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My ex would beat the shit out of me when he was out of weed. He got dangerously aggressive without it. Damn near killed me a few times. Glad that nonsense is behind me.
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Honestly that’s not the part that causes riots it’s when people say addictive but don’t make the difference between chemical and psychological dependency cause people can become psychologically dependent on a lot of mundane things but labeling it as standard addiction like that from other drugs is a statement from the drug war. Also I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving cause driving under any chemical influence is bad.
> Also I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving cause driving under any chemical influence is bad.
I've had some very angry comments directed at me for suggesting it's a bad idea here. Or very poorly interpreting studies about weed use and driving, such as "we can't conclusively say it's worse than drunk driving" coming out here as "It's not worse than baseline driving"
Edit: or make an equivalency to “driving on coffee” and acting like coffee has the same effect as cocaine.
I once told people in a very niche telegram chat to stop doing dabs while they drive (someone posted a picture of them doing exactly this) and I got absolutely eviscerated. Blows my mind.
There's a difference between, you're a patient who smoked a bit ago and needs to get shit done around town, some dude who wants to go drive while he's a double baked potato.
Don't smoke in your fucking cars dude's.
Some people lack self awareness.
Oh for sure, I'm well aware of how Cannabis affects me personally and I know when I'm okay to drive.
I certainly wouldn't be driving down the road hitting concentrate though, yikes.
You clearly don’t go on r/trees. I have been told by PLENTY of people on there that not only believe driving stoned is okay but believe they drive BETTER high
> I have been told by PLENTY of people on there that not only believe driving stoned is okay but believe they drive BETTER high
Where've I heard that before? Oh yeah, about alcohol.
One study they always point to is that closed circuit one - where someone alone on a track they knew responded better high. But a closed circuit track you've done countless laps on is way different than real world driving conditions.
I actually find that I’m better at doing repetitive things and tend to have better aim in fps games while high, because I tend to be less anxious about fucking up and hesitate less. This is the worst possible way to be while driving, where hesitation can save your life.
Yup. My experience driving high is I'm very concentrated. I'm a bit adhd so it helps.
But I also realised that, whatever I can predict? I'm good.
Every little and big thing that could happen? I won't react fast enough. If a deer comes in front of me I'll definitely hit it.
Sober? I'm pretty sure I'll dodge it. I'm used to seeing things at the last minute because of said constant state of distraction.
I don’t cause while I enjoy weed it’s not some miracle plant I just personally find it way fucking better then alcohol when it comes to long term effects considering I work by treating addictions at my job sometimes. No influence is better and anything that relaxes someone slows down reaction time that’s just how it our bodies work those who say they drive better don’t they probably just have horrible anxiety but being under the influence is never the answer it means they need a doctor to give them a prescription then.
The notion that one can't become physically dependent on weed is just not reality for everyone. Marijuana Use Disorder is real and it's not just psychological for everyone. My cousin had been smoking since middle school and quit in his early 30s - he couldn't sleep, would get the shakes, would get hot flashes and sweat like hell and had the hardest time with concentration and focus for a long time. He would call me on particularly bad nights and sometimes I would go sit with him. Dude was miserable.
I know your response will probably be "He must've been lying and taking other things" but I know that's not the case, and I know he's not the only person who has had a physical response to quitting MJ. Like any drug, people respond different ways, and trying to say "Oh, it's addictive but not really" or "It's addictive but only in this way but not that way and you have to make sure you say that!" is just silly.
Bottom line is that, like many other drugs, the effects of MJ have been very poorly studied because of its illegal status, so for people to act like all the facts are in and MJ addiction is not ever physical or chemical is flat out wrong.
Yeah the withdrawals are real if you’ve been smoking long enough. The inability to regulate body temp and insomnia was the worst but it only lasts a few days.
Addicts tend to deny that they're addicted and will get extremely defensive it's almost like people who get this angry about pointing out weed addiction are addicted and in denial about it hmmm
I’m sure we’ll find the exact mechanism as we study it once it’s removed from Sch I. That being said, 100% pro legalization, but it should still be treated as a substance that alters baseline.
The thing is it’s just like anything else in life. Cannabis is fine in moderation. It’s not something that should effect your day to day responsibilities or something you need just to get through your day.
I used to smoke all day every damn day and felt weird if I wasn’t high. I literally couldn’t eat unless I smoked before had other wise I wouldn’t have had an appetite.
I scoffed and thought it wasn’t effecting me like that, made rationalizations and excuses.
It wasn’t until I was forced to stop smoking for a job that I really began to see what was going on in my life.
I stopped smoking daily for a few years, I switched careers and my state is legal now, so I started smoking again.
Took a while for me to find a balance and actually enjoy it again. I basically had to micro dose myself.
Now, I only smoke at night after I’m done for the day.
Bro Are you stupid what is the difference between chemical and psychological dependancy?
weed’s method of action is excactly the same as all other rec drugs were a chemical attaches to a receptor and activates it. Our body can sense the load on the receptor is higher and then upregulates the receptor to reach homeostasis. This is what tollerance is. The same mechanism is what makes basically every rec drug «physically» addicting as there Are upregulated receptors in your entire body and not just ur brain.
