Marijuana Addiction & Recovery Support Group
This community is dedicated to those looking to overcome their addiction to marijuana, a drug produced from parts of the cannabis plant. Join the group to find support among people who are also looking to cease their habit of smoking marijuana, share your experience, and get advice. It's not easy to kick the habit, but together we can.
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http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/12steps.shtml
The Twelve Steps of Marijuana Anonymous
The practice of rigorous honesty, of opening our hearts and minds, and the willingness to go to any lengths to have a spiritual awakening are essential to our recovery. Our old ideas and ways of life no longer work for us. Our suffering shows us that we need to let go absolutely. We surrender ourselves to a Power greater than ourselves. Here are the steps we take which are suggested for recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to marijuana addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Do not be discouraged; none of us are saints. Our program is not easy, but it is simple. We strive for progress, not perfection. Our experiences, before and after we entered recovery, teach us three important ideas:
a. That we are marijuana addicts and cannot manage our own lives;
b. That probably no human power can relieve our addiction; and
c. That our Higher Power can and will if sought.
http://www.marijuana-anonymous.org/12steps.shtml
The Twelve Steps of Marijuana Anonymous
The practice of rigorous honesty, of opening our hearts and minds, and the willingness to go to any lengths to have a spiritual awakening are essential to our recovery. Our old ideas and ways of life no longer work for us. Our suffering shows us that we need to let go absolutely. We surrender ourselves to a Power greater than ourselves. Here are the steps we take which are suggested for recovery:
1. We admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God, as we understood God.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7. Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to marijuana addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Do not be discouraged; none of us are saints. Our program is not easy, but it is simple. We strive for progress, not perfection. Our experiences, before and after we entered recovery, teach us three important ideas:
a. That we are marijuana addicts and cannot manage our own lives;
b. That probably no human power can relieve our addiction; and
c. That our Higher Power can and will if sought.
dont get me wrong hun im very hapy it works for you and thousand's of others but if your like me where is a program that works ?
Ive done it out of sheer determanation, never having said a prayer in my life.
I would go along to meetings but the religiose aspect of it turns me right off. i would be fighting the program all the way beleaving i was being preached too
My point is you dont need to have faith or beleave in a higher power to sort out your own life and the choices you make.Ive managed to give the pot away and have no desire to go back to a habit of 22 years that caused me more harm than good.
But like i said i wish you all the best and im very happy you have found somthing that works for you :)
Good job hun
http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_BigBook_chapt4.pdf
You're not alone. I am trying to pass on what works for me and others I know who are sober potheads. This forum doesn't seem to pay much attention to people in recovery in meetings and working steps and it is a way addicts get recovery.
Thanks for your blessings and same to you.
I can understand that the aa and na groups were founded in a religiouse back ground so you have to expect the steps to be based upon some one haveing faith.
A good friend of mine has pointed me in the direction of freethinkers AA. wich i personaly find a lot more helpful in my situation.
Isnt it great that we can all come together from different back grounds and belifes and still be able to help each other out.
take care hun and keep up the good work :)
im positive your posts are very helpful to alot of people on here.