How I became addicted to Marijuana/Wtf happened to the Drug Discussion/Lifestyles Forum? - General

Well we all know you cannot become chemically addicted to Marijuana. Fact. My story starts when I got back into pot for the second time in my life[I'll be 21 in April!]. I moved in with my former step-dad[Him and my mom divorced when I was in elem. school, but I wanted to see him on the weekends as my real father lives in NY, and I lived in GA.] in late 08. 2 days ago I moved back to NC where my family is. During the 3 years that I lived with him, things slowly turned sour. The first year was normal, going to church and staying away from bad things. I didn't drink, smoke cigs, pot, or take pills. But that all changed when I met my buds A and C. They're still my friends, but they re-introduced me to D&D. I enjoyed it at first with nothing on my conscience. But that changed after the first few months. I started out with smoking cigarettes. Then came drinking, then Synthetic Marijuana. Once Georgia illegalized the chemicals, I switched to weed. At first my conscience was heavy with buying and smoking it due to it's illegality. After a few months of smoking every day in and outside of work[working with stoners is fun as hell. Especially when the GM is the weed man. LOL] my conscience was slowly hardened. It wasn't bad at first, but after another year is when the addiction kicked in. I made myself depressed. But, how can one make themselves depressed? It happens when you end up lying and stealing to get drugs. Then once the person you stole from learns that you stole from them, and you live with them, it's not good. I made myself depressed due to the fact that I wasn't doing anything with my life. I was working a job @ Wal-Mart for a while, and still smoking heavily. It wasn't the smoking part that really got me, I'll smoke weed again one day. It was the fact that I let down the one person who bent over backwards to help me, fronted me around 2.5k for a car that would run, fronted me 400 for insurance under his policy, and then fronted another 2.5k over the last year and a half to help me. He had high standards for me, and I'm sure he still does. I love my former step-dad to death. He's been supportive over the years, but that's why I became depressed. Smoking marijuana made me happy, and when I got home I had achieved nothing, so he saw that I was lazy. This depressed me, because I couldn't please him. Not that he has too high standards, it's that I didn't have any for myself. After smoking weed to escape the depression of smoking it behind his back and wasting money and time, I realized that I kept going back to the one thing that brought me down. tl;dr lazy faggots. Well now I'm back in NC with my family to start fresh, away from drugs for now, as I will smoke once again. But this way I can build my money up. p.s. I wasted my entire 1300 in taxes on weed. Smoked it all. So yea, I was wasting a lot of money.

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/forums/385-Durgs-Discussion[/url] there ya go bro

Thank you kind sir. I feel like an idiot. Why didn't I look under hobbies? Can I have a mod move this over to the D&D thread? I posted in the wrong forum like a dumbass...my bad. I await my ban for being stupid. =] I fucking love Facepunch.

im addicted to facepunch i start puking and shit from withdrawls and i sell myself on the streets to pay for my internet

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Uhh, this has nearly nothing to do with marijuana.

[QUOTE=Leat;28614399]I await my ban for being stupid. =] I fucking love Facepunch.[/QUOTE] It's OK, I wont ban you. Moved.

It was an emotional addiction. I was happy when high and depressed when sober. I became a heavy user shortly after the depression set in.

What part of NC might I ask?

so you stole money from your step dad to buy weed and you blame your actions on the weed? if you had a job, why did you need to steal money?

He didn't blame his actions on weed, maybe if you would have read the whole thing you would see that he knew he fucked up himself and didn't even start to blame smoking weed.

He was addicted, and yes marijuana is addictive. Just not chemically addictive. If you have an addictive personally in which you create dependence complexes for yourself on things(can be done with anything), then you can be addited.

[QUOTE=Treybuchet;28616846]He was addicted, and yes marijuana is addictive. Just not chemically addictive. If you have an addictive personally in which you create dependence complexes for yourself on things(can be done with anything), then you can be addited.[/QUOTE] "People with addictive personalities get addicted to anything". Who cares about people with addictive personalities. It is their own burden, and their own responsibility to do what they do responsibly. Strictly speaking, marijuana is not addicting, just like video games. The percentage of people with addictive personalities is estimated at 10-15%, and in the most recent study I've seen, 7% of people show signs of addiction to marijuana. This actually shows that marijuana is very non addictive because it doesn't even meet the minimum estimate for people who have addictive personalities. The addictions that are associated with people who are likely to get addicted to anything means absolutely nothing. "Mentally addicting" is not an arugment. "Addictive personality" is not an argument.

Video Games are considerably more addictive than marijuana, in that video games do shit with your reward pathways, which marijuana actually doesn't do . But a mental/behavioral addiction is still a real addiction, in that it's a dependence on something external, although marijuana is not the best example, gambling is a much better one. Note that I'm 100% pro marijuana. I'm playing devil's advocate, I suppose, in that I'm arguing that it can be addictive, just not in the chemical(The kind that matters) sense.

