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NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop

 
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NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Can anyone who knows first hand about weed addiction give me some advice on how to help a friend who is a weedhead get the stuff out of his life.

Me just saying quit, doesnt seem to help at all. He thinks he is getting wisdom from it, but actually he isnt.
What was your experience after giving up, so I can tell him.

Thanks in advance for your help!
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Only he can decide to stop.
The more you nag - the more he will want to smoke.
The best u cando is encourage him to slow down a little.

Why stop if you don't have to?
Personal responsibility - try it sometime. Quit blaming others for your bad choices. Consequences happen.

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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
First it's his choice not yours.
Second he will quit when he wants to, if he even wants to.
I suggest if it's such a problem for YOU then find a new friend.

I just stopped after years of using because I felt it was time and because I was afraid of getting caught. Up until this point no one could have MADE me stop
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Only he can decide to stop.
The more you nag - the more he will want to smoke.
The best u cando is encourage him to slow down a little.

Why stop if you don't have to?
 Quoting: Enaid

He wants to stop. its like a paradox, he wants to stop but then he thinks he might miss out on some great wisdom that might be coming his way.

He is a total idiot. But he is a friend and I am looking for something from someone who has experience so I can telll him about it.
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
It's pretty simple, really.

YOU want him to "get the stuff out of his life." But does he? Of COURSE you saying quit doesn't help... the choice belongs to your friend, not you, and until HE decides he wants to stop, he won't.

Let's be very clear... marijuana is not physically addictive. If he WANTS to stop, it's less difficult than quitting coffee. You can give him your opinion, you can try to convince him of your point of view, whatever pleases you. But there's no "therapy" or "magic bullet" to make HIS opinions mirror your own.

Accept what you cannot change. Who knows? Maybe you can convince your friend of your point of view, someday. But it's a simple choice, OP, not an earth-shattering trial... and as I said, the choice IS his.
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Leave the man alone
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
HE has asked me a hundred times to help him stop
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HE has asked me a hundred times to help him stop
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lol
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
HE has asked me a hundred times to help him stop
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And what exactly are you supposed to do about it???

As I said, the choice is his, exclusively. YOU HAVE NO POWER TO MAKE HIM STOP. It sounds like more of a deflection... "I can't do it, you need to make me stop." That's bullshit and bunk, OP.

If he WANTS to stop, he can, and he will. If not, he'll run through every excuse possible to NOT stop, and use up every one. Explain to him that the ONLY addiction is mental, and if he wants to stop, the SUREFIRE method is to remove the spliff from between his lips.

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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Tell him
" Do it yourself. Nobody can do it for you. I won't be an ass and flush yr weed."
Personal responsibility - try it sometime. Quit blaming others for your bad choices. Consequences happen.

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OP is hungry
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
YOU EVER BEEN ADDICTED TO SOMETHING?
TAKES MORE THAN WORDS AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND BETTER IF YOU KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE
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YOU EVER BEEN ADDICTED TO SOMETHING?
TAKES MORE THAN WORDS AND YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND BETTER IF YOU KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE
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Read carefully... MARIJUANA IS NOT PHYSICALLY ADDICTIVE.

If we were talking about a physical addiction, my answer would be much different. If OP's friend is like MOST people, he just doesn't WANT to stop, and is making excuses. If, however, he actually has an addictive personality and has fixated on weed, there is ALSO nothing that can be done, except in his own mind. Either way, the answer is the same.

If he has a mental issue (strongly addictive / compulsive personality) then a psychiatrist MIGHT be in order. And again, STILL not something OP can do, unless he happens to have a psych degree... right?

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dial 911 best advice

i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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Personal responsibility - try it sometime. Quit blaming others for your bad choices. Consequences happen.

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i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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wow ... people like you scare me.
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Can anyone who knows first hand about weed addiction give me some advice on how to help a friend who is a weedhead get the stuff out of his life.

Me just saying quit, doesnt seem to help at all. He thinks he is getting wisdom from it, but actually he isnt.
What was your experience after giving up, so I can tell him.

Thanks in advance for your help!
 Quoting: hello 1054364



To be honest, I was a pretty regular smoker for nearly 20 years. And I was/am a professional business woman! There are those who don't get wasted and live like Cheech and Chong, but see it as the same as those who want a beer every now and then.

And I have to ask you if this is effecting his life, or you just 'think he should quit?' Because for me, I just replaced it with other addictions that were far worse physically and destructive than pot.

Why do you think he should stop? I'd much rather smoke a toke or two every few days (and had times it was much more) than battle pain pill addiction or something similar. I can/could handle putting down when necessary, but Xanax was a whole 'nother story. What I was told was to go to the doctor and so they gave me meds. Meds that were physically addictive whereas pot isn't.
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i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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Fuck you!
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Pot isn't addictive. He's just an idiot
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You're wating your time OP. This place is overrun with paranoid drug addicts and weedheads. You've only to look at the wingnuts on here, alternately swinging between justifying drug usage and bad mouthing Mexican drug peddlers. Nuts.

