Letters to the Editor
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What about all the sticky tar going down into your lungs
I have nothing against potsmokers. I was one....I have smoked many sweet varieties throughout the years. Just think about this, though: you know that nasty sticky filthy tar you're cleaning out of your pipe every week? It's going into your lungs, too. I reckon that's not a pretty sight after a few decades.
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Excellent advice...
...about avoiding court dates while stoned, Cary, and very useful too, since if the LW continues on this path, he'll probably spend some time in court.
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I can relate.
I'm 20 and addicted to pot--(and I was doing just great). I've been smoking every day for about a year and a half now. I started my first year of university this year and throughout my first semester my heavy pot use did not effect my marks or ambition negatively. I was even convinced that weed was helping me with some of my issues. The song "Bobby James" by N*E*R*D has the song lyric "don't you know I can help or hurt you", I think this is a good thing to keep in mind with pot. Smoking everyday eventually made me lazy as hell and made my habit of procrastinating worse. It's now the end of second semester and I am hoping I am going to pass all of my classes but the reality is that I may not pass calculus because I just didn't put enough time into it. I think with any substance that alters consciousness moderation is the key, eventually heavy pot use will likely become a problem however I do know people that it is absolutely no problem for, for me however this is not the case. I am currently trying to really cut back my habit and would like to get down to smoking just with friends and not by myself. One tactic I am experimenting with to help me cut down is meditation. Whenever I am in my room trying to do homework or something (but really surfing digg, another one of my anti-productive addictions) and I get the impulse to smoke I will instead meditate for a while trying to think about nothing else but breathing in and out. So far it isn't working too badly, hope this letter can give you some insight.
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I thought I was alone.
Ditto, X-factor,
The only thing different in my "highly-functioning" stoner lifestyle, is that I started late. I smoked a little in high school and college but only at parties, etc. I graduated, ditched the college lifestyle and got a job. Quickly, I mastered the job (corporate artist) and, being that nothing else in my life was much trouble, I got bored. So, converse to what Cary said, I figured I'd done everything sober and I got back on the pipe.
At first it was just casual, but I started to wonder what this or that experience would be like high. Eventually, I got over the fear and went to work high. A friend of mine and I would go to lunch and get high. I was high all the time.
This all happened about 10 years ago and I'm still smoking. Being high all the time has gotten boring at times too, but I'll never put anything up my nose or into my arm. I don't drink nearly as much as I used to (I much prefer high to drunk), I have a gym membership, I'm fitter/stronger than I've ever been. I have a new job where I've been promoted twice and I'm in the same relationship I've been in since high school (18 years -- I'm anti marriage and no, she doesn't even smoke casually).
I don't write this to brag either, but I have to admit: I've almost fallen for the "addict" myth. I've thought about quitting to see if I'd get tremors or something, but why? I had to quit to pass a blood test for some life insurance last year so I stopped for three months no problem and went right back as soon as I was accepted. I'm enjoying life, healthy and pot makes me quit obsessing about our child president.
I know it's not for everybody so I don't even try to talk people into it, but I also know this: If it's as bad as most people would have me believe, I'd be dead right now.
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Correction ("Am I High" by N*E*R*D)
Sorry ya the song is Am I High not Bobby James, but yah it's a cool song I think, check it out people.
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Yeah, LW is running away from _something_...
>I don't go out and spend money elsewhere like I used to – I mostly cook simple meals at home, and I have stopped shopping (something I think I used to do compulsively when I was stressed, because I used to buy a lot of things I never ended up wearing).<
Sounds like you have swapped one compulsion for another. You are doing the slow-motion self-destruction thing for _some_ reason, and you need to get help and find out what that reason is.
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@SLCPunk
You're doing great, so I'm sure you'll ignore what I'm about to say:
It's pretty sad that you can't be all that without being high. I'm guessing that in your natural state, you must be rather insipid. You might even feel like dying. No? If you quit completely for a year, I'll believe in your impressive self-control.
I just hope for the sake of your employer and your loved ones that your supply never runs out. Because then what would you do? And what if you got arrested? Placed on probation? Tested several times a week?
The "addict myth"... ain't a myth.
I'm teetering on the fence between good and bad in my opinion of your dependency. If you were to, say, devote some of your energy and confidence to socially constructive use, including charitable efforts to lift the underprivileged and downtrodden (those who can't afford to get high) so they can at least lead somewhat normal lives, your pot-smoking is obviously a good thing for the community.
You smoke pot to stop obsessing about our child president? You mean, you obsess about him when you're not high? That might suggest something else about your psychology.
All right, I'll admit it. I feel sorry for you. Despite your successes.