[QUOTE=Treybuchet;28618509] But a mental/behavioral addiction is still a real addiction, in that it's a dependence on something external, although marijuana is not the best example, gambling is a much better one.[/QUOTE] A "real" addiction, if you ask me, has withdrawls. But gambling doesn't have withdrawls, so uhh...I should have thought this out better.

We simply need to remember that there is a difference between a chemical and a behavioral addiction. The issue is that the american public doesn't know this difference.

[QUOTE=Treybuchet;28618861]We simply need to remember that there is a difference between a chemical and a behavioral addiction. The issue is that the american public doesn't know this difference.[/QUOTE] yup and that commercial about how we americans are not in the top of the list for science and math. I just want to slap amrica in the face because their cutting teachers which is why we arent so good in math and science

Hell a bunch of the teachers I had in high school just handed out worksheets and said do these and would explain alittle bit but not much. [editline]16th March 2011[/editline] That and they didn't have much respect for obvious potheads that would come to class blazed even though I never caused problems.

[QUOTE=rnate;28618563]A "real" addiction, if you ask me, has withdrawls. But gambling doesn't have withdrawls, so uhh...I should have thought this out better.[/QUOTE] Sure it does, it's just more like, man I really wanna go gambling right now... oh man I reallllyyyy wanna go, oh god why am I sitting here doing nothing I'm so bored fuck I gotta go gambling come on lets go!!

[QUOTE=TheDudeGuy;28627029]Sure it does, it's just more like, man I really wanna go gambling right now... oh man I reallllyyyy wanna go, oh god why am I sitting here doing nothing I'm so bored fuck I gotta go gambling come on lets go!![/QUOTE] yeah but gambling is a horrible comparison because gambling is only a problem when you're losing money. if you're winning hundreds of dollars, it's not a problem at all. you're just a really good at investing your money on a game.

[QUOTE=brianosaur;28628727]yeah but gambling is a horrible comparison because gambling is only a problem when you're losing money. if you're winning hundreds of dollars, it's not a problem at all. you're just a really good at investing your money on a game.[/QUOTE] This post made my tomorrow.

I call bullshit

[QUOTE=Pred4tor;28631125]I call bullshit[/QUOTE] Yeah, it isn't as though failing at life being caught in awkward moral differences in your family is at all common. I mean how many people try to hide that they smoke weed from their parents? And people making dumb decisions with their money, how often does that happen?

dude, you can't become addicted to weed, there are no withdrawal symptoms.

[QUOTE=Javascript;28645165]there are no withdrawal symptoms.[/QUOTE] Actually there are. Irritability, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and headaches. The withdrawal effects aren't that bad [I]if [/I]you get them, and they only last a couple of days. The trouble sleeping is usually associated with people who toke before sleeping, it is the same as becoming dependent on any sleep aid. Not everyone gets withdrawal, but it does affect a lot of people, mainly heavy smokers.

That's funny. When I stop smoking weed I feel fresh and awesome for a few days. My sleeps sometimes feel kind of short and restless because I dream so fucking much and so vividly but REM sleep is the most restful phase of the cycle and I actually sleep a lot less and feel a lot more alert during the day. It's usually 3-4 days after stopping that I start to get a little bored and listless feeling. I think it's more of a psychological thing for sure.

The problem is OP, not the drugs themselves

[QUOTE=Barblunder;28645700]That's funny. When I stop smoking weed I feel fresh and awesome for a few days. My sleeps sometimes feel kind of short and restless because I dream so fucking much and so vividly but REM sleep is the most restful phase of the cycle and I actually sleep a lot less and feel a lot more alert during the day. It's usually 3-4 days after stopping that I start to get a little bored and listless feeling. I think it's more of a psychological thing for sure.[/QUOTE] when i stop smoking for like 3-4 days my piss is like bright yellow and dirty looking. right now it would be like normal lemonade looking color or clear

i like how (almost) everyone on this forum is just as ignorant as the anti marijuana people themselves. The point of this forum should be to inform people, from a subjective point of view. Obviously spending 1200$ on weed isn't the smartest decision, and yes people can use it to treat depression and other mental disorders, the problem is though, that the effect wears out when you are not high, and therefor always buying weed will just fill a void . not trying to be anti anything, and no this isn't for the average smoker who smokes 2 times a week or something this is for the guy who cant function without weed (ive been there, and NO-ONE can make me believe that is healthy) anyways just my 2 cents.

[QUOTE=anders22;28665931]i like how (almost) everyone on this forum is just as ignorant as the anti marijuana people themselves. The point of this forum should be to inform people, from a subjective point of view. Obviously spending 1200$ on weed isn't the smartest decision, and yes people can use it to treat depression and other mental disorders, the problem is though, that the effect wears out when you are not high, and therefor always buying weed will just fill a void . not trying to be anti anything, and no this isn't for the average smoker who smokes 2 times a week or something this is for the guy who cant function without weed (ive been there, and NO-ONE can make me believe that is healthy) anyways just my 2 cents.[/QUOTE] that makes a lot of sense, probably more than just two cents. however im more curious about the "function without weed" part. please go into more detail. i consider myself a responsible drug addict. just saying