I'm done with drugs and alcohol

[Shin'Ar]

I have never actually been what I would define as addicted to weed.

I can take it or leave it.

I always used to enjoy a good buzz, and the stones were very different of course depending on the type of weed and what it might have been mixed with. Usually though there is always that spaced out period which is really not much good for anything except 'being spaced out'.

Now I have a couple of long time, life time friends who became so addicted to weed that they do not enjoy anything without it. they will not even bother to go out of the house if they haven't got a means of getting stoned first or at least once they get out there. It is their motivation for everything in their life and because of that they have never been able to hold down a job, raise a family or even properly care for themselves. Their life has been an existence of drug induced influences. They cannot look after themselves let alone take on any obligation to anyone else. I have had to cancel fishing and hunting trips because we couldn't get any weed ahead of time to bring with us. Imagine! They wouldn't go if they couldn't stoned.

Although they say that there are no addictive ingredients in hemp, like gambling, it is not so much the ingredients, as it is an individual's ability to control the affects it has on you.

And after all, is that not really what addiction is anyway. It isn't the ingredients of the meth or the coke as much as the fact that the feelings you get from ingesting it decreases with each dosage, requiring one to need larger doses each time in order to get the same result. And when one cannot support or acquire that dosage/habit, and needs to be constantly putting more of it into their system, it's not the addictive ingredients, but the amount and regularity of the ingesting that becomes the issue.

And this is my friend's problem with weed, so it is absolutely no different at all.

Back in the 70s we used to have access to powerful weed from places like Columbia, Jamaica and Afghanistan. This stuff was so potent that smaller doses offered the same experiences as much higher doses of the cheaper stuff. And the amount that you used to get for 25 bucks would make kids today cry out in agony compared to what they get for 15 bucks. Man, someone is making a killing on that shiat. For 25 bucks you could fill a sandwich baggie with weed, and I mean tops and clumps. Now for 15 bucks you are lucky if you fill one of the bag's corners and get five pin joints out of it.

we used to roll a good forty to fifty finger sized joints out of an ounce of weed for 25 bucks, and one joint would get three or four people fried for a couple of hours easily. And I mean laughing your fool head off, happy time fun time fried. Not laid out on the couch unable to move or keep your eyes open fried. So you can imagine how far that stuff would go.

Today weed is so laced with chemicals and crap that you don't have a clue what the hell your ingesting. Unless your growing it yourself.
And it just doesn't have the same affect. My last few stones have just resulted in a numbing affect, a type of body stone that doesn't do anything for mood enhancement or enjoyment. Probably really only smoked some parsley with shoe polish and glue mixed into it for all I know. Some of it might make me a little hornier than usual, but so does ice cream and chocolate, and well, just about anything if my wife is in the near vicinity.(notice I didn't say women), love ya Babe.

weed is not weed anymore. anyone from my generation knows exactly what I am talking about. I've given up on it and have no interest in it whatsoever. Last time I looked in the mirror while I was stoned all I saw was a stupid old man that should know better.

I have no problem with enjoying a buzz. What I do have a problem with is someone not understanding the difference between a buzz and their desire to be like that 24 hours a day, to the degree where they would smoke or ingest anything to stay high. That is not casual entertainment anymore than alcoholism or any other substance abuse is casual enjoyment.

So to those who say that weed is not addictive or dangerous I say, "what planet are you getting your s*** from?"

Just like eating anything, one should know what they are ingesting. Your body is not a toilet.