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Title: Smoking Marijuana Really Can Ruin Your Life
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Steady Health
URL Source: http://www.steadyhealth.com/topics/ ... uana-really-can-ruin-your-life
Published: Jun 27, 2016
Author: MVP50214
Post Date: 2017-06-27 07:40:09 by Gatlin
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Views: 4654
Comments: 26
Hi. I am 26 years old and have been smoking weed for about 10 years now. I took about a year and ½ off, but I basically smoke everyday if I have some. I have been married for almost 5 years and I have 2 children – a 4 month old boy and a 4 year old daughter. I have a very beautiful family and I want to stay with them forever. I have a good entry-level career (Microsoft Marketing) and we have a nice little house and nice cars, and lots of nice stuff. I guess you could say, on the surface, my life is as close to “perfect” as it gets. My wife does not smoke pot (she never has) and she does not want me to smoke either. I smoked when we met, but after I quit (for the time being) she admitted that it bothered her. I now smoke about 1 or 2 bowls per day from the pipe, at least 6 days a week. I can say that it has definitely affected me (and others close to me) in a negative way. I have been bouncing from job to job over the last 4 years, very unsure of what I REALLY want to do. I get headaches daily and have to take at least 3 to 4 Excedrin every day. My sinus passages are all screwed up and I have to use a nasal spray every day just to breathe normally (which I dilute with saline solution, to prevent any hardcore damage). I have trouble focusing and usually (unintentionally) tune out whoever is talking to me (wife, boss, daughter, friends, etc), and I usually forget the little details that make ALL the difference. I wake up late almost every morning and have to speed my ass off to get to work, and I get really stressed and can feel my heart racing. I usually show up at least 5 to 10 minutes late every day, which has caused my boss to pull me into a room and rip me apart. I also have a chronic cough (get it?). I have lost any muscle mass that I used to have and now I’m a 6’2” skinny, weak guy with a big spare tire. I am pale and have chicken legs and puny arms, but my waistline is steadily growing from all the midnight munchies. I was hooked on energy drinks for a period of time, but stopped drinking them after my heart began to “flutter” as I was trying to go to sleep each night. I used to be an honors student (even more advanced than honors for some subjects) before I started smoking. I did make the Dean’s List in college during the year I wasn’t smoking. I used to be a hardcore skateboarder, and my only addiction was skating. I gradually stopped skating when I started smoking pot. I absolutely fell in love with the herb and I still love it just as much. It makes me feel good. It makes me less stressed out. It makes me get more accomplished when I’m high. I’m really lazy and unmotivated when I’m sober. That’s how I know I’m addicted. I tried to go a week without it and I was getting HORRIBLE mood swings and worse headaches. I was just a mess. Then I got more pot and everything seemed fine again. I got high and began to think about my mood swings and was like “wow, I was acting like a complete fool when I didn’t have weed”. It was a scary revelation. I know I need to quit. Every time I buy a sack, I tell myself it will be my last one. I have even thrown multiple glass pipes and full bags of hydro and shwag (sp?) out the window on the freeway, thinking I was going to give it up for good. But what happens? I make the phone call or text message a friend, I go to the head shop and buy a new piece (usually cheap $10 glass pipes), and I get a dime or maybe a quarter of herb. I’ll splurge for some good dro if I have a reason to celebrate. I’m very conservative with my herb and can make a quarter sack (7 to 8 grams) easily last 3 to 4 weeks, so I only smoke about 2 grams per week, which really isn’t much, but still more than 85% of the U.S. population. The hardest thing about this situation is that my 2 BEST friends smoke (I’ve known these guys since I was a child) and I usually get them to hook me up. And my 21 year old brother-in-law smokes and has a VERY consistent dealer. I got him high for the first time about a year ago, and now he smokes MASSIVE amounts of herb every day and his life is falling apart. I feel very guilty. I never knew that he would get so addicted. I thought I was doing him a favor because his girlfriend of 4 years cheated on him and he was really angry and depressed. He was drinking A LOT and I wanted to expose him to something less harmful that could help him deal with his pain. I thought maybe he would smoke every once in a while, but I never wanted him to become dependent on the herb. Now he is drinking heavily, smoking heavily, abusing Xanax, and even snorting coke occasionally. I feel like this is all my fault. As you can see, pot destroys lives. It prevents people from realizing their full potential and causes numerous health and emotional problems. It changes the way people think. It’s just not worth it. I’m struggling every day. I want to quit but I love herb so much and I just don’t know how to successfully quit without totally shutting out my best friends, but I don’t have the self-discipline to stop myself from picking up the phone and placing another order. Please pray for me.
