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Is it normal to be totaly addicted to a drug that isn't meant to be addictive? Ive been smoking blow (canibis resin) everyday of my life for the last 5 or 6 years. Me and a couple of close friends go out everynight and get stoned. Taking bongs, pipes, waterfalls, lungs, buckets joints and what ever else gets you stoned. I'm not proud of it and recently have been begining to wonder what harmful effects it may have on my lungs and brain. Ive done the research and most websites will tell you that its not addictive like herion or crack, yet I still feel like I need to get stoned regularly and when I run out I will go to great lengths to get some and will not feel normal until ive suceeded. Isn't this addiction? I need help fast, as I feel my habit is having an affect on my exams and may result in me messing up another year.
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It's an addiction if you feel the need and get stoned every day.

Have a read . . .

http://www.marijuana-addiction.info/addiction.htm

Online help ...

http://www.addict-help.com/marijuana-addiction.htm
Anonymous
It's a very socially addictive drug, and if you're a chronic user there can be psychological as well as phsyical withdrawl symptoms when you stop.
pot heads are a important part of society,by a ten foot bong and get a job at the plaid pantry.
I don't think that there is huge amount of evidence to prove it's physically addictive, you just need to moderate your intake, and leave it for the weekends.
Anonymous
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pot definatly is socially, psychologically and physically addictive. It is a drug because it is mind altering. It can damage you permenantly both mentally and emotionally, yet usually in a far far milder way than any other drugs.

You are a "chronic" stoner, and you may just be addicted to resin because you like the concentrated high as well as the different effects of it as compaired to just smokin pot. Smoking it can inhibit your emotional coping skills, can damage your short and long-term memory and has more tar than cigarettes. It can also cause heart arrhythmias as well as panic attacks. Many smokers have social anxiety. If smoked at a young age the mental and emotional effects can in some circumstances become irrepairable. I have a friend who has emphysema because of smoking pot (smoking pot regularly can definatly give you lung cancer over an etended period of time).

I quit because it was expensive, everything I did was planned around it, I was generally lazy, ate too damn many munchies, got panic attacks and found that it just wasn't for me. I had been smoking since I was 12, I quit when I was 22. Take this info as you will, it's some of what I found when I researched about it when I was getting ready to quit. It wasn't heard because I tapered down to just nights, then everyother night, one bowl as opposed to two, and by the time I was smoking on just weekend nights, I just didn't like it anymore.

Good luck in whatever you do :)
Anonymous
according to a very recent study (government funded), pot is NOT addictive physically. Mentally is whole diffent topic however. What you're feeling is a fear to return to a normal state of mind, and I'd say that's normal (not healthy, but normal). Try to not do it on a daily basis, even if that means you cannot hang with your friends. The effects should dissapear after not smoking pot for about 2 weeks BTW.
word-up homey. I'ma tell you some real shit. You are a your own person and you make up your own mind about what you want to do. but think about the future. Do you honestly think you are going to make it far with half of your brains fucked up. That shit is going to ruin your life. and when you hit rock bottom, you'll blink and the world will be against you. Grow up. I don't even know you and just by reading what you said I can tell you'll be a crack-head 8-10 years from now. Don't throw away your life. What would mom-dukes say. don't be ignorant and break her heart.
Yah bro it is addictive. But meth and herione more addictive. You dig?