Addiction: Alcohol vs. Marijuana

I haven't had any weed since Sunday night. Since then I've had an urge to drink alcohol every night. With marijuana I felt uplifted and euphoric but with alcohol even though I feel good and warm I have spurts of feeling sorry for myself (e.g. imagining a fantasy woman breaking my heart) and tearing up.

Are we stuck with addiction since we've tried these things?

i dont know but im addicted to crack

They say humans are creatures of habit which is another way of saying we're all addicts.

How can you really get sad by thinking about an imaginary figure breaking your heart?

I go threw binges but the only real constant is weed, longest alcohol bing Iv had was prolly a year or so everyone has their poison of preference it's just a matter of how much you let it consume you

I smoked cannabis for recreational use daily for almost seven years.

In the last year I haven't smoked more than 3 times.

IMO you are better off smoking than drinking.

well alcohol is a depressant ..therefore it does indeed make you a little down on yourself if you are not in a good place
despite what people think and do have fun drunk,

youre better off smoking than drinking for sure, but if you have personal issues you should learn to cope with them before using any sort of mind altering drug, using anything to deal with your problems is never a good thing because if it is not an addictive substance like marijuana it becomes a habitual one.

youre kinda training yourself to use something in place of coping or dealing with personal issues no matter how small, and we all do it even i am guilty, if im stressed i smoke more cigerettes lol

just my two cents.

One of my best friends died last night from alcohol. just found out. Headed over now. Don't drink in excess kids.

Unclebaldrick said:

One of my best friends died last night from alcohol. just found out. Headed over now. Don't drink in excess kids.

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im sorry for your loss<3

Unclebaldrick said:

One of my best friends died last night from alcohol. just found out. Headed over now. Don't drink in excess kids.

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My thoughts are with you, sorry for the loss.

sunni said:

im sorry for your loss<3

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This is the friend I was talking about with you the other night. Middle age journalist. Lost his job in the crash like so many of us. Left with too much time on his hands. I guess I have another kid to look out for but his is eighteen and has grown up a lot in the last year. Glad about that. Fuck.

Don't drink kids. seriously. And if you find that you have been (drinking too much), get some help.

My phone battery has been weak and i left it off the charger so that it died last night. When i realized it in the morning and plugged it in, the first thing that came up was a text and voice mail from him.

Unclebaldrick said:

This is the friend I was talking about with you the other night. Middle age journalist. Lost his job in the crash like so many of us. Left with too much time on his hands. I guess I have another kid to look out for but his is eighteen and has grown up a lot in the last year. Glad about that. Fuck.

Don't drink kids. seriously. And if you find that you have been (drinking too much), get some help.

My phone battery has been weak and i left it off the charger so that it died last night. When i realized it in the morning and plugged it in, the first thing that came up was a text and voice mail from him.

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im so sorry, .... *hugs* , hold your son tight today, and dont forget to breathe, life is very short accomplish your goals, move forward, remember the past and look forward to the future

sunni said:

im so sorry, .... *hugs* , hold your son tight today, and dont forget to breathe, life is very short accomplish your goals, move forward, remember the past and look forward to the future

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I admit that after what I just saw holding my kid was not my first impulse, but I did it anyway. A grisly scene. He knew something was up last night and I think he was scared. His girlfriend left her phone in a room where she couldn't hear it. She noticed his calls at three a.m. and went over. He had died behind his front door. When the police showed up they thought she killed him there was so much blood.

I have seen more of this friend this month than any month I could name. He and I were refinishing a high chair for my boy that he had given us. I finished it Wednesday and had plans for he and another very good friend to go have a beer Thursday in order to show him the finished product. He didn't make it. We both knew why - because his drinking was seriously affecting his health. We talked about him for a couple of minutes only - we were sort of tired about talking about something we could not do anything about. We agreed that his "wake up call" was going to be medical and hoped that he survived it. Guess not.

I need a good cry.

He wanted me to send him a picture of my little guy in the high chair. I sent him one after the first coat of varnish. Very glad I did.

We had a bit of a fight this month. It was about his drinking. It was because I was with him and his son and it was pretty clear that he was hammered at 9 a.m. And he smelled like a wino after a bender (plus, he acted kinda dickish when he was drunk which had become always). I told him that he wasn't fooling anybody but himself (thinking about his boy). He pointed out that we both have problems. I honestly didn't know what he meant and asked him. "well you smoke a lot of weed" (in fact, I don't. I just smoke a little weed allll day long). I pointed out that if I had no weed for three days I would get grouchy. If he went cold turkey he would have collapsed in an hour and gone into life-threatening shock.

Ah fuck. No tears yet and I have to go visit his kid. I'm going to go pour a shot of Maker's for us both. Oh, (edit) not the kid, for me and my friend.

Thanks for suffering through that. Alcohol sucks. To prove it I am going to keep you informed of his autopsy results. I am wagering that he had several systems close to collapse.

The coke couldn't have helped. And judging from the "clean-up" I had to do, he was hitting it harder than we knew.

What a drag it is getting old.

so.nice said:

I haven't had any weed since Sunday night. Since then I've had an urge to drink alcohol every night. With marijuana I felt uplifted and euphoric but with alcohol even though I feel good and warm I have spurts of feeling sorry for myself (e.g. imagining a fantasy woman breaking my heart) and tearing up.

Are we stuck with addiction since we've tried these things?

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Nice timing on the topic BTW. Sorry to steal your thread but I think it helped me. If this weren't here I wouldn't be writing all of that.

Damn Baldy, sorry for your loss brother...

Unclebaldrick said:

We had a bit of a fight this month. It was about his drinking. It was because I was with him and his son and it was pretty clear that he was hammered at 9 a.m. And he smelled like a wino after a bender (plus, he acted kinda dickish when he was drunk which had become always). I told him that he wasn't fooling anybody but himself (thinking about his boy). He pointed out that we both have problems. I honestly didn't know what he meant and asked him. "well you smoke a lot of weed" (in fact, I don't. I just smoke a little weed allll day long). I pointed out that if I had no weed for three days I would get grouchy. If he went cold turkey he would have collapsed in an hour and gone into life-threatening shock.

Ah fuck. No tears yet and I have to go visit his kid. I'm going to go pour a shot of Maker's for us both. Oh, (edit) not the kid, for me and my friend.

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remember what i told you about survivors guilt when you were here? ...i feel for you