My recommendation!

I would recommend you PUT MORE TIME INTO OTHER AREAS!!

One such site I have used is www.infiniteworkers.co.uk

Death of a Weed Smoker

On your journey to quit smoking weed you must remember to rejoice at the death of your old self and embrace the new you!

Not a popularity contest!

Remember you are attempting to quit smoking weed for yourself and not for other people!

Regards,

Aaron

Where Does Weed Come From?

f you still smoke weed, where does it come from?  Do you ever think about that?  Why does it matter?

Let’s see what the pros are of legalisation:

• A lot of people whose only crime was possession would no longer be living in prison at the expense of the taxpayer
• Legal marijuana creates economic opportunity for law abiding citizens
• Governments are missing out on a ton of tax revenue that could go to the greater good
• States where it’s legal show it has an inverse relationship to violent crime. In other words, by making marijuana legal, you eliminate much of the violent criminal activity that goes into the production and distribution of marijuana.

Are you Smoking “Blood Weed”?

Now let’s pivot back to the topic of where your weed comes from.

If you live in a state where marijuana is legal and you buy it from a legal retail establishment, it’s pretty safe to assume that the weed you consume is grown and marketed in a moral and ethical manner.

For those of you who don’t live where marijuana is sold legally AND you don’t know exactly where it comes from BUT you also believe in social justice, please watch the following video:

Do You Have a Clear Conscience About Where Your Weed is Grown?

If you know your weed is grown hydroponically in your uncle’s closet, great, you are entitled to a clear conscience.  Otherwise, don’t you think it’s something significant to ponder?

I’m not trying to be holier than thou.  For years I smoked weed and never knew anything about its primary source.  However, as I’ve become a blogger about weed dependence and learned more about the weed industry, I can’t help but feel a little bit ashamed about not knowing where my weed came from.

It could have been grown on an idyllic mountainside by somebody’s grandmother who then passed it directly on to my baby faced dealer.  Then again, it could have just as easily moved through a cartel network where human life has little value in relation to the almighty dollar.

So if you continue to smoke, at least know where it’s coming from.  If not knowing is possible, would you consider quitting, at least until it’s legal?

The three things not to do when trying to QUIT

The three to avoid!

Alcohol

I’ll be honest here. I found myself drinking a little more in my first weeks of quitting marijuana. I don’t think I ever had a problem with alcohol before.

This is not to say I ever abstained from alcohol, I just didn’t drink to get drunk, I would have rather gotten high.

Whether it was grace, inner wisdom, or a natural aversion to copious amounts of alcohol, I don’t know, but I soon realized that this was a very slippery slope. So I guess that’s what I’m trying to say to you, just be self aware and know it’s a slippery slope to replace the high from weed with too much alcohol.

While we’re on the subject, if you drink too much already, then you’re on the wrong website. Alcohol addiction is far worse than marijuana addiction and requires professional help.

Drugs

Hopefully the reason you chose weed as a crutch in the first place is because you have an aversion to more illicit drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin, and whatnot. Do I really need to say how bad these drugs are?

The reason I even bring it up is that the first days and weeks of quitting marijuana will be hard and good habits are far more difficult to establish than bad habits. There will be moments of weakness. Just be strong and focus on your goals.

Just as it is with alcohol, if you’re already addicted to any drug besides marijuana, then there’s nothing on this site that can help you. Get professional help immediately.

Tobacco

If you have been a heavy tobacco smoker while also being a heavy weed smoker then I would suggest getting off the cigarettes first. That’s just my opinion and not necessarily a medical opinion although I think there are some doctors who would agree.

Get off cigarettes before you attempt to get off weed because most studies show that nicotine is about the most addictive drug out there. Fight one battle at a time and if you can conquer nicotine then quitting marijuana will be much easier.

I have also known people who started smoking cigarettes while quitting marijuana. They all say how they hate themselves for doing it but it gets their mind, at least temporarily, off a weed fix. All I can say is resist the temptation to replace a bad habit with another bad or even worse habit.

I know a lot of people have gone to vaping liquid nicotine and other products to stop or avoid smoking cigarettes.  I could use this opportunity to plug such a product but I’m not going to.

