Women and weed: the gender differences in cannabis use and abuse

[Gumby1]

Not all of us cope well with grief, but maybe it is just easier to call her a heartless bitch and a crazy woman rather than take the time to think about what she is actually saying.

ok first i would like to apologize if my comment offended anybody.. that was not my intention.

 

 secondly.. i do not articulate myself most of the time and i am often mis understood.

 

 i was actually referring to two different people in my comment....

-the "crazy woman" is the one who has released the whole thing in the first place...

and i read and re read the comments i felt that were heartless ( "If someone passes on, you can just numb it off with a couple of bongs. You don't have to sit there and grieve in that emotion.") and it still comes off kinda cold no matter how i take it....

maybe not from person who made the statement even tho i do not agree with the way it was phrased(cannabis helps to manage emotion thats why that use it for P.T.S.D)..

 

it just seems as tho they are trying to use this as a negative side to the whole "cannabis addiction" aspect of their argument. 

[MrsRabbitX]

Caffine is addictive....also have you tried to go sugar free... that shit is hard... weed not so much, maybe you get use the relaxed feeling and that's what you are chasing...

 

I have a really high tolerance.... I take easily what can put my male friends on their arse. Alcohol not so much.... weird.

[burner]

Chasing the scream, the first and last days of the war on drugs, is a damn good read.

There is a truth about addiction that everybody needs to know, because although there is admittedly a chemical hook that plays a part in addiction, it is only a very small part that it plays. There is an example that I have come across on a few sites now, mostly psychology forums, that demonstrates the myth behind the truth that we have been forced to accept, and that example was the Vietnam war.

Around 20% of American soldiers serving in Vietnam developed Heroin addiction while serving in this war. Upon returning to the United States, 85% of those addicted no longer used Heroin. Psychologists believe that it was the environment these soldiers were in, and not the drug itself, which was responsible for these soldiers addictions. Upon returning home, their environment was altered dramatically, from a violent, bloody war scenario, to a peaceful, loving and caring home environment. Addiction was a product of their environment, a means to escape, but once they were physically removed from the bad environment to the loving one, the need to escape was no longer required, and neither was the drug.

It's worded differently ofcourse, this is just my understanding of what I read, but it makes a hell of alot more sense than what politicians are trying to convince us to believe, in relation to substances and their abuse.

Read the book, Jan Copeland, and slap yourself upside the head with it when you realise that what you are saying bears little credibility in the truth behind addiction.

[LonelyStoner93]

I Smoke pot like most ppl smoke cigarettes I have no depression, anxiety, heath issues! My employer would say the same! I am woman, shut up and let me smoke!

[brick]

Not all of us cope well with grief, but maybe it is just easier to call her a heartless bitch and a crazy woman rather than take the time to think about what she is actually saying.

It sure helped me get through some pretty tough times after my wife died. Not numbing my brain but took me to the good times we had together. Writing my thoughts down whilst stoned was a great reliever of my grief and much sadness.

[FullCircle]

haha im not saying they dont keep up.. or keep smoking... but you can see the stonedness in the female smokers after three or four cones.

 

believe me i know chicks can smoke alot.. but they are generally stoned (showing the effects of smoking) after a couple.

 

hahaha i cant challenge anyone to smoke offs these days... i have recently cut out any use of tobacco. . my lungs are starting to heal them selves.

 

im a non stop smoker.. but its a few here do some work.. another couple more work.. few more lunch.

 

kinda spread out over the whole day.

Well, I'm female, and I'm about as tolerant as they come. I spend a bit of time every year in a legal US state and always try all the strongest top-shelf stuff available like waxes, shatters, insane edibles (1000mg THC in one brownie type edibles). I can barely even get off-my-face high on anything, unless I take a tolerance break.

 

I used to get absolutely annihilated easily, but, my tolerance grew so quick it was ridiculous. I've only been using Cannabis regularly since 2013.

[FullCircle]

As for addiction. Well, I definitely feel that I have withdrawals for a couple of days when I stop using it. Some nausea, sweats, shakes. Nothing major. I've used Cannabis to FINALLY get off benzodiazepines after being addicted for 15 years. The physical withdrawals of benzos is probably 1000x worse, so yeh, anyone who thinks cannabis withdrawal is an issue has never had real issues! It makes me so angry that the Australian government would prefer I be addicted to a prescription drug than use cannabis. Insane.