y, been there and yes it helps to maintain but gets in the way of getting better. i've made massive progress since i finally decided i maintained long enough (nearly 15 years!).

Im addicted ..been smokeing daily for 10 years. When I go a day without I have HIGH anxiety and usually a panic attack. This plant is the only thing that has always takeing my arthiritis pain ..and can snap me right out of a rage . It IS a addiction ..be careful ..and if you have an addictive personality ..your screwed. Try the marijuna addiction comm. You will learn all about how it can ruin lives. I give advice ..but dont take it ..lol

I smoked weed when I was younger but I always found that after the initial "tehehe" I would slump down and withdraw.

I miss it but it would only cloud my days to come if I got into it again

Wow. I never thought about once I come down again. I just smoke more when I'm not high. Keep it going so I can survive and knock some of the intensity of the pain off. It makes my mind stop obsessing with things I can't change. I honestly don't think I could live without smoking. It gets me through the roughest points of this BS they call BP

Well, this is a very sticky post. For me it is a release. It helps me get thru the rigours of everyday life. How many people get up in the morning and have a cup of coffee?? (made with beans) has caffinee in it which is a stimulate. How many people drink energy drinks?? Caffinee again. So people who don't use weed persay still might drink coffee or smoke cigerettes or drink beer. But they have a vice. My feelings are that if it is a plant and grows from the ground, let's use it for everything its got. Corn, beans, wheat. I mean just because a beet is red doesn't mean I won't eat it. Just because the caffine in coffee makes my hair stand up!!! Doesn't mean I am not going to drink it. Chemicals---no one should put those in their body unless DR perscribed them. Like my grandpa always told me--- Hemp for paper--- Hemp for Rope---- use the seeds for oil and soap. HE never used but understood the potential. How long ago was it that farmers were encouraged to grow hemp? By the government no less. So I will use in my own way and in my closet. If anyone is offened by my post please forgive me that is not what was meant!!

if you get the f'n munchies, i have lots and lots of freaken candy

alot grows from the ground including poppy plants and coco plants weeeeeeeeeee

BPqueen--your right on that you can't just eat it right out of the ground to get anything from it can you??? Or do you have to introduce chemicals to both to make them what they really are used for??

I found the opposite of maintaining...It made me worse, paranoid, delusional, anti social, high anxiety, panic attacks...all the shit as beepers we try to avoid...Ten times worse than I have ever experienced before.

I think they have to take some of the potancy out of it cuz it would kill ya. Not sure. but I think

I love your avatar Howard!!! It looks like I feel sometimes. I'll just be walking along, doo da doo (humming a happy song, which i don't really do but the "happy normal" people do it in the movies), and then all of a sudden BAM! Closed right back up in my dark mind.

Back to tha chronic...lol

I'm going to talk to a Dr about it if I ever go back to one. I'm just thankful for now that I have SOMETHING to make it a little more bearable...

Oh and to the post that mentioned addictive personalities...(raises hand)

That is why I won't try harsher drugs, other than the ones I tried when younger. I also try to drink only once or twice a month because I know how addictive that numbness is that I get when I drink...errrr actually get plastered. I don't drink to drink. I drink to get fuuuuuckkked up. Excuse my french.

I suppose if people have a grief with medicinal side effects of the meds they get from the docs..then they can say that it's up to them to smoke weed.

I don't know if it's wise to

Smoked weed for 30+ years just quit been clean for 12 1/2 days now (yeah). I used the weed to self medicate and now see how much damage I was doing to myself, and my family because of the weed. Obsessing when I would be able to get away to smoke, where the next bag was coming from and how to pay for it. It feels so good to get in my card and not be in danger of getting arrested for the weed. I didn't realize what a burden I was dealing with until I let the weed go. I will try not to sound like your typical ex-smoker (at least not yet) and tell you to quit and all that stuff. I will let you know that with a clearer mind (not smoking morning, noon, and night 5-10 times a day) it is easy to now see the damage I was doing to me and my family. Best of luck to you and have a great freaking day.

Ron

something to think about rockin--