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4gramblunt420

I have been smoking about 2-4 times a week for a solid month now. I am wondering, I have had great loss of short term memory, and dizzy spells sometimes. I also forget alot of normal things like spellings, vocabulary, stuff like that. I can never think of the right word i wanna say anymore. If i quit, will i regain all this?

 

fight4rights

I sometimes find myself having trouble thinking of a word after I've smoked. It's never anything serious though.

I don't think marijuana would cause dizzy spells. It can cause slight deficits in short term memory, of course the longer you go with out smoking the less it will affect you. You won't have any permanent changes after smoking for a month.

Why don't you try quitting and see what happens?

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4gramblunt420

cuz its too much fun to quit. I tried but i cant resist. I just have more trouble thatn usual with memory and school related stuff

Higher Logic

The "memory loss" experienced with marijuana is strictly short term, once you stop smoking everything comes back as normal. One thing I noticed from the opposing side is that they say marijuana causes short-term memory loss...well, duh, that's true obviously, short-term meaning while you are high. It's like drinking, you experience the same effects but once the hangover is over and you stop for a couple days things return to normal (except with alcohol you actually are killing brain cells).

It's not like you are going to forget how to spell and not have a lexicon anymore (see, I still remember big words)

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Buzzby

When you know that using marijuana messes up your life (like interfering with school) and you keep doing it anyway, you have a real problem and need to deal with it.

Drugs make great servants. They make terrible masters. You've got to decide who's controlling whom.

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questionair

Drugs make great servants. They make terrible masters. You've got to decide who's controlling whom.[/quote]
great quote did you make it up?

Buzzby

It's derived from "The rational mind makes a great servant but a terrible master." I think that's from Ram Dass (formerly Richard Alpert, psychologist and colleague of Tim Leary), but I'm not sure.

4gramblunt420

i definately have control over it, i just mean the forgetfulness interferes with school related stuff i.e: remembering stuff like hw, and other things. not that it has control over me. i quit for the whole summer for my summer baseball league so

Higher Logic

Freud, Jung, and Cocteau talk about the master-slave relationship as well. Jean Cocteau said it best when he said no one becomes an addict unless one make's a pact with the drug: a pact in which one dedicates one's will to the power of the drug.

"Never let a drug put you in a passive state, for once that happens you are no longer one that dreams, but one that is dreamed." —Higher Logic

From the same paper:

"Freud escaped addiction of [off-topic powder], while one of his friends did not. For this, Freud suggests that his friend only did so because he found a method by which the effects of the drug became subservient to the force of his intellectual drive; he had created a special form of ritual.

Essentially, what is being said is that unless you have a force to direct the energies of a drug, you are powerless to the will of the drug, and thus become an addict."

You have no force to direct your energies, translation: find something to do!

fight4rights

I don't think that it's all about "You just have to control the drug." Freud and Jung are really popular, but when it comes to actual advancements in psychology there seems to be very little there.

When someone is addicted to a drug it's not just all about just saying "Don't let the drug control you." I think being addicted means that you can no longer control your drug use. Isn't that why AA has people say "I don't have control over alcohol." Or something similar.

I recently started going down that slipperly slope. It definitely is scary. Luckily I wasn't that far down and all I needed was to kick myself in the ass and get back on track. I could see an alternate future where I didn't catch myself in time and things could have been very different.