Comments on: Does Treatment for “Marijuana Abuse” Drive People to Drink?

By: Bruce Mirken

Bruce Mirken — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:50:17 +0000

boy #42 and #43: I know that this will be very difficult, but you if you’re stealing liquor and popping pills and feeling so bad that you wish you were dead, you need to get help. If you don’t feel safe talking to your parents, find someone at your school to talk to — a teacher you like, a counselor, the school nurse, someone.

You don’t have to feel this way. If you needed to smoke marijuana to feel happy, you may have clinical depression, which is a serious medical illness that can be treated. I’m not a doctor and not qualified to make a diagnosis, but one thing I can tell for sure is that you need to get professional help, and that you CAN be helped. And however hard it may be to talk about this stuff to adults, please, please do it, and let me know what happened. Please don’t give up, you CAN solve this.

By: boy

boy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:06 +0000

any ideas for me plz reply if you do

By: boy

boy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:58:43 +0000

im 15 and my parents drug test me now and i cant smoke weed anymore and lately iv been takeing there liqur very often and iv noticed it makes me sick i hate geting drunk it sucks and iv been poping pills and i cant stop so idk how its considerd so bad.im very depressed now also and realy wish i was dead i wish i could explain to my parents why their wrong but their too stubern so its pointless i dont have alot and smoking weed made me happy and now i cant even do that idk how to be happy now

By: Jon Light

Jon Light — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:39:24 +0000

My wife guilted me into stopping marijuana consumption, after 30 years of my affair with Mary J. (Mary J never argued, and always gave me a warm embrace…) From age 12 until age 42 Mary J was my mistress. I gave it up three years ago. My wife was raised to believe pot smokers were the devil. Yeah, I know that wasn’t the best match for me. NOW. She is gorgeous and was/is wholesome mom material. I am a functional provider. I supply 85% of my families financial needs. My wife supplies the other 15%. I was no stoner slacker. Now I’m no stoner at all. Instead I have substituted alcohol for marijuana. I would like to say I have found a substitute for getting high. Like building a model, reading, or hiking. Before I enhanced those experiences with pot. Now I just get looped on wine Friday and Saturday nights. Since it is obvious I like getting high, I would rather smoke pot than drink. Drinking makes me loose, and stupid. Occasionally, things come out that I wouldn’t say if I didn’t have a couple glasses of wine. Pot slows me down, but I never feel out of control. I’d rather smoke a couple of vaporizer hits, than drink three glasses of merlot. I miss my connection with the pot smoking based on my hippie influence from the 70’s. I miss kickin’ back with Mary J.

Love,

I’d rather toke a bong, than sip a glass.

By: govmint is liars

govmint is liars — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:33:35 +0000

Ever been to treatment? It will make you drink!
First, let’s get you off that nasty weed and on to some of our anti-depressants, because obviously you need them. Now, let’s use lots of Christianity and “turn ourselves over to the will of GOD.” Finally, we’ll go to meetings and constantly remind ourselves of our past transgressions.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:36:24 +0000

Unfortunately this has happened to me. I am currently in treatment for being “marijuana abusive”, which is an absolute joke. I can’t even take some of the things that go on there seriously. They often categorize marijuana with harder drugs and say it is immoral, unhealthy, and addictive. Anyone who has smoked marijuana knows that isn’t true. Since I am currently abstaining from weed I’ve noticed that hitting the bottle seems more appealing than before. I’m drinking more often and I’m drinking larger quantities than before. It is a great shame that not everyone sees the great potential this heavenly plant possesses.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:14:48 +0000

I’m so terrible with grammar. lol
The last sentence of my previous reply was about searching for alternative things for pleasure in a world of no pot.

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:42:09 +0000

The absence of marijuana causes people to be turned on to hate and violence, which goes well with drinking. It is not caused by withdrawl, it is because people like to be turned on to something.
Listening to sermons and singing church hyms is not one of them unless I’m high on pot. lol

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:21:24 +0000

Back when I was still able to work and worked for a county government and they started drug testing a lot of people who smoked cannabis switched to coke because it don’t stay in the system as long. It makes no sence to me to criminalize a plant that not only causes no harm but is good for you.
Treatment for marajuana abuse? That’s a joke right? Reminds me of the movie “Half Baked” when Dave Chappel went to a NA meeting and was laughed out of the place when he said he was addicted to marajuana.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:33:30 +0000

it is absolutely true. when i was arrested for possession and given 1 year of probation with random testing my alcohol consumption skyrocketed. when i smoke i hardly drink. as an alcoholic i am successfully using pot to quit drinking heavily, now i have a couple of beers when i smoke if idrink at all.