I don't know if my drug problem is really a problem at all

So I am mentally addicted to smoking pot. I know people say you can't get addicted and its true, you can't get addicted physically but I am totally hooked mentally. I smoke everyday if I can and I usually get high within three hours of waking up. Though this is a lot I find that there is nothing else that makes me more motivated (yes motivated) than the way pot does.

I know a lot of people who smoke about as much as me and are totally lazy losers who really will never get anything done. Yet when I get high (and I have been smoking for prolly five years) I totally get work done. I sit and do my schoolwork, and have an easier time doing it cause I don't get frustrated, then I move onto doing productive things with my time. Thanks to pot I never waste my mind by watching tv, or sit around and do nothing.

So I would say in essense I have a drug problem but it really isn't. I don't try the hard drugs like coke, or meth, or anything like that (though its not to say I havn't done other drugs). Anyway sometimes I feel like maybe I should cut back, but whenever I do I become totally lethargic and frustrated by everything.

Anyone else have a similar experience? Just kinda curious on the general ideas on pot.

but why do your schoolwork at all than!? if you will just die at some point!

it prolly seems harmless now, why don't you try some ridalin or someting to keep focused. anyway, may be you just need someone there to help you like a gf of bf or whatever,

hope I did not offend you, I am blunt sometimes

i know what your saying because my friends are the same way (at least in high school they were) they often said "It's HIGH school"...ha ha yea funny isn't it.. but now they don't smoke weed, simply because if they did they wound not have jobs, you see random drug testing in Illinois is so powerfully enforced if people smoke pot and take a drug test say 3 days before the test the results are positive, they have some new sort of drug testing thing at a center here in my town that picks up on even the most minute traces of Weed, or any other dug for that matter, something will the plasma in your blood they separate and analyze that instead of the actually blood cells itself..

i know this is really not necessary for me to say, but i think you might want to consult a drug center for help dealing with your drug use, from what you said you do it within the fist hours of waking up? whoaaaa

isn't this taking a pretty hard blow at your wallet?

gosh! i know weed here that people smoke (NOT ME BY THE WAY) is like so Tonic,and so costly some people switched not to do it, they gave it up.

sure you have heard of this before the weed called "Hydro" grows in water, and is much more potent that normal weed ( i know nothing about this by the way)and more expensive as well (from what i hear)

but some other things i heard they place into weed really surprised me..

Cow Dong

EXTASY

Love boat (whatever that is)

some weed i heard before called " blue bird" someone said it has viagra in it..

And like that commercial on TV (don't know if you seen it) where it says that one Joint has the level of carcinogens of i think 12 cigs....WITH FILTERS...um alarming...your lungs can't take that much weight before they just "give up" and you know what happens after that, cancer starts to take it's toll, you get these really small (at first) black dots on your lungs, and than it just gets bigger and Bigger....With no stopping, because you have already gotten it, have you heard...NO CURE FOR CANCER..?

example next door neighbor long time good friend had it at age 24 died with lung cancer at 28..he started smoking cigs, than weed at only age 16,do the math....really it just kept getting worse for him...and the effects are irreversible..think about that for a sec, and also think about; "is the mental concentrations that weed gives you (short Term) really worth your life...?"

there is a way out, you just have to process the will-power to get threw it all.

Hi ShadeOfGreen,

I have smoked Pot for nearly 10 years now. If you can not study without pot, you need to see someone about this. I recently went back to college, and I had to give pot up because I couldn't focus when doing my study for my exams.

If you can't function as a nomal being without it, then you should be looking into that. The long term effects of this dependency could well ruin parts of your life that you don't even know about yet.

Hope this helps you some,

Ok, well here I go, I'm going to be the bad guy but you know what I have to be because you and the rest of the forum need to hear what I'm about to say.

My father smoked pot/this/that/this/that for almost 30 years, and while his health is peachy he did something to me, that makes me wish he had never picked up a pipe. He stopped all the other drugs but he didnt stop the Pot. When i was born I looked like a normal child, when I was younger I was happy, (or so they thought) but then my parents started to notice that I could not pay attention in class, I couldnt focus, I had issues and did not do well when I was younger in school. They took me to the doctor and I found out I had ADD, ADD is not somethinig to just laugh about, its not just some Kid who can't grasp things, ADD is a horrible thing to have. Its very frustrating to feel like your stupid or that you dont have what it takes because you can't focus. You dont fit in school, you are over sensitive and no one can help you. ADD, ADHD, ODD and many more chemical embalences have now been trailed back to parents and what they did as teenagers. If you want to smoke pot, dont' have kids, because if you do, and they get what most of us now have which is chemical embalances then you will regret what you did to them.

