2 weeks no weed!

[ThaNinja]

Its been 2 weeks without pot for me. I have been trying to keep busy and focused on the goal one day at a time. I know weed isn't as hard as other substances on the board, but it can be a tough habit to kick thats for sure.

[ANGELINA243]

Very true....just keep putting one foot in front of the other....keep moving forward.

[ccgirl2]

Well done! Did you have any w/d's? I don't really know anything about pot.

[windysan]

i bet your ice cream consumption has gone down also

[grateful2b]

good job on the two weeks! ...yes, its not heroin but addiction is addiction when it comes to brain chemistry...good for you.......grateful..aka/former potaddict...

[tracee1010]

i DO give pot the respect it deserves..
it has gripped my father for 35 years and now my sons father is a slave to it.
I have seen him when he cant smoke first thing in the morning.
He sweats, is VERY irritable, feels nauseous, shakey..
withdrawls are very real...I've seen it..
congrats.. I've heard this is one of the hardest drugs to quit..

[windysan]

think of all the money saved by not buying twinkies !

[fluffyarmpit]

I mean this in no way disrespectful, but I've smoked pot on occassion, but do you actually go through withdrawls from thc? I've always thought that people hooked on weed were strange, it's weed! I was hooked on oxy and I'm just curious like how hard it is to just stop smoking? again i mean no disrespect, I want to learn.

[grateful2b]

Originally Posted by fluffyarmpit

I mean this in no way disrespectful, but I've smoked pot on occassion, but do you actually go through withdrawls from thc? I've always thought that people hooked on weed were strange, it's weed! I was hooked on oxy and I'm just curious like how hard it is to just stop smoking? again i mean no disrespect, I want to learn.

For me it was all about brain chemistry...during the sixties, I did my share of drugs...smoked a lot of weed....could take it or leave it....35
Years later.......a lot had changed including my brain chemistry unbeknowst to me....I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis. a lot of pain daily. Six years ago when my pain was not as controlled as it is now, I started using weed medically.
..It didn't occur to me that I would develop an addiction to weed but that is exactly what happened....
Had I known my brain could not tolerate weed, I would never have chosen to pick it up..
My brain is allergic to weed....If i pick up, I will be right back to having to smoke every stick until its gone and loosing my mind from the first puff....I remember the last puff I took and the battle that raged in my head as I sat there, fighting with myself........ I found some weed on the road....I knew if i didn't get rid of it I would fall back into the pit It had taken me months and months to climb out of.....It took every bit of will within me to run to the can and flush the rest .......weed dismantles my brain and throws me into a dark depression and robs me of my self-esteem....until you have been addicted to weed, it is really hard to understand..It has only been in the last year that I don't have cravings, and it was mostly mental once I was through the first year off. sometimes I would see film of someone lighting up a bong and I would get such a physical rush.
So yes, if your brain chemistry cannot tolerate weed..the addcition is very real.......
I used to be so complacent about weed....It concerns me that so many parents are , and that some smoke with their kids thinking it is harmless....weed today is so laced with chemicals......and it was the chemicals that did me in....who knew...

[windysan]

i can take it or leave it but choose to leave it cuz it makes me paranoid nowdays. makes me feel icky.

[TiredMama]

Wonderful! I have too heard that pot w/d's are not easy. Good luck and keep it up !!

[ex D-Boy]

don't downplay it at all thaninja. Addiction is Addiction doesn't matter what it is, if its ruining some or all aspects of your life and you still continue to use it then its a serious problem. Great job on the 2 weeks man, the more clean time you pile up the easier it is. Just Keep building on it.

[windysan]

i never saw any gals out hooking for pot though

[grateful2b]

Originally Posted by windysan

i never saw any gals out hooking for pot though

whats your point

[ccgirl2]

Windy's point is to be Windy. Injects some lightheartedness into subjects that can be very depressing.

[fluffyarmpit]

Originally Posted by grateful2b

For me it was all about brain chemistry...during the sixties, I did my share of drugs...smoked a lot of weed....could take it or leave it....35
Years later.......a lot had changed including my brain chemistry unbeknowst to me....I have fibromyalgia, degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis. a lot of pain daily. Six years ago when my pain was not as controlled as it is now, I started using weed medically.
..It didn't occur to me that I would develop an addiction to weed but that is exactly what happened....
Had I known my brain could not tolerate weed, I would never have chosen to pick it up..
My brain is allergic to weed....If i pick up, I will be right back to having to smoke every stick until its gone and loosing my mind from the first puff....I remember the last puff I took and the battle that raged in my head as I sat there, fighting with myself........ I found some weed on the road....I knew if i didn't get rid of it I would fall back into the pit It had taken me months and months to climb out of.....It took every bit of will within me to run to the can and flush the rest .......weed dismantles my brain and throws me into a dark depression and robs me of my self-esteem....until you have been addicted to weed, it is really hard to understand..It has only been in the last year that I don't have cravings, and it was mostly mental once I was through the first year off. sometimes I would see film of someone lighting up a bong and I would get such a physical rush.
So yes, if your brain chemistry cannot tolerate weed..the addcition is very real.......
I used to be so complacent about weed....It concerns me that so many parents are , and that some smoke with their kids thinking it is harmless....weed today is so laced with chemicals......and it was the chemicals that did me in....who knew...

very interesting, I had no idea. Thank you for the info!

