Pot

[Eskie Dog]

I have a friend, (not a very close one), she goes to public school, so I don't see her much. She has startied smoking pot. I don't want her to end up a drug addict. help.

[hello.basass]

Pot doesn't normally get physical addiction but psicological... if she smokes it like everyday and stuff... if the thing gets serious and she only thinks about it and that sort of thing, try talking with a councelor, she won't be happy that you told someone like police or her parents... That's what I think anyways...

[Eskie Dog]

She's not like a total pot-head or anything, she just smokes it occasionaly, like with her closer friends, but I'm worried she could get addicted. Besides, it's illegal!

[Skhorpion]

Quit being a baby. She's not gonna become a crack fiend. Just let her be.

[Completely Lost]

.. It's not crack lol

[Cindex]

Marijuana is bad for you, yes, but Hello. was right. Usually it's a psycological addiction, and not physical. It's easier to quit. (It really is...)

It's not much to worry about, but a casual talk to her might make you feel better. I'm not condoning it by any means, but she's not going to turn out horrible if it's even once or twice a week or something.

[Requin]

As I have never tried it personally. I have no idea if it's easy to quit. But I doubt it, as it's hard to quit anything.

But people take drugs for a reason (most do anyway), they may be under pressure, having problems at home, at school etc.
So really if she wants to take pot, let her. However if your worried that she may become addicted, just tell her gently how you feel, and at least then she'll know that you feel this way towards her and that she knows that someone cares for her.

[Cindex]

As I have never tried it personally. I have no idea if it's easy to quit. But I doubt it, as it's hard to quit anything.
Depends on your mental state, and how often and why you used it.

I only used it when I knew I was already going to have fun, and NEVER when I was sad. I got out of it without trying. I got with a great girl and she didn't like it so I stopped just like that. So I guess it also depends if you want to stop.

Now physical addictions suck. I actually had a physical addiction to sugar. My blood sugar levels were amazingly high. When my levels felt low to me, it was most people's sugar high. That was way freaking harder than pot.

[hello.basass]

I personatelly think you shouldn't worry... if you say that she does it occasionally with close friends and stuff let her be... I also do it often, and neother me or my friends have any kind of addictions to marijuana... we can go on for even a month without smoking pot (we've done it!!)
Now cigarettes suck because you get physical addiction and I can hardly go on a day without smoking 3 cigarettes...

[phillip.meow]

ok i did pot for like a month and in about 5months with my conser i got of it just talk to her and tell how you feel about her doing pot

[INFERNO]

Just to clarify, you will never get a physical addiction from pot. To save giving a pharmacology lecture as to why, I'll spare the fine details but pot falls under the group that has functional tolerance not metabolic nor tachyphylaxis. Functional tolerance occurs from drugs/meds that affect the brain, metabolic is for those that affect the liver, and tachyphylaxis is a small subset of functional where the brain destroys some of its own drug receptors (presumably for being too overactive).

Occassional smoking isn't going to be too bad but if you want her to quit, you've got to get her to be willing. I'm not sure on any antibuse drugs for pot, aside from disulfuram (designed for chronic alcoholism but thought to work on pot also).

Pot can have various effects on people, and chances are if she gets the "good" results (i.e. not paranoid or other results), she'll want to keep using it, and will probably also experience the other factors (7-8 or so of them) that influence functional tolerance.

Telling her may or may not do anything to get her to quit but there's really no harm in trying. At the end of the day, she's getting the effects from pot not you and it's her choice to do it, not yours. However, if you want her to quit, try to get her to reduce the amount of pot until none to reduce the withdrawl effects. Another, but harder method would be substituting some other drug that's less harmful than the pot and then getting her off of that one also. Ideally, should be done in a drug rehab program.

[matty1781]

talk to her or something tell her that u dont want her to end up a pot-head

[ViT0]

let her be. i went through that phase too. and ive been clean since august 30th 2008 now everytime someone says "ayo wanna spark up" i simply tell them i dont do that anymore and they leave it be

[Φρανκομβριτ]

she's fine. No sign of addiction. If she starts doing it all the time and her grades start slipping blah blah then yes, you need to be concerned, but it's no worse than drinking (drinking is worse in my opinion)

[xXJDXx]

i hav frnds who smoke pot 2
as long as she dusnt do it alot shell b fine pot isnt adicting