Although vaping probably is safer than smoking straight up tobacco, the jury is still out on just how safe it is.

INSTEAD TRY TO: Get High Off Life

I know it sounds cliche, but it is entirely possible to get high off a clean and healthy lifestyle.

Life is really cool when you just open your eyes and let it be.

Some things that can make you high without THC, nicotine, alcohol, or any kind of drug:

• Accomplishing a goal toward which you’ve worked really hard (graduation, promotion, opening your own business, etc.)
• Going on an adventure (white water rafting? sky diving?)
• Making someone’s day (this can be totally free or fairly cheap and you can do it as often as you want.)
• Meditation (takes some practice, but I have gotten totally high from meditating out in nature)

Anyway, just food for thought.

Is Your Relationship Centered Around Marijuana Use?

Have you ever had a relationship, platonic or intimate, that revolved around smoking weed?  Are you currently in such a relationship?  How do you even know if your relationship or friendship with someone is centered on weed use?

Here’s a way to test it, if you’re both willing:  go one month without smoking weed when you’re around each other.

Did you spend more time or less time with each other?  Did your relationship stay the same, get better or get worse?

If you spent less time with each other or your relationship deteriorated, then you have your answer.

Whether you use this test hypothetically or in reality, it begs some uncomfortable questions:

Could the relationship survive without weed use?  Would you change it if you could?

As social creatures, our relationships with other human beings are perhaps the most important aspect of our lives.  We are genetically predisposed to being part of a tribe.  Even loners, in their heart of hearts, don’t really want to be alone.

When I look back on my own life, I clearly recall hanging around certain people only because they had weed.  I also suspect that I’ve had certain acquaintances who thought I was cool mainly because I had weed.

The object in either situation was not so much to really get to know and appreciate the other person as it was to get stoned. Or, at least, the driving factor behind the continuation of these relationships was weed use.  Had either one of us decided to quit weed, the other most likely would have started spending more time with other fellow stoners.

I didn’t see it that way at the time because my entire life was weed centric.  As was theirs.

Luckily, I had an older and wiser friend once say to me, “Rick, we don’t always have to meet up just to get stoned.”  That friendship is now based on other common interests and intellectual stimulation, a high much better than that of weed and a much more solid foundation of friendship.

I pose these questions on weed based relationships because I think it is something very important to ponder for anyone who is trying to remove weed as the centerpiece of their daily routine.

Our relationships with other people have a profound influence on the way we run our own lives.  If you’ve decided to quit weed, you need to be prepared for the way certain relationships in your life are going to change.

Some of your real relationships, the ones not based on weed, are going to improve.  Some relationships might not change at all.  Others will cease to exist.

What’s scary is not knowing for sure which relationship is which.

What’s absolutely terrifying for some of you is the fear that the relationship you hold most dear right now could be the one that is most weed centric but you just don’t know for sure yet.  By quitting weed you could be severely upsetting the balance of this relationship.

But who is your most important relationship really with?  Answer:  Yourself.

It’s almost cliché now to say that “you cannot truly love anyone else unless you love yourself.”  The fact remains though that this old saying is timeless and true.  So if you’re feeling conflicted about how certain relationships might change when you quit weed, just remember who it is you’re quitting for:  YOU.

If you decided to quit weed to stop loathing yourself or to improve your life in any way, then you can’t let any relationship stand in your way, not even it it’s your significant other or best friend.  Besides, you don’t even know if it’s based on weed or mutual admiration and respect until you quit!

There’s no better person for whom to change any habit other than YOU!

Do this and the relationships you desire with other people will eventually fall into place, maybe not right away, and probably not without some pain involved, but at least you will know they are not based on weed.

Our purpose

The purpose of the site is to help the site visitor in three ways:

• Validate what they’ve been going through in trying to control the marijuana habit
• Walk them through the various options in dealing with the problem
• Offer an ebook detailing research and information about Marijuana use.

If you have any questions or comments on what we intend to do to help others let me know via the comments!

Regards,

Aaron Rhodes-Briggs