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
John McEnroe Won Wimbledon, Then Shared a Joint With Mick Jagger Seven-time Grand Slam champion John McEnroe has revealed that he shared a joint with Mick Jagger in 1981, the year he won Wimbledon for the first time. In an interview with The Sunday Times, McEnroe explained how on the night of the Wimbledon final he partied with The Pretenders, and in the same year met The Rolling Stones in New Jersey, where he and Jagger smoked up together. McEnroe, then 22, famously snubbed the Champions’ dinner at SW19 and spent the night with The Pretenders. “I might have been the Wimbledon champion but I knew I wasn’t in the same league as these rock guys when it came to partying,” McEnroe said. ***** Wow - just think. If McEnroe hadn't smoked that joint with Mick, he might have been Grand Slam Champion eight times! And if Michael Phelps hadn't toked up, he might have won 24 Gold Medals instead of only 23! Clever Coloradans have voted in marijuana for everyone! Stay away from Colorado and keep an eye open for Colorado license tags floating around your state. Colorado drivers keep New Mexico State Police busy hauling their over-toked asses to jail and collecting fines. Liberals are like Slinkys. They're good for nothing, but somehow they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.
And if a Colorado teen hadn’t eaten marijuana cookies, he may not have tried to leap 4 stories. Oh….he didn’t make it!
Phelps and McEnroe are both adults, but thanks for playing. You are like the Pele of idiocy. No one here is advocating the use of any drugs by minors. The World Answers the Author: You pay your money, you take your chances. Sorry it didn't work out for you. Your story depresses me, so I will now move on to something more interesting to me. I guess you'll die broken and miserable. Oh well. No skin off my nose either way, and once I click onto the next thing I will never think of you and your pot-ruined life again.
Should alcohol be illegal?
Nothing should be. If people want to destroy themselves, let them. Less competition for me.
The poor shall always be with us. There will always be those whom we can not reach, the methods they use to destroy themselves are legion. One of the things I learned from Askel5 is that it is an "each one save one" world. Broad brush impersonal laws do more harm than good, tempting though they are.
Let people be free to do as they choose, as long as what they choose to do is not violence against other people. (And when it is violent, if it is violence by mutual consent (to wit: a duel) then leave them be.)
New Study Finds Marijuana Users Are Happier And More Successful In Life
No one here is advocating the use of any drugs by minors. But minors look to Phelps and McEnroe with admiration and see them as role models. So they emulate them by using the same drugs. “Thanks for playing.”
Did the marijuana users answer the survey in that report when they are depressed before smoking joints or after they got high? A logical question! Besides, why do they feel they must have a dependency need on marijuana use to make them “happier and more successful in life?”
You are tying to use Michael Phelps as your poster boy to promote the use of marijuana? Shame on you….shame on you! You are using as a shining example, a guy who has arrests for drug abuse, DUIs, and confessed that he wanted to die during his struggle with alcohol abuse which led to the DUI arrests. You point to Michael Phelps using marijuana….I will call your example and raise you with Charles Manson as an example Touché Get fuckin’ real….asshole!
As for as John McEnroe, he confessed in his new memoir that his young sons “followed in his footsteps” and started using drugs after breaking into his weed stash. He admitted in his new book that he was worried his sons would follow in his footsteps and experiment with narcotics. His son Kevin, now 31, was arrested in 2014 for trying to buy cocaine in New York. You point to John McEnroe as a marijuana user and I point to Richard Ramierz as a marijuana user. Surely you remember Richard Ramierz, dubbed the "Night Stalker." Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who broke into California homes, raping and torturing more than 25 victims and killing at least 13 over a two-year rampage. I point out that he smoked marijuana and became a satanic worshiper. WOW!
