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Marijuana Addiction Self Test

Anyone who would argue that marijuana is not addictive need only head down to one of the thousands of marijuana anonymous meetings occurring on a daily basis across the nation to learn a new perspective.

Are You Addicted to Marijuana? Find Out Here

With such an incredible increase in potency over the last years, marijuana has become a powerfully intoxicating and quite addictive drug. Most people can smoke marijuana recreationally and never develop a significant problem; but it is estimated that about one in ten who try marijuana will end up addicted to it; and when you consider how many millions in America smoke the drug, even 10% becomes an alarmingly high number of addicts.

So do you have a problem with marijuana? Here are 12 questions modified from the 12 questions of marijuana anonymous, and if you answer yes to one or more of the following, you may want to reevaluate your relationship with the drug.

Are you addicted?

  1. Has smoking stopped being enjoyable, at least some of the time?
  2. Do you smoke alone?
  3. Do you find it hard to imagine living without marijuana?
  4. Do you choose friends who also smoke?
  5. Do you smoke to avoid really confronting your feelings?
  6. Do you smoke marijuana when you get upset, as a way of coping?
  7. Do you live in a self defined world outside of regular society, because of your marijuana use?
  8. Have you ever promised someone you would quit or cut down (including yourself) and failed to do so?
  9. Do you notice that you are not as sharp as you were, or that your memory is worse because of your marijuana habit?
  10. When you are nearly out of marijuana, do you start to feel anxious about getting more?
  11. Does your life revolve around your use of marijuana?
  12. Have friends or family ever told you that your marijuana habit has had a negative effect on your relationship?

If you answer yes to even a single of the preceding, you may have a problem with marijuana, and you may want to consider whether marijuana in your life takes more than it gives.

None of us plan on addiction when we begin experimenting with marijuana, but for 10% of us, addicted is where we end up. Once addicted, when you try to quit there is a syndrome of withdrawal, and some people find it tough to get past the pains and cravings of detox. Thankfully, there are people that can help and therapies that work well. If you can’t quit on your own, have the wisdom and the strength to get the help you need.

About one in ten who begins experimenting with marijuana will find themselves addicted to the drug. Are you addicted to marijuana? Take this test and find out.
Page last modified June 22, 2009

failing to see

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-03-30 22:51
I fail to see how marijuana is any more addicting than fast food.

Marijuana is addictive

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-03-31 06:31
A lot of people can use marijuana without ever getting addicted, but an awful lot of people do get addicted. Those that do will experience a syndrome of withdrawal when they try to stop, which can include cravings, anxiety, insomnia, aggression and nausea.

Fast food is a different thing, and although some people will get accustomed ot the sugar embodied in a lot of fast food, food intake disorders are more about compulsion, than addiction. Using food as a way to handle life's anxieties and stresses.

They are both serious, but very different.

addiction to drugs

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-04-22 02:36
marijuana is addictive i know because i am 44yrs of age and smoked heavily in the past two weeks but used to smoke only one per day and only started to smoke when i was 42 today i feel like i am going mad as i have decided to stop smoking two days ago i feel like shit its like i am fading in and out and its the only thing i can think of that doing it but rest assured i will not smoke it again i will get through it i will.

It'll mess up your life

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-04-11 23:33
Believe me when I tell you that marijuana is indeed addictive. I have quit for only 12 days and have suffered from depression and insomnia. I have been arrested twice within a little over a year, am facing a driver's license suspension, and could lose my job because of it. The highs aren't worth the lows.

Living with a user.

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-07-28 03:43
My husband was an addict, and stopped. He will never admit he was one. But now he says he wants to casually start again, which he has. But the occassional one!, keeps getting more frequent and more regular and he is now hiding it from me because i am so against him using it. I am desperate for advice on how to handle this and why cannot he see this is destroying our relationship. He believes it is his right and i don't have a say in it. But his life unravells when it gets hold of him again, and takes us all with him.

your relationship

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-08-08 06:48
your problems in your relationship are caused by your refusal to accept your husbands pot use --- not his pot use.

