!

Samwell Seed Well said:

placebo effect man weed ain shit to quit and it definetly is not physical addicting

, i quit H after 4 years of daily use cold turkey, sea tac to san diego then 7 days

been smokeing cigs since i was 9 cant quit that at all, so having been addicted to H and stillsmokig cigs i can honestly say WEED AINT ADDICTIVE

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Nice.

Comparing weed to H is like comparing milk to Jack.

lordjin said:

Nice.

Comparing weed to H is like comparing milk to Jack.

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addiction is a chemical unbalance cause by drug abuse . . .. . . . that makes your body crave it . .. . .but you would know more then experience im sure

your body literally learns to need the chemicals that come from drug abuse, through release or dopamine and serotonin . . . . weed doesn't do this

chocolate cake does

get educated or get out

Samwell Seed Well said:

placebo effect man weed ain shit to quit and it definitely is not physical addicting

, i quit H after 4 years of daily use cold turkey, sea tac to San Diego then 7 days

been smoking cigs since i was 9 cant quit that at all, so having been addicted to H and still smoking cigs i can honestly say WEED AINT ADDICTIVE


if you feel something come on after you stop smoking weed . . welll. better start again because you more than likely need it, try smoking more often in less amounts so your not so high, better you end up feeling 100% more often

there is a reason why millions of people around the world use POT as medicine . . . oh ya thats right it is medicinal , even if you dont have a card duh

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U junkies are addicted beyond hope to a non-mind expanding drug this is true, your also hooked on cigarettes, that dont even taste good or get your high, says something about your schwag junkie selfish mindstyle of i want my body to feel good. people get addicted to medicine all the time bro.
ask any pothead to quit they wont