My Friend Is Addicted to Marijuana - Help!

Marijuana addiction is often a mis-understood addiction. It is however, a serious addiction and a hard one to overcome. I will suggest a few things that you might try. One, get him to talk seriously, to everyone he smokes weed with. He wants to tell them that he is serious about quitting weed, and he wants them to help him. Second, he wants to seriously talk with his dealers, perhaps he wants to bring a friend along. He wants to tell the dealers that he is totally serious about quitting, and does not want them to sell him weed any more. Now that he has made it difficult for him to buy weed, or find someone to smoke it with him, he should find something to keep him occupied, like a hobby. Your support will be the biggest difference, keeping him positive and motivated and making him realize all the benefits to remaining weed free will inevitably will enable him to quit.

Hope this helps!

Good to see a friend genuinely worrying about the other. Well, addiction to marijuana is the most common types of addiction now days. As Relyt said it’s hard to get rid of this addiction. And the things he mentioned it’s good. You can tell your friend to do that. One thing I would like to say is just be by your friend’s side to give him the support. If still your friend cannot get out of this then take him to some of the AA meetings or to some rehab programs. I can give you detailed information about these programs, just let me know once. Best of luck friend.

4-5 blunts a day? Dang son, your friend must be loaded!

unfortunately it's his decision to make. you can keep at him though and make him realise that what he is doing is effecting him in a bad way. Theres a really good post in this forum called DRUG ADDICTION. Have a read. It may help you to help him. It suggests that drug users can find it difficult to quit alone. They may need medication or cognitive therapy in order to help them reach they're goal.

Good luck : )

Harmony1 xo

What people dont realize is that there are two types of addictions, physical and mental. Cannabis produces only a mental addiction. In contrast, video games also can produce a mental addiction. Cannabis is probably the easiest thing to quit if one really wanted too, but they must want to.

"Well, addiction to marijuana is the most common types of addiction now days" Erroneous on all accounts.

Back to main topic though, Relyt has some good ideas. It's important that your friend does talk to all his friends who smoke. This is probably THE most important because your friend still smokes probably because he sees his friends doin it and can immediately regain the 'why not' mentality for smoking. If the friends don't wanna help in his quitting, he needs to detachment himself from that group.

ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE- DO NOT TALK TO THE DEALER ABOUT QUITTING. Simply stop contacting him. You do not want to get in between a drug dealer and his business. I'm not saying bad stuff's gonna happen or even that he'll understand. What I'm saying is that it's unknown so it's best just to cut contact from the dealer. He probably will just continue on doing his thing for other people anyways.

Finding a hobby is good too, basically anything that will SUCCESSFULLY fill in the spot where MJ once was will do.

In the end, it's all up to your friend whether he will quit it or not. Just like someone mentioned above MJ is addicting just like video games are to some people. It's all psychological. Your friend needs to realize what he's doing isn't what he wants to do and is detrimental to what he really wants to pursue. It's gonna be how he perceives smoking. Because for example, I smoke more than your friend, but I don't find it affecting anything I'm trying to pursue in my social/academic endeavors.

These people are dumb, marijuana addictions aren't serious. It's a natural plant that gives you a mild high, if you can't stop then you have no willpower. But then again, why stop, it barely has any negative effects. I'd worry more if my friend was addicted to alcohol. If you can't afford it then you shouldn't be buying it. These posts are asinine.

The greatest trick marijuana addiction ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.

I'm trying to convince my friend to cut back because he spends 6 hours a day smoking and watching tv. He is 21 years old. If he continues this way, by the time he is 30 he will have spent 19,710 hours on the couch high.

Thats 19,710 hours he could have spent chasing girls, studying to get a better job, exercising, cooking higher quality food instead of ordering domino's every night, making and keeping better quality friends, pursuing a hobby... the list goes on.

To put it in perspective do some reading about the 10,000 hour rule: To become a world class expert you only need to put 10,000 hours into honing a skill or talent. Marijuana addiction prevents this outright.

LACK OF HARM DOES NOT PROVE PRESENCE OF BENEFIT. So I repeat.

The greatest trick marijuana addiction ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist.

These people are dumb, marijuana addictions aren't serious. It's a natural plant that gives you a mild high, if you can't stop then you have no willpower. But then again, why stop, it barely has any negative effects. I'd worry more if my friend was addicted to alcohol. If you can't afford it then you shouldn't be buying it. These posts are asinine.

If he really wants to quit he will. Unfortunately he is probably telling you he wants to to make YOU happy, he doesnt really want to. The consequenses of smoking pot are not serious. The most you will see is him going to jail for a simple possesion charge. In order for him to stop smoking he will have to really WANT it in his heart. I smoked for 6 years, all day every day and quit because I needed to get a good job. It wasn't even difficult, no side effects. He may get a few different side effects, headaches, he may become irritated more often for the first week or so, but if he stays away from it he will be fine. There is no addiction when it comes to marijauna, it is just something he enjoys doing or else he wouldn't be doing it.

Like all addictions it can be hard to kick. Those that say smoking marijuana is not a serious issue have not seen the affects it has on some people. This stuff messes with the chemicals of your brain and depending on the reasons that people use it can determine how hard it will be to overcome. People who become dependent on it to forget their problems (just like alcoholics) probably have a serious addiction and this can be difficult to overcome. I would have them seek professional advise and attend AA or NA. You cannot do it for them they have to do it themselves or they will just take advantage of you.