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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m 53 and have been smoking cannabis on and off since I was 14. In my youth it was very occasionally, mostly in the summer because I was a choir geek and didn’t want anything messing with my air power.

For most of my college, graduate school and law school years it was also fairly occasional - usually didn’t have money to get it or a source if I did. Same was true in the years after graduating and beginning my legal career, with the added complication of being worried I’d get caught and be ruined for a little weed.

In 2016 my commonwealth legalized cannabis and shortly thereafter I began having regular access to high quality cannabis and using fairly regularly - most days of the week. Yes, it is high potency cannabis.

Most days I just smoke a few hits after work and enjoy the buzz like some of you would from a glass or two of wine or a beer or two or neat scotch etc.

Weekends and days off I like to wake and bake - I did that this last weekend, and managed to get my house cleaned, all my laundry done, a bunch of batch cooking to fill my fridge with healthy plant foods for the week, and a weekly shop at the grocery store. Also watched several hours of Ridley on PBS and a couple of movies. Very productive, not paranoid, a little deep thinking while chopping garlic and mashing beans etc.

I think it’s all about how you consume. Some people are addictive personality by nature and will overconsume - we all know these people and some of them do the same with alcohol, pills, food even - or cannabis.

I smoke a couple of hits and let it hit me and then ride that for a few hours and a few hours later maybe a couple more hits. Every now and then I take a sabbatical of a few weeks or months and then when I go back the high is more intense so I accommodate that reality.

EVERYTHING can be dangerous - even exercise - if we overdo it. Definitely younger people should be careful and not be consuming chronically because it may trigger latent mental illness - I’m certainly glad my cannabis use in my teens was occasional and not chronic.

But I’m also very glad cannabis is legal and regulated where I live, because I work a stressful career (hospice caregiving) and have the usual load of pain that a midlife person carries - probably more because I had childhood trauma that I only recently grappled with in extensive therapy. It’s nice to have something that takes the edge off but isn’t as devastating to my health as alcohol would be. I also really enjoy a great movie or show under the mind opening influence of cannabis.

I think there are reasons to be concerned about people who overuse cannabis just like everything else - but I don’t see it as being much different than it’s always been. [/quote]

Can you stop? What happens when you do?

Cannabis is insidious. Unlike alcohol, opiates and other "hard drugs", where it's painfully obvious when you're overindulging or outright addicted, cannabis can creep up on you and you won't even realize it's a problem until you can't quit. This is why even medical cannabis patients are supposed to take regular "t breaks" and evaluate their using.

A Doctor’s Opinion about Marijuana Addiction: https://marijuana-anonymous.org/pamphlets/a-doctors-opinion-about-marijuana-addiction/

It's a "mind opening influence" until it's not, and with the easy access to crazy-high-potency strains, a lot of users aren't aware of the damage they're doing until they're having trouble not using.[/quote]

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