Weed can absolutely be a crippling addiction and anyone who denies it is lying or ignorant
Same as religion. Certain personality types can be crippled by anything. It doesn’t cripple everyone.
Once a relative was prescribed antidepressants but decided not to get them because they figured they’d rather cope in their own way than use a potentially addictive psychoactive substance to mask their symptoms without fixing the main cause. It made perfect sense until it turned out “their own way” involved frequently drinking alcohol.
As a daily smoker, yes.
Though I will contest that it is largely psychological, when i go on a break after a couple days of poor sleep and appetite i am back to normal.
Wait am I still on the left side
I recommend trying to regulate it to the weekends at the very least. Maybe every other weekend, max.
Being high all the time makes everything seem horribly boring when you’re sober. It kind of just drains your experiences from your life.
(If your experience is chronic pain, well…)
(If your experience is chronic pain, well…)
And there’s the rub. I don’t want to be a wake-n-bake kind of person, but I also don’t walk fully upright until I’ve had a hit or two, and using my hands for anything requiring dexterity and/or strength means I’ll have invisible gremlins stabbing my knuckles with their tiny, invisible knives the rest of the day and night. “Microdosing” through the day allows me to get shit done when my body doesn’t want to cooperate.
Honestly wish I could convince my grandma that weed would be better for managing her arthritis pain than the opiates her doctor has her hooked on.
Ok, this is anecdotal for certain, but an honest and lived experience.
I’ve developed osteoarthritis in various parts of my body as I aged, my wife has rheumatoid arthritis. She takes some non-opioid prescription meds (with unfortunate long-term effects) for it, but they’re anti-inflammatories and don’t do much for the base pain. I introduced her to CBD oils, ointments, salves, and tinctures. She now takes an eye dropper of tincture every night before bed which allows her to sleep better, and has a variety of tropicals (lotion, gel, roll-on, stick (like deodorant)) for localized treatment and flare ups in both trees and muscle tension. She also does not like being high at all, so she gets hemp-based products online (Lazerus Naturals, for the curious).
On my end, I enjoy the high as (with a sativa) it helps me to focus and get things done (undiagnosed ADD checking in) as well as killing the pain in my body. I’ve also found that the THC component gives a boost to the pain-‘killing’ effect, but that could just be the drugs talking.
Marijuana aside, I’ve also learned the benefits of Turmeric for arthritis pain. There are days I forget to take Turmeric and am soon reminded when the invisible gremlins start stabbing my hands in the evening. See if you can get her to add that to her supplements and she might get a bit more relief.
I’m a skeptic and scientist by nature, and endured various days of pain just to make sure the stuff I am taking is actually doing something, so maybe I can save someone else the hassle. Keep in mind that some things are a cumulative effect, meaning you’ll need to take them for a few days to really propagate through the system for best effect.
Best of luck!
Weed sucks for pain.
Opiates are the only thing I’ve found that makes any difference at all.
Not everyone is you.
And conversely, not everyone is you. Weed has particularly variable effects, I know it might not work for my grandma, but as I see it it’s worth a shot if the alternative is opiates. She’s only unwilling to try it because she grew up being lied to about cannabis and thinks it will make her crazy. She’s even afraid of CBD.
Exactly
But I’m not the one coming on here telling everyone weed eases pain.
Notice what I said: “I’ve found”. I didn’t tell other people what would work for them.
So I’m not a medical professional, and I didn’t speak out of an abundance of caution while making an offhanded comment on a shitpost. Sue me.
The psychological aspect is the hardest part of any addiction. Yeah withdrawal sucks, but depending on the drug it’s just like being sick.
If all it took to break an addiction was being sick for a week it wouldn’t be hard.
You sound like you’ve never experienced heroin withdrawal before. Sick is an understatement. It’s more like legs thrashing, everything hurts, you are simultaneously hungry and not hungry, puking, crying…every negative feeling wrapped into one, and the entire time you have the knowledge that one more fix would take it away instantly. That week feels like a year, and everything gets reduced to a second by second basis.
I’ll take my “being bummed I don’t have weed” psychological addiction any day.
Yes, I’m fortunate enough to have gone without that particular withdrawal.
But heroin is exactly what I was thinking when I added the qualifier “depending on the drug.”
I would never compare weed to heroin in any aspect.
I see now, I missed that qualifier.
If anyone out there is considering heroin, I’d highly recommend giving it a pass. It makes you feel fearless (William Burroughs called it being the “de-anxietized man”), but it also removes all feelings of remorse and regret, until you inevitably become an insufferable asshole. The addiction creeps in slowly, so you don’t feel it for weeks or months, and then one day, you can’t wake up without it.
If you think this story won’t be you, think again. I once thought the same. I’ve been clean now for 15 years, but it still lurks in my mind sometimes.
My wife and I have said we’ll each slam a hit on our deathbeds. But until then, nope.
One for all my distinguished “overly cropped meme” lovers. You deserve the best this year. I will bring you top quality memes I promise.