ADD, ADHD, ODD and many more chemical embalences have now been trailed back to parents and what they did as teenagers.

Sweety ! Have you got any info on this? I'm curious to see it !!

Also, it's important to remember that the same could be said for smoking cigarettes, and drinking alcohol etc. There are many thing that can effect the unborn child that comes from the parents.

Also important to remember that there are also children that have ADD and other illnesses that have come from parents who have not abused any substances.

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I must admit I am also curious what data exists to support this theory. I had not heard about ADD/ADHD and pot being linked. Especially if it was the father who smoked rather than the mother.

We also have a child who has an ADD type disorder. We have another son who was born with clubfeet. But we do not do drugs or smoke pot, and my wife did not drink during the pregnancy. Sometimes, it just happens.

Avman,

SOrry that your son has that, I can relate to him and just wanted to tell you that I read your other post about how you guys are so close, this will help him so much more than you will ever know!!

ADD/ADHD/ODD/chemical embalances are caused by Marijuana, cigs,beer,liquor,you name it, its there. And you are right, sometimes it just happens.

I read about this a long time ago when I was still in highschool regarding the reason people should think about drugs before using them, hence the effect they have on children. I have to get that Dr.s Name for you and then send you the article. But being that I have ADD i'd have no reason to pretend to know information that I didnt.

Actually I'm not questioning the sincerety of your message. I was just interested in the source. I would like to read that article/paper/book whatever it is for my own curiosity.

I think that you need to be seen by a physician who specializes in drug addiction. A clinical psychologist, or someone who is able to talk to you about the medical implications of what you are doing. This is a drug dependency issue. Like alcoholism. If you are still in school, they will need to prescribe Xanax or Concerta, or something that will help you regulate your mood. All is not lost. Cooperate with people.

Some of you were asking about the connection between having a father with attention deficit disorder and smoking pot. Past generations didn't accept mental disorders as readily as we do today. We all know someone who has taken medications for chemical imbalances, and it really can help people to cope with the stressful world in which we live.

So past generations relied on the drugs that we now know can cause harm to our bodies for psychological reasons. That is why one generation has a drinker or a drug over doser, one has a heaver smoker and one has a habit with pot or cocain.

Our choices are about 50% programed by genetics and about 50% choice. If you want proof of this look at twin studies for scizophrenia or homosexuality, you'll see that if one identical twin is gay or schizophrenic (both identities that we wouldn't readily choose) that the other twin has a about a 50/50 chance of also going that route. So in essense, we can change and we can make a choice to change.

Brains that Work a Little Bit Differently By Allen Bragdon and David Gamon Ph.D is a good understanding of this situation.

OK now I have a problem with this. What you're trying to say is don't smoke pot because it may cause a chemical imbalance in your child resulting in a disease.

Firstly, THC leaves the body fairly quickly and if you havent done pot in over a year there is nothing left, we have this handy thing called a liver that cleans our bodies.

Also, There are thousands of chemicals and other stressors that effect your body and your baby every day, we have no idea what all those little chemicals are doing to us.

Any medical doctor will tell you that they do not know what causes ADD (I personally believe its brought upon by environmental factors).

Lastly, just to throw this in, both my parents smoked pot before, during and after all three of their children, and none of us have had any childhood diseases and have done well in school.

I understand that you have looked for reasons for having this disease and have come to the conclusion that marijuana is why you have ADD. I am not questioning the sincerity of your belief in this, but I am DEFFINATELY questioning the truth of it.

As far as what you were taught in school, the US school system is notorious for passing around some hillarious drug propaganda, just cause they told you it was true in school, doesn't mean its true.

Marijuana is a natural plant, if used in moderation it is harmless.

And just cause Im on this. What about alchohol?!? talk about birth defects! I think its ridiculous that a dangerous drug like alcohol is socially acceptable while Marijuana with little to no danger is not only looked down upon but illegal!!!

(sorry got me going!)

It isn't the THC that is the problem it is the personality -- the lack of control. He even says that he lacks control, lacks focus! Loses his temper and becomes frustrated easily. I am not saying that his father caused it, it is a coexisting situation.

lets say I abandond my son at a young age, and he never knew me and somehow developed my personality and intelligence, that is genetics--right? My son observes my problem solving skills and presto he has problem solving skills. Kids are just that way!

Lets say I was depressed all the time, lived off welfare and hated the world. Wouldn't he likely deal with the world a little differently in that situation?

Our destiny is 50% genetics, that is a fact. We choose our own destiny with the cards that are given to us-- these are facts.

i often wonder what if I had been this characteristic or that characteristic, but I don't follow those choices based on my own reality. We can change our perceptions of the wrold, but it takes time and effort.