Reasons to Quit Marijuana #1: Physical

and Kevin Richard seems to be on the right track.
i agree that the people are just who they are,and then smoking weed adds to it all. because i smoke weed nearly everyday and have for nearly 4 years solid i also agree that you can maintain a healthy body and state of mind but you have to give it your best shot. because thats exactly what i have done/am doing. because i believe you can maintain your true personality when you smoke weed, i encourage others like me to not give up on self-maintanence because thats what has kept me going through hard times. and again,

-Thanks

are you addicted to weed? no one can tell you except you. I know people who will go through an eighth every couple days (about 7 joints) and looking at them from the outside they seems to be ok. Perhaps they experience a negative effect it has (like the mysterious facial pain B described here) – but i can’t see that. It’s up to each individual to look at their pot consumption honestly and get help if they need it. So to you people trying to convince others it’s not addictive, I think that argument is a waist of time… look at yourself, everyone is different and you are an adult, right? You can’t rely on science because there hasn’t been enough research done on weed and other illegal drugs. Intimacy with your own body is more valuable anyways.

I am a 42 year old woman. I don’t drink or do other drugs. I have a strong habit with weed. I only eat it – I stopped smoking. Honestly I don’t know if it’s physical or mental, but I don’t think it matters. I have been high all day everyday for weeks and this is not the version of me I’m down with! I had no negative effects until I increased my consumption. I got really into eating cannabis- I was so excited about how well it was working and no pain in my lungs – and I loved the taste of the cookies I was making. Previously I had been smoking 1/2 – 1gram a day. Now I eat 3/4 – 3 grams a day. Maybe that doesn’t seem like much to people here, but for me it’s too much. I like my sober mind. I’ve always been in shape/slim, but it takes work! It takes extra work when I’m feeling hungry and tired from being high.

don’t get me wrong, i LOVE the way marijuana makes me feel, but i’m definitely getting to my individual limit and having “diminishing returns”. I plan to do whatever I need to do to get back to my lighter consumption. I believe I will be able to, because I am usually able to do this on my own as long as I don’t live with a pothead.

To the young woman on this board “hi!” trying to help her bf’s quit… it’s usually a totally useless occupation to try to control your partner’s habits. If your partner is habitual with a substance and you don’t like how they act on it you should probably take a break from the relationship. Take your eyes off him and put them on yourself. What are you doing with YOUR life – your dreams and ambitions will not be handled by anyone but you. If he’s an adult he’s got to come to the truth on his own. Some women are “addicted” to “helping” when all they are doing is trying to avoid responsibility for their own lives! Are you a nurse or your own person? This is called codependency and can be helped by going to Al-anon, as well as reading Melody Beattie.

hey i smoke regularly, once a week, and I am great athlete i do cycling 250 miles a week and play tennis and when i get stoned i eat lots of veggies and fruits and veggie pizza, I think it all depends you are to get addicted and being unhealthy

Kayla,
you’ll be looking like a glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut from taking on the entire varsity BBall team, all at once, by the time you get your learner’s permit.

then you’ll just be a cock smoker. hopefully there will be a forum to help you with that.

I have been smoking weed from when i was 13 till i’m 18 right now, i’m kinda bored of it now and i managed to get a gf finnaly but i couldn’t interact with her on a proper way because i was stoned most of the time but i don’t want no more fuck ups in my life i think about quiting it for good

Watch the union and get over your placebo effect bullshit.

PLD

Hey people! ok i was a major major pot head my entire life. days-weeks-months-years evolved around getting stoned … i have been completely sober for exactly 1 month and just recently i have been having these VIVID REALSTIC dreams that seemed so real they would wake up several times in one night.. to be more specific they have been about tragedy people dieing suffocating crying VERY VERY scrary dreams…NIGHT MARES i would call them.

