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?
- Has smoking stopped being enjoyable, at least some of the time?
- Do you smoke alone?
- Do you find it hard to imagine living without marijuana?
- Do you choose friends who also smoke?
- Do you smoke to avoid really confronting your feelings?
- Do you smoke marijuana when you get upset, as a way of coping?
- Do you live in a self defined world outside of regular society, because of your marijuana use?
- Have you ever promised someone you would quit or cut down (including yourself) and failed to do so?
- Do you notice that you are not as sharp as you were, or that your memory is worse because of your marijuana habit?
- When you are nearly out of marijuana, do you start to feel anxious about getting more?
- Does your life revolve around your use of marijuana?
- 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.
Page last modified June 22, 2009
Marijuana is addictive
Posted by
Anonymous User
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.
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
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 is actually very addiciting
Posted by
Anonymous User
it is actually very addictive if used too much. i know someone who smoked literally the second he went to bed then the second he woke up he rolled over and smoked.che really couldn't stop and had a problem but luckily he got treatment. weed these days is laced with so much shit its not even weed its like a completely different drug.
yeah its laced if you're a retard
Posted by
Anonymous User
i live in reno, nv... meth capital of the world, and i never get laced weed... wow.
It'll mess up your life
Posted by
Anonymous User
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
-Josh
I also fail to see...how people can fail to see...
Posted by
Anonymous User
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?
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
...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.
c'mon, think before you post.
pot actually
Posted by
Anonymous User
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!
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
"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.
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.
Fixed - Thanks!
Posted by
admin
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
*Ed
marijuana is not addictive? bull$@#t
Posted by
Anonymous User
I am 18yrs old and have smoked Marijuana since i was 14yrs old. the only time i do not smoke on a daily basis is when i have no access to it. The above article was obviously written by a wanna be academic whose only experience with addiction is a textbook. I know from personal experience that withdrawal symptoms are very real... for example last week i went without marijuana for 3 days, in those three days i slept not a wink. True Cannabis addicts can smoke an outrageously high amounts or just a couple of pipes and still feel "normal". i believe it is simply because the body becomes so used to being high that it becomes "normal" i also believe that when long term and heavy use applies, and the addict abstains from smoking that the brain thinks that there is a chemical imbalance because of the lack of tetrahydrocabbinol and other cabbanoids in the bloodstream and in response the brain goes haywire trying to fix this imbalance, hence the withdrawal symptoms
Marijuana is addictive
Posted by
Anonymous User
Hey just to let some people know, hittin up a jacuzzi is another way to ease the.....detox effects. im a 20 year old with 8 years livin off the stuff along with many other forms of.....downers etc. and am about 48 hours now without and i have to say it has sure helped...not sayin i wouldnt give my car for a bag. helps with the temper a lot as well.
Psychologically but not physically...
Posted by
Anonymous User
There is no scientific evidence that shows pot is physically addicting, like coke or nicotene. However, from someone who has smoke regularly for 8 years and just quit, it is definitely psychologically addicting. Anything can be though...this just happens to be a good, as it artificially produces seratonin, which makes you happy and content. Pot makes you more content with your life, which in some cases is good, but if you are in a position where you are still building a life...man, it can really be a bad thing if you let it. Essentially, the problem is more you than pot, and my problem is more me than pot...but pot is a phenomenal enabler for such people. Eventually, you become a hermit...get stoned, watch tv, go to work, come home, get stoned, etc. For me...time to put the childish things away.
Okay
Posted by
Anonymous User
i was a heavy user
all day everyday
i could smoke more weed than snoop dogg man.
I cant personally attest to the fact that marijuana withdrawal is real and painful.
And yes after awhile its just away to cope and feel normal,
but seriously unless you have been there, shut the hell up
you dont know,
every person is different
different thoughts
emotions
and different problems
And marijuana junkies just as any other junkies are not to be trusted, or taken seriously
I swear, if your an everyday all day smoker reading this
your wasting your life
even if it seems like your doing it because you want,
thats just what your addiction wants you to believe
Go 30 days without it,
then tell me how you feel
all day everyday
i could smoke more weed than snoop dogg man.
I cant personally attest to the fact that marijuana withdrawal is real and painful.
And yes after awhile its just away to cope and feel normal,
but seriously unless you have been there, shut the hell up
you dont know,
every person is different
different thoughts
emotions
and different problems
And marijuana junkies just as any other junkies are not to be trusted, or taken seriously
I swear, if your an everyday all day smoker reading this
your wasting your life
even if it seems like your doing it because you want,
thats just what your addiction wants you to believe
Go 30 days without it,
then tell me how you feel
addictive or not?
Posted by
Anonymous User
I have been smoking pot for 8 years all day everyday. My now ex boyfriend has been smoking all day everyday for longer than I've been alive. If it came down to a bag of pot or putting food on the table or paying the rent, I would put the food on the table and screw the bag of pot... My ex on the other hand would let my children go homeless and starve before he would go without his pot. I honestly believe that it depends on the person. If I go a couple of days without pot I get a bad headache for a while but once it goes away I am fine. If my ex had no pot he would literally not even get out of bed, even if that meant not going to work. My relationship went from very happy and planning a wedding to now I can't stand the man because his whole life revolves around Pot and Pot alone. He has caused me to become homeless because he would rather buy pot than pay the bills. My kids have had no food in the house, at times there has been no heat in the house. I have even had to call my father for loans to pay for large amounts of pot that he got behind my back that he knew he couldn't pay for. I think that from my experience with my ex and his need to have pot, it's either addictive or he is just extremely selfish.His behavior when you really think about it is no different from someone addicted to heroin. Like I said earlier though, it depends on the person. I could quit right now if I wanted. I've done it before and I know I can do it again...I just choose to continue to smoke. It helps me with my anxiety and I have and eating disorder. If I didn't smoke pot I would never eat.
Yes it is addictive
Posted by
Anonymous User
I'm 36 years old have been smoking pot since I was 13. I can't quit. I try and get so hateful.All my friends smoke and everytime I try to quit they stop coming around. It's not just an addiction it's a lifestyle. I can barely afford my bills yet I always have pot. I don't always pay for it.I have many medical problems that it does help, but I can't breathe and contrary to beliefs only smoking or pill form works. My kids know I smoke and want me to quit.It's as hard as cigarettes. People laugh when I say I'm addicted and can't quit. It is very addictive-Don't start unless a doctor tells you to and follow instructions. Keep your doctor updated to cravings,etc. By the way it gives you the munchies and slows metabolism so Most smokers are overweight- not all most.
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