#marijuana addiction

[8unny9l0ck]

pass it around

[goodbyemaryjane]

10 things I learned from 10 months of sobriety

(in no particular order)

1. Feelings can't hurt me as long as I don't do anything self destructive to make them go away. They'll pass - like clouds blowing over the sky.

2. Everything good that I thought being drunk and high helped me do - socializing at parties, making art, emotional intimacy - I'm actually better at when I'm sober.

3. Getting intoxicated was a shortcut (a maladaptive coping mechanism) to silence my self-criticism and shame.

4. It caused more problems than it solved.

5. What I really needed was to practice self compassion and let myself be vulnerable with others sober. Scary, but the rewards are great.

6. If I satisfy my loneliness by getting drunk and high, I will be too busy with my addiction to seek out real love or accept it when it comes. I feel lonely for a reason; if I just keep numbing the hunger, I'll starve.

7. I have to take all of the energy I may spend wishing for others to change for me and just change myself.

8. Withdrawals were uncomfortable but my fear of them was much worse. When I look back, I felt more joy and relief in the first few days than pain. Like swimming in the ocean: once I stopped struggling and just let the current pull me under and toss me around, trusting that eventually I would be pushed to the surface, I knew I would be alright no matter how strange and sick I felt. It was such a relief to stop fighting what I knew deep down was right and true: that I had to quit today - not tomorrow, not in a week - or I'd be using for the rest of my life.

9. Denial is a powerful and terrifying thing. Nobody is too smart to be an addict. If anything, it makes you better at coming up with excuses.

10. At some point you will be more afraid of staying the same forever than you are of changing.

[psychedelic420sworld]

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[cjd-nbr]

Way too much pressure on not smoking… definitely smoking less, enjoying it less. Doing it before activities and going out less. Less quick to do it as soon as I get in. Progress…

Worried about having to go back to work already next week.

I’ve Never smoked before work, or went into work stoned. Which I have always used to play down my addiction/dependence.

But I’m making progress in the meantime… focusing less on the smoking and more on just making sure I’m doing the things I need for myself the basics. Sleep, eat, grooming, connecting with friends and family.

Putting positive energy/action into myself whether I am smoking or not.

I can literally feel myself enjoying the high less. Pausing more. Delaying more.

My behaviors although not all at once or that rapid, are changing. I’ve got to acknowledge that and keep moving.

Things I can continue so work on, more meditation, more prayer, more challenging myself.

But I am so much more optimistic about life than I’ve ever been. I’m proud.

Gotta stay steady. More bumps and triumphs of the mind to come.

[girlofthenight]

Ninna canna obbligatoria !✌🏼

[rosyqueer]

On November 10th, 2023 I reached 90 days in sobriety! I didn’t think I’d reach that because I didn’t think I’d ever be an addict. I watched my mom, part of me hated her for it. Resenting the childhood she made me grow up in. How could I ever do that to myself?

But it was easy. I spent my teenage and early adult years hating myself, struggling to find answers to why I felt the way I did. Why I felt so… wrong. I was barely surviving. I never learned how to be a functioning human. I was thrown out there to do the best I could. I latched on to relationships, filling that void. Part distraction from reality and the other part trying to find the love I never got as a child. The harder I tried and the more disappointments and heartbreaks, the more I just confirmed that there really was something wrong with me. I am the bad one.

That first hit of weed melted me. In my room, alone, at 23. I felt the anxiety of not being a good partner, son, friend, just leave my body. I thought I was using weed to feel better and to be better. In reality I was cutting off and blocking an entire side of myself. Being high made me feel better because I was ignoring everything.

That ignoring was what made my mess. It made me hit my bottom. I woke up after a particularly bad night of using and had enough. There was a tiny sliver of self worth it me, enough to recognize that this wasn’t me. Things could be so much better.

[blissrecovery]

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[raspberry-pudding]

6/3/2024

It's been a very long time since I've posted. I just haven't thought about this account much over the past two-ish months.

I'm in a rough position. I mean, I don't know, I feel like it's rough but I know everything is gonna work out completely fine. Work has made me start smoking 4 joints a day, including smoking throughout my shift now. But I don't have to worry about that anymore because yesterday was my last day there. I've already been able to cut it back down to 2 joints a day, plus some of a bowl at bedtime.

More weed waffling below the cut, as always.

Honestly, I've been so distracted with work that I haven't noticed the negative impacts weed has had on me lately. Which, I don't like because it makes doing it feel more okay to me. If feel likes I'm smoking just to be okay with being alive and I'm sick of feeling that way. Not every day is like this, but the hard ones are.