Does anybody know if this is a normal side effect?

hey, i live in mendo county northern cal. I am a green party member and as liberal as they get. I have been smoking pot before during and after school since I was 13. with my mom!!
everyone here smokes, grows and trims pot as part of a daily economy, its everywhere. I feel social pressure to keep smoking. I am so stoned all the time,I have not been clear headed for more then 3 days in the past 13 years. I smoked all during my pregnancy and am battling with myself now to become a sober mother of my one year old. I want to remember his life. I want to treat my body as sacred. remember you don’t have to be republican to think pot, as a sacred plant, is being misused.

I have been smoking weed since I was 13 and I am now 22. I have been consistently smoking weed on a daily basis for the last 7 years. I really enjoyed this article because I felt that many of the benefits discussed here from quitting weed are similar to those I formulated myself. As I was reading posts from other people I started to notice many people that were skeptical, if not against, the idea of weed being a bad influence in one’s life and it being addictive. These are the points I wish to address in my post.

First of all let me say this much. A person who drinks alcohol occasionally is not addicted even though alcohol is an addicting substance. Some people who drink regularly are also not addicted. So why is it so hard for you occasional smokers and even habitual smokers who are not addicted to weed to see that other people could be addicted even though you never were or are?

Some of you argue that propaganda is to blame for beliefs that weed is an addicting and bad substance for us. But I assure you that many of us who believe so were once in your position; An in denial and/or ignorant smoker who wholeheartedly believed that weed is not an addicting drug or even bad at all. We only learned through our own experiences that weed hindered us from becoming successful in this society and also caused (some of) us physical harm, whether it be as little as smoker’s cough to something as grave as emphysema. This can not be scientifically assessed or quantified but rather noticed through self-observation.

Some of you argue that us who blame weed on our failures are the ones really in denial. However, while weed has limited my initial potential for success, it did not derail me to the point where I can not end up where I was supposed too. I, personally, am not one who is making excuses for his failures, but rather noticed a correlation between my levels of ability and achievements during the times I was and was not smoking weed. Just like alcohol makes certain people “happy drunks” and others very violent, why can your narrow mind not grasp the concept that any drug (encompassing alcohol) will have different effects on different minds. I personally love getting high because it has always had a rather strong effect on me(unfortunately no effect is greater than tolerance build up). So if you were not derailed by your weed habit, can’t it be possible that it did so to another? (Or are you one of those stupid people who still believe that there is a such thing as a “normal” person where every person should respond to a certain stimuli or experience in the same exact way no matter the circumstances?)

Some of you argue that weed is not addicting because heroin is a much harder drug which produces heavier mental and physical withdrawal effects. First of all, it’s heroin; nobody’s denying that the withdrawals from that garbage is greater than those from weed. But claiming that no one suffers from physical or mental withdrawals to any degree from weed is not only false, but extremely audacious to assume. I personally have experienced physical and mental symptoms of withdrawal during one of my many failed attempts to stop smoking pot. My stomach hurts, I can not eat, I get head aches, and I have mood swings the first few days(maybe longer but I haven’t gone that long yet so I do not know).

Some of you use science as a basis for claiming that weed is not addicting. First of all, I’d take the word of one who experienced something for years over another who just studied it. Aside from that, scientists and doctors said years ago that cigarettes weren’t addicting or bad either (sound familiar?). Science and medicine is NOT fact. Science and medicine, rather, is simply the best we know to date. Facts never change; 2+2 has equaled 4 ever since and even before mathematics has been around. Science and medicine may have certain facts, but more so they have theories. Theories which are proved and disproved all the time. Adamantly believing in something which very well may not be true is blind faith; OK for you to believe in, but not for you to press upon others. These so called scientific facts are all done from case studies or experiments. For pot, most likely, they observed a group of people who smoked weed. How long could they have possibly observed them? 1 year? 3 years? 5? I was still in full denial by year 5 of the bad effects of smoking weed so having those people be the basis for these scientific facts is unsettling to say the least. Also, how much were they smoking? How often? How potent was the weed? How many people were observed? All these questions are factors which can determine whether or not one will build an addiction to weed. I don’t have the necessity to look it up because I know that I am battling an addiction currently.

There is so much more I have to say and argue on the topic but I have said more than enough to hopefully spark some comments on my post and I’ll wait to see them to write more.

