Adapting to Quitting

I've smoked weed for 5 years now, and for the past two years I've smoked weed almost daily (all day, every day) with a few 1-2 day breaks in there. It's come time for me to quit and I've gone 3 weeks already with no problem. I've experienced minimal withdrawl symptoms, mainly just heightened anxiety. Over the past week or so I've been noticing some symptoms of depression. I've been depressed before (before I started smoking weed) but it was nothing major. I was wondering if this is because of the weed or just because I was masking my depression to begin with. I read somewhere it takes at least 3 months for the neurotransmitters (dopamine) in your brain to get back to functioning normally. Does anyone have any experience with depression after quitting? Or was I really just masking depression to begin with?

Give yourself a solid month to let your body change back into "sober" mode. You will feel much better. Personally I found when I quit smoking, the next couple of days I felt so LIVELY and energetic, but I guess it's different for everyone.

I've been smoking for a few years now and I don't feel like stopping that's for sure, but I do know how you feel too because after those couple of days with my head out of the fog came a whole month of depression and lots of anxiety, but this is my reason for smoking...

Give it a month then decide!

peace.love

Im definately more anxious when I quit. Im also a lot more prone to mood swings (which is great for a girl on pms) ;)

So I dont think its a mask. I think pot is used for both purposes tho. I guess each person is different n all. :) I actually use pot more when Im a happy, busy person than when Im a slacking, depressed person. My boyfriend is the exact opposite. I guess its juust unique to each person and their situation, ykno ;)

its all in your head man, try not to think about it too much, if you think theres a reason you should be depressed (i.e. havent smoked weed) then you will be

When you quit you simply get bored. You are not getting high anymore which is something you enjoyed. So it makes life a little more boring and it can cause depression, but once you get back into the swing of things you should start to feel better.

I guess one good thing that's coming of all this is that I stepped on the scale today and lost a few pounds...I guess all those late night munchies were catching up with me after all!

All these answers are amazing and you should listen to everything said.

I dunno, maybe just cut back a bit. smoke less and less until it becomes easy for you.I have had full experience with depression after trying to quit smoking. Mainly because were I live it is boring as fuk and I am always just sitting around doing nothing unless i get into town and hang with some friends. I would have all the time in the world to think about shit and get waaay depressed. Although if i got high all my depression was relieved and i was fine until the next day. It took a while but now I have ahold of myself.

I still haven't "quit" smoking. I do it from time to time. Once a week at the least. I have found an amazing girl that I love to too much. She keeps me from smoking everyday as alot of my friends smoke pot. but hey.....EVERYONE can light up and kick back and feel good. You're nothing special just because you smoke weed and like it, that's suppose to happen.

To quit, you have to truly want to quit. You have to quit for yourself. Illicit drugs of all kinds are a disguise. They fool you, and weed especially because it is portrayed as the least harmful. The year and a half i smoked weed almost everyday was because i absolutely loved it, which i had no reason not to. I had no responsibilities, i was ignorant, oblivious, and just another cog in the machine able to abuse my body. sorry to say that as i may get some haters. The only thing we have in this world, is ourselves. By that i mean our very own knowledge, skills, imagination, beliefs, and thoughts more or less our minds. What are we if we don't take care of our own minds? The facts are there, marijuana damages nerve endings, receptors, clogs brain activity, and all this even in a sober future.BUT i still love marijuana and will NEVER "quit" smoking it completely. againI love smoking pot, I've just chosen to cut back drastically :stoned:fuk im stoned outa my mind right now. first toke in about 5 days....fukin eh

edit: take a look at my Display Picture. I drew that with oil pastels while i was going through depression. anyways scope that shit out and try to find the meaning to it.....

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Originally Posted by Bond

The facts are there, marijuana damages nerve endings, receptors, clogs brain activity, and all this even in a sober future.

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Prove it.

I think that's a BS statement.

From what I have experienced when taking an extended break, an initial onset of depression can be pretty normal. For the reasons that were stated previously. You liked getting high, it made things more excting. Without being high, things seem kinda boring at first. And in the case for some, you might not be interested in this things you did high while sober so it takes a while to find new hobbies and habits to occupy your time while sober. I went through about a month of solid depression after quitting smoking, from smoking just about daily. I was just bored a lot of the time, and during the winter there isn't much to do around here, so I had time to just sit and think and mull over things, I didnt really even have an interest in writing music or playing my instruments. I think another part of that though was cause my best friend who I used to smoke with like everyday, and chill with all the time moved away for school, and being sober and not having a friend to relate to about it sucked. I think after a while though your body and mind get used to being sober, and it becomes a lot easier...

