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18 y/o daughter using pot and missing opportunities
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 630964" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Pot is not nothing. Neither is daily alcohol use. </p><p></p><p>When I was divorced I dated a guy who told me he had been addicted to pot and I said, "You can't be addicted." He said he had been and decided he had to quit when his then wife had a baby. Until he quit, his entire life was just a big joke to him, per his own words. He made a living doing the rides at various carnivals and traveling around the country getting high. He never made more than $6,000 a year and didn't care.</p><p></p><p>Once he stopped he had such a strong urge to smoke pot he needed a drug addiction therapist to help him quit and he said it was very difficult. Once he did quit, his salary tripled and more in two years and he finally got serious about being a good provider and father. He did get divorced, but he still had a very close relationship with his daughter and was clean and sober. Basically, he told me that pot made him not give a ****** about anything. So to call it nothing is not correct. It changes your brain chemistry and zaps your ambition if you take it a lot. And, at least with this young man, it was very hard for him to quit using it. Addiction was in his family tree. His brother had been a heroin addict who was taking a drug to make him not crave heroin. His father was an alcoholic. Pot affects everyone differently, much like alcohol. Some people can drink in moderation. Some take that first drink and their life is ruined. </p><p></p><p>Maybe some of us smoked pot and were not affected that much and could go about normal life being high. I know I couldn't have. I tried it and it had a huge affect on me, slowed down my body, slowed down my mind, put me into a dream-like state, made me paranoid and I shudder to think of me being behind the wheel of a car. I hated it and quit after trying it about six times. I also have severe anxiety disorder and the pot made it worse, not better. </p><p></p><p>Pot is not going to turn out to be harmless, just like alchohol isn't harmless. And there is no way to know for sure if a person's lack of ambition, especially if suspciously at the same time pot starts, is due to the pot. It can also bring out latent mental illness, like schizophenia and depersonalization/derealization, in people who are prone to it. This has already been documented. It is dangerous to get complacent and think, "Oh, pot is nothing." Depends on who is taking it and how often.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 630964, member: 1550"] Pot is not nothing. Neither is daily alcohol use. When I was divorced I dated a guy who told me he had been addicted to pot and I said, "You can't be addicted." He said he had been and decided he had to quit when his then wife had a baby. Until he quit, his entire life was just a big joke to him, per his own words. He made a living doing the rides at various carnivals and traveling around the country getting high. He never made more than $6,000 a year and didn't care. Once he stopped he had such a strong urge to smoke pot he needed a drug addiction therapist to help him quit and he said it was very difficult. Once he did quit, his salary tripled and more in two years and he finally got serious about being a good provider and father. He did get divorced, but he still had a very close relationship with his daughter and was clean and sober. Basically, he told me that pot made him not give a ****** about anything. So to call it nothing is not correct. It changes your brain chemistry and zaps your ambition if you take it a lot. And, at least with this young man, it was very hard for him to quit using it. Addiction was in his family tree. His brother had been a heroin addict who was taking a drug to make him not crave heroin. His father was an alcoholic. Pot affects everyone differently, much like alcohol. Some people can drink in moderation. Some take that first drink and their life is ruined. Maybe some of us smoked pot and were not affected that much and could go about normal life being high. I know I couldn't have. I tried it and it had a huge affect on me, slowed down my body, slowed down my mind, put me into a dream-like state, made me paranoid and I shudder to think of me being behind the wheel of a car. I hated it and quit after trying it about six times. I also have severe anxiety disorder and the pot made it worse, not better. Pot is not going to turn out to be harmless, just like alchohol isn't harmless. And there is no way to know for sure if a person's lack of ambition, especially if suspciously at the same time pot starts, is due to the pot. It can also bring out latent mental illness, like schizophenia and depersonalization/derealization, in people who are prone to it. This has already been documented. It is dangerous to get complacent and think, "Oh, pot is nothing." Depends on who is taking it and how often. [/QUOTE]
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