Craving Cannabis

Cannabis is only the downfall of you man. 90% of people who smoke weed don't amount to anything. I've smoked weed for 10 years straight and I feel like it tool a huge toll on my memory capacity and cognitive learning. The whole point of NoFap is to give up self pleasures, without it you are more likely to seek pleasure from others. Idk about you but weed just made me antisocial, unmotivated, and fucking lazy. I abused it yes, but I never wanted to stop. I kept letting it get in the way of my life goals. I gave away women, education, friends, etc. from my weed addiction. When you die at old age do you think your more likely to think about all the days you got high or the things you accomplished? Forget weed, getting high off life is way better.

 

I first masturbated to pornography aged 14, I first smoked weed aged 15. I didn't know any better, I was essentially just a child listening to that ridiculous bastard Dr. Dre, but as far as I am concerned, they are comorbidities, two aspects of the same problem

Only now, nearly 17 years later, have I realised the terrible effect this so-called "soft" drug has had on my life and mental health. It's so insidious because people would have you believe there are no downsides to being a stoner whatsoever; they say it's not addictive; they say it makes you creative; they say it helps with anxiety and depression: but it's all just fucking bollocks.

 

There are a lot of mixed opinions on weed and rightfully so. For some, it really is just a soft drug that is fun every once in a while and for others it can consume their every walking hours and at worst introduce them to much harder substances. It is a person to person thing, however, a lot of info is drowned out by the potential positives. I have a friend in California who had severe depression for much of his life. He had started smoking around HS and later got his medical card and only after finding the right strains does it even him out along with other medication.

At the same time, i have people who become completely zonked, anxious, and tweak tf out after hitting the blunt once. It doesn't help that people actively seek out the strongest weed.

Weed has aphrodisiac properties to it im pretty sure, and when you're trying to get away from PMO, that doesn't help. Again, it doesn't help that a lot of weed now is intentionally made to be strong unless you're able to go the medical route and find the proper strength. For me, it is not in my best interest to use THC alone as i am probably 75% more liable to eventually relapse/binge.

This is my own personal experience, and take it with a pound of salt: Pure CBD and CBD strains with ~.3% THC do not nearly have the same aphrodisiac properties as mid-high THC strains/products. I will recognize that it is still there, however when i used to low strength strain (5-10%) I was able to think clearly and did not have urges. I have used higher strength strains and the aphrodisiac effect returns in a similar form.

With all that said, from my experience THC and higher strength CBD are aphrodisiac. THC should deff be used with extreme caution if you are giving up PMO and CBD should be used with low-mid strains unless you want similar aphrodisiac effects.

 

I fully agree with this post. I use cannabis regularly, but it has very little thc in it. It helps with arthritis, anxiety, and insomnia. It’s funny when I go to the dispensary and order the CBD strain with almost no thc. They seem almost a bit surprised. It’s sort of like going into the package store and buying a case of odouls non alcoholic beer.

 

If you need anything external to open your mind, exercise your chakras (or whatever hippie bs these tantarics say) and fulfill your destiny... Then in my eyes (and that's my opinion) you are doing something very wrong with your life.

 

Here in Britain we are confined to the black market and nobody has a fucking clue what they are smoking. I mean, dealers will tell you they have a certain strain with an impressive sounding name, but as to the THC/CBD ratio, nobody knows.

A few years ago our prime minister at the time David Cameron had weed reclassified from a class C drug to a Class B, making possession and dealing in theory a more serious criminal offence. He said his reasoning was that the weed sold in Britain nowadays was much more potent and psychoactive than it used to be (obviously because of a higher THC content). At the time I was an avid stoner so I disagreed with the decision, but now I see that the old Etonian bastard was right all along.

 

CBD is a really good relaxer for me. The strain i have now is 23.5% so i've laid off after i noticed the body high, which can become a problem if i smoke alone. Side note: I bought some non alcoholic beer and i'd describe it as seltzer water with a hint of hops. I'd stick to low ABV beer with 2-3% for a good taste.

 

Yeah around where im at its not hard to get legal weed. Its a 30 minute trip up the high way. I haven't bought street weed in ages because anyone who smokes knows at least one person with a medical card it seems. And some guys focus so much on strength they ignore the other positives of weed. Last summer i bought some hand to hand weed and it got me blasted...i also binged so bad i had to hide the weed from myself...Months later when i was bored inside i checked my jar and remembered that i never flushed it away lmao, but yeah strength =/= quality.

