Why are many people in love with marijuana and use it daily?

Because it makes them feel good.

You mention he has had a rough life and he could possibly be self medicating depression with the pot.

Many feel that weed is so much less deleterious than alcohol. And, the high is generally calming and mellow, not something that exacerbates anger. It is considered a peaceful alternative to a couple of beers or a margarita.

Plenty of people enjoy the occasional use of marijuana without being shitheads about it, just like some people can have a martini without being alcoholics.

It will also interest you to know that marijuana overdose deaths have held a steady number over time.

That number is zero, yearly.

@AnonymousAccount8 thanks but this attitude goes way beyond making him feel good. Lots of things can do that and he doesn’t obsess about them.
@Cruiser I think you hit the nail on the head.
@Seek what do you mean?
@zenvelo I found pot to be very much different from a cocktail . I like a cocktail or two but I never think about them all day long, post pics of drinks on my Facebook page, wear “alcohol inspired” shirts and hats or yak about them to my grandparents.

@Aster – You like margaritas. Are you an alcoholic?

@Seek I am very much aware that pot is not lethal as long as it isn’t laced with lethal substances. And even that possibility is probably remote.
@Seek , your question makes it appear that you think I am judging my grandson. I am simply worried to death about him. Last week he was brought in for questioning by a Drug Taskforce for three hours. That is very concerning to me.
I have one margarita a year and they rarely cross my mind so I think it’s safe to say I’m no alcoholic.

Sometimes it can be ‘self-medicating’. For loads of reasons, anxiety even depression. If he sells it I suppose he is getting an income from it so is enjoying it more. The problem is if used a lot over a long period of time apathy can set in or at worst psychosis.
My son is addicted to ‘grass’ and I do believe he is self-medicating. He also has a Facebook page full of what I’d say are weird comments regarding it.

It’s understandable to be concerned about your grandson if he’s involved with people that lead the drug taskforce to question him.

However, your question is clearly judgemental of all marijuana users, whose numbers are much higher than you probably believe.

Why do people drink every day? America is obsessed with alcohol. More people drink everyday than smoke dope everyday, yet people rarely question someone having a few beers every day of the week.

I prefer to smoke when I feel like being social and inebriated. Alcohol makes my tummy hurt.

Plenty of rap songs talk about alcohol.

@Seek I apologize if I came off as judgmental. It was meant to be a question strictly concerning my grandson, you may be feeling defensive and you need not be. Weed I feel can cure certain diseases and I see zero judgement being passed in my question.

I have no reason to feel defensive. I am not a marijuana user. If you simply want to vent about your grandson, that’s fine, but I think the contents of his Facebook page re: weed is the least of his problems.

Your concern about your grandson sounds reasonable.

Your thread title referencing other people just confuses the issue. Many people are able to manage marijuana use the way others handle beer or martinis or margaritas or whatever.

You’re trying to figure out why your grandson is messed up – not why anyone else is, or is not, messed up.

Does your grandson have people in his life who can talk to him about what’s going on in his life?

After, how old is your grandson?

@AnonymousAccount8 put it most succinctly: it makes them feel good. For people who have, as you put it, “a rough life”, it can be a form of escape, as can any other drug or alcohol. Not everyone uses it that way, obviously, but some do.

@Aster! Sorry. Autocorrect on phone.

@Earthbound eighteen !
@BellaB He can’t talk to his mother and his father is absent . There is a school counselor who was very nice who I Facebooked but she works for a school district and did not offer to help. She tried to help in the past but he quit school. He had mentioned to me that sober kids “are boring.” He probably believes they can’t have fun. His grandfather is a Ph.d Psychologist who still is furious at him for “breaking into” his 2nd home in Colorado during a blizzard with his mom egging him on.

There’s no calories in weed and no hangover either. That’s the best part about weed. It’s much easier to be a functioning pothead than it is a functioning alcoholic, trust me, I’ve done both.

Right now, I’m at the gym too high to workout, so I’m on the public computer commenting on fluther. This is definitely a common theme in my functioning pothead life.

