I’m a marijuana addict, and I’ve chosen to quit weed. It had taken over my life. My mood and attitude problems, my confusion, my paranoia, my panic, my depression, my problem keeping a job, my liver problems, it all was attributed to marijuana. It really makes me wonder why I continued to do it when the main thing it did was make me confused and paranoid. At least I realize this now.
This is my 3rd day off weed, and I haven’t felt this great in 12 years. I can talk to people without drifting into space, I can make witty comments in a conversation, I can look someone in the eye when I’m talking to them.
It’s kind-of funny that I quit on 4/20.
I’ve started on a 12 step program at Marijuana Anonymous, and it has been quite the positive thing.
Thank you all for putting up with my crap in the past.
It depends on the psychological attachment or association that is made with it by the user in common.
You can be addicted to any product as long as you have a strong idea / feeling you need that stuff to stay alive, or stay normal or whatever favorable position in your social community you fear that you might loose without that.
It is the paradoxal result of the test where users that have been given a simple headache tranquilizer (but telling them they got something special instead of letting them know what they really got) and being told it would work against cancer or whatever in- or hardly curable disease. The patients started to feel better and live a higher quility of life.
Some even cured, but addiction or dependancy was the other side effect, specially for those where the idea of getting a special medicine didn’t affected the person’s health system. It only generated hope (because the patient knew that it did affected others positively) and the patient clammed on to it and eventually begged for more when the patient got told that the medicine treatment program got stopped for him or her.
I know what it’s like. I still take weed sometimes, but I have much more control over it now, because I’m more stable now.
four years ago my father died, then I’t went wrong.
all kinds of drugs and alcohol I used to “get away”.
before that I also smoked weed, and took some alcohol,
but not so many, so it didn’t control my live then.
and the creativity was on it’s top.
those four years have paste like I was a kind of zombie.
watching south episodes over and over because you simply forget you’ve seen them.
forgetting all kinds of arrons you must do.
lacking the will to start up renoise.
you do nothing, but never feel relaxed and are always tired.
this last year, I feel great, even stopped smoking (wow, gives you a lot more energy).
nowdays I make music again! that’s what I want to do.
and I feel proud of it again, not that “I can’t do shit” attitude anymore.
I hope you also find a way to put it all behind you.
first quit anything, maybe later you can smoke some weed again,
while you control it. then it will be much more fun again.
(I still have to cut down on drinking though)
and destroy all of your Cypress Hill records!!! if you dont want to get tempted again j/k
but good to hear that man!! its for better…
I havent used any drugs and despite my avatar i have never smoked, not even one cigarette… and im damn proud of that
its not physically addictive, but can be mentally, as everything else, such as shopping, chocolate, tv or whatever else. take care dudes, I’ve seen a few dope-addicts in my life and it sucks.
It doesn’t matter what it is, if you are addicted to something that has negative influence on your life you should try to quit.
In your case you do the right thing!
Is this your fourth day?
Btw. It doesn’t really matter if it is physical or mental addiction they can both be just as strong.
I have four years clean from everything. I was addicted to heroin since the age of 14 and ended up in prison for three years over it- my best friend died exactly two months from this last 4/20 due to a heroin overdose. I wouldn’t normaly say something like that in public, but seeing as how you are trying to stay clean, I think I owe it to another person who is going through what I have been through to show my support. If you have any questions pertaining to abstinence or just want to talk or whatever (yeah- it sounds horribly cheesy to say that- but you may find it imperative to your health to have a person who shares some common ground to talk with) just give me a shout or email me through pm on here. I’m really not too keen on MA or AA- but that is a personal choice due to one of 12 steps being admitance to a higher power other than yourself, but whatever it takes for a person to make a choice that will ultimatly better their lives, I will support it. Don’t worry- I’m not your typical sober person who puts a sober emphasis on everything (ie sober bowling and sober dances with AA) or anything like that, I just keep off of drugs and make horrible music to vent some of my feeling about my past in order to stay out of severe trouble.
I’m also addicted to marijuana and although I’m not thinking
about quitting (yet), it’s a great step since it DOES influence daily
life, not to mention is costs a lot of money …
i used to have a pretty big smoking habit - i’d sell an oz’ every 2 or 3 days, and usually get through the 1/4 which pays for itself - which is a £25/day habit
i quit because i started to get these really bizarre effects after about 5 years of this, like panic, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, etc… all came on really suddenly…
bizarre, but i actually found out a year later that this was an inherited allergy to oil seed rape in the local fields, which both my folks had had really bad at my age, and the marjiuana was actually keeping my histamine levels down and masking the symptoms for a long time!
on a less positive note, i achieved very little in those years and i think it was a lucky escape tbh - i did find further down the line - maybe 6-9 months after quitting, a vacuous hold in my life where marijuana had been - i felt like a shadow of my former self, and that was difficult… whenever you quit anything you need to find something positive to put in its place - otherwise, it’s not really drugs which cause problems, it’s this eventual loose end which leads people to things like drugs
i’ve found, gradually, that i can be stress and anxiety free, and more content in life, by filling the marijuana hole with things like yoga and martial arts… the best thing i’ve discovered this year has been NLP (neuro linguistic programming)… great book called The Sourcebook of Magic which has all the major NLP techniques
i can get the same uninhibited and content feeling of wellbeing i used to get from marijuana or acid, just by touching my thumb and middlefinger together(!) - it takes just minutes under good instruction to program this - i’ve conditioned myself to recall that feeling and anchor it to a simple hand movement… you know it’s every bit as strong as if you have a road accident on a motorway and find your body overwhelmed with feelings of physical stress every time you drive down that road again… the mind’s incredibly powerful at associating any feeling or state with any action or trigger
j/k
i have never smoked, not even one cigarette… and im damn proud of that 
glad you managed to pull yourself out of that shit!!