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Marijuana addiction is real. Those struggling often face skepticism.
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Very anecdotal, but I know multiple people who are addicted. Could very well be psychological, but if they go more than a day or two without smoking they are terrible to be around. Which sucks because I'm stuck with
A) don't be around them
B) be around them while they are baked and smell
C) be around them while they are terrible
I've been sticking with A for the time being, but it sucks because I feel like I've already lost a few friends when I stopped smoking and it seems like that is their whole life.
Crazy that you're getting downvoted for this. I smoke occasionally, but used to smoke daily and had to quit cold turkey for over a year. I now (almost 3 years since I first stopped cold turkey) refuse to have any marijuana on me and only smoke on the occasion that I'm out with friends and it's offered to me. That ends up being about one toke a month. Irritability and bad mood for chronic smokers when they haven't smoked enough to get withdrawals is common enough (anecdotally from my own experience quitting and seeing others around me struggling with it as well).
Especially if someone has quit and finds the smell off-putting or doesn't like to be around people who are either constantly baked or very irritable, this point of view is perfectly valid and adds to the conversation. Don't downvote just because you personally disagree.
I've got nothing against smoking. I I have friends who still smoke, and the ones who aren't addicted it isn't a problem. A toke here and there to catch a buzz is no issue. It's when it's all the time, they can't go without it, and they always smell like you just hotboxed something. I just don't wanna be around that.
Honestly, if I found out one of my friends saw me this way I'd rather they just get out of my life.
If the only way you can live your life is to be stoned 24/7, and you are a grouch going off the handle at every little thing without it, it would probably be best.
I've got nothing against smoking weed, but just like I don't want to be around someone piss drunk all the time I don't want to be around someone who is blitzed all the time. There is a time and a place.
That's not me, but I don't really feel like it's particularly helpful to be in someone's life if that's the way you look at it. Especially if it's a situation where your own standards have changed while theirs haven't.
Honestly, I don't really want to be spending my time around people who look down on me at all, full stop. Whatever the reason they may have, why have people in your life socially whose company you don't enjoy? I used to put up with a lot of that, largely when I was broke and directionless, but it's not really worth it. There are so many people out there, why not find some who are on the same page?
That doesn't have to attempt to be a position of moral superiority or putting your nose up about lack of responsibility. It can just not be a good fit. Lots of people aren't a good fit for one another.
It's just a support network... peers that believe in you to do better things.
If you can't take criticism then you have every right to shut out people who are concerned about you and toke instead.
I personally felt bad about myself when I was using weed to medicate. What was freedom became something I couldn't escape from. Many people might not want to be where they are and want help to function. You never know if that person needs support.
On the other hand if you are functioning and know that you've earned what you enjoy, you can probably handle someone voicing concern.
I used weed to medicate when every drug my doctors gave me failed for years. Because of smoking weed every day for years, I lived long enough to take things that actually treat my problem, and was immediately able to drop my weed consumption as much as I liked. I do it maybe 2-3 times a week now. How do you tell someone who’s addicted from someone using it to medicate something else when nothing’s available, from the outside?
I also think the word “addiction” is so broadly used as to be practically useless at this point. I could stop weed, no problem. If I try to get off lithium, withdrawal city. But you don’t hear people talking about lithium addiction. Plus, if we’re using the same word for responses to heroin, weed, and porn, we need better vocabulary.
Yeah keep away from people who look down on you or others, they're doing it because they're angry at you/the world and they will take it out on you every chance they get - doesn't matter if their excuse is that you smoke, don't dress how they like, listen to the wrong music for them, aren't green enough or are too green... If they look down on you they will work to make their emotions reality by pushing you down.
So are you the same with people who need to be caffeinated 24/7 and are irritable asshole if they dont get their coffee?
I've met much fewer people like that, and when they do get their coffee they aren't acting stupid and smelly.
I think this is your bias showing. Coffee addictions is way way way way WAY more comment than cannabis addiction. And yes, people on a caffeine high do act stupid and yes coffee fucking stinks. I'm guessing you drink coffee yourself?