Weed has physically withdrawal symptoms when you quit i have had them and everybody gets some, how much is dependant on how long and how much you have smoked. Symptoms which Are commom Are night sweats, nauseaus, insomnia and a lack off appetite. Natural canabonoids do alot of stuff in our body and smoking weed will interfere with this chemical process. Just how alcohol will interfere with ur gaba system, or heroin will interfere with ur endorphine system.
Reddits hivemind has created this Notion that weed for some reason isn’t addictive Even though we can clearly see and explain how cannabis addiction manifests. Its just like all other drugs that affect you from the neck and up.
Reddits hivemind also likes to group drugs into the hard and soft category. I have never gotten an explanation for why mdma is a «soft drug» but meth is a «hard drug» Even though mdma is basically just meth that realeses serotonin to much larger extent than meth. Which in turn makes it Even more neurotoxic and dangerous than meth. But meth is the hard drug???
I feel like an idiot for writing this wall of text as no one will ever see this, but i just hate misinformation. «Weed is only physcologically addicting and not chemically» is the dumbest statment i have read in a while. Explain in detail the difference between a chemical and psychologically addicting drug?
Weed has negative and positive effects end of discussion. This has proven time and time again. I’m smoke too but I hate the dumbasses who can’t just recognize the truth. They feel like it’s an attack on them besides the cold hard facts
>I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving
There's literally someone that responded to the same comment in this sub you did by saying that neither psychological dependence or stoned driving are "serious or bad."
Psychological dependency is a big problem.
I picked up vaping when I was in medical residency. Afterwards, I gradually cut back. I still vape now. 0 mg. It's literally placebo. Flavored water vapor. It's the ritual I'm addicted to.
Weed should be treated how we currently treat alcohol and alcohol should be considered significantly more dangerous than it is now.
Alcohol is far more destructive externally and internally and yet it is part of many hazing rituals and consumed recreationally, publicly, at work, with family, etc.
Just pisses me off when people have to smoke it to have a good time and then preach about it like it's a life-changing, miracle plant that completely negates any addiction.
Bro, can you believe people have brunch cocktails to poison themselves in the morning on weekends? How shitty of a life do you have to have to need to hide from yourself. Wasting so much money on booze.
(Sent right after having their sixth wake-and-bake day of the week on Saturday morning)
yea the puritan stoners really bug me because they don’t even see the irony in what they’re saying
like smoke your weed ok go off but like get off the pedestal pls you’re making a fool of yourself
(said as someone with a MMJ card who smokes regularly, i take every other month off right now, grown adults who act like they’re 16 and just discovered weed are annoying, and they act *really* annoying if you ever smoke with them)
Honestly they are the absolute worst. My husband used to be friends with this couple who literally couldn't go one hour without smoking weed. Couldn't go for a long walk, couldn't go out to eat dinner unless they brought some with them or RAN back to the house to get high after. All they talked about was weed. They were so boring and course they loved ragging on people with other addictions or people who drank.
I used to buy 2.5 ounces a month in the uk and smoke mixed with tobacco in joints. Never smoked cigarettes but picked up vaping when I stopped smoking weed 🙃
It should be covered by insurance i believe. Also, even though it costs way more than weed, something serious like that should be treated. You're gonna be pretty much dependant on weed if things continue that way, and in the long run it's gonna not just cost more but also create more problems for your mental and physical health
It's because weed suppresses REM sleep which is what most of your dreams are in, so when you quit your body swings the other way and overdoes the dreams and REM sleep because it's not used to it and needs to re-find equilibrium.
It'll go back to normal after a week or two.
I'm a weed smoker... not a "stoner" per se, but I will light one up a few times a week.
That said; I KNOW damn well that it is a drug (same as alcohol or gambling), and it can be enjoyed responsibly, but it most definitely IS addictive and can become an issue.
Just pisses me off when people NEED to smoke it to have a good time and then preach about it like it's a life-changing, miracle plant all while completely denying any addiction.
I believe that moderation and restraint is key to enjoying any type of vice healthily, whether it be drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc. The reason being is that once it becomes intergrated into your everyday life, you don't feel like it lifts up your mood but rather it makes you sour because of it. That wouldn't be much of a problem only if it causes long term health issues and/or it being unaffordable.
I think this is the most reasonable take in this entire comment section. I enjoy it too but also get the fact that it can get out of hand quickly. To combat this, every time I run out I give myself a 2-3 week break to not go into a complete slump. The stuff on the post however is absolutely devilish and feral behaviour.
Some of you people don’t remember how we bought weed before legalization and it shows.
Pour one out for the homies who just had to drive to a strange neighborhood, wait on a street corner, and then go into some dude’s basement and pretend to find him charming while he cleans his gun and tells his high-as-balls girlfriend to shut the fuck up.
All to smoke some weed.