Al you need to say to your friend is do you want to experience pure knowledge directly or through a filter.
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"wasting" even.

You're wating your time OP. This place is overrun with paranoid drug addicts and weedheads. You've only to look at the wingnuts on here, alternately swinging between justifying drug usage and bad mouthing Mexican drug peddlers. Nuts.

Al you need to say to your friend is do you want to experience pure knowledge directly or through a filter.
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
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i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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Yeah thats a great way to end a friendship you sack of shit.

Also what is exactly happening because of your friends weed smoking that he needs to quit?

Is he not buying into bullshit enough?

Or is he drinking too many softdrinks and eating too much junk food?
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"wasting" even.


You're wating your time OP. This place is overrun with paranoid drug addicts and weedheads. You've only to look at the wingnuts on here, alternately swinging between justifying drug usage and bad mouthing Mexican drug peddlers. Nuts.

Al you need to say to your friend is do you want to experience pure knowledge directly or through a filter.

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Wouldn't need mexican drug peddlers if the morons in government treated citizens like adults rather than children who needed parenting laws.
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Pot isn't addictive. He's just an idiot
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
Can anyone who knows first hand about weed addiction give me some advice on how to help a friend who is a weedhead get the stuff out of his life.

Me just saying quit, doesnt seem to help at all. He thinks he is getting wisdom from it, but actually he isnt.
What was your experience after giving up, so I can tell him.

Thanks in advance for your help!



To be honest, I was a pretty regular smoker for nearly 20 years. And I was/am a professional business woman! There are those who don't get wasted and live like Cheech and Chong, but see it as the same as those who want a beer every now and then.

And I have to ask you if this is effecting his life, or you just 'think he should quit?' Because for me, I just replaced it with other addictions that were far worse physically and destructive than pot.

Why do you think he should stop? I'd much rather smoke a toke or two every few days (and had times it was much more) than battle pain pill addiction or something similar. I can/could handle putting down when necessary, but Xanax was a whole 'nother story. What I was told was to go to the doctor and so they gave me meds. Meds that were physically addictive whereas pot isn't.
 Quoting: SR37

He just sits around and does it. Never gets anything done. Buckets of paint to paint his apartment sit in the corner for the last 3 years. lol
I dont smoke weed, so I cant imagine what is going on.
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Bugger off you criminal and go do a days decent work.

"wasting" even.


You're wating your time OP. This place is overrun with paranoid drug addicts and weedheads. You've only to look at the wingnuts on here, alternately swinging between justifying drug usage and bad mouthing Mexican drug peddlers. Nuts.

Al you need to say to your friend is do you want to experience pure knowledge directly or through a filter.



Wouldn't need mexican drug peddlers if the morons in government treated citizens like adults rather than children who needed parenting laws.
 Quoting: SR37
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i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
He'll become a lazy bum with a sense of entitlement as big as Texas. If you can help the lazy bludger, by all means have a go.

Can anyone who knows first hand about weed addiction give me some advice on how to help a friend who is a weedhead get the stuff out of his life.

Me just saying quit, doesnt seem to help at all. He thinks he is getting wisdom from it, but actually he isnt.
What was your experience after giving up, so I can tell him.

Thanks in advance for your help!



To be honest, I was a pretty regular smoker for nearly 20 years. And I was/am a professional business woman! There are those who don't get wasted and live like Cheech and Chong, but see it as the same as those who want a beer every now and then.

And I have to ask you if this is effecting his life, or you just 'think he should quit?' Because for me, I just replaced it with other addictions that were far worse physically and destructive than pot.

Why do you think he should stop? I'd much rather smoke a toke or two every few days (and had times it was much more) than battle pain pill addiction or something similar. I can/could handle putting down when necessary, but Xanax was a whole 'nother story. What I was told was to go to the doctor and so they gave me meds. Meds that were physically addictive whereas pot isn't.

He just sits around and does it. Never gets anything done. Buckets of paint to paint his apartment sit in the corner for the last 3 years. lol
I dont smoke weed, so I cant imagine what is going on.
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Pot is extremely addictive, and will eventually kill him if he isn't careful.

I know several people who have overdosed from marijuana, so I speak from experience when I say that it will kill you eventually.

My sister's boyfriend died of a toxic marijuana overdose right in the ER.

It will kill your friend OP, please do whatever it takes to make him stop...even if you have to call the cops on him tonight! do it now!
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Re: NEED HELP. Any ex weedheads get off weed. Got a friend and I want to help him stop
dial 911 best advice

i ratted out a friend when he needed help.. he never picked up a blunt again
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Not only the stupidest suggestion I have ever heard but almost guaranteed to be illegal. Go, pick up a phone and dial 911 and tell them someone is smoking pot.
yup thats what 911 is for. Ass Hat much?
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I cannot express enough, how bad marijuana is, and its potential for the victims of it to overdose and die!

I personally know 3 people who have overdosed and died from MJ...3 people who had lots of potential, and were killed in one night from MJ overdose.





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