Ok so throughout this blog we’ve looked at many different reasons why smoking weed in moderation is the way forward instead of baking up every day and night. We’ve talk about how just the process of smoking logically can’t be good for your lungs, even though your buddy who knows about things, who happens to be a smoker as well, keeps telling you otherwise. I’ve said enough about the health risks etc I’ll respect any reader to use their own initiative and common sense on this one. We looked at side effects like lack of drive. Today I want to explore when “the drugs do work” and when your addiction turns from the weed itself to being your way out!
We haven’t all been there, but we have!
Without getting to deep on this one, life is strange place where despite all your planning you never really know what’s gonna happen next. That being true, sometimes we can find ourselves stuck in the bottom of a big ass hole you’ve been blindly digging even deeper every night while you’ve been smoking up. Sometimes it might not even be your fault at all, like losing a loved one or suffering major disappointment or being subject to social bullying, which as Facebook & social media grow deeper into our lives is becoming a increasingly more significant silent killers. Whatever the situation be it of your doing or not, first and fore mostly I or nobody in this world has the right to judge you and I my intentions in this article are to help you realise you’re probably not the first to have walked in those footsteps. So I guess this is where I say “I’ve been there” etc etc, but that could never be true, and ultimately we all suffer from millions of different causes that bring us down, and get you hooked on using a substance to make it all go away. Now there I’ve definitely been, and I’m sure if you’ve found your way onto this page you have too.
I got problems, who doesn’t?
Now right to the point, you kept telling people and yourself “Nah, things are cool, I’m fine” but meanwhile things got way too much to handle. You picked up some weed one night and smoked it, and without really thinking about it you did the same the next morning, and before you realised it you’re smoking all the time around the clock. When your partner, or loved one see the obvious changes happening to you, and pull you up on it, you tell them “Nah, I haven’t got a problem – this shit is good for me, it keeps me happy!” The people around you are forced to buy this story but secretly are fearing you’re destroying yourself slowly and slowly but of course we’ve certainly all been there “CAPTAIN RED ALERT our lifestyle is under threat, INCOMING…. now ATTTACK”
How High and How Deep?
I’ll admit it, as a fellow sufferer I bounced people off me with excuses, sure I wasn’t fooling anybody but what did I care? I smoked everyday till stupid hours in the morning fantasising about how I was gonna claim my life / win happiness back HOLLYWOOD STYLE!! Instead I’d find myself in the 24 hour supermarket junking on frozen pizzas and any other bullshit I could find. I didn’t have any money anymore, I stopped working ages ago and stopped caring longer before that. After justifying it by becoming a freelancer, I did work every now and again, but I wasn’t doing shit. I was getting high, and turning down the sound to my problems, cause it’s got to be said weed is really good at doing that! Credit due where deserved, it doesn’t work over night but moreover the more you smoke it the easier it gets to dim the lights on problematic areas of your life. This can go for years, and the thing is you’d be happy during that time, as ignorance is bliss right? We’ve talked in detail about denial over these couple of years, and the dangerous thing leaving something rooting in your fridge freezer that you eat from everyday, is that the bacteria spreads.
A little about me…
This shit happened to me also and well I just got fat, like really fat. I’m funny guy and I make fun outta my big belly all the time, as to show people it’s not something that really affects me. However what’s really going on is I’m creating a defence shield throwing out red herrings, and trying to throw people off the scent, because the truth is that it does affect me a lot. It depresses me so much that instead of going down 2 stones I put on another 2 stones, and I ain’t a tall guy either, this weight means I don’t have any more clothes fit me anymore as I’ve grown bigger than all of them. So who am I kidding, telling you I don’t care, cos when I smoke I actually don’t and that’s the scary thing.
Turn out of the lights.