My friend who has his medical card due to anxiety and depression a strain that was 10% Indica and 6% CBD and when i tell you that was the best strain i've smoked...relaxing in just the right way with no aphrodisiac effect.

 

I had a friend who told me it helps his ADHD problem and another who got psychosis and had to go to an asylum.

This drug really affect people differently.

In my case, I never really got into it. Everytime I would take a hit, I would stop feeling my body. It drove me completely crazy, a '' bad trip'' is what we would call it...

 

If I am honest cannabis makes my libido uncontrollable. Been using this stuff called Delta 8 THC recently that seemed to allow me to not act out on it fapping however the more I used and the longer I used that changed.

Even with Delta 8 THC (derived from hemp not cannabis but psychoactive just not as strong as Delta 9 found in cannabis) I find with regular use my good habits deteriorate as I am more intent on using that without doing anything lol and also my thinking changes to something I don't feel is truly me it like changes who I am I want to ditch it for good.

I had plans to grow my own cannabis and was ignoring how huge of a trigger it truly is for me and thought well mixing it with psychedelics might allow me to rise above that lower nature fire but I ran into trouble not being able to control my use with them so I want to quit them along with cannabis now.

A coworker was telling me of his grow plans yesterday and it made me want to go through with getting my seeds but here I am telling you now.

 

Oh man Timecop is on NoFap?! Ya loved JCVD as a kid!

 

I don't mean to chain post and gotta run right now but can I come in here if I am craving canna to talk it out lol?

I feel with cannabis people often neglect set and setting and this day & age it is easy to indulge in wayward hedonism digitally with p0rn and subs so like I won't sit here and call weed the devil's lettuce because I feel you can find spiritual value in it if you treat it as a tool to be respected not abused.

Of course it is a very powerful medicine for the brain and body if you need it as such or else it becomes something else huh?

 

This thread is almost a year old but I'll indulge. Weed helped me with Nofap. It does seem to effect me differently than lots of people though. I've smoked it regularly for almost 30 years and I find it quite helpful in the right context. I can't use it and be social and if I have something to do I have to start the work, smoke then get right back to it before the buzz kicks in or I'm screwed and not doing shit. I have had two friends lose their minds from concentrate though and I think it (flowers) doesn't make you go down like heavy alcohol use but it stops you from going up. So be careful and be smart. It's powerful.

 

Based Truth!!!

 

Listen to @ahighertruth, his view is the same as mine. I was never a weed addict but I used to have a few friends who are hardcore Pot heads and Total Losers in life.

Just recently I decided to cut this former friend from my life because he turned into even more of a Shitbag loser and also a Simp. I got him hired for a job and he never wet to the first day of work.

Every hardcore Pot head that I know, their lives didn’t end well for them. Its worse than being dead because their only existence consists of getting baked every day.

 

Truer words had never been said.

Same here, about 11 years down the drain.
Actually when I'm high on life I'm so euphoric that people think I'm an alien hahahaha but yeah, is much better, no downsides.

There is a way out, everyone can stop and improve, but yeah, better do it before your 30's hahaha I know people being as pothead as I was, in their 40's, 50's, even 60's, like wtf.

 

yeah and just imagine how sick our society is having such utmost respect and high trust in psychiatry drugs. To me, they are no better than illegal drugs and i consider them as harmful. Mental Illness and Chemical Balance theory is a lie, deceit and fraud by pharmacy for flipping huge profit, nothing else. They are ruining our youth and upcoming generations by promoting things like masturbation, LGBT and other kinds of sexual immoralities.

 

Hey there! I'm new to this forum, and I just wanted to say congrats on your 64-day streak and for resisting the temptation to indulge in cannabis.

 

Your journey resonates with mine in many ways. I remember when cannabis cravings used to hit me hard, especially during moments of vulnerability. It's amazing how intertwined our habits can be. Quitting cold turkey takes serious strength, so kudos to you for sticking with it! I found that replacing old habits with healthier ones really helped me stay on track. Exercise, meditation, medical cannabis, and finding new hobbies became my go-to coping mechanisms.