Jes You Said:
Has anyone here stopped smoking marijuana after a year or more of daily use? What were your detox symptoms like? I've heard it can be a really uncomfortable experience, so I want to prepare myself ahead of time so as not to relapse.
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Originally Posted by {aspiring_to_clarity}
Why do you want to quit?
Well, it IS more like two or three grams a week of mostly top-of-the-line herb. Part of the problem is that I get it for free.
If it is always there and a problem for your temptations, then you have a problem that requires an environment change or a certain "friendship" issue. If you can keep that influence there and not be tempted to keep smoking, then you have the requisite power to solve this part of the problem.
I'm not sure that I do want to quit. I think I do. I mean, I don't think I could hold a normal job at this rate.
If you think that you can't hold a normal job then it is preventing you from actually getting one in the first place.
But I don't work a normal job. I'm an artist, and I'm pretty concerned that quitting could take a toll on my creative work.
But it may also be having a negative effect. Drugs do wonder for some people who are proned to such intuitive insights. Do you make better while your high and how do you know? Perhaps you do make better work. But it side effects are cutting out other elements in your life.
Part of me wants to do without it altogether, and part of me wants to be able to do it in moderation. Part of me considers it a crutch that I lean on for my work, and part of me considers it just another one of my many influences and inspirations.
It is a source of greatness for you. But it needed you and don't really need it. Give your mind and body what it really needs and you'll have a clear and clean mind. Your mind won't change but it will become more deeper and stronger in its innate senses. The marijuana high is a great buzz and creative force in the right person. But the pure high of nature and the intellectual understanding of how it works and how we fit into it, that is such a great high of the infinite power we hold over this world.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more I realize that the problems I have now existed before I ever started smoking. But at the same time, when I'm high, it's more difficult for me to do anything about those problems.
Yep. It sounds strange or too unrealistic, but getting a clear mind and feeling good is the key to improving the way it works and feels. You need to create a plan or arrange some goals to achieve no matter how simple and easy. You must build a strong foundation, so that you get better which means you will be able to increase your inner creativity.
Oh, God. Why couldn't I be a bloody accountant?!
This is from another post that I found in forum about 5 years ago that might help.
I just took a psychology of personality class and after having spents year practicing guitar for up to 8 hours some days, mostly during the summer I now release it takes a certain drive, a person who desires to self-actualize oneself. I have tried to train myself for perfect pitch and have actually gained an increased awareness of listening, but I'm not a master listener yet. I also have a very intuitive temperament and this leads to many ideas and I have many ideas about where to take the Internet so a clear mind is essential to higher success in anything and everything.
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