I've been staying sober since New Year's cause of school. I plan to indulge a bit this weekend cause it's spring break and my buddy is back in town, so were gonna roll a couple J's and go hit the town like old times. But then I'm back to being sober until I'm finished with school for the summer. Then I'll let myself indulge cause I'll just be workin' more so I can afford it and in my downtime I'll probably need a good bowl every now and then.

its a mental addiction, I get energy boost, when I dont smoke, my brain isnt so loaded, and im not racked by the popsycles calling me

you just
need to rise above it, the withdrwels do get better. are u quitting forever, or just taking a break?

I quit to raise children

their raised now
IM never quitting

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Originally Posted by BobBong

Prove it.

I think that's a BS statement.

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If it didn't, we wouldn't be "burned out." Short-term memory would not be affected, your thought process would be unaffected, your reaction time unaffected. Similar to how alcohol affects the nervous system, cannabis has the potential to damage functions on your nervous ending. The damage isn't serious or that detrimental to your health, nor does it mean it negates the benefits. To deny it for the sole sake of pro-cannabis propaganda does a disservice for everyone.

Nor was it that hard to find a study to back-up that assertion:

Cannabis and motor function: fMRI changes following 28 days of discontinuation.Pillay SS, Rogowska J, Kanayama G, Gruber S, Simpson N, Pope HG, Yurgelun-Todd DA.
Brain Imaging Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA. [email protected]

The authors hypothesized that supplementary motor cortex (SMA) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) activation in chronic cannabis users, studied 4 to 36 hours after their last episode of use, would disappear by Day 28 of abstinence during finger-tapping tests. Eleven cannabis users and 16 comparison subjects were scanned during right (RFT) and left (LFT) finger-tapping tasks on a GE 1.5 Tesla scanner retrofitted with a whole body echo planar coil. Image analyses were conducted in SPM99 using an ROI approach to define each Brodmann area (BA). Differences in cerebral activation were examined in the left and right primary motor cortex (BA4), SMA (BA6), and ACC (BA24 and BA32 separately). The authors found diminished activation for contralateral BA6 from Day 0 to Day 28. For LFT, the authors also found: ipsilaterally diminished BA6 activation on Day 7, but not Day 0 or Day 28; ipsilaterally diminished BA32 activation on Day 0, but not Day 7 or Day 28; contralaterally diminished BA 4 activation on Day 28, but not Day 0 or Day 7; and contralaterally diminished BA32 activation on Day 0 and Day 28, but not Day 7. For RFT, the authors found ipsilaterally diminished BA32 activation on Days 0 and 7 but not on Day 28; contralaterally diminished BA32 activation on Days 0, 7, and 28; and ipsilaterally diminished BA6 activation on Days 0, 7, and 28. These results suggest that residual diminished brain activation is still observed after discontinuing cannabis use in motor cortical circuits. 2008 APA

Cannabis and motor function: fMRI changes followin...[Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2008] - PubMed Result

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Originally Posted by silkyblue

you just
need to rise above it, the withdrwels do get better. are u quitting forever, or just taking a break?

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I don't plan on quitting forever, but for at least 6-7 months. I am going to be graduating college and getting a job so I want to be able to pass a drug screen and also get comfortable at my job, then I might start up again, maybe not, we'll see...

To suggest that cannabis is detrimental to the brain even after not smoking for 7 days is what i disagree with. The very fact that smoking creates carbon monoxide and you are ingesting it would be more harmful to you than anything. So if you're comparing this "study" to smoking than perhaps. But smoking anything, ingesting CO is going to be detrimental to your brain, not just your lungs.

"These results suggest that residual diminished brain activation is still observed after discontinuing cannabis use in motor cortical circuits."
This may be true but it does not imply that cells are destroyed or even harmed due to Cannabis, this says nothing about Carbon monoxide though.

"The facts are there, marijuana damages nerve endings, receptors, clogs brain activity, and all this even in a sober future."