I have led a sheltered life, never done drugs, never been in a fist fight.
Shit, until l was in my mid 20’s i’d never even shagged outside, it was so cold I was shaking like a shitting dog…which pleased her muchly it has to be said.

Marijuana is more of a fun cult, anymore. After so many years of it being akin to heroin and other ridiculous things, I think people are relaxing about it. When my son moved out, when he was 18 (whoa…10 years ago!) I had several battery operated clocks throughout the house. They were just decorative. The batteries were long dead.
About a week after he left I realized…all my dead clocks were set to 4:20! I laughed and laughed!
When I was teaching in the jail, about 5 years ago one of my students presented me with an awesome, hand drawn, color pencil drawing of Bob Marley. It was amaaazing. I framed it and gave it to my son for Christmas.
Now, your grandson may be going overboard, but imagine if he was carrying on and on about the joys of Jack Daniels instead.
He’ll grow out of it, probably.

While you’re thinking about all that ^^^^^^ Here is some mood music. ...........Chill….......

@Aster , how does your grandson support himself? do you suspect it is through selling pot or does he have another source of income?

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Your comment about a comfort zone could well be a hint that you’ve recognized that he’s self-medicating.

@Aster, in my experience, young people can become rather obsessed with certain things. Perhaps it will be a specific singer, a place, or as in this case, a group of mates smoking dope and thinking they’re very cool and worldly for doing so. They’re young and their brains aren’t fully formed. Young men are reckless too. There’s scientific evidence of this. And marijuana isn’t a good idea for young people whose brains aren’t get fully developed, but I doubt you’ll convince them of this. He will quite probably grow out of his exuberance for smoking pot.

I really think this is just part of being young. Again, my experience is that it’s better not to take too hard a line on his behaviour. He’ll just do it out of your sight. All you can do is make sure he’s aware of the risks and be there when he needs you.

This is Bob Marley’s song about it.

I agree with @Earthbound_Misfit. He’s going through a phase.

@rem1981 There are a ton of calories in the snacks a stoned pot head with the munchies will consume.

Same reason so many people use alcohol daily: to escape from the pressures of everyday life.

Most people grow out of it. The few I know that didn’t became potheads in Nam and have been smoking it daily ever since. Some of this is PTSD self medication. But the truth is, none of them ever got far enough beyond taxi driver, waiter, odd-jobber, street musician or janitor to finish school, raise a family or really have a life beyond their cannabis-fueled dreams spent in shitty little rooms with a toilet down the hall. Part of that was due to the mandatory urine analysis required to get a decent job, but a lot of it is that they just have no motivation which I attribute to the pot.

Why do you attribute it to the pot, and not the PTSD?

It could be either or both, but in my experience, chronic pot use dampens ambition. Pot may be helpful in combating some symptoms of PTSD initially, but longterm, chronic use does nothing to help someone get up off their ass and get their life started and only exaggerates those depressing symptoms of PTSD.

It is well documented that pot lowers dopamine levels with the effect of depressing the consumer. You are well read, Seek. There are tons of medical literature on the changes in brain chemistry in longterm users. If you wish, I’ll dig up the studies, but I don’t think it’s necessary and I don’t have the time at the moment. And I’m sure you’ve seen it all before.

Being laid back is fine. Not living up to your ambitions is not. It leads to an unsatisfied life.

@Espiritus_Corvus “Not living up to your ambitions is not. It leads to an unsatisfied life.”

I don’t know… this tendency to value ambition so highly strikes me as a very American trait. It is entirely possible to lead a fulfilling life with low ambition. In fact, I think ambition makes it harder for one to be fulfilled, because there will always be a need to strive for more [whatever].

Ambitions, aspirations, whatever.

I think it’s important to at least try to live up to your own aspirations or ambitions. I don’t equate that with wanting more and more and more and I don’t agree that it’s an American trait. Every culture has their own set of ambitions, whether it’s to kill the most lions, or get the most eagle feathers, or acquire the most horses, or become a leader.
What happens to a person who doesn’t even try, to the point they no longer even have any ambitions? Well, I guess they end up 40 years old and living with Mom and Dad.