Has marijuana messed up anyone else’s life?
Been smoking for 3 years about. I am stopping pretty soon due to it’s effects on my life. I have lots of college obligations and family obligations, and I find it hard to meet any of these while stoned on high quality weed. Even when I have tried stopping for weeks at a time, I still feel perma-high. I hate it. Weed has caused me to go from a college student majoring in chemistry and on track to go into pharmacy, to nothing. I’m working on getting my life back on track now. Maybe it’s just me, and I’m sure some people will be like WTF WEED DOES NOTHING TO ME, but I think it totally depends on how the person is wired in their brain. Any stories or similar experiences? I’m stopping smoking this week, and it’s really hard. Anyone who’s tried quitting before knows what I mean. I don’t want any comments about how you’ve been smoking for years and had no problems. I want to hear some similar stories or experiences so I can relate. Thanks!
Not me personally, but alot of people I know have become legitimate retards from smoking so much so often.
I have been smoking marijuana for a long time. I like smoking it and I will continue to smoke it. I disagree with the laws regarding marijuana in the U.S. very strongly. Not because I smoke pot, in fact it has nothing to do with it. The U.S. is known for “Freedom” yet we are told that marijuana is against the law. To me that is wrong. I have done a lot of research on the herb and I don’t see any side effects that would change my mind on smoking it. I believe that it should be our own choice though when it comes to smoking it. It’s our body, and it’s our right to do with what we please with our body’s. No says it’s against the law for someone to workout because someone else doesn’t like it, so how do they justify telling us we can’t to marijuana. As far as my health, I feel great! I am active and very fit. I workout at least 3 times a week and I have a great job never been late never called in for 3 years. In my opinion marijuana has no “harmful” side effects, aside from la
I can’t say that it’s really done anything to me that I didn’t let it do or choose to do to myself. I quit recently as I lost a very good job because of smoking pot. I made good grades in school, top of my graduating class and I slept and smoke weed all day. It got to a point where life was dull when I wasn’t stoned.
Well I can honestly say that I know for a fact that weed is not a habit forming drug. I’ve been smoking for years, and I had to stop because I got pregnant with my first child. I have never been craving it, never felt the need for it; and now I look back on the years I had been smoking and said to myself….god I was an idiot. I hope when you do actually quit and stop making excuses, you will see how much of an idiot you became from smoking weed.
You are the reason you failed at life, and weed was your excuse. I never let weed ruin my life. I guess some people have better will power than others.
Well not Marijuana in particular is going to effect you lift but the legal system of this country might ruin it. You have to be responsible, so it depends on you attitude. Alcohol ruins people’s life even though it is legal. I smoked pot straight A student, in college on scholarship until legal system got me and took it all away… Only thing that can effect you life is your attitude!
My brother used to smoke heavily and he didn’t do anything with his life at the time and now he regrets all the time he wasted and how much he just let slide. Good luck on quitting. It is a habit like any other, try to keep your self distracted so you won’t focus on wanting to smoke.
I smoked pot for about 5 years as a teen then when I hit my 20’s I turned schizophrenic psychosis (the one wear you hear the voices). I was working at the time and my grades went down and because of my schizophrenia and the paranoia I suffered I couldn’t work no more. So I quit six years ago and I don’t drink no more. I’ve got my own house studying and earning my own way now and I’ve been getting therapy and what have you and my life has totally turned around. I think as you get older and realise what smoking pot is doing to you ruining your life you start to grow up and grow out of it and trust me you don’t want the mental problems I suffered from smoking it plus it gets harder to get out of it as you get older because then you only associate with people who do it and then you find it harder to break away. It also has ten times more tar then cigarettes which means you can get cancer easier from smoking pot too. So it is a good idea to stay from it I mean I was real mess 6 years ago and now my life has changed for the better. It is an experience we have to learn from.
I’m also kinda like you. I quit weed my second year of college, because well I had to. I got kicked outta school my freshman year after being put on academic probation. I dont know if it was the weed per say, but I was far too consumed with partying and smoking that I never had the motivation to do anything school related. Then sooner or later I started hanging out with the wrong people who also started smoking weed, and thats how I got involved with coke. I think that was probably the one that did the life ruining. I ws far more into smoking weed than doing blow though. After I got kicked outta school I had to move back in with my parents in fort collins. I soon started attending the community college there and got an intership at a pharmaceutical company doing testing in the microbiology section of the quality control department. It was the job that ultimately made me decide to quit. I couldnt do my best work if I was high, and the job gave me a good opportunity to change my life around. So I did, I quit all the drugs and drinking, and my life is better for it now. I still go out to bars, but not at the rate I was. And sometimes I’ll still take a hit here and there. But ultimately quitting was the right choice for me.
I live in a family in an area where EVERYONE smokes weed. So it’s not a big deal really. However, I do know some people with some emotional issues who took weed and took it way over the top. They used it whenever they got angry or sad or had a problem, which destroyed their ability to cope and act like adults in stressful situations.
While there are people who used weed the wrong way, there are some who know what they’re doing too. I use weed recreationally on occasion. I’m in my senior year in university now and I know that I have to take things seriously. So I’ve learned how to be a responsible smoker. I also have many friends who have full time jobs and make a great salary while they still smoke weed at the end of the day every night.
I do have a friend who is the same age as me and is still in highschool without his grade 9 French (I live in Canada and that’s a graduation requisite), grade 11 math and grade 12 english credits. He’s a pretty short guy so he’s got some self-esteem issues. He makes his money by selling weed. He lives his life by weed. This guy is going no where. He has pores in his face and arms that don’t work anymore, he can’t remember what day it is, he has hackers cough and a bald spot from scratching intensely while high.
Thesis: Marajuana isn’t guaranteed to mess up your life. But if your life is a mess and you use weed to solve its problems, things will just get worse.
Actually you know something?Weed has not messed up your life or your school.You have.there are plenty of people,including me,who are doing great in school and smoke weed every day.You just don’t want to do the work.I hate it when people are messing up and they blame it on weed.It’s people like you that are giving weed a bad rep and ruining it for all of us.
I have to ask… how often are you using? If you are having such a hard time stopping, I have to wonder if your use went into chronic abuse at some point, and now you are emotionally addicted.
My suggestion is to seek the help of an addiction counselor.