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218451 tn?1274994552

The after math!!!!!!

Hello everyone, I hope all is well, and everyones tapering or c/t is going okay.  I myself feel almost normal today, well with the help of some weed. And that is my next topic, marijuana.  

How does this forum view reefer? I know it is legal for medical reasons in some states, but not others.  Do you guys view it as a viable treatment program for cancer, glaucoma, ect. or does everyone view it as a street drug.

I ask this because of how much it helped me during the last two months of pill abuse. Not only with  the nausea assosiated with w/d, but for deprresion, appetite, and even pain management.

Sometimes I feel out of place here on this forum, like people view me as a loose cannon, or a hypocrit. I feel this because although my desire to quit opiates is very strong, but I still plan on smoking weed and drinking once a month.

So I am asking? Am I in the wrong mindset? Am I nieve? I love the USA, but after seeing how well marijuana effected my friend during his chemo to his cancer, I began viewing the plant as a miracle.  My friend began smoking before he had cancer, so it is hard to know for real how this plant helped him, but it did. It helped him till the day he died. And I wonder all the time, why is this plant illegal? It makes me happy, it makes tolerate w/d half the time.

So I often ponder, is this my addiction to the plant? Is my pill problem caused by the gateway drug marijuana?  I am getting to the point in my life where I just don't know anymore. I dont beleive that because our government calls it bad, that it is. In fact, I qustion the last 50 yrs of our governments existance all togeather.

I do want to be happy and heathly, but I feel like my views are biased by the last ten yrs of parting.

I aslo think I feel normal right now because of the weed. I should definately feel w/d more intensley than I do.  I woke up, felt groggy, no appetite, no motivation, no good times.  Then I smoked a joint of some really good weed, and now I'm eating and loading up my car to go mountain biking later. Quite an improvement I must say. I hope I dont **** anyone off with this post. I'm just trying to view myself from afar
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333612 tn?1302883390
Ha!!! LMAO!!
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218451 tn?1274994552
i am having the same prob, i thought I was just stoned offf grass hitting the button twice.
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333612 tn?1302883390
WTF?!? I don't know what's up with the double posting....stupid computers....
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333612 tn?1302883390
Glad to be of some help and to know that all of my stupid choices in life could be used as a learning experience by someone else.
Good choice to quit. I figured out the 'once an addict' thing the hard way a while a go....
I really think it would do you good to cut out the grass now. It really is one of the hardest to quit once you're hooked. Before it gets to be a problem nip it in the bud (man I'm funny....or is that 'pun'-y)
Let your girl know you are quitting and she'll probably not smoke around you for awhile...until you get adjusted.
Good luck
Greebs
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333612 tn?1302883390
Glad to be of some help and to know that all of my stupid choices in life could be used as a learning experience by someone else.
Good choice to quit. I figured out the 'once an addict' thing the hard way a while a go....
I really think it would do you good to cut out the grass now. It really is one of the hardest to quit once you're hooked. Before it gets to be a problem nip it in the bud (man I'm funny....or is that 'pun'-y)
Let your girl know you are quitting and she'll probably not smoke around you for awhile...until you get adjusted.
Good luck
Greebs
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218451 tn?1274994552
Good advice, and you know, it took me 10 yrs before I agreed with the "once an addict" line. It is just so true, great response.  I may limit my herb intake now. My girl smokes, but she thinks I should quit too.  
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333612 tn?1302883390
Don't apologize for your post. You're asking a question...that's okay.

For medical purposes....bring it on. It's a God send to some.

For recreational use.....if you have no addiction problems then I say go for it if that's what you want to do...... Unfortunately dope is very addicting and once addicted to it, it is one of the hardest ones to quit.
In your case, I vote you stay away from it.
remember this: Once an addict, always an addict.
I wouldn't mess with it if I were you. You used it for 'medical' purposes (so to speak) during the WD's and it helped you..... Walk away from it now...while you still can
Greatgreebo
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218451 tn?1274994552
jenny, you are very wise, I am starting to feel the same way about myself. You know, burnt out........
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280102 tn?1208877222
weed, indeed.... Marijuana... I am also a cancer survivor, and I can honestly say that pot HELPED me immensly.  I think every cancer patient should be not only have access to it, but be encouraged to use it.  I am an addict.  I have smoked pot off and on (mostly on) for the past 15 years.  I quit this time because I am on probation for a DWI.  I get off probation in two months, and I'm SCARED I'll start smoking weed again.  This is the reason I am scared.  Not only is weed not good for me (it has alot more tar in it than tobacco) but it takes away my motivation.  I just want to sit in the house all day and smoke weed.  After awhile I build up a tolerance to it, then I need to smoke more often.  Then it kinda becomes boring, and my high doesn't last as long.  Eventually I just wanna eat and take a nap.  Maybe it wouldn't become this way for me if I didn't smoke it everyday, but I do smoke it everyday, because I'm an addict and I have a obsession with changing the way I feel.  After weed gets boring, I'll probly think it'll be ok to take a couple vicodin's... Big mistake because I have absolutly no control over how many of those damn pills I take.  So yeah weed is a gateway for me.  For the last three years I've been free of my cocaine addiction, but if I choose to let my disease talk me into smoking weed, I know from experience that it can lead nowhere good.  But having been through chemotherapy, I'm thankful that I had access to weed...  THe rest of my life that I wasted being stoned, I am not so thankful for.    I've started going to NA, and working a 12 step program, I hope and pray that my resolve to not smoke even one joint will be just as strong in March, when I get off paper.    But my advice to you is, hey if it's not ******* your life up, and it's not making you want to do other drugs, and you can use it every once in awhile, then who am I to judge..  I'm an addict tho, and because of this, I can't even smoke one joint...
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228936 tn?1249094248
I would say pot is not a good idea for an ex dope fiend! It may have helped you through the detox or P.A.W. but I think some serious re-evaluation of this is in order.
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I have chronic back pain for sure...I also lost people that were very close to me in Vietnam....several other PTSD issues...I have hepatitis and did a years hard chemo for it....Thank God for putting that plant on earth............
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gotcha buddy...
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218451 tn?1274994552
I am really wondering if my view of things is distorted or just plain wrong, you know the drug talking.
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i guess the question is, are you asking our veiwpoints on it for medicinal purposes - i.e. cancer patients, or to smoke every day because you like it?

they are - for me - two very distinct and seperate answers...  your post kind of covered all of, so i'm not clear on the question.

if it's OCCASIONAL and you aren't addicted to either, then i personally think it's not horrible.  OCCCASIONALY.  for me.  many do not think that, tho..  and many can't do that...
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