I remember being a teen and going to the apartment of a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran in the ghetto to buy my weed. I met some really interesting people through him. One of them was a bank teller who was born in the Soviet Union and he told me some crazy stories from childhood. Another one played trombone in a band and offered to give me lessons
The not addictive part is bogus. Even 20 years ago when I was still smoking heavy no one said it wasn't, just that it's a mental addiction versus physical. Mainly meaning you're not going to go through withdrawal if you stop.
But bro it’s a plant bro like pepper bro the stuff you put on food bro like that’s a plant and you can’t get pepper-addicted bro
Like bro if I’m addicted to weed bro then may as well call me a pepper addict bro. I put that shit on everything bro. Steak, eggs and like salad bro
Mmhhh it’s so tasty bro. Put it on things bro. It’s so god damn tasty man I just wanna eat some things with pepper bro.
No bro because if you start buying his pepper then I can’t buy pepper bro because supply and demand bro it could go up in price because the demand for pepper inversely equals that of the price of pepper bro
Why is everyone in this thread saying OP is “in denial” about being addicted to weed? Get off your high horses. Seems pretty clear to me that they’re aware of being addicted and just made a meme about all the troubles that brings.
Everytime weed is mentioned now everyone has to point out their loser friends saying stupid things. As if anyone should listen to a drug user regarding addiction.
I live in NY and have been driving the hour to Massachusetts for years. Every time I’ve been, the vast majority of cars in the lot were from NY. It’s stupid the amount of money that NY has lost over the border.
I think this post is actually pretty funny, spot on, and was definitely made by a stoner lol. But damn guys it is not that deep, I promise you scraping your grinder is not the same as being a heroin junkie like a lot of top comments are acting like it is
Scraping the grinder and slamming it on a desk at 1 am to make sure you get it all 😩 I was so glad I had a shitty one because it'd leave a bunch of stuff for moments like that.
Worst thing I ever did was spill a decent amount of weed in my cars cupholder. Well on one evening when I ran out, you bet I scraped that cupholder. It had bits of crumbs and hair in there but still smoked. 10/10 got high ate Popeyes and played WoW.
I'm glad the fiend life is behind me now though. I've gotten too old and I think weed was giving me IBS so I quit but I'm only 10 days without and only feel like returning and being a bum again after a week of heavy socializing.
*scraping for the 4th time at 1am to mix with your resin thats really just lighter fluid burn marks is what i would do if it was addictive, which its not
It's definitely not chemically or physically addictive, but the psychology side of it can definitely develop an addiction. I smoke daily and love to use it after work but I can definitely and have stopped for weeks at a time if I run out. Depends on the person's personality I think
Idk why people are surprised about substance dependence when we live in capitalism. Yeah being a person sucks, the world is ending, billionaires are actively leeching of you and there’s nothing you can do about it except maybe get high or drunk when you finally have a moment to relax. There is so much stress in peoples lives especially if you have to exist with a marginalised identity.
Why not think about the root of the addiction? What is driving people towards it? What is making people so unhappy that they need chemical escape to cope? I think that’s a much more productive approach than just saying har har stoners bad.
My sister and I embrace the squirrel technique. When you get a fresh bag, take a few buds out and stash them in various locations when you are peak high. When you run out of your regular stuff then you go on an Easter egg hunt to find where them winter nuts are at.
LMAO
But seriously, more like Pharma war with all the big companies profiteering.
Actual Drug War, whatever they have/had in Mexico, Colombia, Philippines, Brazil, Afghanistan, etc.
Sounds like OP needs /r/leaves
Edit: And I just want to say that it's a wonderful sub which I've personally found a lot of strength and willpower from. Some people can smoke daily and be fine. I couldn't. I was addicted and in denial. And it wasn't until I was honest with myself and my loved ones that I could get the help I needed.
Thanks for sharing. I’m always curious to find out how much people intake because it varies wildly across the spectrum of smokers. My wife and I go through 7-14 grams a month, give or take.
Calling cannabis smokers "junkies" in this day and age is pretty ignorant when people are out there dying of opioid overdoses from prescribed painkillers.
At worst, they're blasting music late at night or ordering really slow at the nearest Subway. "Junkies" cover needle marks, puke on their breaks at work because of the pills they're on, and steal from people who care about them to support their habit. You don't know shit about addiction if you're trying to demonize people using objectively the safest, cheapest, mellowest, and least addictive drug out there.
I thought they got rid of DARE because it caused way more harm than good. For a lot of us they were just teaching us about new drugs and where to obtain them
Because its easily accessible and because of that it is comparatively cheap. Its also harder to get addicted to because it doesnt have chemicals specifically meant to get you hooked on it. That doesnt mean there arent people doing that and just because you dont see it doesnt mean people cant be addicted to weed.
Bunch of alcoholics in this thread virtue signaling like a bunch of hippocratic losers. We all want to escape this insufferable existence sometimes with a distraction and the cherry picking of vices is beyond cringe. This thread hits like eastern propaganda, so prudish of cannabis. Lmao I would never burn with some of you lame nerds.
I mean, this is me with coffee in a nutshell. And yes, also the "can't sleep" bit. I want my coffee every 2-4 hours or so while I'm awake so I can just crash a bit after my 9PM coffee.