You can have serious problems in your life and using weed on a regular basis is a great way of avoiding them. It takes a bit of mental training at first, because initially getting high on a bad day can really go wrong as paranoia could creeps in. I think this problem is something nearly all regular mature weed smokers can relate with. If any of this sounds like you, my advice is to not over think anything, and clean up. Like alcohol, weed isn’t a bad thing at all, the drug is amazing and we all should appreciate it properly by not raping the fuck outta it every second of the day to the point you don’t even feel that high when you smoke anymore. Truth is you won’t hear the real advice you need to from me, but CLEAN UP!! and once your head is clean and clear the answers to all your problems will suddenly appear. Then it’s just a case of sticking to your resolve…. and like millions of people out there in the world that have walked this road, you really will then be fine. Good luck reader!!
Everybody says it, all the damn time!! “smoke weed carefully, as before you’ll know it….” WHAT??!! What will happen, I ask as my voice echos back to me!! So this month I thought I’d look into this a bit more and really evaluate whether smoking cannabis could lead to a life of depression like everybody seems to be warning me about! First of all the sentence just seems really strong, and very harsh to begin to with the end destination begin DEPRESSION!! However I don’t know who you are reading this and what life has thrown at you, what you’ve been given or not, what troubles you, or anything about you to be really honest. With that being said I appreciate that you may have the best life in the world and things couldn’t be going smoother and being more awesome, and yeah you smoke weed and if this is you then you’re probably more fortunate than some others who really struggle to live life properly always being hampered by the drug. Personally speaking, I’ve experienced both i.e times when I was on top of the world, being productive, successful and smoking weed and other times, when I’ve been low on energy and motivation and have been hampered by a daily addiction to smoking cannabis. So what’s the deal then?
Yes I’m sure we’ve all had this shouted at us by somebody, who ultimately gets overly defensive when this subject comes up. Ok, Mr. Defensive we hear you alright, shields down now please? The argument about anything being addictive if you do it all the time is quite true, but for nearly all weed smokers it’s the dependancy that’s creeps in that is the killer and really turns this whole thing into a problem. In this day and age you’ll see so many people smoking weed everyday you’d be fooled into thinking that it’s legally sold on the high streets, and forget that the drug is totally illegal. Which don’t get me wrong, I’m a strong protester for the legalisation of cannabis, as it’s roots of why it’s illegal in the first place are all corrupt to the bone. Addictions are just patterns of behaviour that we repeat regularly to a point where once on becoming wary and desire change the we experience a difficulty in adjusting this pattern.
You’ll know if this is you! Be honest with yourself for a moment, is this you? If you’ve been strong enough to admit this is you, then you’ll already know what I’m about to say and the rest will come as no surprise, IT’S TIME TO QUIT UNFORTUNATELY 🙁 Look maybe even for a little while, till you work things out, but the truth is if you got problems in your life that DESPERATELY need fixing right now, and instead of doing so you find yourself just smoking weed everyday and finding solutions to problems that don’t really need fixing, this is probably your sign to quit right there. Think of it like this, when you’re studying for a exam isn’t the thought of doing absolutely ANYTHING MORE APPEALING than actually studying for that paper. This form of denial can be really damaging to you as you’ll end up neglecting your problems so long you’ll put yourself in danger of the possibility of never fixing those issues, or creating a situation of years of neglect that’ll be impossible to get back to where you wanted to go, or even worse by the time you realise what it is that your truly wanted in life, there’s no time. “What?? I’m not dying fool” True, maybe you’re of perfect health but then maybe it’s others around you that you may have wanted to show that you’ve made something of yourself before they passed away. Ok admittedly this is real general stuff here, and may not apply to you at all but as for the smoking weed part, that probably does have a lot in common with you the more open you are to the topic.
Having you been smoking all your weed till it’s gone saying “THIS IS MY LAST JOINT!!! NO MORE AFTER THIS!!!” To then wake up the next day with MASSIVE cravings for weed, later that night phoning anybody up that’ll give you a joint. Put your weed aside, don’t smoke it. The people who really enjoy the best of the both worlds will have large quantities of MJ securely stored away in some draw somewhere, and wont touch that stash until the right occasion comes up where they feel like getting high. If you’ve like me, and the temptation to smoke is too much then donate that shit to somebody, having a last minute smokathon will only make it harder to give up for a bit. If all this is just too hard for you and you really don’t know the answer to anything, well then lemme help you here: