By age 25, I was really addicted to Marijuana. Anyone who tells you that Marijuana is not addictive is a complete liar. This was my drug of choice hands down. In fact, at the age of 25 I really didn’t drink that much or do any other drugs regularly. My one and only drug was Marijuana. Well, I tried and tried to quit on my own. My little brother who lived with me at the time was constantly trying to get me to quit. He said that he tried to be “Mean”, then he tried to be “Nice” and no matter what he did I kept on smoking pot. I used to write notes on my dresser at night when I went to bed title “DSP”. This meant, Don’t Smoke Pot. I lived in a garage apartment behind my parent’s house and did not want them to accidentally see the full writing, so I created this short abbreviation. I cannot tell you how many times I put this note on my dresser at night. It just didn’t matter; the mental obsession to smoke pot the next day was just too strong. No matter how hard I tried, I could not stop smoking pot.
Well, you can probably imagine what happened next. That little brother of mine had given up trying to help me in his own little way. So he finally told my parents about my problem. I woke up one morning to a phone call from my parent’s home (about 100 yards from our little apartment). I believe my sister was the one that called me that morning. She told us that we were all going to the doctor for an issue regarding my mother. Well, I gathered my things wallet, keys, half and once of pot, etc. and went to this doctor for my “Mothers” problem.
I noticed as we were pulling into this place that the name looked a little familiar. “Ridgeview” I thought to myself, why is my mother going to see a doctor out here. Of course, the entire family was with me and we all sat down in a circle with this doctor. The first thing out of his mouth was “You must be Steven”. That’s when it hit me that I had been intervened. Oh yes, just like the famous Drug Intervention show on TV today. Everyone went around telling me all these things about how I needed to quit. I should mention that my parents never even knew I had a problem until my little brother told them. They were absolutely clueless naive parents. Anyway, this circle of absolute humiliation and crying continued. The thing that still makes me a little mad to this day was that “I would have gone if they would have just asked me in the first place”. However; my parents were not willing to take any chances, so it went down as described and of course I went right into Drug Rehab “for a couple of days”.
At the time, I thought “How will they fix me?” I had thoughts like maybe they were going to just hold me there for a while and give me some medicine. I really didn’t know what was going to happen. The first day consisted of staying in cottage “C”. Cottage “C” was really for everyone including the mental patients that were entering the facility. I had to stay there for 24 hours. I guess you could say that it was also the detoxify room. Yes, on January 4, 1996 I was admitted to into drug rehab. This is where my story of recovery begins. I’m going to continue adding to my recovery story on a regular basis. Right HERE….
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This is blasphemy!! What a dork. Your mental problems are not from pot, if anything, pot helped you, you geek. Bad idea to start a website like this in today’s day and age, considering it will be legal soon. Our children are going to ask us what it was like when pot was illegal and we will have horror stories of how the government treated us on something as simple as marijuana. Don’t you know about all the benefits of cannabis? I don’t see this website helping your cause, as you can see from all the other posts, everyone is against you and you are pissing people off. Now excuse me while I dip into my ” half and once” and spark up a fatty and enhance my consciousness.
ur story is interesting but it doesn’t make any sense to blame marijuana for the fact that you weren’t born with the will power to be a recreational user.
this is probley the most ****** up and ******** website about pot, firstly ~quote
Unfortunately, people make too many assumptions on how I feel about the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana does not need to be legalized because it tells our youth that it’s okay to do one more drug….
that is a complete ******* lie, marijuana is a plant it grows outa ******* soil. yes its addictive most drugs are, difference is marijuana isnt killing people its sending addicts broke and unhappy easily avoidable.. just grow your own pot ive been smoking pot for 10 years and i wouldnt have it anyother way.. just mother ******* like you trying to brainwash people in to making it illegal.
word of advice id close this site get back into smoking just remember 3rd day of smoking and ur addicited again. if u smoke weed every day u get addicted and i dont mean u want a bong i mean u want it a **** load every stoner knows that and if your going to keep this site up well ur either a republican or just unemployed like the other half of the world.
u make me sick dude ur lifestory is a disgrace uve had it easy some people dont have a family dont have any friends worth mentioning dont even have a job they cant break the habbit because they are addicted and mentally ****** half the time its not pot its the amount of shit theyve gone through in life to end up smoking chronic everyday see it all the time. you on the other hand **** me, u went to rehab at 25? weak. i mean **** i can understand crackheads and heroin junkies going to rehab but a stoner going to rehab is like a down syndrome trying to pick up women at a nightclub its just hilarious
ur story wont inspire stoner but just bring lots of hate mail.
not only is ur story unbelieveable its not believeable that a true pot head would make a website about hes habbit, you fake ****.