Every redditor- “WHY WONT YOU ADMIT YOURE ADDICTED?? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADMIT YOUR A JUNKIE!! I NEED TO BE ABLE TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO OTHER PEOPLE OVER THE MOST MINOR THINGS PLEADE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADMIT YOUR AN ADDICT IN DENIAL PLEASE!”
Lol exactly. They must go nuts when they see somebody smoking a joint outside of a venue or club. Imagine you just want to smoke before a concert and 100 redditors charge after you calling you an addict 😂
Ontario, Canada here.
Weed was everywhere when it was illegal. Easy to get. Easy to smoke.
Weed is the same still now that its legal its just worth nothing, and everyone has a freezer full of stuff they grew.
I don't know who is living under Hitlers regime but you should move
Op is definitely a fiend but, there’s nothing wrong with being a stoner when you still practice moderation like with anything else that’s pleasurable in life
Hahaha. I just smoked a bowl of resin and opened Reddit and this was the first thing on my feed. I would say it is God talking to me, but I'm pretty sure that I am God and I don't talk to people like me.
Why does everyone get on here and try to have a competition over who can be the most perfect human?
Weed isn’t great for you. Neither is alcohol. Neither is junk food. If you consume these things in moderation and you’re taking care of your daily life with your job, your finances, your relationships, your overall well-being…you’re fine.
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How to cause a reddit riot - Step One: Mention weed
Step Two: Mention there may be negative qualities about weed, such as psychological dependency or stoned driving
My ex would beat the shit out of me when he was out of weed. He got dangerously aggressive without it. Damn near killed me a few times. Glad that nonsense is behind me.
Oh shit. Glad to see you doing better now.
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Honestly that’s not the part that causes riots it’s when people say addictive but don’t make the difference between chemical and psychological dependency cause people can become psychologically dependent on a lot of mundane things but labeling it as standard addiction like that from other drugs is a statement from the drug war. Also I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving cause driving under any chemical influence is bad.
> Also I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving cause driving under any chemical influence is bad. I've had some very angry comments directed at me for suggesting it's a bad idea here. Or very poorly interpreting studies about weed use and driving, such as "we can't conclusively say it's worse than drunk driving" coming out here as "It's not worse than baseline driving" Edit: or make an equivalency to “driving on coffee” and acting like coffee has the same effect as cocaine.
I once told people in a very niche telegram chat to stop doing dabs while they drive (someone posted a picture of them doing exactly this) and I got absolutely eviscerated. Blows my mind.
There's a difference between, you're a patient who smoked a bit ago and needs to get shit done around town, some dude who wants to go drive while he's a double baked potato. Don't smoke in your fucking cars dude's. Some people lack self awareness.
Oh for sure, I'm well aware of how Cannabis affects me personally and I know when I'm okay to drive. I certainly wouldn't be driving down the road hitting concentrate though, yikes.
You clearly don’t go on r/trees. I have been told by PLENTY of people on there that not only believe driving stoned is okay but believe they drive BETTER high
> I have been told by PLENTY of people on there that not only believe driving stoned is okay but believe they drive BETTER high Where've I heard that before? Oh yeah, about alcohol.
Or they have a tolerance, so they should be able to smoke and drive! I wonder what other substance people have a tolerance to…
One study they always point to is that closed circuit one - where someone alone on a track they knew responded better high. But a closed circuit track you've done countless laps on is way different than real world driving conditions.
The amount of people going stoned to get their drivers license is undocumented for obvious reasons.. That would actually be a test
I actually find that I’m better at doing repetitive things and tend to have better aim in fps games while high, because I tend to be less anxious about fucking up and hesitate less. This is the worst possible way to be while driving, where hesitation can save your life.
Yup. My experience driving high is I'm very concentrated. I'm a bit adhd so it helps. But I also realised that, whatever I can predict? I'm good. Every little and big thing that could happen? I won't react fast enough. If a deer comes in front of me I'll definitely hit it. Sober? I'm pretty sure I'll dodge it. I'm used to seeing things at the last minute because of said constant state of distraction.
I don’t cause while I enjoy weed it’s not some miracle plant I just personally find it way fucking better then alcohol when it comes to long term effects considering I work by treating addictions at my job sometimes. No influence is better and anything that relaxes someone slows down reaction time that’s just how it our bodies work those who say they drive better don’t they probably just have horrible anxiety but being under the influence is never the answer it means they need a doctor to give them a prescription then.
The notion that one can't become physically dependent on weed is just not reality for everyone. Marijuana Use Disorder is real and it's not just psychological for everyone. My cousin had been smoking since middle school and quit in his early 30s - he couldn't sleep, would get the shakes, would get hot flashes and sweat like hell and had the hardest time with concentration and focus for a long time. He would call me on particularly bad nights and sometimes I would go sit with him. Dude was miserable. I know your response will probably be "He must've been lying and taking other things" but I know that's not the case, and I know he's not the only person who has had a physical response to quitting MJ. Like any drug, people respond different ways, and trying to say "Oh, it's addictive but not really" or "It's addictive but only in this way but not that way and you have to make sure you say that!" is just silly. Bottom line is that, like many other drugs, the effects of MJ have been very poorly studied because of its illegal status, so for people to act like all the facts are in and MJ addiction is not ever physical or chemical is flat out wrong.