Is what i disagree with. To suggest that consistent cannabis use will harm me long after i've quit is what i see as being a load of crap.

I looked into this further, looked at a couple of studies. Take it what you will. I provide one study that concludes there is no long-term neurological damage from the moderate use of cannabis. On the other hand, I cite another study that the disruption of the endocannabinoid system as a consequence ofcannabis abuse may alter neurochemical systems contributing to the development of emotional disorders.

I'm citing the conclusions and if you want to look at how the study is done I provided a link.

"Adolescence is a time of particular vulnerability for brain
maturation. During this period many individuals experiment
with illicit substance use and sometimes quite frequently.
Some adolescents who abuse cannabis
subsequently develop chronic serious psychiatric symptoms,
such as schizophrenia (e.g. [22]) and also cognitive
deficits [23-25]. However, it has never been shown consistently
that cannabis has direct effects on brain development
and there are no known reports using more
advanced imaging technology such as DTI to examine
white matter integrity. Thus the current study was an initial
evaluation to determine whether any indication of
cortical atrophy or white matter abnormalities could be
detected applying these current MRI methods.
Although differences were observed between subjects who
used cannabis during adolescence and those who did not, no finding indicated pathological change. Regions of
higher ADC, putative evidence of atrophy, were not
present, although regions of significantly lower ADC
were. While low FA would be indicative of less white matter
integrity, particularly with respect to fiber direction, all
FA differences in this study were higher values in cannabis
users than non-users.
However, one limitation of the current study is its crosssectional
evaluation of subjects reporting on their own
former adolescent cannabis use, rather than a longitudinal
design following adolescents into adulthood to
observe how the brain changes over time or alternatively
a cross-sectional study of current cannabis-using adolescents.
Pathological effects from prior frequent use may be
less detectable in adulthood after time has passed and
other changes have taken place to compensate for possible
earlier effects of cannabis.
In addition, although we suggest here that the ADC indicates
the amount of CSF in extracellular tissue and ventricular
space, we have not yet validated this assumption
by direct comparisons and thus this view, while logical,
remains speculative at present.
Thus, these data lead to the likely conclusion that cannabis
use, in at least moderate amounts, during adolescence
does not appear to be neurotoxic, although we cannot
exclude any adverse effects of heavier amounts than that
used by the current subjects. These data are preliminary
and need replication with larger numbers of subjects,
although they do have implications for refuting the hypothesis that cannabis alone can cause a psychiatric disturbance
such as schizophrenia by directly producing
brain pathology."

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pic...3&blobtype=pdf

"During the last few years, the increasing interest in the
link between the endocannabinoid system and emotional responses
has led to a number of interesting data derived from
animal studies. These results may contribute to understand
the complex scenario of cannabinoid effects in humans, and
to clarify the mechanisms underlying associations between
cannabis abuse and mental disorders. Results obtained from
transgenic mice lacking CB1 receptors and by using CB1 receptors
selective antagonists and inhibitors of endocannabinoids
inactivation suggest the existence of an intrinsic endocannabinoid
tone which contributes to the regulation of
stress responses and anxiety. An adequate endocannabinoid
function appears to be necessary for adaptive extinction
of aversive memories. The endocannabinoid system might
play a pivotal role in maintaining homeostasis, notably with
regard to physiological and behavioral responses to acute
and prolonged stress. Certain forms of endocannabinoiddependent
synaptic plasticity have been proposed as crucial
mechanisms subserving these phenomena. Throughout this
review, we have focused on the endocannabinoid system as
a major player in the modulation of synaptic transmission
and plasticity considering solely interneural communication.
However, the critical functional role of glial cells in maintaining
a correct brain function and their implications in
diverse neuropathological conditions are now clearly recognized.
The new concept of the tripartite synapse in which the
glial cell (notably astrocytes) plays an active role in the modulation
of neurotransmission has recently emerged [125].
Expression of cannabinoid CB1 receptors and endocannabinoid
synthesis and release have been observed in different
types of glial cells [126, 127]. This â??glial endocannabinoid
systemâ?� may have important physiological and pathological
implications [128, 129] and it would be interesting to explore
a possible role in the expression of synaptic plasticity in limbic
and extra-limbic regions related to stress, fear, and anxiety
responses.
Disregulation ormalfunctioning of the endocannabinoid
system might contribute to the aetiology of anxiety-related
disorders and to certain symptoms of melancholic depression.
In turn, the endocannabinoid system might constitute
an interesting pharmacological target for the development of
anti-anxiety and antidepressant therapies. The involvement of the endocannabinoid system in the
regulation of anxiety and its participation in the modulation
of behavioral and physiological responses to aversive situations
have other obvious implications. Cannabis abuse may
be one of the causes disrupting the necessary balance for an
appropriate function of the system. There are functional interactions
between the endocannabinoid system and other
monoaminergic and peptidergic systems also involved in the
regulation of emotional responses [113, 130]. Thus, the disruption
of the endocannabinoid system as a consequence of
cannabis abuse may alter these other neurochemical systems
contributing to the development of emotional disorders. In
addition to acute aversive emotional reactions to cannabis,
the chronic use of this addictive drug may result in mental
disturbances and neuropsychiatric disorders. In particular,
there are data suggesting that exposure to cannabis derivatives
is associated with a higher risk of schizophrenia, depression,
and anxiety [68â??72, 131, 132]. In this review, we have
highlighted the importance of endocannabinoid-based neuroplasticity
phenomena in the regulation of neuroendocrine
and neurochemical systems implicated in the modulation of
emotional responses and extinction of perseverative behaviors
and inadaptative aversive memories. Consequently, it is
likely that impairment of endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic
transmission and plasticity contribute to the expression of
at least some aspects of these psychiatric illnesses.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pic...7&blobtype=pdf

