I know many people dont get addicted to pot (I didn't) but I do have a friend that was. She is now in MA (Marijuana Anonymous).
She definitely hit a bottom and that brought her to recovery. Can't we say the same about alcohol - BUT w/pot the physical aspects of withdrawal are not comparable. NO, I didn't say it was a breeze to stop smoking pot and I have to wonder if your friend's pot was laced with something like so much of it is today.... but withdrawing from alcohol for an alcoholic, can produce DTs and their liver enzymes are shot for years & they get the shakes, headaches, pain and other terribly hard to watch withdrawal symptoms.
My dad got liver cancer from alcohol abuse and died from it. I have literally wondered at times, what if he'd smoked pot instead? I say that b/c when i did criminal defense, not one of my violent clients had smoked pot when the violence occurred. My dad was a rageaholic for years...what if he hadn't been? What if?
Though I smoked pot in my younger days, a lot, when I dated h I cut it out of my life more or less...maybe to once a year with old friends at a reunion. Then in law school, I stopped altogether. I had insomnia for awhile but can't say for sure it wasn't just stress. My "beef" with pot is how it can lower ambition, but again, I suppose we can say the same about alcohol.
AND more than half our homicides involve alcohol...ANYHOW sorry if this is getting us way off topic...
I just think it's very rare to say someone is "addicted" to pot, and I don't think we ought to lump them all together with harder drugs OR alcohol b/c it does not mean the same thing that a heroin addict means. But sure, there are exceptions....I'll buy that.
While she was smoking pot she was high functioning, she had a job and paid her own bills but she would make bad decisions over and over again.
Not to quibble but don't most of the WASs around here make bad choices over and over? Maybe pot is a great excuse AND OR maybe joining any 12 step program and DOING IT, living that life, is the way out of making poor choices.
I have a lot of respect for those who follow 12 step programs. I think the humbling it takes, and the
search for a higher power to guide one, makes for a better person in general.
They tend to have high integrity once sober/clean and I hire them as often as possible. Just my .02
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