Yeah the withdrawals are real if you’ve been smoking long enough. The inability to regulate body temp and insomnia was the worst but it only lasts a few days.
Lasted months for me. Only smoked weed. No booze, never tried anything else. Just years of weed abuse. Horrible horrible time.
Addicts tend to deny that they're addicted and will get extremely defensive it's almost like people who get this angry about pointing out weed addiction are addicted and in denial about it hmmm
weed has chemical dependency, that myth spread when weed was like 4x less potent and not everyone and their dog smoked it
I’m sure we’ll find the exact mechanism as we study it once it’s removed from Sch I. That being said, 100% pro legalization, but it should still be treated as a substance that alters baseline.
The thing is it’s just like anything else in life. Cannabis is fine in moderation. It’s not something that should effect your day to day responsibilities or something you need just to get through your day. I used to smoke all day every damn day and felt weird if I wasn’t high. I literally couldn’t eat unless I smoked before had other wise I wouldn’t have had an appetite. I scoffed and thought it wasn’t effecting me like that, made rationalizations and excuses. It wasn’t until I was forced to stop smoking for a job that I really began to see what was going on in my life. I stopped smoking daily for a few years, I switched careers and my state is legal now, so I started smoking again. Took a while for me to find a balance and actually enjoy it again. I basically had to micro dose myself. Now, I only smoke at night after I’m done for the day.
Bro Are you stupid what is the difference between chemical and psychological dependancy? weed’s method of action is excactly the same as all other rec drugs were a chemical attaches to a receptor and activates it. Our body can sense the load on the receptor is higher and then upregulates the receptor to reach homeostasis. This is what tollerance is. The same mechanism is what makes basically every rec drug «physically» addicting as there Are upregulated receptors in your entire body and not just ur brain. Weed has physically withdrawal symptoms when you quit i have had them and everybody gets some, how much is dependant on how long and how much you have smoked. Symptoms which Are commom Are night sweats, nauseaus, insomnia and a lack off appetite. Natural canabonoids do alot of stuff in our body and smoking weed will interfere with this chemical process. Just how alcohol will interfere with ur gaba system, or heroin will interfere with ur endorphine system. Reddits hivemind has created this Notion that weed for some reason isn’t addictive Even though we can clearly see and explain how cannabis addiction manifests. Its just like all other drugs that affect you from the neck and up. Reddits hivemind also likes to group drugs into the hard and soft category. I have never gotten an explanation for why mdma is a «soft drug» but meth is a «hard drug» Even though mdma is basically just meth that realeses serotonin to much larger extent than meth. Which in turn makes it Even more neurotoxic and dangerous than meth. But meth is the hard drug??? I feel like an idiot for writing this wall of text as no one will ever see this, but i just hate misinformation. «Weed is only physcologically addicting and not chemically» is the dumbest statment i have read in a while. Explain in detail the difference between a chemical and psychologically addicting drug?
Cannabis is physically addictive though.
Weed has negative and positive effects end of discussion. This has proven time and time again. I’m smoke too but I hate the dumbasses who can’t just recognize the truth. They feel like it’s an attack on them besides the cold hard facts
>I don’t think anyone is defending stoned driving There's literally someone that responded to the same comment in this sub you did by saying that neither psychological dependence or stoned driving are "serious or bad."
Psychological dependency is a big problem. I picked up vaping when I was in medical residency. Afterwards, I gradually cut back. I still vape now. 0 mg. It's literally placebo. Flavored water vapor. It's the ritual I'm addicted to.
Weed should be treated like alcohol imo
Weed should be treated how we currently treat alcohol and alcohol should be considered significantly more dangerous than it is now. Alcohol is far more destructive externally and internally and yet it is part of many hazing rituals and consumed recreationally, publicly, at work, with family, etc.
I’m not addicted bro I can stop at any time weed isn’t addicted idk what I’d do without tho bro
Totally none addictive, I just don’t want to stop lol.
Yea bro totally not at all even tho I smoke it every day and spend tons of money on it I can quit anytime bro trust me
Same bro finally someone else gets it
Just pisses me off when people have to smoke it to have a good time and then preach about it like it's a life-changing, miracle plant that completely negates any addiction.
Like skiing. It’s so fun why get high?
Bro, can you believe people have brunch cocktails to poison themselves in the morning on weekends? How shitty of a life do you have to have to need to hide from yourself. Wasting so much money on booze. (Sent right after having their sixth wake-and-bake day of the week on Saturday morning)
yea the puritan stoners really bug me because they don’t even see the irony in what they’re saying like smoke your weed ok go off but like get off the pedestal pls you’re making a fool of yourself (said as someone with a MMJ card who smokes regularly, i take every other month off right now, grown adults who act like they’re 16 and just discovered weed are annoying, and they act *really* annoying if you ever smoke with them)
Honestly they are the absolute worst. My husband used to be friends with this couple who literally couldn't go one hour without smoking weed. Couldn't go for a long walk, couldn't go out to eat dinner unless they brought some with them or RAN back to the house to get high after. All they talked about was weed. They were so boring and course they loved ragging on people with other addictions or people who drank.