your an idiot

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-04-22 02:36
get some brains will you marijuana will ruin lives you are obviously addicted yourself wake up and smell the roses

living with user

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-09-09 14:09
I feel, if his smoking bothers you enough you should bring it up. Let him tell you how he feels too. Then come up with something you can both live with. Maybe you want him to smoke only at his friends house, or in the garage. Or maybe when you are at work or busy doing something else. My husband enjoys his beer very much. I would NEVER consider asking him to give it up, so I have just learned to live with it. I mean he does not over drink and has never made a scene due to it. The biggest adjustment was I had to give up drinking, so someone could drive home. But since we have two wonderful kids that was easy.

pot is not addictive people

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-08-08 06:48
check out question 3. Can you imagine life without mj - if you answer yes --- then you may be an addict accoring to the end of this survey. does that make any sense?? if you study psychology you'll learn that there are 2 different types of addictions, chemical and psychological. It has been proven that pot is not chemically addictive. If you quit, you will not have withdrawl syptoms. As far as psychological addiction goes, ANYTHING can be psychologiclly addicting. Food, Sex, etc etc. so the fact that someone can become psychologically addicted to pot is meaningless -- because a teddy bear can be psychologically addictive. check it out.

POT CAN BE ADDICTIVE

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-06-18 06:12
I love when non-scientists will argue about scientific evidence against its addictiveness. To be considered an addiction one question must be answered, is the compulsion to do the behavior (smoke out) present, even when it has harmed your life. People do people lose jobs over pot, have relationships suffer, have traffic accidents while on it, become socially apathetic, and still continue to smoke regularly. If keeping the pipe lit becomes more important than staying employed, yes.. its an addiction. Most people can handle it fine without any such effects; however, some cannot.

i also fail to see

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-08-20 00:30
the scientific community has yet to isolate or distinguish even one chemically addictive chemical in marijuana. this means that marijuana can be only mentally addictive. and thus, it can only be as addictive as videogames, tv and yes, fastfood.

-Josh

I also fail to see...how people can fail to see...

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-09-11 15:30
So if only substances that have "chemically addictive chemicals" in them can truly cause dependencies, are all those people with gambling addictions just faking it?

Josh, are you being purposefully obtuse(?) or are you just having a laugh...or do you perhaps know less about "chemically addictive chemicals" than you lead on?

i fail to see...

Posted by Anonymous User at 2008-10-07 05:58
...how folks can forget to read the entire post. Josh wasn't saying anything about the validity of dependencies, man. he went so far as to give you examples of similar kinds of dependencies. gambling would fall in this category.

c'mon, think before you post.

pot actually

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-02-11 07:12
made me sharper

pot actually

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-02-26 08:13
Yes foe sure poy makes you sharper! I turns in into a PINHEAD. VERY SHARP! You apparently don,t know what you are talking about. You must be young and trying to defend your addiction.
I think I smoked fourty years or more I CAN'T REMEMBER for sure. When I quit twice maybe three (I CAN'T REMEMBER). Stopping is very difficult. I endure many sleepless nights. When I did sleep I had dreams so crazy you cannot even imagine them (LSD is nothing compared to these). I would copmpletely destroy my bed and I would wake up in a pool of sweat.
Believe me, that sharpness is all in you mind. Poy will make your mind and your life very DULL!

Error in the test

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-03-24 04:15
"If you answer yes to even a single of the preceding, you may have a problem with marijuana, and you may want to consider whether marijuana in your life takes more than it gives."

I found this website because I was looking for a non-biased and error-free to assess my marijuana use. Apparently no such site exists, at least not here because there is no way to take this test and not seem to have a marijuana addiction problem. I only say that because someone who is actually "addicted" to marijuana is most likely to say "no" to question #3 whereas a non-user would of course respond with "yes." I'm not going to rant about my beliefs and how they conflict with this site. I just thought someone should point out that paradoxical error.

touche

Posted by Anonymous User at 2009-06-16 10:37
lolz i saw it also

Fixed - Thanks!

Posted by admin at 2009-06-22 11:54
Thanks for pointing out the error in the above test. We have fixed question 3. As stated in the intro paragraphs, the test is based on a similar assessment questionnaire by "Marijuana Anonymous"... there really isn't any kind of bias in the test, unless you consider Marijuana addiction to be a figment of the imagination - in that case you have come to the wrong website, I'm afraid ;-)

*Ed

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