Are you dependent on pot?

[medicineman]

Since this is supposed to be an honest conversation place, I ask all of you to contemplate this question:
Are you dependent on Marijuana to get you through the day?
Could you just quit and walk away?
Since this is an anonymous poll, feel free to be honest. Comment is welcomed.

 

[tip top toker]

i don't believe i could quit and walk away. i love it

on a not so great note though, i find that once you've learnt to love pot, the boring can become a lot more so, and sitting in a room with nothing to do, just need a joint!!! because of the knowledge that it'll work. if i'm just out and about, working, walking, doing something for a reason, there is no need for me to smoke, i don't see the point, it'll hinder my task at hand, but once i'm home, fire it up boy!!

 

[ohnothimagin]

I am dependent on pot to kill the pain of watching 24/7 cable (what they deem) news.

 

[L Cap]

i don't believe i could quit and walk away. i love it

on a not so great note though, i find that once you've learnt to love pot, the boring can become a lot more so, and sitting in a room with nothing to do, just need a joint!!! because of the knowledge that it'll work. if i'm just out and about, working, walking, doing something for a reason, there is no need for me to smoke, i don't see the point, it'll hinder my task at hand, but once i'm home, fire it up boy!!

That is 100% how I am. You said it in better words than I could have though.

 

[KaleoXxX]

i used to smoke all day everyday and you wouldnt want to catch me at a time where i hadnt been able to smoke for like 6hrs. i would chew your head off and spit it back on your shoulders

but now i only smoke socally. i guess thats what happens when its not free anymore

i did some numbers crunching and realized i spent over 100k on bud. thats when used to pick up an ounce in the am and needed another by pm

 

[vh13]

I am dependent on MJ.

I am bipolar, it runs in the family 5+ generations deep, there are no other medications available to me that are both as safe and effective as certain strains of marijuana. If I weren't a medical patient with a medically recognized need I would still have MJ in my life every day that I could, but I don't think I'd be dependent.

I feel the same as tip top toker, in that I feel there are appropriate times for consumption and appropriate times for the full sensitivity and awareness of sobriety.

If I didn't love this plant, and this universe for creating it, I would resent my dependence.

I fear a political environment that may some day attempt to take away my medicine and punish me for using it. I fear the prejudices of family, friends and business relationships if it became public knowledge I not only consume marijuana but grow my own medication. I am burdened by my mothers, obligated to keep them thriving for my own sake. I am hurt every time my lover tells me shut up and take a hit.

Knowing all this, I still consume and grow marijuana. My needs are that great, and that makes me dependent. But I'm good with that.

 

[Anjinsan]

considering I haven't had any in 2 months...

but that'll change dramatically in about another month...can you say DNA lemon skunk? I knew you could.

 

[medicineman]

considering I haven't had any in 2 months...

but that'll change dramatically in about another month...can you say DNA lemon skunk? I knew you could.

Have you felt any ill effects from abstaining? IE headaches, restlessness, lack of appetite etc.

 

[edsthreads]

I've been smoking it since I was 14 so 20 years or so now, but in the last couple of years I have had to cut down
because I have not been able to get hold of any decent bud (I only buy GOOOOD weed) or not been able to grow because of living arrangements. I thought it would be really hard to cope from smoking about 5 joints a day down to zero.. The first two weeks were really hard (sleepless nights, clammy hands etc) but after that it was easy, I just find other things to do to occupy my time & thoughts.. I still LOVE my weed don't get me wrong but life sometimes is just as nice without it I have found & I can function better..

 

[dam612]

I couild just quit and walk away (job, po, test etc), but i love smoking

 

[dukeofbaja]

I have a tough time falling and staying asleep without it. Also, my doctor said I needed weed to get high

 

[medicineman]

I've been smoking it since I was 14 so 20 years or so now, but in the last couple of years I have had to cut down
because I have not been able to get hold of any decent bud (I only buy GOOOOD weed) or not been able to grow because of living arrangements. I thought it would be really hard to cope from smoking about 5 joints a day down to zero.. The first two weeks were really hard (sleepless nights, clammy hands etc) but after that it was easy, I just find other things to do to occupy my time & thoughts.. I still LOVE my weed don't get me wrong but life sometimes is just as nice without it I have found & I can function better..

