Unidian wrote:These things aren't called addictions for nothing. Blair actually makes some good points here. After a certain number of years, your brain structure changes physically to the point that it will demand the addictive substance by any means necessary. Pot isn't very physically addictive, but psychologically, it can definitely hook people.
Cutting down to one is good. Of course, it will be hard to keep it at that level. Excuses will come up and eventually one or more of them will sound plausible enough to work. I'm a problem drinker myself so I know of what I speak here. It's hard.
Generally, you don't just drop these things once the brain has turned to "scrambled eggs." You might quit for a while, even a year maybe, here and there. But generally it always finds a way to come back. Like Tomas said, you'll quit when dead.
GodsDaughter says: Yes, I agree Blair does make sense here, so does Diebert and everyone else who piped up and expressed his thoughts on this subject, and I Thank you all for your input.
I will make every effort to smoking only 1 shared joint a day which is less than smoking a whole joint for myself. I go out daily and smoke a doo-bie with my friend as I won't smoke it around my living quarters.
I don't smoke tobacco, I quit 35 years ago, never did like that crap. I quit before my daughter and son caught wind of me smoking, I wanted to be a good influential mother for my children. Then, when my son Jason was 13, I approached him and said, son, if you never smoke cigarettes through your teenage life, I'll give you $200.00 when you reach 19 and you come to me and say, Mom, I never smoked throughout my teenage life. Jason and I shook hands on my deal offered to him. He came to me at 19 and said "Mom, you owe me $200.00" his good friends vouched for him, and I believed in my son without question, I gave him $200. right then and there. At age 20 he smoked but gave it up, at age 23 he was tragically struck down, his young life snuffed out. He didn't know what hit him, he died on Blackfoot Trail Calgary Alberta, on his way to work. A tow-truck driver rammed into the four young men checking their tow-hitch, all were hospitalized seriously messed up, my son was one of two Thompson boys at the scene. When the police called they didn't know what Thompson boy was killed, of course I didn't know either, it was shock enough to hear of my son's death via-the-phone. If it had of been Vernon my brothers son, my brother would have likely committed suicide, for he's not as strong as I am. There was over 500 people at Jason's funeral, many came from the United States to Canada, many came up to me telling me my son was an awesome dude, everyone loved Jason, he was an angel.
Jason's birthday is coming up on October 7th, he was born in 1973 and died at 23. I think of my son each year. He's alive in my mind, I see him energetic, alive and well from my imagination's perspective.
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Does anyone know a Musician band called Sacred Ally, they have CD's out and are making it big in Canada right now as a heavy-metal band. I don't know if my nephew Vernon the Thompson boy I spoke about above, (one of the accident victims), travels with his band to the states or not. Him and my son Jason were 1st cousins and were close as two pees-in-a-pod.
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GodsDaughter says: You are only a problem drinker if you create problems for other people, you already know alcohol is a problem to your liver and brain, but, drinkers don't seem to care or acknowledge they're killing themselves, it's because they have no control over the poison that's poisoning them. They become problems to people because they become very difficult to manage because of the poisons affecting their soaked-up-masses-of-grey-jelly. I'm an expert on the subject and I don't drink, because I am an expert on the subject!
GodsDaughter says: I'd prefer to be addicted to marijuana then to be victim to alcohol