Addiction? If you are going to have to smoke pot for the rest of your life in order to manage your pain, there really isn't much differen e between that and any other addiction, now is there?
I agree with you, an addiction is an addiction is an addiction. Whether it be food, sex, booze, opiats...ETCWhy would it be worse to be addicted to a substance than have to contend with permanent intractable pain? I know a man in his 80s who wants to kick his valium addiction, been on them for 20 years, when I asked him why he said he didn't want that monkey on his back. It may take him two years to kick the stuff, he takes blood thinners and I contend he is addicted Ted to those as well but he risks dying if he quits them. What is it with society that scorns all but the so socially acceptable "addictions"?
Maybe for you... but I quit a decade long pack a day of cigarettes habit with virtually no problems. When I stop smoking bud I can't sleep for days, can't eat, get anxiety and moody, and I even vomit and get the shits.Where I disagree with you is that Cannabis is addictive....it is NOT. Thats how I see it but I know that no matter what I say, I will not convince you of that so you can believe what you want and I will believe WHAT I KNOW!
Maybe for you... but I quit a decade long pack a day of cigarettes habit with virtually no problems. When I stop smoking bud I can't sleep for days, can't eat, get anxiety and moody, and I even vomit and get the shits.
So why do they go away after about a week of not toking? Except for anxiety, but it's not nearly as bad.because it helped you medicinally with all those symptoms...
Maybe for you... but I quit a decade long pack a day of cigarettes habit with virtually no problems. When I stop smoking bud I can't sleep for days, can't eat, get anxiety and moody, and I even vomit and get the shits.
Drug companies run all the adds against drugs. They pay vast amounts of money to MADD. They get Christianity completely involved and loaded with cash for the war on drugs and marijuana. They have and endless supply of money to see their goals met to whatever end. our liberties have been stripped by drug companies. Drug companies have nearly 10% of U.S. born citizens in prison! And yet we sit here and babble about legalizing weed.........we base a great deal of our economy imprisoning people for drugs, from the guards to the walls to the drug testing.
well addiction usually leads to death. all of them,except pot! while i agree cannabis is not a sub for morphine etc, its not even close to as habit forming.
Haha you make me feel like I'm some disabled drug addict. No I don't even smoke weed that much. This is just a temporary thing.Have you not found a strain of Cannabis that helps with pain management?? I am pretty beat up. I have some serious injuries that have kicked my ass for years. Doctors put me back together best they could but pain never goes away and as I have grown older the pain has only increased. I was under a pain management program for a very long time but I eventually got to the point where I realized that the pain killers were going to kill me faster then anything that was hurting so I just said Fuck it and got off that shit. My tolerence was extremely high and Opiats are highly addictive....I saw myself slipping away into a place that was NO GOOD!!
Cannabis has been life changing for me. It does not kill the pain completely but it does take the edge off and helps relax my mind and body and also helps cut down on anxiety ( strain dependent ) levels that can be quite high due to the pain. Its not perfect but it is without a doubt very helpful. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do but my advice to anyone who suffers from any type of chronic pain is to try Cannabis first. Opiats are Fucken dangerous just based on the fact that they are highly addictive...thats not including everything else that comes with that SHIT!
There is an epidemic of opiate addiction across the US and it has no social, race, econimic, religious barriers of any kind. Its our kids, judges, lawyers, doctors, teachers...ETC. It plays favorites with no one!
Good luck getting that pain under control...it sucks to live with that but it would suck worse to become addicted to any opiate drug....
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My sister once poured a cup of freshly brewed black coffee on me because I wouldn't wake up early to get her weed. It's not common but you can certainly be addicted to pot. Just like you can develop an addiction to pretty much anything that makes you feel better.I agree with you, an addiction is an addiction is an addiction. Whether it be food, sex, booze, opiats...ETC
Where I disagree with you is that Cannabis is addictive....it is NOT. Thats how I see it but I know that no matter what I say, I will not convince you of that so you can believe what you want and I will believe WHAT I KNOW!