Dude, you didnt get addicted to pot at all!. If anything i dont even think this is for real just another lame atempt at the government or some loser for that matter coming up with some ******** story to scare kids away from pot. You really need to re-consider running this website as its grade A ******** and you are just going to get continualy hated on. Maybe you did smoke alot but if you had a bit of sence and like you stated you wanted to ‘get buff’ you wouldent of smoked it in the first place as it raises your metabolism making you loose weight faster. Sort it out bruv.
WHAT? That’s the dumbest thing i’ve ever heard.
You make it sound like you were smoking crack rocks inside of a dumpster.
Sounds like a FULL BLOWN addiction man, 24 hours and you’ve come to your senses.
you are completely full of **** , this is a fake testimonial, a real pothead would know its half an ounce, not “half and once” this is some old housewife who found her son smoking 15 years ago and has an all out hatred of weed because she thinks thats what made her son not succeed .
I think this website is HILARIOUS! This guy is a little female dog… that’s why he’s having problems. It’s not the pot. I’m in medical school doing just fine and I enjoy pot just like my peers enjoy alcohol. I would never do this if I had to see patients or do anything or relevance that would affect others. I can control it and enjoy it just as I can alcohol. This is ridiculous. Legalize it and stop putting people in jail for a plant. Just have some common sense and find yourself something else to do than walking around high all day every day. Everything in moderation
pot was not ur problem man. this site is outragious. u dont go to rehab for marijuana. u got to rehab for coke and alcohol. cuz u dont have withdrawls from pot… jeeze… this dont make sense. man up.
You are blaming pot for your own inadequacies. When you are broken does it matter what substance you abuse? Grow a pair and take responsibility for your weakness and quit preaching this self indulgent bull****. BTW I don’t use pot but I recognize a victim’s mentality when I see one. Grow up!
LMFAO … addicted to Weed???? What a BS story this is. Drug rehab for Weed?? Is there such a thing?? Am I reading an Onion article?
You are suffering mental anguish from your brothers psychotic behavior. When people are emotionally unstable, alternatively being mean and nice to you, it’s always hard. Mental illness like that is stressful on family members and stress as anyone can tell you can lead to self medication. More psychological abuse, more pot, more psychological abuse, more pot and so on. Brake the cycle. As long as you can support yourself your family has no say as to what you do with your recreational time. It’s time to tell them to piss off and that you’re leading your own life now.
Ok, so let me get this straight… you “suffered” horribly every night, sticking little notes to your dresser telling you not to put salt in your eye, then every morning you woke up and thought to yourself, “Hey! I know! I’ll put salt in my eye!” …??
Since when do people bring half an ounce (which is quite a lot, I might add) to a DOCTOR’S OFFICE or HOSPITAL… I mean, come on…
Your fabricated story is nothing but a pathetic sham, with the hope of spreading more lies and falsehoods regarding one of the most useful plants on the planet (And not just for consumption. It can be used to generate electricity, build houses, make better paper than wood pulp paper, etc etc etc… the list is endless).
Man up, grow a pair, and quit lying to try to feel self important.
You took half an ounce of pot with you on this visit? What? Did you plan on smoking 30 joints by dinner?
If you are going to flat-out lie, at least research the material you’ll be lying about.
Man, I’d be pretty pissed off at your brother if I were you.
whaaaah whaaaah whaaaah.You sound like a lying propagandist for the Richardheaded thugs of the DEA.
This story is clearly false. Nobody grabs a half ounce to go to the doctor. Do you have any idea how much that is? I smoke fairly regularly and 1/8 last a couple weeks, easily. But you were so addicted you took 4 times that much just to go visit the doctor?
Marijuana has a mental addiction, but it is easily overcome by anyone with will power. If any of this is true, you are weak. That’s the bottom line.