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Originally Posted by BobBong

Prove it.

I think that's a BS statement.

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It's also very broad. Generalizations are hard to prove.

Okay...so it's been almost 5 weeks. I am not sure how long it's going to take for me to pass a drug test administered by a workplace. I used to smoke very potent weed on a regular basis (All day, everyday for almost 3 years). I've heard anywhere from 1-3 months. I want to buy a home drug test like from Walgreens, but I want to know if it will be as effective as the one I'll have to take for a job. Does anyone know anything about this?

I smoked everyday for a semester at college, then i went to Utah for a skiing contest for a month (didnt smoke once) and i felt fine. Yes, I was excersising everyday, but i never felt any anxiety and/or depression. Now Im back at school and smoking and loving every moment of it.

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Originally Posted by rdizzle12

Okay...so it's been almost 5 weeks. I am not sure how long it's going to take for me to pass a drug test administered by a workplace. I used to smoke very potent weed on a regular basis (All day, everyday for almost 3 years). I've heard anywhere from 1-3 months. I want to buy a home drug test like from Walgreens, but I want to know if it will be as effective as the one I'll have to take for a job. Does anyone know anything about this?

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See the Drug Testing forum.

good conversations here. I am still firm with my statement...

o and. thcbong clearly owned it up:jointsmile:

I've been smoking weed since December, 1967. I stop when I have to ..and I start up smoking when I can. I enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

. . . I stop when I have to ..and I start up smoking when I can. I enjoy it.

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yeah, that sums it up for me, too. :jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by rdizzle12

Okay...so it's been almost 5 weeks. I am not sure how long it's going to take for me to pass a drug test administered by a workplace. I used to smoke very potent weed on a regular basis (All day, everyday for almost 3 years). I've heard anywhere from 1-3 months. I want to buy a home drug test like from Walgreens, but I want to know if it will be as effective as the one I'll have to take for a job. Does anyone know anything about this?

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i ordered the test strips off the internets a few years back and they worked, they are prolly the same. i started testing myself about month 2 and kept on until i finally tested clean, almost at month 3 . . . :rastasmoke: i took a pre-employment screen about a week later and passed.

as far as feeling anxious and depressed at first, i did too a little, i think that is normal. what really helped me was to just be outside, hiking, riding my bike, or just going for a long motorcycle ride always did the trick. good luck, bro.

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Originally Posted by rdizzle12

I guess one good thing that's coming of all this is that I stepped on the scale today and lost a few pounds...I guess all those late night munchies were catching up with me after all!

