Comments on: Reasons to Quit Marijuana #4 – Financial

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:48:42 +0000

So I have a question that hopefully someone can answer.
I married my husband 17 years ago, before we met, we both has alcohol problems and we’d both quit. About 10 years ago he started smoking pot, he said it helped his shoulder pain. Now he smokes constantly. He sneaks it into work, he gets up a couple of times a night to smoke… he tells me he’s quitting, but he’s just trying harder to hide it from me.
My dilemma? I love him, but I hate the pot. I hate walking into the bathroom only to smell that he was in there with the window open, smoking… I hate when he kisses me and smells like weed. I hate traveling with him as I know he’s carrying it through airports…
It’s hurting our relationship.
I’m 50, he’s 54… I don’t want to leave him, I don’t want to start over again but it’s getting harder to love him and hate what he does.
At times I feel like I’m being unreasonable and selfish as he says this is the only thing he has that gives him relief.
He doesn’t miss work, he’s careful about getting into trouble and other than *knowing* that he’s doing it all the time and disliking it, it doesn’t seem to cause him any problems. He’s functional.
Is there something wrong with me that I cannot accept this at face value? Why does his smoking bother me soooo much?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:53:31 +0000

I smoked weed for 28 years. (Age 16 to 44) I was a huge stoner. “wake and bake”.. I easily did one ounce per week, and I liked the high quality weed. Finally, it was the mood swings, the anxiety and paranoia of the police and most of all the financial costs that motivated me to quit.
One day, I looked in the mirror, put down the weed and never touched it again. Even when I have had the opportunity, I have never accepted a single drag. In fact, these days I don’t even think about it for long periods of time.
Now after 10 years weed-free I have lost almost 100 pounds, am a healthy 54-year-old, happy and on track. (I never was a cigarette smoker, and I don’t drink alcohol or caffeine.)
Dude! Realistically, I smoked more than $300,000.00 in weed in those 28 years. Can you imagine how much money I would have if I had just put that money in the bank? With the compounding of interest I’d be a millionaire and the loss of money from the lack of motivation and missed opportunities in life are incalculable.
Don’t judge me. I am not some born again red-neck pot-head hater. I still have my life-long friends who are stoners and I tolerate them and they tolerate me and they respect the fact that for my personal well being, I had to quit. But when I see that they are doing the same thing I was and I see them missing opportunities in life, it makes me sad. When they are wiped-out and reeking of weed, I realize that I was the same way. I was high functioning and even had myself convinced that I was an “artist” and weed made me more “artistic”. But now I realize that when I was sitting in meetings and interacting with business people while reeking of skunk-bud, they knew! They smelled it, they saw my eyes, they put up with me. Why I don’t know? These were the days before drug testing in the workplace, so it seems they tolerated me but I am sure terrific opportunities passed me by many times because I was a “pot-head”.
These past ten years without the weed have been my most productive and happiest ever. I am finally making real money, have a clear perspective on life and living.
I lived it, I quit, and I have never looked back. You can do it. Just put it down and walk away.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:25:59 +0000

I didnt get high before bed…it’s now 718 AM! I feel great, mind you. But the last 5 years of my weed life has resulted indirectly in flunking business school in third year, losing a resturant 3 years later, losing girlfriends to awkward stoner moments… My roommate got an honors degree thanks to weed, as he says. I try to remind him also that he didnt get into his masters because of weed. haha! I think weed turns exceptional people into awesome people, awesome people into average people, average people into losers, and losers into heroes…because every loser stoner thinks hes a fuckin hero. i think i’ll try to stay off the weed another day! i’m tired of being such a hero

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:41:19 +0000

Thank you for this write-up. I’ve been smoking for the past 6 years and a daily smoker for the past 3 years. I’ve tried to quit countless times but I always go back to it. You touch on many of the same reasons I want to quit. The sad part is even though i’ve known this information for the past couple years, I still can’t get myself to quit. It’s a serious psychological addiction for me. I will bookmark these write ups and read them everyday to remind myself on why I am quitting. Heres to the first day.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:17:30 +0000

I just got this website and I gonna try form now on.
I smoked about 2g every day for the last 10 years,my familly life is afected and I have to do somthing for us.Lots of money I produce only for smoke.I’m really scared because I have done one pot this morning and decide I won’t buy and smoke any more.please give me some advice