Anyone here smoke marijuana everyday? I have now for about 10 years. I know they say its not addicting but it is to me. I have tried before to stop but its always has been around me. I hate sometimes though i'll smoke a joint and then the rest of the day i don't feel like doing anything at all. But i still like it...its all in the mind. Anyone else dealing with this?

Yes, I'm dealing with this and have been for years. A lot of people say it's not addicting and think of it as a relatively harmless drug. Not so for me. I'm physically addicted to it, just as I was to opiates, booze and coke. I certainly can't speak for everyone, but for me it's not a psychological thing, it's a physical thing. It saps my ambition, energy, and motivation--just like the Green Day song "Longview". "I got no motivation, where is my motivation, no time for motivation, smoking my inspiration."

I honestly think it's harder for me to quit this than it was everything else! Anyway, I understand where you're coming from.

Good luck,

Cat

Thanks for replying! Good to hear I am not alone!!

I know what it is like, it is tough. It does take away a lot of motivation. I am working on it too. I am an alcoholic and have almost 5 months of sobriety and all I can say is maybe go to a good NA meeting and meet some good people. Sharing in the difficulties at a table can help, then again there has to be some humility there to. It took me a lot to realize I cannot drink, and now I am smoking as I always have, but I am not drinking. Lame as that sounds, well that is where I am at and it is some progress. This thread came up, and it is good hearing from others on this.
Maybe we can share more. Thanks. :)

I am addressing this problem right now. I have always enjoyed the "sacred" herb. But the potency has become very strong and the effects linger longer. I have been fully functional, never lost a job, accomplished a lot and lead a very fun life. But this is an insidious thing. All the rationalizing just means I have been addicted and now I am trying to come to terms with that. I'd appreciate anyone's ideas or thoughts on this. I am 3 months weed free now. I haven't been able to sleep for much of this time. This ever happend to anyone else?

Plus, i saw this today which I found interesting:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7089851/

Yes it is addictive. My husband smoked for the first 11 years of our marriage.
I got where I would get it for him when he was out, without it he would become irritable, complain of headaches and be a living h*ll. Noone could stand to be around him when he had been out for a couple of days.
He would tell me he wasn't addicted, but he was. It was awful and instead of helping him face his addiction I just helped him keep it, I was to busy drinking to try to make him stop. Then I got preg. 8 months ago and I made a deal with him that if he would quit smoking I would quit drinking.
I haven't drinked anything sense, he has smoked maybe twice sense then. The first couple of weeks were the worst, but once it was out of his system he was a totally different person. Even now if he smokes a couple of hits with someone and doesn't smoke anymore he will be a real b*tch for a couple of days. I don't know if this will answer your question. But if you ask me, yes it's addictive..

Oh My, It took me 3 months just to quit feeling weird without weed even while I was still doing pain pills, I would just do more and still couldnt sleep. I would have to honestly say that the only reason I quit 6 months ago was because I couldnt get it anymore. I just moved back to my hometown in SE Ky where a lot of good weed used to be but that was when I was in hi school and I had been gone 7 yrs and when I came beck I only knew one person and he got busted then all I could find out there was oxys. I tell you what, I couldnt lie if I had a joint right now I would smoke the hell out of it if I didnt have to take drug tests for my suboxone. Good luck to ya, weed is the hardest thing I ever had to give up because I never got mad at it like I did the pills and it didnt cause many problems for me.

Hi all. New to the boards. I have MPS and take pain meds/psych meds but lead a fairly normal life without seeming all drugged up to an outsiders view. I like to lessen the pain, but still feel in control to fit in with others and not seem alll spacey. The reason I am posting, is that my boyfriend is very anti-pain/psych drugs..yet he smokes weed everyday. I feel weed is an addictive substance just like alll the rest, so whatever. We have had discussions about his attitude about "people that take pain meds"...I said" You have no right to judge. I was in a bad car wreck that left me in chronic pain. That is why I take meds, to control the pain enough to lead a life without blowing my brains out. If he doesn't smoke everyday, he gets all moody, has no motivation, and no sex drive unless he hasn't been smoking?? Now tell me that is not an addiction problem. At least I function everyday and try to stay as normal as possible. I try to move forward in life and can recognize my issues. The weed makes him oblivious in his own little world. Tons of things are addictive, it's how you handle and process it. Control the monster..before it controls you.

I'm having some tough times with the green as well. I've been smoking everyday for 4 or 5 months now. I can't stop. I feel like I need it to relax. I think it might just be psychological. In the summer, I was drug free for 3 months. No cigarettes even. I know I can kick the habit again, but its been incredibly difficult recently.

Hi guys. I have never had an addiction problem, but let me tell you what my recovered husband says. First he was an alcoholic and drug addict for 20 years. He quite drinking several times but always slipped back into the habit and he thinks the primary reason he failed so many times is because he didn't give up the pot as well. He gave up the drinking and pills but held onto his pot. The last time he quite drinking he committed himself to a hospital and stayed for nearly 30 days. He stayed off all drugs and booze and stays active in AA. That was nearly 12 years ago! I met him when he was clean and sober less than six months and everyone told me what a risk I was taking getting involved with someone that was a recovering alcoholic. But I could see the good in him and also I ask him why this time was different than all the other times, he said this time he stop it ALL for himself, not for a wife, girlfriend, son......but for himself.
I highly recommend AA and NA. If you want to stop you will..........no it won't be easy but nothing in life worth doing is. Be thankful you have a life to have your stuggles in. Life is too short to lay around whining "its too hard".
God Bless you.