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Originally Posted by sunflower1776  Bridgit---though smoking doesn't seem like a 'real' addiction, it really can be. ANYTHING can become an addiction if it is something that you start doing on a regular basis and cannot seem to live without--that is a very simplistic way of putting it, but we're all on here becuase of addictions so I hope you know what I mean. I don't want you to diminish the seriousness of an addiction to pot. It may be in a different class of drugs, but after repeated use and abuse, you can definitely get as addicted as you could to opiates, etc. Long term use of pot can cause just as many problems as long term use of any other drug. I'm not trying to be overbearing here or anything, it's just that I've known people who said pot isn't like a 'real' drug--I'm here to say it's as real as all the others. A drug is a drug. |
That is why I posted this;
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I certainly did not mean to offend anyone by saying it is not a 'real' addiction.
I meant compared to other addictions I have suffered withdrawal through, prescription pills and alcohol, it was the least painful, the easiest to give up
for ME. Sorry to be glib.
Thanks for pointing that out Lily.
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I smoked weed almost daily from the time I was fourteen until a year and a half ago with a few years off here and there,
and did not experience problems giving it up. I am sharing my personal experience and opinion.
Thanks