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:D yeah, i hear that . . . i almost forgot the best part about quitting, for me, was that apparently weed causes you not to dream that much so when you quit they come back with a vengence :stoned: i had a bunch of lucid dreams, where you, at some point in the dream realize that it is a dream and you just go with it. those are really cool. is that just me or has anyone else experienced dream rebound when they quit?

my older brother is destroyed because of smoking marijuana all the time throughout his teens and most of his 20s-30s he has massive skitsofrenia ( bad spelling soz ) and it has ruined him, he has lost his child and cannot hold a job. he turned into my worst nightmare and i cant have contact with him now. marijuana can have very bad effects, it has been proven and shown from alot of people who have developed mental disorders but only if smoked throughout every day for every month for a lot of years.

aint it about choice?
no one puts that bag in your can but u!

how much? its only numbers

I hear ya kattyg


my bro drinks like a fish
hes lost his wife,
son, and 5 year old daughter bcoz of booze

a persons either a happy drunk, black out drunk,
or a sad drunk

I used to drink I quit

yep Ima pot smoker
come get me

Ive quits alot


its the mind

the mind

no one dies from withdrawels, might b fugly for awhile, but
no one dies from withdrawels

yeah I cry rivers that lead to oceans bfd when I dont [rare] have herby

but the feeling when I have herby

out weighs all of it


I'll b the poster child for mj
you betcha



It helps me cope with this shitty ass world

:rastasmoke:

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Originally Posted by boaz

:D yeah, i hear that . . . i almost forgot the best part about quitting, for me, was that apparently weed causes you not to dream that much so when you quit they come back with a vengence :stoned: i had a bunch of lucid dreams, where you, at some point in the dream realize that it is a dream and you just go with it. those are really cool. is that just me or has anyone else experienced dream rebound when they quit?

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If never heard of this.... Now i want it to happen so bad.

How long was it when you started having these dreams? I'm currently at about 1 month.

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Originally Posted by Bond

If never heard of this.... Now i want it to happen so bad.

How long was it when you started having these dreams? I'm currently at about 1 month.

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The lucid dreaming only happens for some, I know a lot of my friends who have quit smoking, did not have any change in their dreaming, but I did, and it was very wild!

About a week after I quit smoking, and as hard as it was to sleep, when I did get there, my dreams were very intense and extremely vivid. I would wake up WANTING to go back to sleep to re-enter my dream world. I loved every second of it, and I do also believe dreams come back with said "vengeance" because I didn't dream once during my pot smoking days, but used to a lot.

It slows down though, my dreams have somewhat returned to normal, the initial shock of dreaming again is what's fun.

Enjoy every aspect of smoking, even the withdrawl :stoned:

It will always get better :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by silkyblue

aint it about choice?

I hear ya kattyg

etc

It helps me cope with this shitty ass world

:rastasmoke:

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cheers man, sorry for ur bruv man.
drink can be some nasty shit.

and isnt that the reason why everybody smokes?
but now i dont have any herb, my link has gone MIA! :(

Just so you know that study was done on rats last time i checked we were not rats but humans so maybe you should back up your statements with a study done on HUMANS.

my guess is because u quit and lifes more different now than being stoned but it can be from masking too. i havent smoked for 2 weeks now and ive been more depressed lately.

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Originally Posted by KattyG

my older brother is destroyed because of smoking marijuana all the time throughout his teens and most of his 20s-30s he has massive skitsofrenia ( bad spelling soz ) and it has ruined him, he has lost his child and cannot hold a job. he turned into my worst nightmare and i cant have contact with him now. marijuana can have very bad effects, it has been proven and shown from alot of people who have developed mental disorders but only if smoked throughout every day for every month for a lot of years.

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You can't blame marijuana for his mistakes. What, are you going to blame a gun manufacturer for a person murdering someone? Are you going to blame a car for a major and fatal accident?

Marijuana does not have bad effects, it's the people that smoke it that are to blame. I smoke almost daily, and I am doing great in my University (smartest and youngest student in my Logic class of 100+ people) and I usually run 30 minutes a few times a week, sometimes I can get up to 10-11 kilometers in 60-70 minutes in any given day. And back to academics, I'll even smoke a bowl before I start on an essay so I can concentrate better, and it also helps with my creativity. My average essay grades are around the 90 percentile mark. And also, people love my homemade meals when I'm chopped; they say they've never tasted anything like it and that they love it. I don't have a set recipe for anything, I just freestyle every meal and it comes out great time after time.