Also, if this is true, what made you want to quit? What were the negative effects?
Despite how fake this story sounds, I would like to like to give you some advice just in case it is true, or for anyone reading this. It is easy to use marijuana use as an excuse for what you don’t like about yourself rather than taking responsibility for your life. I fell into this trap when I was a heavy smoker years ago. I noticed during this period that I was very lazy and unproductive. I told myself that pot was the source of all my problems and convinced myself I had some sort of addiction. When I lost access to pot, I experienced zero drug withdrawal symptoms, but did have to face one very unpleasant fact – that I had always been lazy and unproductive, since long before I had ever even seen the stuff. Maintaining the belief that I had a problem with marijuana and that it was the source of my troubles allowed me to deny my own responsiblilty for this. It was only years later, after doing some growing up, that I started to smoke again and began to use it as a catalyst for actually changing myself, beginning to exercise, eating right, self-motivation, self reflection – all things pot is a great help with when used with the right attitude. Don’t get sucked into the anti drug hype. Don’t blame all your problems on pot. Ask yourself the tough questions about your life, maybe after sparking up a fat one to get the wheels turning in your mind. Better yet, share a fat one with someone else and talk about what you’re experiencing in life using the courage and insight cannabis had provided the human race for thousands of years.
You don’t take responsibility for your actions. It’s easier to blame something or someone else. I’m sruprised that someone so weak even had the strength to type something.
Sorry if I seem rude, but it’s not my fault. Sniveling idiots bring that out in me I guess…or it might be that I didn’t get enough attention when I was a child…or maybe being a middle child screwed me up or maybe……
Why in the name of ganja did you take half an ounce to the doctor? did you think you could help mom by getting everybody in the hospital high? Hmm, you were probably the worst pothead in the history of MJ. Do the Lord a favor and sit back, light up, and have a conversation with Jesus. I have seen what He looks like, he would prolly want a hit!
That isn’t the fault of cannabis, that’s your own personal mental fault. Blaming cannabis is a cop out for your own failings. It doesn’t make people a waste of space, it’s just that some waste of space people are drawn to cannabis, because lets be fair, if you’re a lazy ****** then cannabis will certainly help. It’s more likely your problems stem from alcohol, you should actually be thankful that you started using cannabis, otherwise you’d probably either has server alcohol damage, or possibly be dead (gotten in to a fight you couldn’t win, driven your car whilst drunk, etc).
I’m fed up of failures using cannabis as their blame stick, you have nothing to blame other than yourself.
“Really addicted to marijuana…”? what? I think your OCD has kicked in. Maybe get it checked out. You drooled and your body basically went into convulsions because you were “SO ADDICTED TO POT”? Bulls%$t and you know it. Dude, go get some psychological help. I don’t believe in prescription pills to make you a mind-controled sheep, but, you seriously need some emotional help. How about: smoking some pot? Should ease your mind. Helps for me. I suffer from PTSD. Those pills they keep shoving down my throat really don’t help. I prefer natural…
As I read further into your “story of overcoming addiction”, I hope you enjoy your labotomy at the looney hospitol. You actually went to a drug rehab for pot? “Boo that man! Boo that man…” what a waste of mine and other taxpayers dollars…
Take responsibilty for your own actions and stop useing other things(cannabis) as your cop-out, scapegoat.
Grow up and be a man at age 25!!!
Baby whaaaaaaaaa
Good God. If this is what you think about ganja, then you have some serious problems. You’ve eaten fast food, I assume? Well then you know that too much of it will make you fat. Too much MJ can cause problems, yes, but mostly it’s benefits and good stuff. In small amounts, it’s fine for you. If this is what they are feeding people these days, dumb-ness about taking a 1/2 ounce (you either were rather rich, grew your own, or are just stupid because that’s a LOT) then I hope to god that these sheep will grow up and learn to think outside the box. Is it bad information? Not when the US does it.
Yeah, I saw this page and had to take a look… I laughed when I saw “saynotopot.com” and figured id be registering “saynotosayingnotopot.com” lmfao…. Omg kthx crack self up ^.^
When I loaded the page, after noting its general crappiness, I clicked the first link that attracted me, “My Addiction” lol. It is an addiction only because you like it. Don’t deny it! If you want to quit, just start hating it you nub. There are no chemicals in it that cause you to crave it more… There for it is “non addictive”.
