Marijuana Facts: Users Are Medicating Their Emotions in an Addictive Way
Many people who are stuck in denial want to dispute the marijuana facts and try to claim that marijuana is perfectly harmless as a recreational drug. This is not the case and the reason is due to our emotions.
When we go through life it is perfectly normal to experience a whole range of human emotions, from being happy, to sad, to scared, to angry. Fear is a part of every person’s emotional make up.
The chronic marijuana user is medicating their emotions. Did they set out to do this on purpose? Of course not. No one says “Oh, I’d like to avoid feeling my emotions today, so I think I will smoke some marijuana.” It obviously does not happen like that. But what does happen is that anyone who has smoked weed every single day for any length of time can tell you, they slowly begin to fall into a pattern where they naturally will use the drug in order to medicate unwanted feelings.
This is especially damaging to younger people who are still learning how to properly process and handle emotions in a mature way. Instead of learning and growing through the emotional process, they are simply medicating those emotions away using marijuana. When you get high on marijuana, it erases your current mood. It eliminates and seriously minimizes emotional turmoil in your life. Say you had a bad day at work, and you are angry at your boss. Normally, a person would hang on to this emotional state for several hours, and they may talk about it with friends and family in order to process the feelings. But if they instead come home from work and smoke some marijuana, the emotional distress they were feeling is vaporized with their high. It is erased. Some remnants of it may remain, but the intensity of the emotions and they amount of time that they think about it is greatly diminished.
Now multiply this example out by every single day. Chronic marijuana smokers do this over and over again, every single day of their lives, using it to deal with every single unwanted emotion. Over a period of years this stunts emotional growth. Even if you are an adult, you are stunting your emotional maturity and keeping yourself stuck in a very immature way of dealing with life. It all comes back to our emotions on how we are avoiding them through the use of the drug.
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