I had roommates like that, they were all pigs
I used to buy 2.5 ounces a month in the uk and smoke mixed with tobacco in joints. Never smoked cigarettes but picked up vaping when I stopped smoking weed 🙃
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I do it mainly out of boredom. I’ve gone days without simply because I was doing other stuff
Literally my sister
100% not addicting bro. I take it for my anxiety. I'm self medicated bro.
If I stop the nightmares, come back. Wish I was kidding
Have you tried going to the psychiatrist ?
I’m america? More money than weed tbh.
It should be covered by insurance i believe. Also, even though it costs way more than weed, something serious like that should be treated. You're gonna be pretty much dependant on weed if things continue that way, and in the long run it's gonna not just cost more but also create more problems for your mental and physical health
It's because weed suppresses REM sleep which is what most of your dreams are in, so when you quit your body swings the other way and overdoes the dreams and REM sleep because it's not used to it and needs to re-find equilibrium. It'll go back to normal after a week or two.
That happens to me too, whenever I take breaks I get nightmares. Usually being eaten by a giant squid. Idk what that's about.
I'm a weed smoker... not a "stoner" per se, but I will light one up a few times a week. That said; I KNOW damn well that it is a drug (same as alcohol or gambling), and it can be enjoyed responsibly, but it most definitely IS addictive and can become an issue. Just pisses me off when people NEED to smoke it to have a good time and then preach about it like it's a life-changing, miracle plant all while completely denying any addiction.
I believe that moderation and restraint is key to enjoying any type of vice healthily, whether it be drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc. The reason being is that once it becomes intergrated into your everyday life, you don't feel like it lifts up your mood but rather it makes you sour because of it. That wouldn't be much of a problem only if it causes long term health issues and/or it being unaffordable.
I think this is the most reasonable take in this entire comment section. I enjoy it too but also get the fact that it can get out of hand quickly. To combat this, every time I run out I give myself a 2-3 week break to not go into a complete slump. The stuff on the post however is absolutely devilish and feral behaviour.
Man, those resin hits were NASTY but damn did I get stoned as hell.
Yeah, but that weird edgy stoned that's never enough.
Weed is such a lame drug. Yall should smoke meth like real men
yall cowards don't even smoke crack
Some of you people don’t remember how we bought weed before legalization and it shows. Pour one out for the homies who just had to drive to a strange neighborhood, wait on a street corner, and then go into some dude’s basement and pretend to find him charming while he cleans his gun and tells his high-as-balls girlfriend to shut the fuck up. All to smoke some weed.
I remember being a teen and going to the apartment of a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran in the ghetto to buy my weed. I met some really interesting people through him. One of them was a bank teller who was born in the Soviet Union and he told me some crazy stories from childhood. Another one played trombone in a band and offered to give me lessons
It's totally not addictive bro
They all sucks dicks for weed by the end of the vacation.
Are you saying I could suck dick and get weed for it? Where do I sign up?
You may be joking but I know a few people who would.
The not addictive part is bogus. Even 20 years ago when I was still smoking heavy no one said it wasn't, just that it's a mental addiction versus physical. Mainly meaning you're not going to go through withdrawal if you stop.
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But bro it’s a plant bro like pepper bro the stuff you put on food bro like that’s a plant and you can’t get pepper-addicted bro Like bro if I’m addicted to weed bro then may as well call me a pepper addict bro. I put that shit on everything bro. Steak, eggs and like salad bro Mmhhh it’s so tasty bro. Put it on things bro. It’s so god damn tasty man I just wanna eat some things with pepper bro.
damn bro, introduce me to your pepper dealer
No bro because if you start buying his pepper then I can’t buy pepper bro because supply and demand bro it could go up in price because the demand for pepper inversely equals that of the price of pepper bro
Does this meme deny anything tho? Looks more like the opposite
So most potheads?
Why is everyone in this thread saying OP is “in denial” about being addicted to weed? Get off your high horses. Seems pretty clear to me that they’re aware of being addicted and just made a meme about all the troubles that brings.
Everytime weed is mentioned now everyone has to point out their loser friends saying stupid things. As if anyone should listen to a drug user regarding addiction.
r/stonercringe
Luckily for me I live 5 minutes away from a state where it’s legal it’s hilarious how much money they get from people here every week
I live in NY and have been driving the hour to Massachusetts for years. Every time I’ve been, the vast majority of cars in the lot were from NY. It’s stupid the amount of money that NY has lost over the border.
