Letters to the Editor
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Constant pot smoking retards growth. Period. No way around it.
I smoke pot every once in a while. I've had times where I smoked a lot of pot, actually, in pretty much the same circumstances as the LW. I've excelled academically and professionally, but that didn't keep addictions at bay for me, nor will it most likely for the LW. I come from a family of potheads. I have a sister who is a serious pothead. I grew up in the Emerald triangle. So trust me when I say that smoking pot with the regularity that you are is retarding your personal growth. We are not processing things when we are high. Trust me. I almost fell into alcoholism, and feel exceedingly grateful to have pushed it away and maintain boundaries with booze, to be able to have a social drink and not compulsively need five, or ten or fifteen until I'm screaming at my boyfriend and raging, and crying . . . and you know, the usual regrettable stuff that drunk people do.
Someone else wrote here that one day when all the exciting intellectual and academic activity in your life metamorphoses into a more workaday, humdrum routine, then that is when the lure and the danger of smoking lots of weed will nail you down. It's waiting in the wings. And another thing? Addictions almost always progress. And over time it does take more weed to get stoned, and that's more money down the bong.
Another note: smoking pot is much worse for your lungs even than cigarettes, and the fact that you smoke both is troubling. Please consider at least giving up cigarettes if you can't give up pot. But please don't smoke them both. You're putting yourself on the fast track for lung cancer.