addicted??

[Fred888]

The weed is psychologically not physically addictive. Is that bad? I like a particular newspaper on a Sunday. If I don't get it for whatever reason I feel unhappy. Does that mean I am addicted to the Sunday Times? or to sugar in my coffee. Who gives a.

[dekay]

I dont think its addictive at all, even to mentalists, go without u wont be sick, shit yourself/be constipated or suffer any real events, mostly people suffer nicotine addiction/withdrawel and just plain missing having a smoke o da herb.
Mental addiction is like saying, my life is perfect but i will be sad anyway.

[TacMan]

i love the green but i also reakon im mentally addicted to it obviously ya cant be physically addicted like if a had the will power which i dont i could quit smoking it but i know with my lifestyle and mates and that at the minute it would be a fair old hill to climb lmao and tbh its just to hard really so i guess the weed has a good hold on me lmao but "it must be love love love"

[dekay]

Mentally addicted is like saying u dont control ur own brain IMO.

[TacMan]

hmmm true i may of used the wrong words(i am stoned lol appologies) but i see it the same way as people who are addicted to smoking tobbacco just not as bad though like if sumone dosent have a tab for a few hours they can be grumpy and highly strung im the same if ive gone all day without any weed lol

[drherb]

this is a good thread for me at this moment in time, me and a mate thaught wed give up weed for lent for 40 days and 40 nights see what happened,see if we could do it, where now on day 2 well day 3 actualy looking at the time and tbh its going realy well for us both, i miss having that smoke before bed but i can easly go through the day without it but it is only day 2/3 il keep you informed on how we both go

[Capt. Zigzag]

It can be perceived to be addictive.

Case in point; Every time I had to go without pot I would get terrible stomach pains and nausea. It was so consistent that I thought they must be physical withdrawals.

I've been smoking pot for over 40 years. Twice, early on, I tried to "beat" it. Stayed off pot for over an agonizing six months. Both times. Only to give in and have all that suffering go away in ONE TOKE. Like a fricken light switch.

It was later that I found out that I wasn't addicted at all. I was self treating an undiagnosed case of Diverticulitis without knowing it.

Pot is a powerful analgesic, and we are drawn to it for good reasons. If it feels addictive, it's because our body is desperate for it. And it's always for good reason.


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[mister,mister]

i am a addict for sure but i am more than comfortable with that. life is about addiction its human nature everyone has a crutch. Christians need to go to church on Sundays, petrol heads need the new ford, women need the latest anti wrinkle cream, kids need the latest lady gaga album but me i just need a bag of green. the word addiction is like a ass hole everyone has one!

[pitycu]

is not the same addiction as is at tobacco because tobacco addiction is based on substance "nicotine" and weed addiction is only physically, you are addicted to the feeling the high state.1 week without weed and you are back the same.

[Bobby Digital]

i am a addict for sure but i am more than comfortable with that. life is about addiction its human nature everyone has a crutch. Christians need to go to church on Sundays, petrol heads need the new ford, women need the latest anti wrinkle cream, kids need the latest lady gaga album but me i just need a bag of green. the word addiction is like a ass hole everyone has one!

Well said! we all have a vice, at least canna is not as harmful as sum...
#peace

[pedro sanchez]

its hard to say cuz i burn about 4-6 dry grams aday i dont need to smoke it i just like the taste an that.if i go skateboarding i dont think about weed for hours sometimes so its not like im in need of zoot all the time dunno man lol

[a13x]

i wouldnt wanna stop smoking it tbh its so enjoyable

[rigsby_nation]

My mrs has been trying to get me to give up since we met. LOL. 2 kids and a few years later, she is now realising, it aint working. LOL. So now she's letting me grow, at least that way I aint wasting so much money.

I am addicted, but again as all say, its mental (or rather I am), I have my routine, I go smoke free all day then go home after work and light up a fattie. I also have to have at least one before bed. Everything in between doesn't matter too much, as long as I have my one when i get home and my one before bed. If I can't get any, I sulk and smoke a fag or two (and hate it).

[smokealldayeveryday12]

You know this! If anyone feels they are adicted, you aint- your just in love with the herb.

