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I’ve Smoked Pot Every Day for 9 Years — Here’s What it’s Like to Quit
New York Post ^ | 3/28 | Erin Keller

Posted on 03/28/2023 7:55:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A 22-year-old content creator and model is getting real about withdrawal symptoms she said she’s experienced since she stopped smoking marijuana two months ago.

Suede Brooks from Las Vegas made a viral TikTok on Sunday in which she claimed to have gone through a pound of weed every three months while smoking every day for nine years.

“Thought I would open up a bit,” she captioned the clip, which has sparked over 2.3 million views. “For the longest time, I never thought I had a problem with it until I realized the amount of money that I was spending … and if you smoke weed, you know how much that is.”

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: cheechandchong; freedom; godsplant; marijuana; medicine; pothead; reefermadness; smellslikefreedom; weed
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To: cgbg

They are in WA. They are going to anyway, along with anyotgerdrugthatpeople want. They are planning moveabledrug parties with freedrufgs, pipes and needles and someone to monitor the drug use.

It’s really another form of assisted suicide.


61 posted on 03/28/2023 10:15:28 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Telepathic Intruder

A lot of professional gamblers use weed.

How does that work-if they can’t be objective, can’t focus, can’t be driven and/or the negative nonsense posted above is true?

This is a field where 99% fail, generally requires above avg wits and yet is full of potheads.


62 posted on 03/28/2023 10:25:19 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Marijuana has many negative effects that users of it deny religiously. One of them is that it’s very addictive.

The users deny it because they have actual experience with marijuana, whereas the people that invent or exaggerate such things learned all they know from Reefer Madness
63 posted on 03/28/2023 10:25:35 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak

I have actual experience. It is not as addictive as heroin or nicotine, but a person does develop a dependence on it. And it’s also what the studies say, unless you think it’s all a big conspiracy theory.


64 posted on 03/28/2023 10:42:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: dfwgator

A friend in college noted most smoking weed were also smoking tobacco


65 posted on 03/28/2023 10:46:17 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Hammerhead

We need to double down on weed. It’s all too common in ATL. It’s nothing to go shopping and run across people who are high and dragging their kids around. That’s just not right.


66 posted on 03/28/2023 10:50:33 PM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Libloather

Her fingernails are cat claws JEEZE!!


67 posted on 03/28/2023 10:59:03 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
And it’s also what the studies say, unless you think it’s all a big conspiracy theory.

Oh yeah? I think we all know the value of "studies" these days. But trust the science, eh?
68 posted on 03/28/2023 11:02:25 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Libloather

Unless she covered up the moles in her before picture it sure looks like those are two different women.


69 posted on 03/28/2023 11:03:36 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: fr_freak

Not every study is one conducted by new world order leftists. If anything, they would be trying to get you on drugs, not off. And not all science is bad science.


70 posted on 03/28/2023 11:32:18 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Jonty30
I’ve never smoked it, but 20 years ago two cigs of MJ was about $20 and that’s about $730/year if that’s all you use.

Math error. More like $7,300 per year.

Regards,

71 posted on 03/29/2023 12:07:16 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway
It's all in her head, get it?

But now I don't get it, fifty years ago a person who smoked weed was called a "head freak."   I google "head freak" now and the internet doesn't remember.

Arlo Guthrie was asked what is a freak and he replied, "freaks is freaks", and Grace Slick said "Feed your head."

I'll be seventy tomorrow.   I feel old.

72 posted on 03/29/2023 12:14:17 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Telepathic Intruder I agree with a lot of things you post. And I think you've got THE coolest screen name I've ever seen.

How ever I must respectfully disagree with you on this one. Yes marijuana does have negative effects. No substance is with out them.

Marijuana does how ever have some positive medicinal uses. Alcohol does not. As to being addictive, in the psychical sense, no it is not. Alcohol is far more damaging. I know. It damned near killed me. But that was 33 years ago. marijuana though, well I did have many, many pleasant experiences with it back in the day.

73 posted on 03/29/2023 12:14:30 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: nickcarraway

Come to Canada... Since the legalization of marijuana, illegal marijuana has dropped so low in price that they are practically giving it away... And if you’re really cheap, grow your own... You can have up to 4 plants budding away in your home, but given the smell you want keep them in the garage.

Enjoy!


74 posted on 03/29/2023 12:16:30 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: alexander_busek

I think to start smoking pot.

You’re right. MJ users would be ecstatic if $730 was all it cost.


75 posted on 03/29/2023 12:17:37 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: jmacusa

Of course there may be positive aspects for some, but a lot of people just ignore the negative ones or pretend they don’t exist. Moderate consumption of alcohol can also have positive effects, by the way, although no one would deny the negative ones.


76 posted on 03/29/2023 12:39:34 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Marijuana has many negative effects that users of it deny religiously. One of them is that it's very addictive.

Is desire addictive?   Some say yes.   A long time ago, I got high whenever I could for a year or two.   I tried to go to college, flunked out (guess why?) and moved back with my family who had moved from Virginia to Georgia.   I found myself away from the place where my pot toking friends were.   It just wasn't the same.   Without the cultural influence I had no desire.   I got a job, got married, enlisted in the USAF and never looked back.

Marijuana is not addictive.   The greatest negative effect is that it destroys ambition and achievement.

Full disclosure: I told the USAF Human Reliability Program Lieutenant everything about my participation in the "drug counter culture" and she told me the lie to tell anyone that asked, that I tried Marijuana a couple of times but didn't like it.   I had no trouble passing my Top Secret Security Clearance.

Try to stop telling the story that Marijuana is addictive.   It is likely that it is only the culture and lotus eater aspect of the lifestyle that leaves individuals in a repetitive rut.

77 posted on 03/29/2023 12:48:51 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Hammerhead
I was thinking along the lines of calling it temporal displacement but described it well enough.
78 posted on 03/29/2023 12:53:47 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
You may think you know more than the experts who have studied it, but you’re probably a user with an agenda and fooling yourself. It’s easy to do while under its effects.

Just so you don't accuse me of that foolishness, I haven't been high on Marijuana in fifty years and never will again at the tinder age of seventy.

If you have never been a pot smoker (which you clearly have not), leave it up to those that can give first hand information.

Marijuana has many negative effects, so stick to the truth.

79 posted on 03/29/2023 1:02:22 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: higgmeister
"If you have never been a pot smoker (which you clearly have not)"...

But I have, and I knew very well its addictive effects. Many people think it effects everyone the exact same way, so they make themselves the universal standard of what happens when you smoke it. It effects different people differently, however; that's a property of psychoactive drugs. So you can say pot is good for you, but that's you, not everyone.


80 posted on 03/29/2023 1:17:21 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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