A logical question! Besides, why do they feel they must have a dependency need on marijuana use to make them “happier and more successful in life?” Try reading the article jack-hole. "The survey analysed extensive data from two US states that have voted to legalise the sale of cannabis — California and Colorado.” Among other surprising findings, researchers discovered that weed consumers make significantly more money than those who abstain, with Californians who use the plant earning nearly $24,000 more a year. This could be related to the fact that 20 percent of California pot consumers hold a master’s degree while only 12 percent of non-smokers in the state can say the same. Researchers found a similar situation in Colorado, where 64 percent of cannabis users have full-time jobs versus 54 percent of abstainers. Given those numbers, perhaps it’s not surprising that weed consumers in the state generally feel better about their personal lives than non-smokers. Marijuana consumption is also associated with healthier habits and a more active social life, researchers for BDS Analytics found. In Colorado, for instance, 36 percent of smokers described themselves as “very social people,” compared to 28 percent for those who avoid the plant. Additionally, in both Colorado and California, those who consume cannabis enjoy outdoor recreation at significantly higher rates. Perhaps the most surprising discovery, however — given the cliched image of the slacker on the couch eating Cheetos and watching reruns of Family Guy — is that users tend to be more generous with their time. Nearly 40 percent of California’s weed enthusiasts volunteer in their communities, researchers found, whereas only 25 percent of abstainers have decided to do the same. In a press release, head of consumer research for BDS, Linda Gilbert, says all these data points lead to a very real and increasingly apparent conclusion: “Cannabis consumers are far removed from the caricatures historically used to describe them.” Let me see now….the first thing I am supposed to take away from this article is the belief that suddenly someone at market researchers BDS Analytics woke up one morning and independently decided to conduct this study. Well, I will not buy that bullshit. Someone had to conscript such a study, define the purpose, make financial arrangements to fund it and reward BDA Analytics for their service. Until proven otherwise I hold a firm belief that it was a marijuana legalization lobby group that was behind this entire effort. The way it works is that market research companies do not conduct studies for only internal consumption results. It is always the case where some person or group comes to the company and contracts them to lay out the research requirements and the parameters they desire to substantiate and result they seek to prove. Is this not true? Of course it is. So, before I would even give credence to one single word in this research, I need to know who contracted the study and what their affiliation with the commercial marijuana industry is. Oh, I don’t doubt that the researchers in this case discovered that weed consumers made significantly more money than those who abstain, because that is what the researchers set out to prove. That’s what they were PAID to prove. The study is totally worthless because there is absolutely no proof that those weed consumers could not have made even SIGNIFICANTLY MORE MONEY had they not smoked weed….is there? Nope, absolutely not. This is no kind of scientific research study, because there is no way to show how much, or how much more money, those weed consumers could have made had they not consumed weed. This is mere reefer gladness propaganda….and only dupes like you always buy into this shit because it is something you dearly want to believe. You message that if you smoke weed then you will make significantly more money, again is total BULLSHIT. You can take your highlighted data, print it out and then wipe you ass with it because that is all it is worth….something to serve as an ass wiper. It scientifically proves nothing and in reality is only a poor example of an opinion piece. Reefer gladness, OMG….just give it up, already.
As just as I figured, you devious manipulating libertarian asshole. This is from the BDS Analytics Website: The National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) is the largest cannabis trade association in the U.S. and the only organization representing cannabis-related businesses at the national level. NCIA promotes the growth of a responsible and legitimate cannabis industry and works toward a favorable social, economic, and legal environment for that industry in the United States. Your sources are always agenda driven and only present untrustworthy biased information. Don’t you ever get tired of lying to people? You should….you really should!
I must have missed the rampant increase of serial killings and Satan worship that have occurred in Colorado and Oregon due to pot being legalized. Got a link? How is yukon BTW? You still miss the little queer, don't you? Who said the serial killings had anything to do with the legalization of pot in Colorado and Oregon. I never did and you have not until how. We were talking about McEnroe and Phelps….not Colorada and Oregon. You are one dumb ass …
Nowhere like you are missing the topic point of our exchange. Which once again only proves that when you are getting your ass kicked and can’t come up with some intelligence responses….you always try to deflect the topic. Nothing new with you….you never could stay on topic after you run out of copy and post items containing other peoples’ points. Why are you such a dumbass?
