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For the first timers at the site, a guest has been posting with some excellent and insightful comments and questions. He / She goes by “anonymous.”
Anonymous had an excellent comment on my last post:
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I’m not a psychologist or therapist, but…
To the casual observer, it appears that you’re swapping one mind-altering substance for another.
Having worked in the addiction recovery field, it’s quite common.
At least you realize the folly of avoiding booze, or at least drunkenness. Honestly, if you’re trying to get life on track, I firmly believe that a period of unaltered consciousness (i.e. NO mind-altering substances whatsoever. If you stay 100% clean for a period of time, you can have mental and emotional clarity to deal with whatever issues you have in life that bring about the need or desire to “get f***d up”.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, meth, PCP, LSD, Valium, or cough syrup. They all tweak your mind in some way, shape or form. Stay away from them all in order to get your life on track. At some point, perhaps you will be able to apply some moderation and enjoy a temporary altered state of consciousness.
Perhaps not.
I have a couple questions, though…
In your eyes, is drinking acceptable and smoking marijuana not acceptable simply because of the legal status of one over the other?
Why did you choose to quit smoking pot and not quit drinking?
Have you truly analyzed the unmanagibility in your life and traces it back specifically to marijuana? How are you so certain it’s not alcohol bringing these ills to fruition in your life?
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Yes there have been long periods of time where I didn’t drink, but still smoked pot. I smoked pot on a regular basis, before I ever drank on a regular basis. I would say I have never ‘craved’ drinking like weed.
Drinking is acceptable, within moderation.
Smoking pot is acceptable within moderation.
Consuming or doing X is acceptable within moderation.
Failing the ability to moderate is the problem….it has shown up with marijuana…and truthfully, to a lesser extent alcohol.
With alcohol, I can flip a switch and stop for the evening, or for the year…..marijuana has eluded me in that fashion…but I am working on it.
The unmanagability is due to the long term stoner mindset that aquired, rather than the need to go drinking.
Exactly the same for me. Although I am particularly careful with my consumption of alcohol as my father, uncles and grandfather (all on Dad’s side) have struggled with alcohol - so I know it is in my blood to abuse substances but I can somehow control the alcohol but not the weed or smokes.
April 13th, 2008 at 12:31 pmThis is the same for me I have smoked skunk every single day for the past 5 years. It is very difficult to stop because it is easy to fall into a depression if you’re not distracted or satisfied with your life. Drinking is a good idea in moderaton it is a social distraction (I have have never craved alcohol). I need to stop buying it but it seems impossible to sleep when I am not stoned. It is hard to tell whether the draw makes me unhappy or whether I smoke because I’m unhappy.
May 1st, 2008 at 12:36 pmIf you have 1 joint to get you stoned but have a drink to get you drunk I would say the alcohol affects you more.
I think the reason behind the mind being altered by heavy marijuana use is simply a change in mindstate.
When the user is constantly high, their sense of reality is distorted and life becomes a sort of dreamlike haze. for me the past 2 years have flown by.
July 6th, 2008 at 4:45 am