Sorry if this post sounds a little groggy or weird in language, I've been up awhile and am drinking coffee, but my brain just still isn't here yet. I like writing things out in the morning, though, because it takes me away from accidentally getting stuck on my phone -- which has also been a terrible issue lately. Generally, I can keep myself away from my phone pretty easy because I don't like the notifications or being talked to. But I have been struggling a lot with not going on TikTok and Instagram, and the tendency to go on these apps increases when I'm stoned for sure. I can just zone out on the apps and not even realize what's happening until hours later -- I hate that shit.

I quit my job. Because I started doing a work from home job instead and it was going really great for a month. Until I was told that the company would no longer prioritize relocating me to new projects in the future. So, I could get more work in the future but it sounds unlikely. I quit my job so I could do this one more instead -- it used my degree, it paid well, I thought I was doing really well at it because all my feedback was good. But now, I don't have a job, and while my fiancé and I can live on his check fine, I really liked making money and having my own money to pay for student loans.

My fiancé tells me to look at it all as a blessing in disguise. I'll just say what my job was, why does it matter? I feel so paranoid about someone on here knowing who I am but this blog has literally been nothing but me speaking into the void. I worked at a Starbucks for the past 6 months and at first it was fantastic. I joined a new location and was able to get one on one training before the place opened, so I really got the recipes down and everything. But I stayed about 3 or 4 months longer than I really should have. I loved making drinks, I loved being with my coworkers, but what I didn't love was management and the fact that me and two other girls were always stuck doing everything in that place. I love my coworkers -- but damn, a lot of them did not do a single thing. I didn't even work as much as everyone else and the few days I did work I was carrying the whole weight of the place on my back. Sometimes I got stuck as the only person there and would jump between register, making drinks, making food, and doing prep all at the same time -- I'm so happy we didn't have a drive thru at this location. But I would literally do everything back there, and I think my breaking point was that my manager still acted like what I was doing wasn't enough for her. Not to mention, I'm not a person who has their phone out when they work and I got yelled at for handing someone my phone to watch one video I was talking about while I made the one and only drink order we had. Meanwhile, my coworkers are blatantly on TikTok behind the counter and they don't get anything said to them.

Fuck, this post about recovering from weed just turned into a waffle about my work. But this place is what's made my consumption so awful lately. I forgot the point too -- that maybe this is all a blessing in disguise for me. I was looking for any reason at all to quit. I was busting my ass every day I went in and the manager was starting to treat me like shit more and more -- like I can't do anything right and that I'm a new problem for her to conspire getting rid of. Which, she did with others, conspiring ways to make them quit or get fired and it kept working; and when her attitude with me started changing in this way I knew I was next anyway. I don't even understand why she keeps doing it; someone does something very little that she doesn't like and instead of talking to them, her and the assistant manager just conspire to get rid of them. Until we're short staffed as fuck -- we've been running on 6 employees per day at work when we should have double that because she keeps trying to get rid of people. But then she doesn't wanna hire anyone new because she doesn't want to train them. Well, me and my best friend quit on the same day so now they're so short staffed they have to hire people, because not enough people are there to give days off.

My fiancé has been tired of me coming home for lunch and just breaking down crying and screaming every day. And he's right about how a shitty, minimum wage ass job shouldn't leave me that way. Maybe the purpose of the other job was just to prove that I can find something better and a reason to get away from Starbucks. I really don't know the purpose of any of it right now.

I guess I'm just glad to be away from that place. I'm sad about it because I genuinely liked the work and my coworkers, but I didn't like getting stuck with every part of the job by myself only to get yelled at that I'm still not doing good enough. I guess it's easy to see why I started smoking at work and went up to 4 joints a day.

I really do think now that I'm away from that place, being able to get a handle of how much weed I'm smoking will improve. Like I said, I've already brought it back down to 2 joints a day. I also haven't been enjoying the way weed makes me feel lately, it's more like a headache than anything else. And of course, I think it's a big source of my laziness and procrastination that I used to not have at all before smoking.

I've tried this journey so many times, but I feel really good about this go around. I think I can really do good this time. I've waffled so long today. Thanks for listening.

Iris🪻

[head-post]

US to re-classify marijuana as less dangerous drug

The US Justice Department on Tuesday decided to make marijuana use a lesser federal offence, in a move to remove the drug from the category that includes heroin that could change cannabis policy across the country, US media reported.