And havent you heard of vaporizing? Its 100% clean
“I’m going to continue adding to my recovery story on a regular basis. Right HERE….” <—- I however will be out smoking weed
The best plant on the earth, given to man by God. Do not deny that! It was placed here for us idiot humans. We are dumb ***** for not legalizing 
While some people, such as yourself, can become unhealthily obsessive about marijuana and abuse it, I don’t believe that is the case with most weed smokers. It certainly isn’t like that for me, or anybody I know. It is, however, not physically addictive. Any addiction you had to pot was simply a mental one, like having an internet addiction or a video game addiction, etc.
I started smoking weed in my senior year of high school, and continued to smoke it through college with no adverse affects on my schoolwork, job, relationships, or behavior. It has actually helped me improve my social skills. Before I started smoking marijuana I was really shy and uptight around people. Marijuana helped me to relax, and gave me the confidence boost I needed to have a more healthy and active social life.
I still smoke it a couple times a week, and I have a happy, healthy and normal life. I don’t believe that marijuana is for everybody or that it’s impossible to abuse, but I do think people should make that decision for themselves. And I also believe that if it was regulated, then a lot of the problems associated with marijuana would go away.
I’m a 61 year old Australian, and I’ve been enjoying weed nearly 40 years.
It is a pastime I have enjoyed within a small discrete group, but mainly by myself, late at night when I want to kick back with some nice music, or to open my mind to nice flittering thoughts to replace those daily crappy things (which usually involve people like yourself).
There is NO such thing as addiction to weed !!! NONE !!!
For various reasons (usually unavailability), on many, many occasions I have stopped smoking instantly, and for extended periods (3 to 6 months). There is only ONE single, simple side-effect. It takes longer to drift off to sleep !!!!
That is IT. Nothing else !
Instead of soft thoughts lulling me into a pleasant sleep, I just got stuck with trying to block out a crap day.
Lack of motivation ???
I have been a senior career serviceman and war veteran.
I have been a successful small business owner.
I was managing director of a very successful company – which made it possible for me to retire early, grow some nice weed, and be at peace with the world – and myself.
And I managed to raise a very normal, happy, well-adjusted family along the way.
Should anyone want to see just how wierd the anti-smoking lobby is, just try watching an old movie called Reefer Madness. It was commissioned by the government, and I think J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI) controlled the production. Fellow smokers, it just shows that we are wasting our time. These ignorant fools truly believe that this is an evil drug, and causes homicidal madness in all users. The movie reflects just about everything that people in power really know about weed.
I have to agree with everyone else who has posted comments on this site…if you’re going to be writing an article directed towards people who actually smoke pot, you should know what youre talking about. As a regular smoker, i just dont find your story believable at all. the fact that you have tried cocaine as well as antidepressants should be enough for you to realize that pot is about as addictive as chocolate cake. im saddened that youre spreading this propaganda to unsuspecting people over the internet…for shame.
This is just another website that likes to blame every single problem on pot. Its much easier to blame a substance than it is to blame yourself isnt it? This site is propaganda at its best. It compares marijuana to alcoholism and cocaine and all the hard drugs, because the uneducated mind has been shown that they are one in the same.
Weed, like any other single thing on this mother ******* planet, does need to be used in moderation.
Its a sad day when you see sites like this because it tries to work against the evolution of society. Were not in the day and age were we are uneducated about marijuana and beleive that 1 hill will kill us.
liam:
So what’s your government pay grade?
Definitely very fishy. I agree with the others who think this whole thing is fake.
Too bad your fear mongering doesn’t work. LOL!
We know the truth and so does our youth. I tell my children the truth about cannabis, the dangers AND the benefits, please stop insulting our intelligence.