[Quang]

i no this is gonna cause abit of banter but here goes
can u get addicted to the good stuff?
because iv come to realise that i am addicted to the fag not the bud as i dont actually smoke but do smoke weed,
it never bothers me untill night time which is when my mates will come round and we will get mashed but throughout the day it dont bothe me one bit
is it just me lol its kinda like routine aswel that probs dont help
im without a zoot 2nyt so kinda having drawbacks lol

The answer is NO , not physically maybe mildly phychologically . i used to buy scrappy crappy soapbar in my youth , would go out of my way and do allsorts of stupid thing's to score an eighth ..
Now after growing and producing my own i would not thank you for soap bar . last bit someone left me i threw it in the fire ..
I'm a greedy so+so when i have it and regurally run out , admittedly i get a little cranky " tho i put that down to been more able to cope or more placid when stoned " but i'm not an addict . in fact i enjoy a break . away from the stupor ..
makes me appreciate it when i have it .

[johard59]

Once you get the good ganja you'll get picky and find the average ganja doesn't cut it anymore

[Juice]

You know this! If anyone feels they are adicted, you aint- your just in love with the herb.

Aint they the same thing? you get withdrawals from say a woman you love and lose feeling sad, anxious, moody, irritated, not usual self, physical pain etc etc. Even if she cheated on you or something you'll probably let it cross your mind to forgive like trying to giveup something your addicted too does even if its destroying you, you still want it. Sounds and feels like an addiction to me, I've been pretty reliant on weed since a bad breakup a while ago, an I can see a few simularities between the two. I started smoking the stuff everyday after that time out of sadness and boredom and out of wanting to feel better and thinking I needed weed to do that. It was easy to form these mental habbits for people like me like thinking you need weed to enjoy activities or thinking it enchances every activity, thinking you need it to stop feelings or to socialise with friends.

I tried to quit tobacco years ago a few times before I smoked weed and it's the same kinda thing for me now, where as then things like drinking coffee made me want a cig or feeling stressed, waiting for a bus etc. Now feeling stressed makes me think of weed or feeling happy makes me think I should get more weed. Even music often makes me think of it since it's always on when I'm smoking. I think as people some of us or all of us need things to escape into to occupy the mind, some don't take it that seriously but some get obsessed like a gamber who can't stop. Even though it's not physically addictive and I can go a day without easilly, like a gamber I chose not too because it's my fix of happyness or what my minds come to see happyness as even if I can't afford it.

I'm not too sure I agree with it being non addictive because it has no physical addiction blady blah. When your in love with someone you didn't put anything in your body to make you be in love (unless ya that way inclined) or to cause the withdrawal pain yet its the realest thing in this life and can and does cause people to kill themselves all the time (or others - moat e.g). So my point is loves like a few chemicals, like a drug having an effect on the way you feel when your with her and when it's gone it feels like shit for months/years a lot of the time. Theres a kinda withdrawal thing I think going on there the way the world seems bleak without her, nothing is fun and nobody is as good, even months down the line you get an urges to call her but have to wrestle with the thought and reaffirm why your doing this (again like addictions in my experience).. I think it could make sense somehow for weed to be addictive maybe because of the way some people like me smoke it to the extremes and rely on it for a lot or associate it with a lot of pleasure maybe it forms an addiction by proxy? like releases brain chemicals that are addictive if that makes sense?

p.s sorry about the life story wanted to try an explain why I think this but didn't do a very good job lol feck it

[ddsdavey]

Im totally and utterly addicted,its daily and has been for years and i dont mean thin joints neither.Ill get 3 maybe 4 joints off an 8th,whatever it is im hooked!
Aint gonna panic,played with darks and lights for way too many years to be concerned with weed.
Them days finished 6 years ago,filled the void with drink for a while but thats only gonna end in tears so now im t total and just smoke.
I just want to be self sufficient,its ridiculous what ill spend especially when its dry,i cant face being without so when it is dry street weights go out the window and ill pay owt just to have it (within relative reason of course!)/

[ddsdavey]

Once you get the good ganja you'll get picky and find the average ganja doesn't cut it anymore

Not true.You build up a tolerance to ANY weed.I had 3oz of Lemon Haze a month back,heavenly smoke,potent too but after a week i got a toke on some average Armageddon and did the world of good.Perhaps "not true" is a tad final but in my experince thats how ive found it.
Plus alot of average buds are merely late pluckers etc so are just different,heavier buzzs from having more CBNs etc.
Is that right? Im no authority,just second hand knowledge chewed up is all!