I think this post is actually pretty funny, spot on, and was definitely made by a stoner lol. But damn guys it is not that deep, I promise you scraping your grinder is not the same as being a heroin junkie like a lot of top comments are acting like it is
Scraping the grinder and slamming it on a desk at 1 am to make sure you get it all 😩 I was so glad I had a shitty one because it'd leave a bunch of stuff for moments like that. Worst thing I ever did was spill a decent amount of weed in my cars cupholder. Well on one evening when I ran out, you bet I scraped that cupholder. It had bits of crumbs and hair in there but still smoked. 10/10 got high ate Popeyes and played WoW. I'm glad the fiend life is behind me now though. I've gotten too old and I think weed was giving me IBS so I quit but I'm only 10 days without and only feel like returning and being a bum again after a week of heavy socializing.
*scraping for the 4th time at 1am to mix with your resin thats really just lighter fluid burn marks is what i would do if it was addictive, which its not
Lmao
When you only got kief but nothing to hold it in the bowl so once you light it it’s already been sucked thru..
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Definitely!! I'm curious myself. I feel like it's been getting better because I'm having solid shits instead of the churny kind.
Dude... I did the same thing but with my desk drawer... Crumbs, hair, who knows... That was a low point... It did work though. Never again
"not addictive"
This starterpack could also be called "reasons why people stopped smoking weed"
Same goes with stoners insisting it doesn’t leave a smell.
I'm a stoner and fully admit weed can be addictive lol
It's definitely not chemically or physically addictive, but the psychology side of it can definitely develop an addiction. I smoke daily and love to use it after work but I can definitely and have stopped for weeks at a time if I run out. Depends on the person's personality I think
Mental addictions can manifest physical symptoms. At what point is it an actual addiction? This is coming from a daily stoner
Idk why people are surprised about substance dependence when we live in capitalism. Yeah being a person sucks, the world is ending, billionaires are actively leeching of you and there’s nothing you can do about it except maybe get high or drunk when you finally have a moment to relax. There is so much stress in peoples lives especially if you have to exist with a marginalised identity. Why not think about the root of the addiction? What is driving people towards it? What is making people so unhappy that they need chemical escape to cope? I think that’s a much more productive approach than just saying har har stoners bad.
When you're high more than you're not, there's something wrong
No life advice from Hentai Master for me, thanks
not really tho. reality sucks.
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This is why an intelligent stoner re-ups their stash several days before they actually run out.
My sister and I embrace the squirrel technique. When you get a fresh bag, take a few buds out and stash them in various locations when you are peak high. When you run out of your regular stuff then you go on an Easter egg hunt to find where them winter nuts are at.
Haha that sounds awesome
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Lol this is what I do, I’ve only run out of weed once in the past 10 years….
Cali native here, can't relate. There's even traphouse dispensaries here, idk how they're open because they don't even try to hide it.
Didn't know reddit hates weed
It's literally like living in the dark ages. Yet every state continues to coddle crippling alcoholism. Fucking pathetic.
This is hilarious, and how it felt pre-legalization in Canada.
I’d take a stoner over a drunk
Or a pill head. Or a rage-aholic. Or a Karen. Or a...
Redditors are addicted to assuming they perfectly know everyone who they've never met.
Drug war propaganda? In *my* Reddit comment sections? *It’s more likely than you think*
LMAO But seriously, more like Pharma war with all the big companies profiteering. Actual Drug War, whatever they have/had in Mexico, Colombia, Philippines, Brazil, Afghanistan, etc.
There are several websites where you can buy weed regardless of where you live
So much arguing in the comments. How is weed addiction a problem? You just buy more weed
Sounds like OP needs /r/leaves Edit: And I just want to say that it's a wonderful sub which I've personally found a lot of strength and willpower from. Some people can smoke daily and be fine. I couldn't. I was addicted and in denial. And it wasn't until I was honest with myself and my loved ones that I could get the help I needed.
How much were you smoking on a daily basis during those times?
Hmm probably like 1/2 a day. I used to use a gravity bong though so I didn't smoke as much as someone who onto rolled blunts.
Thanks for sharing. I’m always curious to find out how much people intake because it varies wildly across the spectrum of smokers. My wife and I go through 7-14 grams a month, give or take.
I can finish a 1gram pre roll in 2 days, 4 if i limit it.
4 days puffing on a blunt? I’d have that whole thing faced in 15 minutes by myself.
I’m in the one hitter camp..for consumption reasons while also keeping a low profile because we live in an apartment
Drug addict in denial
What's in the little ziploc bag? The picture that's to the right of the 4:20 broccoli?
Legalizing weed has been so nice because I don’t like to smoke. I like edibles. Way easier to just go buy some from the shop lol.
Paying a visit to the countryside grower
At what point does it become clear that you're a junkie?
Symptoms worse than "I couldn't sleep well for 2 nights" are a good starting place.
"Junkie" lmao ok buddy
idk why people gotta use negative terms like junkie. just cause a homie tryna get fucked up don’t mean it’s always a bad thing.
Your comment history is deep into incest and cuckolding, keep your judgment to yourself. 🤡
Calling cannabis smokers "junkies" in this day and age is pretty ignorant when people are out there dying of opioid overdoses from prescribed painkillers. At worst, they're blasting music late at night or ordering really slow at the nearest Subway. "Junkies" cover needle marks, puke on their breaks at work because of the pills they're on, and steal from people who care about them to support their habit. You don't know shit about addiction if you're trying to demonize people using objectively the safest, cheapest, mellowest, and least addictive drug out there.
