Can you get addicted to weed?

[BAMFSK]

Look i Smoked weed for 7 years and then i got arrested with for felonies because of it, not because i was a dealer but because i was so high i did'nt realize until it was to late the guy i went and got a bag for was a narc and here i thought i was just helping out a pot head and i'am on a year of probation 24 hours CS and 1200 in fines not to mention laywers fees to keep me out of jail and away from felonies. So you tell me is it worth it......And yes i always used to say oh it'' never happen to me i just smoke it i don't sell it

However weed is not addictive like say concaine or heroine is but it does have a mild psycological addiction associated with it. I have tried most drug all of which i dont like besides weed. but now i play paintball instead of smoking. And if you think your gonna be getting paid the big bucks one day at some job and then just going out and buy Half O's cause u can on the weekend your wrong. Working in reasturants is one thing but working in an enviroment where you have to be professional is a completely different. Yet when your young its always fun to do that stuff just realize there is a time and place for it, school and work just ain't it meaning wait till the weekend so you can come back to your sense before monday

But enough of me acting like a parent hell I'm only 21 but i have a good job now and can't afford to F around with that stuff anymore

[Warewolf50]

Ive smoked a couple of times, alwasy seemeped pointless to me casue all it did was make me extremely tired and i owuld fall asleep wiht out really feeling any of the effects of it. I tried it a couple of times, then got busted by my parents casue i wwas jsut plain stupid and lit up then tried to talk ot my mom then went to sleep at 8 on a fri night. After that i pretyt much jsut stopped i mean it was a waist of money fo rme. I would get the saem effect jsut going out and buying tylenol pm.


And yea i think pot can be addictive, it casue the brain to slow production of serotonin becasue your body becomes dependen on the drug for it. This only happens a lil with pot, but happens more wiht more sever drugs such as coke and herorin. But wiht pot i think a huge deal is mental dependency, i have a friend who seems like he has to smoke everyday, and to him it is a sucess if he goes 3 dasy wiithout smoking. But i also have a friend that was a pretty heavy smoker bout a couple times a week and one day he kjsut saidhe was bored wiht it and stopped smoking. So i guess it al ljsut depends on the person.

[CaptaiN_JacK]

Mary Jane isn't physically addictive like cigarettes. Cigarettes have nicotine which is physically addictive, mj does not. That's why people smoke cigarettes loooong after they stop getting a buzz, and same with chew. Mj is mentally addictive, because you will most likely always get stoned, unless you smoke an insane amount 24/7, then you have to smoke a ton to get high. All of you who are saying it is physically addictive are confusing mentally addictive with physically addictive. I've *heard* that it doesn't kill bran cells either, and I'm not sure if that's true, but I may have smoked an 1/8 a week for 2 months before the acts and I raped it...

[MagMan5446]

Mary Jane isn't physically addictive like cigarettes. Cigarettes have nicotine which is physically addictive, mj does not. That's why people smoke cigarettes loooong after they stop getting a buzz, and same with chew. Mj is mentally addictive, because you will most likely always get stoned, unless you smoke an insane amount 24/7, then you have to smoke a ton to get high. All of you who are saying it is physically addictive are confusing mentally addictive with physically addictive. I've *heard* that it doesn't kill bran cells either, and I'm not sure if that's true, but I may have smoked an 1/8 a week for 2 months before the acts and I raped it...

I smoked cigarettes for 2 years and quit last sunday. I haven't had a problem yet...

[OysterBoy]

Perceived Addiction. It may appear to some who know me (Or rather, think they know me) that I am addicted. This just isn't true. Or, I do not percieve any addiction, I've quit for months at a time. The perception of addiction is created in part because it helps to mellow ones self, and so when they KNOW they are stressed they may crave it. I don't know about all the science behind it, but I personally am not addicted.

[TransMan]

OK here its is the main reason you cant be physicaly addicted to weed IT STAYS IN YOUR SYSTEM ok it can take a week to about 2 months to get THC out of your system depeneding on how much and how long you have smoked. With it being in your system so long it slowly takes the THC levels in your body down so you dont get hit by withdrawl all off the sudden. If it left your system quickly it would cause you to go through withdrawl physicaly the same way crack or heroin does. Now what doesnt take so long to go away is the feeling its over in a few hours this is why it becomes mentaly addicting the more time you spend beng high the more you want to get high because you dont want the feeling of being high to go away. Now for what reasons you dont want it to go away is totaly your own. Some people just like the feeling and thats it those people are the ones that seem to be able to leave it more easily. Then there are the ones that just want to forget there life, escape from reality, escape depression, etc. etc. Those are the people that can become mentaly addicted because they use the feeling as a crutch.