[windysan]

Originally Posted by grateful2b

whats your point

Oh hai. No point really. Just an observation is all. I've never seen any gals hooking for the demon weed. Crack, pills, and heroin yes......demon weed no.

that is all. carrion

[WLDKATZ]

I have been a medical user for the past 15 years, and yes I do feel it is a problem for me, the bigger problems was the chronic pain.....each day I fight with different ailments in which one pill or shot cuts out the other, and Windy, I may not of been a hooker but I remember the first time I got my "meds" from the U of M my months supply was over 400 bucks!!!! Yes I found myself a sugar daddy....I humiliated myself because it was a "med" I can no longer think of weed as meds, I mean I do but I don't use it the way they tell me too( one cigarette 6 times a day.......) I cannot do that it was the biggest problem I had to detox off of while I was pregnant the other reason I smoke it is because of my sugar( it is uncontrolled when it gets over 500 I smoke it lowers NATURALLY- thats why ppl get the munchies).......the detox off of weed should be the same as every other drug but most hospitals as well as detox centers do not see it......even today with my medical problems I REFUSE to smoke more than once a day period....I had to do that for me because I refuse to have that withdrawal or detox off of it again I don't think I would make it threw another detox at all....so please I understand and spill your guts but more than anything go to your dr and say hey this is what I have been doing this is what I want to do and will you help me get there........I know ppl at na and aa that would sit there and laugh because of me talking about detoxing off of weed, but to me it was harder than giving up any other substance I was using including methadone and coke!!!!


Good Luck God Bless and keep seeking out help........



BTW WINDY I have missed your humor!!!!!
mine was lite twinkes at that........lol

[tracee1010]

THANK YOU!!! for years ppl have TRIED to tell me weed is no big deal..
I didnt have a father because of this DRUG... he would rather smoke and be high than take us anywhere, do anything with us.. He taught us how to roll joints and load his bong for him and his friends... I could do this before i could tie my shoes.
So YES.. it is very real and robs ppl of "normal" lives just like other drugs.

My sons father has chose this drug over being in my sons life.... Sound Familiar???
a drug that you Pick over your child is nothing to joke about IMO.

I am 34 y/o and I have NEVER even tried this drug.. i feared it ever since it was little as I knew if I smoked this,, I would loose my family...

Please give weed its respect...

[WLDKATZ]

yeah there is pros and cons to this drug for a reason, men it will make you unable to reproduce.....my aunt and uncle tried for YEARS ( like almost 20) to have a kid.......wasn't able too because my uncle started smoking it when he was really young..... but at the same time it is also good for somethings, in my book it is a drug but I believe it should be legalized too, but it has ruined more than one life that I Know of so I wont let it ruin mine I have too much to live for!!!


Pamm

[windysan]

They make Lite Twinkies !!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!

[tracee1010]

IDK about the repoduction thing.. my sons father has been smoking 4-6 BLUNTS a day, every day for about 8 years (I now know) and I got prego. the first time he touched me.
he has 4 kids.. I wish it would make him steril so he would stop ruining lives of innocent children.

Believe it or not, I do support medical use of MJ.. however, in my job i work with individuals with SPMI (severe and persistant mental illness) and in 98% of my clients that use MJ.. it cause them to go into psychotic states... in one or two it actually calms them down HOWEVER, these people are not parents and do not lead "normal" lives. they dont work and are not responsible for anything so to speak, so if your high all day it dosent really matter.

[windysan]

don't they write scripts for medical MJ for people with severe hangnails and ingrown hairs nowdays?

[WLDKATZ]

Originally Posted by tracee1010

IDK about the repoduction thing.. my sons father has been smoking 4-6 BLUNTS a day, every day for about 8 years (I now know) and I got prego. the first time he touched me.
he has 4 kids.. I wish it would make him steril so he would stop ruining lives of innocent children.

Believe it or not, I do support medical use of MJ.. however, in my job i work with individuals with SPMI (severe and persistant mental illness) and in 98% of my clients that use MJ.. it cause them to go into psychotic states... in one or two it actually calms them down HOWEVER, these people are not parents and do not lead "normal" lives. they dont work and are not responsible for anything so to speak, so if your high all day it dosent really matter.

I know exactly what you Mean Tracee, sometimes I wish I had a psy break down because of it but it doesnt happen quite that way......for me it does calm me down, it actually will cause me to sit unmoving long enouhg for my lyrica or xanax to go to work some times I get past a point like yesterday ( NOW I KNOW I AM NOT SUPPOSE TO BE DOING YARD WORK AND HOUSE WORK) I did so much I sat in a hot bath for over 4 hours ( had to keep refilling) bawling from the pain and muscle spasms I couldnt be moved or even touched I called my g/f she came over and rolled me a j and I was walking normally until that "high" wore off then I was able to take a lyrica.......we found(that the thc worked too well with me because of my management of it- I couldnt always say that)....Ok so this feels like a take over so I am going to start another thread about this dont even know what to call it....lol Pamm and Tracee talk.....LOL




Pamm

[pakuni boy]

weed to chronic smokers can be real hard almost impossible to quit at all, i know a guy who was addicted to harder drugs like coke and heroin, but mariwanna is the hardest according to him.
I beleive so too, if i could smoke only on the weekend, but i´know if i rake a puff i go back to addiction, like a brother said up here.
So smoking weed every now and then and 4 medical reasons it´sok, but i abused her for 20 years straight, and i know what chronic addictio to thc means, more than a bad habit becomes more like an obligation (2 be stoned).
Cannot tell you enough how much my lifes changed for good, from the time i´ve been clean, still i crave and desire the smell of high qual skunk weed, i´ll never say i´ll never do it again, but at least for me a couple of years clean and then we´ll see, right now my No1 priority is fighting the addiction, and weed is tricky, so is society, if i see a bob marley vid, o higf times stuff my mind starts tricking me into smoking again, but feel good to have a clear mind. weed addicts are lazy, makes u tires, makes you live in your little world and anything that´s hard or challenging can be puit aside, in the long rum mariwanna addiction can be the hardest of all them, at least psicologically.