Marijuana became an extreme addiction for me. I'm not alone. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted — an estimated 2. The years I toked, I struggled with love and work, sometimes feeling suicidal. The brilliant addiction specialist who helped me give up pot a dozen years ago taught me that addicts self-medicate because underlying every substance problem he'd ever seen "is a deep depression that feels unbearable.
Being drug-free saved my health, marriage and career. Within a year, my income tripled. I came to believe my doctor's adage: "When you quit a toxic habit you leave room for something beautiful to take its place.
In writing classes I teach in New York and Los Angeles, students from many backgrounds confessed that they "smoked a bowl" or "got ripped" and then got in a car accident, fell on subway tracks, had a wallet or cellphone stolen, were sexually assaulted or had a physical altercation that landed them in the hospital or jail. Yet I warn them that getting stoned greatly increases the likelihood of something bad happening, reminding them that pot blurs reality, reduces inhibitions — and regularly leads to tragedy.
Consider two deaths in in Colorado that police linked to pot: a year-old man who ate marijuana-infused candy and fatally shot his wife, and a year-old student who ingested a marijuana cookie and jumped to his death. The weed of today is far stronger than in the past. President Barack Obama admitted smoking marijuana as a teen and said it's no worse than alcohol but hopes his daughters will avoid "the bad habit.
My favorite thing to do on any given evening is light up a bowl of Girl Scout Cookie and let myself be swept off into another realm of consciousness. I might dance in my underwear, I might decide to clean the house, I might just decide to park myself on the couch and watch several episodes of Gilmore Girls , allowing my mind to wander into a fantasy of being a single mother in a quaint New England town.
Weed is a rather central part of my life at the moment, as it has been off and on for the past five years. Weed naturally lends itself to this lifestyle. There are stoners and then there is everyone else. There is a perpetuated stereotype that stoners sit on their couch all day spouting nonsense and giggling incessantly while digging into a bag of Funyons. The stoners I know run successful businesses my own not included.
The weed stimulates their brain to think outside of the box, or helps quiet an over-active mind. Rarely has one had a good idea while drunk, but while stoned your imagination runs wild with all sorts of inspiration for inventions, theories of existence, and creative food pairings.
Though weed is on the fast track to legality, everyone still has memories of procuring contraband from the sketchy neighborhood dealer. Smoking marijuana did not greatly modify body heat content, since rectal temperature and most peripheral temperatures were not altered. However, temperatures over voluntary muscles likely to be involved in shivering were elevated.
Heat production also greatly increased after marijuana, suggesting that it had stimulated shivering. Marijuana also produced tachycardia and abolished apneic bradycardia.
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