Ahhh and phil im gonna have to say no just because THC withdrawl can show physical sign doesnt mean its physical for instance the two things I felt the couple times I quit smoking for a while was loss of appitite and trouble gettin to sleep. Sounds physical enough right? Wrong looking back and looking at how I smoke now its simple the sleep problem was because usually smoke late at night and a lot of the time just a couple hours before I go to bed. Coming down from being high makes you tired and allowed me to go to sleep quickly when I stoped smoking I did not have that aid in sleeping so I had to get used to goin to bed all by myself which took about a week to get back to normal. Then theres the loss of appitite this is explained because as we all now smoking gives us the munchies well my body got used to eating basicly all three meals of the day at night I never eat breakfast and rarely eat lunch so when I stoped smokin guess what? I wasn't hungry because I didnt have my little helper to make me mucho hungry so then I had to start eating three times a day like normal people. The thing that got me over that pretty quickly is physical labor when I do a lot of it I eat more I basicly just started working out more and did a lot of work around the house and in a few days my eating habits were normal again.

[ZapTheMad]

Weed is like sex. It's just something you really like to do. I smoked daily since I was 15 and I am now 34. I don't smoke anymore, I guess I out grew it. I'm sure if it was addictive, I would still be smoking.

[MagMan5446]

OK here its is the main reason you cant be physicaly addicted to weed IT STAYS IN YOUR SYSTEM ok it can take a week to about 2 months to get THC out of your system depeneding on how much and how long you have smoked. With it being in your system so long it slowly takes the THC levels in your body down so you dont get hit by withdrawl all off the sudden. If it left your system quickly it would cause you to go through withdrawl physicaly the same way crack or heroin does. Now what doesnt take so long to go away is the feeling its over in a few hours this is why it becomes mentaly addicting the more time you spend beng high the more you want to get high because you dont want the feeling of being high to go away. Now for what reasons you dont want it to go away is totaly your own. Some people just like the feeling and thats it those people are the ones that seem to be able to leave it more easily. Then there are the ones that just want to forget there life, escape from reality, escape depression, etc. etc. Those are the people that can become mentaly addicted because they use the feeling as a crutch.


Ahhh and phil im gonna have to say no just because THC withdrawl can show physical sign doesnt mean its physical for instance the two things I felt the couple times I quit smoking for a while was loss of appitite and trouble gettin to sleep. Sounds physical enough right? Wrong looking back and looking at how I smoke now its simple the sleep problem was because usually smoke late at night and a lot of the time just a couple hours before I go to bed. Coming down from being high makes you tired and allowed me to go to sleep quickly when I stoped smoking I did not have that aid in sleeping so I had to get used to goin to bed all by myself which took about a week to get back to normal. Then theres the loss of appitite this is explained because as we all now smoking gives us the munchies well my body got used to eating basicly all three meals of the day at night I never eat breakfast and rarely eat lunch so when I stoped smokin guess what? I wasn't hungry because I didnt have my little helper to make me mucho hungry so then I had to start eating three times a day like normal people. The thing that got me over that pretty quickly is physical labor when I do a lot of it I eat more I basicly just started working out more and did a lot of work around the house and in a few days my eating habits were normal again.

Max it stays in your system is about a month, you can cut it down to 3 weeks if you drink massive amounts of water. If your reasoning was true, than you wouldnt want your next crack hit for 3 days or longer, meth and coke stay in for 3-5 days...

[TransMan]

The half life of THC in your body is 4 days if you smoke a lot for a long time then it can take longer then a month and thats just to get it down to a level that you can pass a drug test at small amounts will be in your body for a few months.

[OysterBoy]

I think the 4 days thing is correct, many times I've had 'after-buzz's that spanned friday to monday, and of course me in detention for being 'drunk' in school. I don't beleive its a physical addicition, but I would like to hear all the facts before I light up *Too Late* again. Biological matters are fascinating, yes?

[MagMan5446]

I think the 4 days thing is correct, many times I've had 'after-buzz's that spanned friday to monday, and of course me in detention for being 'drunk' in school. I don't beleive its a physical addicition, but I would like to hear all the facts before I light up *Too Late* again. Biological matters are fascinating, yes?

Come back in a year, if you're still smoking you won't think about pot nearly the same as you are now....

[OysterBoy]

Im making an assumption;

Your comment is based on me starting my days as a 'pothead' fairly shortly. I have been smoking (weed) since 2002.

Or your comment still applys to my current situation.

[MagMan5446]

Im making an assumption;

Your comment is based on me starting my days as a 'pothead' fairly shortly. I have been smoking (weed) since 2002.

Or your comment still applys to my current situation.

Damn i dunno seemed like you havent been smokin too long.

[OysterBoy]

Remember, I'm in Canada. There is no such thing as WEAK weed here..

[BrEaKcYcLe]

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_faq1.shtml#3-20

read that. and yea i'm a toker too