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Can I control my use?
Are you controlling your cannabis
use or is it controlling you?
We all know people who can
take or leave dope. It isn’t that
important to them; they can have a bag
of skunk in the back
of a drawer for six months and never even
think about it.
For a significant percentage
of dope smokers this is not realistic.
If we have it, we
have to use it, that’s the nature of
the relationship.
Some of us knew from our first toke on a
joint that this was where we wanted to be,
and so smoking during the day was a deal
that we made with ourselves early on. For
others our desire to be stoned as much of
the time as possible grew over a longer period
of time.
Many of us go through periods where we hide
out from our feelings and responsibilities.
When its easier to
smoke a joint than to do anything else, and to break the cycle
takes an act of will or a change of circumstances.
Lots
of people restrict their smoking to evenings
and
weekends, in other
words the free time they have, when they’re
not working or studying. The trouble is it’s
often the anticipation of the joint we’re
going to have when we finish, that keeps
us from fully concentrating on what we’re
doing. Likewise you have to question whether
being stoned every evening and every weekend
is truly a way of relaxing or in fact a symptom
of addiction.
So
the answer to the question ‘can
I control my using?’ Is.. of course
you can. Cannabis is physically and phychologically
addictive, but not to the same degree as
other substances. However, if the question
you’re asking is ‘can I cut down
my cannabis consumption so that it is intergrated
in a balanced way with the rest of my life,’ well
that is a question you will have to ask yourself.
But I would suggest that the real question
to consider 'Am
I being honest about my relationship to dope
and how it affects
my life as a whole?' That’s
a very different question to consider.
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