(P.S. Just finished day one of quitting about 3 hours ago. Good luck to the rest of you ADDICTS with kicking your ADDICTION. Don’t let any one tell you that you are not battling an addiction because they read an article by Dr. Dipshit on his studies of weed with patients tweedle dee and tweedle dum. They want to believe it’s not an addiction because they are still in the denial stage. We were there once. And they’ll be where we are soon enough. Stay clean off the green.)

not evryone that smokes eats unhealthy, i work out evry single day and i eat fairly healthy…id pig out if i wanted to, but i dont usually, all the things he states here can be avoided, if you dont want your eyes to get red or have bad teeth use a vaporizer…duh…if i could i would just eat pot all day

I have been smoking hashish and weed (mostly weed) for 20 years straight. I finally decided to stop 3 weeks and the withdrawal symptoms are overwhelming. I have done research on whether weed is addictive both physically and psychologically. The latest research and studies revealed that weed is very addictive. One research studies using canines showed serious side-effects such as physical trembling and other negative physical reactions. I don’t have specifics so you will have to do your own research. I think what some individuals fail to realize that oftentimes you are not smoking just weed but added ingredients to add to its potency and weight, such as windex (ammonia). One study stated that growers during the late stages of growth will spray miracle grow on the weed. The study also further stated that miracle grow convert in a salt like substance in and on the plant. So if someone has smoked this stuff for several years, you are going to have serious adverse reactions when withdrawing from it.

I thought I had a reliable dealer who I have been buying weed from for about 5 years. I was talking with his mother the day and she inadvertently told me that the reason some buds are hard to break apart is because they have sprayed the weed with something to keep it from smelling loud when transporting across state lines. I was shocked! I couldn’t get anymore specifics from her so the subject was dropped.

Since quitting I have had evil nightmares that were so vivid that when I woke up I thought I was still dreaming. I have to convince myself that I am really awake. I am having anxiety, and severe mood swings. I am a little depressed without reasons. Also I have tingling in both arms and hands. I am suffering from some kind bronchial and sinus condition. I am now having serious post nasal drip that I have never had before. I am also having muscle twithes and I am sick of the stomach most of the times. I feel like I have an infection. I have a hard time sleeping. When I do it’s for only 1 or 2 hours. Say what you want to about weed not being addictive, but you are wrong on this one. Weed is highly addictive and the withdrawal symptoms can be severe.

okayy well first off, im always with people who smoke and my brothers and friends and boyfriends.. its really hard since thee past 2 months because ive tried smoking about 10 times and nothing EVER EVER happened.. and then the last 2 times ive smoked they were the worst and totally changed my mind on things and everything

i felt very scared, the first 10 minutes nothing happened but after i sat down, my mind and brain started to dislodge from my body. i couldnt help it. i looked down at my hands and in the mirror, it looked like i was looking at any other individual, but myself. i was panicking and paranoid. I felt like i was in a game.. i got back up to see if i was just thinking this but as i was looking at a group of my friends they were in slow motion. it felt like they were screwing aroun with me and trying to bother me and trick me. while i was talking to my boyfriend, everything he said was in a pattern, he would say 5 lines then it seemed like he repeated them , and repeated them i was so scared i was crying and screaming to go to a hospital. i heard my voice as if it was someone else’s. Everyone was going supperrrr slow and asnwered my questions 2 minutes later. i kept on looking at the time, it was going very slow felt like i was there forever.. i felt the same way for about 3 weeks and i didnt even smoke then..IS THIS NORMAL? some people told me it was probably laced with windex.

my boyfriend told me hes trying to quit, my brothers smoke all the time and im worried about them. i fear that they wont become anything and all their values and dreams will not come true because smoking all day every day is making them not motivated , lazy, and prettyy much DUMB. i used to always like bad guys who smoked and did bad stuff and now since the 2 last times i smoked and felt that way im starting not to like them , its very weird. its as if it made me smarter and think of the future more, afterwards obviously. the high is something i do not want to experience ever again. ill stick to alcohol.