I smoke every day because every other form of escapism can’t get me away from the modern hellscape that we currently exist in.
A doctor prescribed me coke to treat my idiopathic hypersomnia. Didn’t realize computational finance grads could write scripts, but I’m happy
Python? R?
Seriously though, R is tedious as hell when dealing with statistical analysis. It can be fun but I found it to be too much work for things I could do more easily elsewhere. Python is great for many things financial but can be limiting, though it’s my favorite language probably because of its general use and ease of access.
Yeah, I’m probably addicted to cannabis. That doesn’t particularly bother me, as it doesn’t negatively impact my life. I keep it to nights and weekends, and I don’t spend more on it than I can afford. I honestly have a much harder time quitting coffee than I do cannabis. If I go on vacation, I never have a problem leaving my weed at home, but I’ll be damned if I don’t have my caffeine. And that doesn’t seem to be a particularly harmful addiction either.
Lucky. I can’t sleep without weed, so if I’m going on vacation, it has to be to a place with legalization.
Yeah, that does suck. I do struggle a bit to fall asleep the first few nights without it, since I’m used to having a bowl before bed, but the thing that really gets me is how crazy vivid my dreams are when I’m taking a break. I’m prone to night terrors too, so it’s a bit of a roll of the dice on what those dreams are gonna be like
I interpret for courts and the prosecutor’s office in Japan. I wish the people I’ve had to work with were smart like you. Don’t risk it by bringing weed here.
Haha. But this is funny, but also some ableist bullshit.
Not feeling daily agony can be habit forming, but it doesn’t make someone into a rastafarian. It would be cool if it did. But it doesn’t.
Just doing my part to fight misinfor-meme-tion.
Edit: Interestingly, the vote count of this post became more negative after I added emphasis around my stupid “misinfor-meme-tion” pun.
That is harsh, but fair. Still, I regret nothing.
There is a vast, vast number of people who self-medicate with pot, alcohol, coke, video games, internet forums, their phone and social media and just about anything that can produce pleasure responses and have fully embraced the idea that they “need” it to function. When really they’ve just over-adapted their brain to a particular state and it’s not the chemical that is helping them as much as the basic biological fact that brain feels much, much worse without the equilibrium it’s become adapted to. (Until a certain re-normalization process passes.)
Whether or not the meme posted here is “misinformation” is kind of subjective, as both these types of people do exist.
If you’re afraid that medical or recreational cannabis will come under threat because of this kind of meme… my guy, it ain’t going anywhere unless the GOP decides they want to renew the war on drugs and they will do that whether we meme about it or not. This administration is a consequence of too many people checking out and, well… self-medicating.
Source: a doctor with a flashlight and a rubber glove.
I think you’re underestimating the amount of real pain that is caused by the current iteration of society. People aren’t supposed to function in a world like this. It’s broken and they’re suffering. It’s great if some small fraction of people can tough it out. Good for them. They’re the aberration.
How am I underestimating anything? This is a phenomenon that people have been subject to for thousands of years. Alcoholism has been around since the dawn of agriculture and people had far, far shittier lives pre-industry. Objectively. The current iteration of society is the best we’ve ever had. Just because we haven’t found a way to balance our wealth and conveniences with personal emotional satisfaction doesn’t mean you would be happier two hundred years ago. Quite the opposite, and you would probably die a lot earlier and lot more miserable.
edit: I know you hate being told “it could be worse” but it’s TRUE. It shouldn’t make you stop wanting a better life, but it SHOULD make you stop using excuses to not do the best you can with the short life you have. Take a hard look at your needs, vices and self-medication habits and try to ask yourself honestly how much time you spend mentally validating something that feels good but doesn’t actually help you. It should make you uncomfortable to think about.
Huge disagree… theres 8+ billion in the world rn, not even a comparable landscape imo
i love getting information about addiction from non-doctors
More of a Pepsi person myself
I mean. There’s smoking every day, and getting stoned every day. The right strains in the right (micro)dosage can be life-saving medicine.
I smoke weed every day because I like the neurochemistry it provides better than living sober.
Sure I can quit whenever I want, i have for plenty of job searches.
But it’s like, would you rather live your life never wearing shoes? When you could just be wearing shoes every day and your daily life is now more comfortable and easier to navigate?
I wear shoes personally
I use it for pain relief. I smoke it everyday but wait until afternoon.
Coke?
Weed man! Jesus that escalated!
I’m addicted to pot in the same way other people are addicted to oxygen
I smoked everyday to balance out the caffeine and nicotine I suspect I use to treat undiagnosed adhd.
“I am addicted to coke” looks like the one on the left and talks into his intercom, thinking it’s a phone.
Zero deals made today, maybe bought coke.
My dad was the kind of person who would do coke and drink all day and pretended he was he was “doing business” when he was really just calling everyone in his contacts and loudly being obnoxious at them for an hour or two each.
No idea how much money he conned out of people to support his habit but I estimated he probably spent at least a several hundred thousand dollars on cocaine in his life, not counting the hundreds of thousands or more he spent on nightly dinners where he held a captive audience while he ranted and raved like Trump.
I’m not addicted to coke I only do it when I want to get rocked out of my skull
Which is every morning and most afternoons
“I can quit anytime I want!”
snorts 2 lines and rubs the rest in mouth
Ahh… the 80s
I wish weed didn’t fill me with anxiety at even the smallest doses. I go through periods where I try to push through the initial uncomfortable stages, hoping that I’ll get used to being high and finally enjoy the drug but I am just filled with negative and self abusive thoughts. I hate weed but I wish I didn’t :/
It’s okay, you’re not missing much.
Long term effects are often downplayed by enjoyers in my view.
But hey, I still take it like once every other month sometimes, especially if I want to not get too drunk but it’s always a drag getting back to less procrastinating with my life.
It can be very helpful for some or in the way for others.
I’m addicted to caffeine. My university has a meal swipe program which equates to ~6 bucks and you can use 2 a day. I eat one big meal from the ‘all you can eat’ cafe, then get 2 energy drinks for the morning and afternoon, and just have ramen for dinner or sthm.
I currently have 3 spares because tbh I’m kinda getting sick of redbull. Idk what else to spend the meal swipes on because if you don’t use them it’s just wasted money