You brought a half ounce with you to the doctors office? Nobody would ever need that much, or even be able to smoke that much during a short visit to the doctor’s office. You have no Idea what you’re talking about, and probably have never even tried marijuana before. This website is so terrible.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
So your parents, who you basically were living with never knew of your marijuana use? Sounds like you couldn’t of been ruining your life to bad, LOL AT AN INTERVENTION THOUGH! It reminds me of half-baked with Dave Chappelle standing up and saying “I am addicted to marijuana”, and then being laughed off stage. I find it funny in one of your stories you talked about when you quit pot you started smoking tons of cigs… GOOD IDEA DUMB***! Did you know doing that was way worse than your whole time you smoked pot. Is that how rehab centers deal with marijuana “addicts”? “Ahh hell just get them to smoke some cigs, get them addicted to a real drug so they will be to worried about getting there nicotine fix to worry about getting high”. I’d like you to see some people who truly need pot for medical problems, people who are in so much pain that they need the instant relief pot gives, put yourself in there shoes for a few days (which I doubt you would make it). Then come here and preach your BS about marijuana.
My mother has smoked for years, since she was 17 shes 50 know and always smoked some bomb **** weed called train wreck, shes a millionaire who rents out beautiful homes to people. Maybe your brother shouldn’t of come in stoned that’s just kinda of a personal responsibility problem nothing we say is going to convince you because just like most people in the world they can not adapt to facts but look all around you 50% supports legalization of weed. Its only going to get higher your losing a war you’ll never win and you know what its going to be okay we’ve survived worse things then a plant that gets us high well be able to work through it and face real problems like i don’t know maybe AIDS or cancer.
you are a government pay little prick making the so called “Drug” look bad
in fact it is the only drug with the most medical uses, it it the safest drug with a record breaking high of ZERO deaths, the test that say it kills brain cells is a fluke they suffocated monkeys pumping only smoke with no other additional oxygen, of course the brain cells will die with out oxygen. OH YEAH! and the drug is not addictive it is called HABITUATING which means it is a habit, when one is deprived of delta 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, there is a mild withdrawl, but nothing like the cigarettes and alcohol you promote, so keep pumping your lies, the truth is infectious and it will get out.
Why would you lie about something you know nothing about? Half and once? And even if that was a typo, thats too much to bring to the doctor’s office you dumb***. And a habit isn’t an addiction. Just because you like it so much it you need it for your ****** up mind.
This whole website is modern day propaganda. And the worst part is that you claim that anti-depressants aren’t harmful or addictive. Prescription drugs kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, and cause physical and mental harm to millions more. Cannabis kills NO ONE. Take a look at this (these stats are from the National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Annually:
Tobacco use causes over 475,000 deaths.
Alcohol use causes over 135,000 deaths.
Prescription drugs (properly administered) kill between 119,000 and
199,000 people .
Twenty-eight percent of all hospitalized patients
(8.8 million hospitalizations per year)
experience an adverse drug reaction to legal, prescription medication.
Aspirin alone kills hundreds.
Over-the-counter drugs can have deadly side effects.
Illegal drug use causes about 17,000 deaths.
Cannabis (marijuana) use kills no one.
Cannabis is not addictive unless you have a tendency to become addicted to chemical substances (it seems like you have a problem with anti-depressants.)
You are a weak person with backwards ideas that have been ground into your head by other similar humans, who only want to control what other people can and can’t do. You grew up in the south. I do not want to pass judgments on all people from that region, but have you ever gone anywhere else in the world? Marijuana isn’t a big deal everywhere else. It’s accepted in many other places, and no one has these “problems” and “addictions” that you’ve supposedly suffered from.
Marijuana is a plant that grows on its own, NATURALLY from our earth. Your anti-depressants that you love so much are dangerous poisons, synthesized in a test tube, by drug companies with an agenda to get you as hooked on their drugs as possible, so that you keep buying their product. Those are the modern day drug dealers that we really need to stop. What seems safer to you now?
If you can’t figure it out, you need your head examined.
yeah, about that…. you obviously medicated yourself with things to try to fix your problems. It is definitely not pot; it just worked the best for you at ’self medication’. I am sorry you had a bad experience. You used it wrong.
man this story is bullsh*t. u grabbed a half and once? before you went to the doctors. this website is retarded
I got my mans back. All these smokers are just like I was refusing to even acknowledge the problem they have. I hope all those who are trying to quit don’t get discouraged by all these losers. I used to smoke pot and let me tell you it will ruin your life if you allow it. When you do something for years and try to quit no matter what it is it will be hard. To all those hatters you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Karma I quit and am successful beyond my wildest dreams, all those hatters can hand me my burgers and fries. We always need trash collectors.