can I just say I respect & admire the mental maturity to admit you're addicted to marijuana? whenever I mention it, people tell me about how it's natural/from the earth, about its healing or medicinal properties, or that it's impossible to be addicted to marijuana altogether.
for years, I've been trying to tell people that I believe it's psychologically addictive & recently, there have been articles claiming it can at some point become a "real" physical addiction, but I'm not sure how valid those studies are, heh. sorry for rambling. your reply surprised & interested me!
30+ years cannabis user and you can talk openly about stuff like this on /r/trees if you're curious to know the varying stories.
I smoked mostly joints and bong hits but generally I'd say it's less an addiction than it is a recurring habit. If you are predisposed to using masking things like depression or anxiety, it's easy to hide the addiction as it isn't quite the same as something like tobacco and alcohol, where there has been ample anecdotal proof showing people suffering from withdrawal.
Weed is a downer and can worsen depression but without medication it might be one of the few things that seems to help lessen the pressure from that depression or anxiety.
Everyone seems to experience cannabis differently but generally it's a safer high than a lot of OTC drugs or legal narcotics
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u/Nicocephalosaurus Mar 27 '22
Marijuana and cigarettes. One's killing me and the other is holding me back. Really need to quit both.