You're the obnoxious little prick who is insinuating that marijuana turns kids into serial killers and Satanists. You're a joke Gatlin - your "Reefer Madness" mindset has clouded any semblance of rationality you may have once possessed. Advice from the site: People need to stop blaming marijuana for what is OBVIOUSLY nutritional deficiencies. You feel tired? I dont, and I smoke about 4grams a day. You can't hold a job? Can't figure out what you wanna do with your life? WOW! you must be the ONLY one in the world with that problem! Oh, and it MUST be because of marijuana, not because the world is so screwed that every option seems like a bad one. I knew what i wanted to do with my life when i was 8 years old and have been working in this field for 3 years now. MARIJUANA DOESN'T RUIN LIVES, IGNORANT PEOPLE DO!! Learn about yourself, learn about your body, STOP FALSLEY ACCUSING MARIJUANA FOR YOUR BAD LIFE. EVERY medical thing you described can simply be associated with poor nutrition, which in this country is EVERYWHERE! You might feel off after quitting cold turkey, DUH you spent more time high than sober, OF COURSE you're gunna feel strange when you stop... YOU HAVE TO GET USED TO BEING SOBER AGAIN! Yes, your life might be shitty, but its YOUR LIFE. Marijuana doesn't control you, on the contrary it allows you to better examine yourself and your life. If your life sucks, CHANGE YOUR LIFE, ITS YOUR FAULT, NOT THE DRUGS. Aha, the final step in a debate methodology…..the personal attack. Go ahead, Kid….get it off your chest, since that’s all you have left.
Wow! I really must have totally pissed you off for you to get on your soapbox and make this open testimonial. Calm down, boy….get yourself some tokes, inhale deeply and relax into a floating-on-the-cloud state. It is been said that by you tokers that Mary Jane is supposed to do for you when you are wound up as tight as you are.
The quote was from YOUR link - The guy in your story would have been a loser with or without marijuana. If your life sucks, CHANGE YOUR LIFE, ITS YOUR FAULT, NOT THE DRUGS. I suppose that's too difficult for you to understand. You're really no different than any other nanny-state liberal who wants to ban guns, 2-liter sodas or anything else that the almighty State decrees bad for them. “Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#2. To: Gatlin (#0)
#3. To: Deckard (#1)
And if Michael Phelps hadn't toked up, he might have won 24 Gold Medals instead of only 23!
#4. To: Gatlin (#3)
(Edited)
And if a Colorado teen hadn’t eaten marijuana cookies, he may not have tried to leap 4 stories.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#5. To: Gatlin (#0)
(Edited)
#6. To: Gatlin, Should Alcohol Be Illegal? (#0)
#7. To: Anthem (#6)
Should alcohol be illegal?
#8. To: Vicomte13 (#7)
#9. To: Anthem (#8)
Broad brush impersonal laws do more harm than good, tempting though they are.
#10. To: Gatlin (#0)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#11. To: Deckard (#4)
Phelps and McEnroe are both adults, but thanks for playing.
#12. To: Deckard (#10)
New Study Finds Marijuana Users Are Happier And More Successful In Life
#13. To: Deckard (#1)
And if Michael Phelps hadn't toked up, he might have won 24 Gold Medals instead of only 23!
#14. To: Deckard (#1)
(Edited)
Wow - just think. If McEnroe hadn't smoked that joint with Mick, he might have been Grand Slam Champion eight times!
#15. To: Gatlin (#12)
Did the marijuana users answer the survey in that report when they are depressed before smoking joints or after they got high?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#16. To: Deckard (#15)
… researchers discovered that weed consumers make significantly more money than those who abstain …
Aha….reef gladness raises it’s ugly head again for another smack down.
#17. To: Deckard, ALL (#16)
(Edited)
BDS Analytics is proud to be a member and partner with the National Cannabis Industry Association.
How can you expect them to provide objective data being a partner with the National Cannabis Industry? You can’t. “He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"
#18. To: Gatlin (#14)
Richard Ramirez was an American serial killer who broke into California homes, raping and torturing more than 25 victims and killing at least 13 over a two-year rampage. I point out that he smoked marijuana and became a satanic worshiper. WOW!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#19. To: Gatlin (#17)
“He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas"
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#20. To: Deckard (#18)
#21. To: Deckard (#19)
You still miss the little queer, don't you?
#22. To: Gatlin (#20)
Who said the serial killings had anything to do with the legalization of pot in Colorado and Oregon
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#23. To: Gatlin (#0)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
#24. To: Deckard (#22)
You're a joke Gatlin - your "Reefer Madness" mindset has clouded any semblance of rationality you may have once possessed.
#25. To: Deckard (#23)
#26. To: Gatlin (#25)
I really must have totally pissed you off for you to get on your soapbox and make this open testimonial.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Those who most loudly denounce Fake News are typically those most aggressively disseminating it.
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