Posted on 11/30/2018 7:03:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“No kidding. I actually had one tell me he’d been smoking pot for 20 years and he hadn’t become addicted in all those years. True story.”
If you enjoy eating oranges or reading FR daily, it does not make you physically addicted.
Met hundreds of people that have smoked cannabis daily for decades and can stop cold turkey when traveling to places where it is not available. You do not feel any withdrawal. Worst case, they may have a harder time sleeping for a few days but that is easily avoided with some light exercize.
Not happening with coffee, cigarettes, alcohol and Rx pills. If you use these substances daily, you’ll feel dead on the first day of sobriety.
I used to smoke 1-2 packs a day and coffee every couple hours. I would get shakes/headaches if I didn’t have a cig/coffee for 4-6 hours. Horribly addictive but legal...
For many, alcohol is not the problem. It is the solution to their problems. As you say.
It does not end well.
Thank you so much for the testimony. FRiends
As it becomes more legal, countless hard working, responsible professionals who happen to enjoy a plant on their own time are being HEARD!
My experience is that people who smoke pot habitually are blind to what happens to them. It becomes the new normal to them. That’s why they hit it the minute they wake up. Wake and bake.
The worst thing is that they justify it. Even alcoholics think they should probably stop.
I know several Wake and Bake folks and all of them smoke it. They don’t try to reduce the harm to their lungs. All of them drive while stoned because there is no “not stoned” period.
Baloney, I know many successful highly intelligent people in their 80’s and 90’s who never transitioned to hard core drugs. Weak and susceptible people will always be there, it doesn’t mean everybody else is the same. Yes there are some people who should stay away from it, but not ALL.
When it comes to pot, alcohol, cigs and gambling, politicians are on the tax train and that’s a stronger addiction than the drugs themselves.
They ain’t gettin’ off that train.
So you might as well plan around that reality.
:-)
You can’t argue with prohibitionists not jack-boot lickers.
:-)
Surely you’ve noticed that as smoking numbers decline the taxes keep going up to make up the difference in revenue.
If the remaining 16% of the population suddenly quit smoking the panic among politicians would be epic. And alcohol, pot and gambling would get a lot more expensive.
It has nothing to do with anything being ‘harmless’, worse (or ‘better’ than alcohol), nor a ‘gateway’.
It’s about STATE’S RIGHTS and the fact that the federal government has zero business in determining if it should be legal for an individual user.
Nothing more, nothing less.
I’m pretty sure Budweiser sets the gold standard as a gateway drug.
The Undisputed King of Gateways.
Must be the pot.
:-)
Okay. I’m a much bigger fan of music than of pot for your situation. I’m also much more skeptical of your solution than of music for an escape - I knew/know a huge number of people who tried your path and got lost.
“Met hundreds of people that have smoked cannabis daily for decades and can stop cold turkey when traveling to places where it is not available.”
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Faulty logic. Drunks can’t get booze in dry counties but, like druggies, they’ll grab their kick as soon as they can. Obviously a person has to stop (whatever) if they can’t get it. It’s like claiming somebody stranded in the desert stopped drinking water “cold turkey”.
“can stop cold turkey”
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That’s one of the phrases - “I can quit anytime I want!” - that I wish I had the proverbial nickel for every time it’s been said.
This is my second decade on FR, and I've long since discovered that the pot / WoD threads are the best place to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to conservatism.
That's the beautiful thing about life: it's not a one-size-fits-all proposition. I'm sorry that the people you know got lost along the path, but that doesn't mean everyone does, nor does it mean most people do.
The best thing about this country used to be that you were free to live your life how you saw fit, and I was free to live mine the way I saw fit. Do you like living in a neighborhood of nosy neighbors?
Is he smoking everyday for 20 years or only occasionally?
As a young adult I would smoke pretty much every weekend until I was 25 (1985). After we passed the laws here in Washington State in 2012 I started smoking again. I smoke probably 3-5 times per year. Does that make me addicted? I also don’t drink. Consuming either one of these takes personal responsibility.
Sorry, I didn’t bring smoking into the mix here.
“I smoke probably 3-5 times per year.”
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Good for you, a pack should last you at least for years then - which at today’s cig prices (I remember when a pack was 20 cents) makes it at least a cheap vice, at least.
MIC DROP!
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