So don't blame marijuana for your older brother's unwise and irresponsible decision making; he himself is to blame. I find myself to be very productive when I toke. It's all up to you and your will power on how you spend your high times. But nonetheless, it sucks that your brother is in such a situation; it's very sad to witness someone just give up on life like that.

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Originally Posted by Bond

Illicit drugs of all kinds are a disguise.

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let me fix that for ya.

"drugs of all kinds are an experience"

There aren't good or bad drugs, there are just experiences and how people react to them.

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Originally Posted by KattyG

my older brother is destroyed because of smoking marijuana all the time throughout his teens and most of his 20s-30s he has massive skitsofrenia ( bad spelling soz ) and it has ruined him, he has lost his child and cannot hold a job. he turned into my worst nightmare and i cant have contact with him now. marijuana can have very bad effects, it has been proven and shown from alot of people who have developed mental disorders but only if smoked throughout every day for every month for a lot of years.

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I feel terrible for you and your bro, but schizophrenia is generally thought to be less of a result of smoking herb, and more of an catalyst. Your brother would have 'probably' become schizophrenic at some point, marijuana just brought it out 'potentially' sooner, but there are some that would argue it may have delayed the onset, thus actually giving your bro more good time before his breakdown.

Also everything you listed is fairly traumatic, and a lot of people could 'lose it' after just one of these events. Marijuana may have just been a coincidence and not the cause, directly or indirectly, of any of the problems. I would imagine there are more people in similar situation that didn't use marijuana than did.

Either way I am still sorry for your troubles.

Just an update: I am feeling much better when it comes to the whole depression side of things. I think it was just the fact that I had to do some adjusting when I quit and I had to cut off a few friends in the process. But anyway, someone mentioned crazy dreams and I definately have been having some weird ass dreams but my sleep feels so much better now and I feel well rested after a night's sleep.

I ordered some tests off ebay and I've taken two so far-a week apart. A really faint line showed up both times- the second time it may have been a tad darker but you couldn't really tell. I've been exercising like crazy and taking metamucil but I think when I do have to test I might try dilution, although I'm a little anxious about that because I don't want to lose a chance I have at a job because of a diluted sample. I'm not even really sure when I"ll have to take a drug test but I'm guessing within the month.

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Originally Posted by eggrole1

let me fix that for ya.

"drugs of all kinds are an experience"

There aren't good or bad drugs, there are just experiences and how people react to them.





I feel terrible for you and your bro, but schizophrenia is generally thought to be less of a result of smoking herb, and more of an catalyst. Your brother would have 'probably' become schizophrenic at some point, marijuana just brought it out 'potentially' sooner, but there are some that would argue it may have delayed the onset, thus actually giving your bro more good time before his breakdown.

Also everything you listed is fairly traumatic, and a lot of people could 'lose it' after just one of these events. Marijuana may have just been a coincidence and not the cause, directly or indirectly, of any of the problems. I would imagine there are more people in similar situation that didn't use marijuana than did.

Either way I am still sorry for your troubles.

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I was drafting this exact reply in my head before I saw your post. Great minds think alike, huh?

Well said, sir/ma'am

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Originally Posted by Bond

If never heard of this.... Now i want it to happen so bad.

How long was it when you started having these dreams? I'm currently at about 1 month.

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i can't remember exactly when they started but i'm thinking about a month or so after i quit. i also happened to be in between contracts at the time and was sleeping til noon, which prolly also helped. they were wild, just like mentioned above i would wake up and want to go back to sleep to continue the dream and if i fell back a asleep i would almost aways go back to the same dream.

yeah, like was said what other habit can you enjoy the withdrawal as much as the habit itself. :rastasmoke:

It can be tough to quit, but you can do it. I think it's because it's so habit forming and can make any situation fun. Plus the minimal health risks give you a reason to not want to stop. Just find some new habits and hobbies to get involved in and you'll be fine. It's ok to smoke every once in a while, just don't overdo it if you're trying to quit. Maybe only smoke when you come across great weed?..unless that's all you get lol.

KattyG, as far as I know, Marijuana does not in any way make a person develop psychological issues. Pot just uncovers a hidden potential for illness you already have.

Bond that picture is awesome! post some more :)