Justice Department spokesman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement:

“The US Attorney General sent a proposal to the White House to re-classify marijuana.”

It comes after Joe Biden became the first president to initiate federal consideration of the issue in 2022. The issue is seen as a potential vote-winner for Mr Biden, who will face Republican Donald Trump in a difficult rematch in this November’s election, especially among young people who the incumbent Democratic president is trying to win over to his side.

Since 1970, marijuana, along with heroin, ecstasy and LSD, has been classified as a so-called “Schedule I” drug, meaning it has no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.

Under the proposal, however, it would be downgraded to a Schedule III drug, along with drugs such as ketamine and painkillers containing codeine, with a moderate to low likelihood of addiction, Ms. Hinojosa said in a statement.

“This is the next step in the formal rescheduling process,” a source familiar with the issue told AFP. The process would still require a long period for public comments and finalisation. Read more HERE

[rantyraven]

I hate myself more than anything right now. how I've let my abuse get in the way of bettering myself. how I've let it kill me and my hobbies. it all could have been so easy and I could be in a much better place had I followed thru with nipping it in April. weed just makes me feel angry and frustrated at myself for all my failures. it makes me feel rotten. I'm forced to live and feel myself dying. 

I can’t be trusted to just “cut down”. it’s impossible for me. I have to quit cold turkey and face the withdrawal.

[goodbyemaryjane]

I just had a long conversation with someone who feels now like I did more than a year ago -- that she's sick and tired of feeling terrible and smoking to feel normal, but she's scared to quit. I fully recommended it and gave my best advice, and she said it helped - that she wants to quit now! One of the best things about recovering from an addiction like that is being able to be that person who gets it, being someone who understands what another addict is going through when they need it the most. I'm so grateful that I haven't relapsed, and I'll do my best to make sure I never do.

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[reasonsforhope]

"Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

But, according to data released Tuesday [December 17, 2024], the number of eighth, 10th, and 12th graders who collectively abstained from the use of alcohol, marijuana, or nicotine hit a new high this year. Use of illicit drugs also fell on the whole and use of non-heroin narcotics (Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet) hit an all-time low.

"Many experts in the field had anticipated that drug use would resurge as the pandemic receded and social distancing restrictions were lifted," Richard Miech, team lead of the Monitoring the Future survey at the University of Michigan, said in a statement. "As it turns out, the declines have not only lasted but have dropped further."

The Monitoring the Future study—which has been running for 50 years and is funded by the National Institutes of Health—surveys a nationally representative group of teens each year on their involvement with the ever-evolving drug landscape. This year, the survey collected data from over 24,000 students at more than 270 public and private schools.

The initial drop in drug use between 2020 and 2021 was among the largest ever recorded. And researchers like Miech expected the rates would bounce back, at least partially. But now, the data suggests the pandemic has started a wave of abstention that is still rippling through grade levels.

A new era

"Kids who were in eighth grade at the start of the pandemic will be graduating from high school this year, and this unique cohort has ushered in the lowest rates of substance use we’ve seen in decades," Miech noted.

For alcohol, use in the past 12 months among eighth graders was at 12.9 percent in 2024, similar to 2023 levels, which are all-time lows. For 10th graders, the rate dropped significantly from 30.6 percent in 2023 to 26.1 percent, and for 12th graders, from 45.7 percent to 41.7 percent—both record lows.

For nicotine vaping, rates fell for 10th graders (from 17.5 percent to 15.4 percent) and remained at low levels for eighth and 12th graders. For marijuana, use remained low for eighth and 10th graders and fell significantly for 12th graders (from 29 percent to 25.8 percent). All three grades are at lows not seen since 1990.

For abstainers from alcohol, marijuana, and nicotine in the prior 30 days, the rate among eighth graders hit 90 percent, up from 87 percent in 2017, when it was first measured. The rate was 80 percent among 10th graders, up from 69 percent in 2017, and 67 percent for 12th graders, up from 53 percent in 2017.

"This trend in the reduction of substance use among teenagers is unprecedented," Nora Volkow, director of NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), said. "We must continue to investigate factors that have contributed to this lowered risk of substance use to tailor interventions to support the continuation of this trend.""

-via Ars Technica, December 17, 2024

[weirdlookindog]

[officialmichaelnesmith]

the beginning of the terror needs to have a disclaimer that reads something like ⚠️ WARNING‼️ GATEWAY DRUG INTO POLAR EXPLORATION ⚠️