I smoked pretty heavily from dawn to bedtime for nearly 35 years. It's been about 14 years since I quit. I really don't miss it. Life on the sober side is plenty fine for me. Don't get me wrong, I hold no animosity towards those that indulge. To each their own. I enjoyed the weed immensely, got out of bed with a joint and continued with a joint as often as convienent untill bedtime. Yes I indulged on the job occaisionly, but for sure as soon as I got in my car on the way home, I lit one up. I quit cold turkey the day I got a job that insisted on random drug testing. For that little sacrifice, I now enjoy a union pension, one that makes my life immeasurably more pleasant. Even though I could start again, and in fact I even did a couple a grows a couple a years back, I did not like the "High". Seems it has passed me by, the pleasure, and I miss it not. I know that there are people my age that still indulge, Willy Nelson comes to mind, but for me, the thrill is gone. Smoke one for me.

 

[edsthreads]

I smoked pretty heavily from dawn to bedtime for nearly 35 years. It's been about 14 years since I quit. I really don't miss it. Life on the sober side is plenty fine for me. Don't get me wrong, I hold no animosity towards those that indulge. To each their own. I enjoyed the weed immensely, got out of bed with a joint and continued with a joint as often as convienent untill bedtime. Yes I indulged on the job occaisionly, but for sure as soon as I got in my car on the way home, I lit one up. I quit cold turkey the day I got a job that insisted on random drug testing. For that little sacrifice, I now enjoy a union pension, one that makes my life immeasurably more pleasant. Even though I could start again, and in fact I even did a couple a grows a couple a years back, I did not like the "High". Seems it has passed me by, the pleasure, and I miss it not. I know that there are people my age that still indulge, Willy Nelson comes to mind, but for me, the thrill is gone. Smoke one for me.

Hey I know what ya mean when you say you did not like the high after smoking again after such a long time, I did that fairly recently.. scored some good weed, put in the same amount I usually do in a joint (big mistake) smoked it way too quick and thought I was gonna die from the fact my heart was beating like crazy.. I only need a little now; but in the height of my smoking I was putting an about four times as much..

 

[medicineman]

I have a tough time falling and staying asleep without it. Also, my doctor said I needed weed to get high

What a shame. Although weed is pleasurable to most, the need to get high is rather disturbing.

 

[JN811]

i could easily stop smoking forever if i had a good enough reason.

 

[fitch303]

I've tried to quit several times but failed. When I'm high I hate being around family and since I'm usually high my family doesn't get to see much of me anymore. Weed has taken away my drive and makes me less social because I get super paranoid. My problem has more to do with the frequency of use rather than use alone. I just need to cut back and work on myself personally and professionally so I can find a balance. I think all this happened when I started smoking during the day as opposed to toking an hour or two before bed. When my father told me I had the "Irish drive" it hit me like a freight train that something had to change

 

[medicineman]

I've tried to quit several times but failed. When I'm high I hate being around family and since I'm usually high my family doesn't get to see much of me anymore. Weed has taken away my drive and makes me less social because I get super paranoid. My problem has more to do with the frequency of use rather than use alone. I just need to cut back and work on myself personally and professionally so I can find a balance. I think all this happened when I started smoking during the day as opposed to toking an hour or two before bed. When my father told me I had the "Irish drive" it hit me like a freight train that something had to change

Honesty, wonderful. It is refreshing to see an honest man. I hope you can come to terms with weed and find a happy medium. It is hard to be brutally honest with ones self.

 

[Saerimmner]

well ive been smoking MJ for about 13years now(28 yrs old) and as much as i truly enjoy it (only an evening smoker)i could just up an walk away from it if i needed to, but as i have no need to and im still fit an healthy mentally an physically and i still enjoy it i see no need/point in leavin it alone, plus it even helps with the back pain i get occasionally from someone smashing me over the top of their car at 50mph a couple of years back that resulted in quite a long hospital stay. if it aint broke............

 

[jeffchr]

i am dependent on pot - r u mm?

i am short tempered by mid-day if i haven't toked a bit. and i carefully plan so as to maintain enough for personal use, at a minimum. i am more interested in life when i am stoned. like ttt, i'm less bored with the mj.

i don't smoke much, i think the stuff is magic. everybody should be given the opportunity to experience and decide if the mj is appropriate in their own lives. it definitely should be a pre-requisite to public service, such as congress and the presidency. pundits on cable news should be required to enjoy in excess before each segment/appearance, because they are intolerable otherwise.

 

[NevaSmokedOut]

i smoke the herb, the herb don't smoke me.