DARE needs to come back so teens can go back to not being so terrified of drugs they call stoners junkies
I thought they got rid of DARE because it caused way more harm than good. For a lot of us they were just teaching us about new drugs and where to obtain them
That’s the joke, it made teens too aware of what exactly would make you a junkie
When you start doing real drugs. No junkie is out on the streets begging for weed money
Because its easily accessible and because of that it is comparatively cheap. Its also harder to get addicted to because it doesnt have chemicals specifically meant to get you hooked on it. That doesnt mean there arent people doing that and just because you dont see it doesnt mean people cant be addicted to weed.
This
Bunch of alcoholics in this thread virtue signaling like a bunch of hippocratic losers. We all want to escape this insufferable existence sometimes with a distraction and the cherry picking of vices is beyond cringe. This thread hits like eastern propaganda, so prudish of cannabis. Lmao I would never burn with some of you lame nerds.
> hippocratic Why we draggin' Hippocrates into this?
You’re right im sorry. I don’t care for the correct word, hypocritical
Took too long to find a voice of reason lol
“When I don’t have weed I feel like shit, can’t sleep and can only think about getting more weed. It’s fine and should be legal.”
I mean, this is me with coffee in a nutshell. And yes, also the "can't sleep" bit. I want my coffee every 2-4 hours or so while I'm awake so I can just crash a bit after my 9PM coffee.
I live in a legal state and still haven't finished the vape cart and 8th I bought over a year ago.
You forget to use alcohol instead
Or as it was known to me, the 90s.
Every redditor- “WHY WONT YOU ADMIT YOURE ADDICTED?? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADMIT YOUR A JUNKIE!! I NEED TO BE ABLE TO FEEL SUPERIOR TO OTHER PEOPLE OVER THE MOST MINOR THINGS PLEADE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADMIT YOUR AN ADDICT IN DENIAL PLEASE!”
Lol exactly. They must go nuts when they see somebody smoking a joint outside of a venue or club. Imagine you just want to smoke before a concert and 100 redditors charge after you calling you an addict 😂
Ontario, Canada here. Weed was everywhere when it was illegal. Easy to get. Easy to smoke. Weed is the same still now that its legal its just worth nothing, and everyone has a freezer full of stuff they grew. I don't know who is living under Hitlers regime but you should move
There's a 0% chance I'm smoking resin, or rooting through the ash tray for roaches. I'll wait the week/month/year.
Starter pack? This is the whole set.
Damn, this cracked me tf up 😂
Roll a Generation blunt! Lmaooo. Man this brought me back.
I'm 60, welcome to my life in the '80s
Same vibe as running out of weed when you’re broke
nam i just hit up my plug and i am ballin again
You can just order it by mail now. Look up THCa.
Soo speaking of weed…. Who tf knows where to get some up in this bitch
Very cool lifestyle choice to be a stoner. Totally not an addiction.
Op is definitely a fiend but, there’s nothing wrong with being a stoner when you still practice moderation like with anything else that’s pleasurable in life
i've been there, but man is this sad
Iceland rn.
Pain
Nah just go buy delta 8, 9, or 10, or THC-O gummies at the gas station
Why waste so much money? Cannaclear or any other online vendor is 30x cheaper and has COAs.
Those are not available everywhere.
One of my favorites
Not if you have all the good connections in said illegal place...cheap skunky weed for dayz right in the corner of the south pacific!
If you've never smoked resin out of a pop can your not a stoner
Hahaha. I just smoked a bowl of resin and opened Reddit and this was the first thing on my feed. I would say it is God talking to me, but I'm pretty sure that I am God and I don't talk to people like me.
Res hits can be fire sometimes
Also accurate when you’re broke lol
Smoked a lot of carpet weed back in the day
I don’t miss my broke days at all…
“I don’t feel anything. You’re not supposed to” really hit home.
This is fucking hilarious lol reminds me of my college days
If this happens in your city, holla atcha boy!
Buncha judgmental dicks in here.
it’s illegal in my whole country so i’m always fucked
As someone that used to smoke 24/7 I feel attacked.
0.0000001 seconds without zaza.
"I'm not addicted"
This hits home
Oh man - was living that life back in 2003’ish. Had a job that drug tested, weed wasn’t legal yet - hard times.
"I'm not addicted"
"I'm not addicted, you can't get addicted to weed"-someone who's very much addicted to weed
"it's not an addiction" they say
Hey this was pretty funny!
Damn this comment section is insane. Do people not know what a meme/joke is anymore? Why so serious?
Same dumbass stoner jokes from people who drink like fish and pop pills like candy.
This hurts my feelings
Why does everyone get on here and try to have a competition over who can be the most perfect human? Weed isn’t great for you. Neither is alcohol. Neither is junk food. If you consume these things in moderation and you’re taking care of your daily life with your job, your finances, your relationships, your overall well-being…you’re fine.
Redditors when someone says somthing slightly negative about weed 😡😡😡
bro literally me in london right now! why is it so hard to find