Making a good Overly Cropped is like a fine art. To crop a piece that leaves the reader wanting more is to create a story and a mystery. Great stuff.
The perfect amount of cropped is “someone comments about the crop”.
On this post I was that commenter.
Ok but where are the bananas
Obviously not here
You can get my Bong when you claw it from my cold dead Hands!..
Or when you come over and we smoke together, I guess I would hand it over to you more peacefully then.
These are my oats brother
When I have pot I smoke 24/7, if I don’t have I don’t really care and can pass months before I ever think on buying again.
I just bought a weed vape, that dosen’t smell like pot and have been fabulous, I can smoke everywhere* without anyone knowing about it.
I can smoke everywhere* without anyone knowing about it
You can get that fantasy out of your head. People can smell it. I help manage a publicly available recording studio that has a strict no smoking vaping policy. Many think their vape doesn’t smell like weed.
It smells like weed dude you are lying to yourself.
Source: a lot of weed
While there certainly are exceptions, and the higher quality the smellier it will be, weed concentrates and carts have very little smell, and when it does it dissipates quickly, and doesn’t stick to you
Nah, my wife can’t stand the weed smell and she’s being very happy since I got the vape because the house isn’t smelling like weed when I use it. The flavor of the vape is “peachy nerdz”, but I can’t feel anything else that a little sweet.
Yep, rips a bong.
That apparently makes me a chad addict
You are now tagged as Chaddict
Overly cropped.
That’s my name, don’t wear it out
A phrase I learned from Bobby’s World.
edit: Formatting.
Besides denial, I guess there’s some merit to not admitting
Pot has been banned as a drug for a long-ass time, it’s still not as widely accepted as alcohol or cigarettes are
Having it be the same position as a candy bar is more of a benefit for keeping it legal than moving it to the same space as cigarettes or alcohol in a parliament that is convinced that it’s more similar to neither and closer to crack or cocaine, even if wrong
I mean one is a legit medication for a lot of conditions so you could just be considered medicated. The other is just addictive poison and every alcoholic knows it’s not doing them any good and slowly killing them sooo. Yeah.
How are you coming to this post and being the person the meme is about lol
Because the meme is fucking stupid and misleading. Cannabis actually does treat seizures, pain, muscle spasms and the list goes on. Go fucking give people shit for taking their antidepressants and seizure medications. It’s the same difference.
This is my medicine bro, I need it for my condition of not being stoned
Cannabis actually does treat seizures, pain, muscle spasms and the list goes on. Go fucking give people shit for taking their antidepressants and seizure medications. It’s the same difference.
Oh I certainly do give people shit for taking prescription drugs without a prescriptionn.
Who said anything about that. Fact is, alcohol is never prescribed to treat seizures or depression or literally anything chronically and it’s poison. You can’t compare the two and the whole demonization of cannabis is just as much bullshit as the fact that most people can’t afford to even see a doctor to get diagnosed or prescribed in the first place. It’s all a big crock of shit.
It doesn’t matter if a drug is prescribed sometimes. Both amphetamines and opioids are prescribed sometimes. But watch out kids - the amphetamines and opioids sold by the nice guy at the street corner are very bad. If you got marijuana prescribed - that’s cool, take it as prescribed. If you didn’t get it prescribed - it’s a drug like any other.
Alcohol is also bad.
Yeah that’s kind of true. You have to be careful. I think it’s telling that the Germans rejected Oxy because it’s basically just heroin with extra steps, but then allowed cannabis.
Ethanol is also a medication. It’s used to treat both methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning, as well as the withdrawal symptoms from severe alcoholism (…which are able to kill a patient, unlike opiate/opioid withdrawal).
Hell, oxycodone is a medication; I got enough to kill a horse (which really isn’t saying a lot; horses are surprisingly delicate animals) after a major surgery. But guess what? It’s still addictive, and will kill you.
The fact that something might have a medical use doesn’t preclude addiction.
That is nowhere near the same thing lmao. It helps treat poisoning related to being addicted to it or after you took poison. Cannabis treats conditions that don’t have anything to do with being poisoned, pain, nausea, muscle spasms, seizures, loss of appetite, inflammation, depression etc. If you have chronic depression or seizures or muscle spasms or nausia or pain that can be treated by cannabis, it’s a chronic medication for chronic illness lmao. Alcohol is not that. Alcohol might be used in very specific use cases for short term treatments but long term use it’s just a poison. Cannabis is not poisonious, alcohol is.
Alcohol is also used in medication
It’s also used as a treatment for methanol and antifreeze poisoning.
That’s not even in the same ballpark, cannabis actually does treat seizures, pain, muscle spasms and the list goes on. Go give people shit for taking their antidepressants and seizure medications. It’s the same difference. Alcohol can treat poison and alcohol withdrawal while you’re quitting alcohol, cannabis can treat chronic depression and prevent seizures and isn’t poisonous.
